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Search the transcripts of PBS Space Time.
- How to find the scancode of a key (evtest),
- And map it to some known keycode (setkeycodes).
How to avoid texts shifting around with changing values in a variable pitch line?
- use U+2007 FIGURE SPACE to pad numbers (not space, which may have different width to the digits)
- use U+2212 MINUS SIGN instead of the ascii '-' character.
A book on the working of a Query Engine as part of a database.
A nice wayland protocol explorer.
A feature-rich search service for Reddit. Capability includes searching removed posts and comments.
Nice 8x8 bitmap fonts freely available.
A really interesting demo on visualizing on perplexity of a LLM. I knew about perplexity metric from the theory, where it's the average log-likelihood for the distribution of current tokens given previous tokens. The demo makes the idea more intuitive by showing the perplexity for each token and how they're calculated.
Self-hostable client side PDF tool set.
Search Wikipedia entries by meaning. It builds an embedding database for each Wikipedia articles. The search is done locally in the browser with onnx sentence transformer. The author has a post on how it was made possible with quantization to compact millions of vectors to manageable size (megabytes) for offline use.
Turns out there are, expectedly, people who look for alternative to Calibre. This is a comprehensive post listing the replacement for various features of Calibre.
I currently don't have a satisfactory solution yet.
Another iceberg explain post, this time for postgres!
A quick and easy to remember estimation.
Explore ffmpeg filters visually via a node editor.
Interesting negotiating tips.
A rather interesting short article on the tidbits in early Linux source code.
During World War II, the British developed covert radar technology enabling night plane interceptions, masking it with a propaganda campaign attributing pilots' success to consuming more carrots for improved eyesight.
The author invented the neologism "Carrot Problem" to refer to this type of false excuses people use to hide the true cause to their success.
A gallery of embeddings for Stable Diffusion concepts.
A music keyboard that creates consonants for you automatically.
A visual and interactive explanation on how grokking (understanding) emerges in neuron networks.
What fascinates me is that the vast difference in neuron connectivity during memorizing and generalizing looks not unlike a human's brain in development.