Long distance sound localization with the Raspberry Pi(medium.com)

140 points by hcfman 2 years ago | 36 comments

Was Rust Worth It?(jsoverson.medium.com)

375 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 542 comments

A Medium blog post by Jarrod Overson reflecting on whether adopting Rust for his projects was worth it after several years of use.

What I Know About Community Building (2020)(medium.com)

49 points by yamrzou 3 years ago | 10 comments

How Hackerman would create an image just by typing 0 and 1 – deep dive into GIF(medium.com)

113 points by happybits 2 years ago | 37 comments

Architecture Patterns: The Circuit-Breaker(lab.scub.net)

64 points by kiyanwang 2 years ago | 11 comments

Career advice for young system programmers(glaubercosta-11125.medium.com)

166 points by signa11 3 years ago | 137 comments

A bad day at the office(airminded.org)

342 points by freediver 2 years ago | 93 comments

A February 2024 blog post by historian Brett Holman on Airminded, a blog about airpower and British society 1908-1941, titled "A bad day at the office."

What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane(prospect.org)

735 points by doom2 2 years ago | 446 comments

American Prospect article by Maureen Tkacik on how Boeing's management drove out experienced engineers and workers who knew how to build planes.

Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster(claude.dev)

179 points by matthieu_bl 1 month ago | 113 comments

Engineering blog post from Anthropic's Claude team describing how they made claude.ai three times faster in two weeks by having Claude measure and optimize performance.

A good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense(blog.promaton.com)

458 points by atorok 3 years ago | 409 comments

A Medium blog post from Promaton offering a practical guide to building a measurement culture where KPIs don't override common sense.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled(xenaproject.wordpress.com)

456 points by artninja1988 3 months ago | 225 comments

A Xena Project blog post about mathematicians being outpaced at finding counterexamples, from the blog on mathematicians learning the Lean theorem prover.