Daily Shaarli

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January 17, 2023

Marginalia

A search engine for the internet, in the 2000 style. You find interesting random small websites instead of see the same result from major search engines.

It also has a Tinder-like website recommendation engine where you can train it to find the website you're interested in. I already found several interesting personal blogs with this feature.

Impressively, the search engine is invented by one person, yet it already indexed more than 100M of webpages.

Producing HTML using string templates has always been the wrong solution

Comparing different approaches of generating HTML:

  • String templating
  • XML based embedding
  • Inline XML (JSX)
  • S-expr as DSL
  • Custom DSL
Reverse Engineering a Neural Network's Clever Solution to Binary Addition - Casey Primozic's Homepage

It is amazing how human is still able to reverse-engineer a tiny neuron network to actually learn how the magic works. The solution this neuron network came up with is unexpected to me and quite beautiful.

The same author's blog has some good articles about visualizing and analyzing the inner working of neuron networks.