A talk from DjangoCon Europe 2024 exploring various ways to contribute to the Python and Django communities, aimed at both newcomers and existing members.
A technical analysis of Maxar's high-resolution global satellite imagery basemap, examining 60GB of data across 11 cities using GDAL, Python, and DuckDB.
Explains the importance of clear documentation in open source projects, covering types, benefits for users and contributors, and how it builds community bridges.
A guide to using the free, open-source NetNewsWire app with iCloud sync to read RSS feeds on iOS and macOS.
A guide to fine-tuning embedding models for RAG applications using Sentence Transformers 3, featuring Matryoshka Representation Learning for efficiency.
A guide to building state machines using the Stateless library in .NET 8, with practical examples like a light switch.
Explains how to use S3 method dispatch on arguments other than the first in R, using the survey package's svytotal function as an example.
A software engineer reflects on the evolving personal and professional value of attending tech conferences over a 15-year career.
Explores StringBuilder performance and memory usage for creating very large strings in C#, comparing it to using a List.
Explains the concept of humane alphabets for URLs to avoid ambiguous characters, with a practical implementation example using Sqids.
Explains how to emulate SQL's FILTER clause for JSON aggregate functions in Oracle, addressing NULL value handling in JSON arrays and objects.
A deep-dive tutorial explaining JavaScript Promises from the ground up, covering their necessity and how to use them effectively.
Explores the data-oriented programming principle of making illegal states unrepresentable in Java, focusing on precise data modeling.
A developer shares his pre-coding routine for new app projects, including idea documentation, feature listing, and interface sketching.
An experiment comparing retrieval performance of chunked vs. non-chunked documents using long-context embedding models like BGE-M3.
A guide to implementing encryption and data protection in Azure using PowerShell, covering Key Vault, TDE, Storage Encryption, and more.
A 1-hour presentation on the LLM development cycle, covering architecture, training, finetuning, and evaluation methods.
Analysis of new LLM research on instruction masking and LoRA finetuning methods, with practical insights for developers.
A 1-hour video presentation covering the full development cycle of Large Language Models, from architecture and pretraining to finetuning and evaluation.
Explores new research on instruction masking and LoRA finetuning techniques for improving large language models (LLMs).
