Michael Tsai – Blog – Objective-C Internals

Get ready to dive deep into the inner workings of the Objective-C language and runtime! Each post delves into a specific aspect of the language and explores the details of its implementation. I hope you’ll find this valuable to demystify the language, tackle tricky bugs, and optimize your code for performance. Source: Michael Tsai – […]

A retiring consultant’s advice on consultants | Hacker News

In short: The people you’re talking to aren’t the people who are doing the actual work, The people who are doing the work have no industry experience And the numbers they’re basing their analysis on are probably whatever they found on google. Source: A retiring consultant’s advice on consultants | Hacker News

fast.ai – Can LLMs learn from a single example?

The only thing that we have come up with (so far!) that fully explains this picture is that the hypothesis is correct: the model is rapidly learning to recognise examples even just seeing them once. Let’s work through each part of the loss curve in turn… Source: fast.ai – Can LLMs learn from a single […]

So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand  (qpdf)· GitHub

If you, like me, resent every dollar spent on commercial PDF tools, you might want to know how to change the text content of a PDF without having to pay for Adobe Acrobat or another PDF tool. I didn’t see an obvious open-source tool that lets you dig into PDF internals, but I did discover […]

One App’s Poison

This is the true story of the app that was fixed by a crash. We travel back to join fish mid-debugging: I’m dumbfounded. The thread is just gone. And not just any thread: the main thread. Source: One App’s Poison

GitHub – leandromoreira/linux-network-performance-parameters: Learn where some of the network sysctl variables fit into the Linux/Kernel network flow. Translations: 🇷🇺

This brief tutorial shows where some of the most used and quoted sysctl/network parameters are located into the Linux network flow, it was heavily inspired by the illustrated guide to Linux networking stack and many of Marek Majkowski’s posts. Source: GitHub – leandromoreira/linux-network-performance-parameters: Learn where some of the network sysctl variables fit into the Linux/Kernel […]

Keeping Figma Fast | Figma Blog

As we iterated on FigJam in the early days, we’d fix issues reactively, in response to customer reports or changes in production metrics. But we knew there was a better way. With the help of our new testing framework, we wrote tests covering the majority of essential user flows, and automatically found issues before they […]

High-speed AI Drone | | UZH

In a milestone for artificial intelligence (AI), the AI system “Swift”, designed by UZH researchers, has beaten the world champions in drone racing – a result that seemed unattainable just a few years ago. The AI-piloted drone was trained in a simulated environment. Real-world applications include environmental monitoring or disaster response. Source: High-speed AI Drone […]

MagicEdit: High-Fidelity Temporally Coherent Video Editing

Video stylization enables one to (1) transform the source video into a new video with a style-of- interest (e.g., realistic, cartoon), or (2) creating a new scene with different subject (e.g., dog → cat) and different background (e.g., living room → beach). Source: MagicEdit: High-Fidelity Temporally Coherent Video Editing