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MosaicML
MoscaicML was a startup acquired by Databricks in July 6, 2023 for $1.3B. In March 2024, they were behind the announcement of Databricks's new Foundation Model…
Semantic HTML
Why Semantic HTML Still Matters - Jono Alderson Semantic HTML5 Guide
Multi Agent Frameworks
Mora Sora is the first large-scale generalist video generation model that garnered significant attention across society. Since its launch by OpenAI in February…
Agentic Systems
Agentic systems are a category of advanced AI systems focused on autonomy and goal-directed behavior. They possess the following characteristics: -- Agent…
Redis
Alternatives to Redis Garnet from Microsoft is a redis protocol (RESP) compliant remote cache-store. Garnet is thread-scalable within a single node. It also…
ooda
OODA method was given by John Boyd. John Boyd Boyd’s OODA Loop by Chet Richards. The concepts of the late US Air Force Colonel John R. Boyd have influenced…
DSPy
I got Dspy certificate on Deeplearning.ai - on Dec 31, 2025 With DSPy -- you can build your system using predefined modules, replacing intricate prompting…
webdesign
Webcraft by Joodaloop. Personal home page design. Things I care about: Typography, delightful minimalism, semantic HTML, information architecture, performance…
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him…
Fonts
Features of your font you had no idea about · OlegWock Modern Font Stacks System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS. The…
Interesting Open Source Software
OSS Friends - Documenso Use Feedful.app to create your own dashboard [^1] Scoutflo Atlas - Open Source Marketplace Find and explore the best open-source tools…
Illustrations
Cool Illustrations Making Software "A reference manual for people who design and build software. Written and illustrated by Dan Hollick." Reusable libraries…
observable
Observable: Build expressive charts and dashboards with code -- Read the announcement of 2.0 -- Observable 2.0 | Observable. Mike Bostock of the NYT, d3 fame…
backup
So far, my approach has been quite ad-hoc. I plan to ..huh... make a plan to do proper backups. What it is currently: iCloud Google Apple Time Machine Couple…
yakshaves
Yakshaves -- my space of collecting ideas for tinkering in various stages. You free to steal these ideas. Just drop me a line if you do end up implementing…
cloud
GetDeploying - Find and compare cloud providers for your next project. Ubicloud "Ubicloud provides cloud services on bare metal providers, such as Hetzner…
Lambda Calculus
A Tutorial Introduction to the Lambda Calculus by Raul Rojas. "This tutorial shows how to perform arithmetical and logical computations using the λ-calculus…
LLVM Talk
Building programming media for novices. Language Composition the bootstrap project algebra physics data science language levels flags rethink modularity…
risingwave
Homepage: RisingWave: Open-Source Streaming Database RisingWave Database is an open-source distributed SQL streaming database designed for the cloud. Compared…
select-scala
Coursier is the Scala application and artifact manager. It can install Scala applications and setup your Scala development environment. It can also download…
Java 21
Collection of notes on Java 21 Virtual Threads: a performant alternative for io intensive applications for async frameworks. Not using an async framework…
Code Generation
Cog: A Code Generation Tool Written in Python; this is apparently an old tool (blog date 2004), that I had never heard about before. But, the idea of code…
magazines
General Interest ‡ Cabinet magazine -- with philosophy and art focus.s Tablet magazine -- Jewish life and identity. Works in Progress -- is a magazine of new…
Opensource LLM
GitHub - allenai/awesome-open-source-lms: Friends of OLMo and their links. Papers Appears to be an exhaustive survey paper -- (Chen et al. 2023) (Zhuang et al…
Vanity Search
See in aaronsw's watchdog project, where I worked in 2008. referred to my blog post on weka-j48 classifier. I broke the original link 😔, but the page lives on…
Local LLM
Local Coding How to Setup a Local Coding Agent on macOS - Kyle Howells running Gemma 4 26B-A4B and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B locally with llama.cpp, MTP speculative…
How Software Companies Die
by Orson Scott Card The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa. Programming is the Great Game. It…
My Websites
List of my websites apart from this one. Hosted on flyio: btred -- a sandbox to play with redbean btnews -- an installation of FreshRSS Hosted on vercel…
RAG
RAG is an AI framework for retrieving facts from an external knowledge base to ground large language models (LLMs) on the most accurate, up-to-date information…
Llama Index
LlamaIndex is a flexible framework that enables LLM applications to ingest, structure, access, and retrieve private data sources. The end result is that your…
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