Author: David Faden
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Lessons from Casai
I was curious what an ex teammate had been up to, which led me to this Medium post from him: CTO Logs: Casai. Impressive and a little intimidating, and this just covers part of what he’s been up to. It covers his journey from joining the company as CTO, building up its engineering workforce, to…
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Errors you might see if you forget `bazel_dep(name = “protobuf” …)
If you forget to include the dependency on protobuf in your MODULE.bazel file while including a cc_proto_library target, you may see errors like the following when you try to build that target: ERROR: /private/var/tmp/…/external/abseil-cpp+/absl/utility/BUILD.bazel: no such target ‘@@abseil-cpp+//absl/utility:if_constexpr’: target ‘if_constexpr’ not declared in package ‘absl/utility’ defined by /private/var/tmp/…/external/abseil-cpp+/absl/utility/BUILD.bazelERROR: /private/var/tmp/…/external/protobuf+/src/google/protobuf/BUILD.bazel:483:11: no such target ‘@@abseil-cpp+//absl/utility:if_constexpr’: target ‘if_constexpr’…
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“The Wild Trees”
Richard Preston’s 2007 book “The Wild Trees” drew me along, partly through instilling a fear that the next paragraph would reveal a fatal fall. I’m glad to see that the main protagonists still seem to have survived to this day: Stephen Sillett, Marie Antoine, Michael Taylor. I appreciated the adventure and the science, the personal…
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SQLite blessing
Appreciating this message from the SQLite source code: May you do good and not evil.May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.May you share freely, never taking more than you give. Amen!
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Extract attachments from .eml files
I have a need for an implementation of the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm (or similar) handling streaming input. I’m pretty sure I’ve implemented this previously and thought I might my find my code in an old .zip file I’d sent someone in e-mail. But Gmail refuses a direct download of the attachment, I guess due to it…
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YOLO doesn’t see a poppy?
I’m excited to start playing with You Only Look Once, https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/. The installation instructions worked beautifully: % git clone https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet% cd darknet% make% wget https://data.pjreddie.com/files/yolov3.weights% ./darknet detect cfg/yolov3.cfg yolov3.weights data/dog.jpg…data/dog.jpg: Predicted in 0.334838 seconds.dog: 57%car: 52%truck: 56%car: 62%bicycle: 59% Neat! I think this also my first time encountering this license: https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet/blob/master/LICENSE.fuck. One little project I…
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Interview with Judy Schwarz
Judy Schwarz, who manages the native plant section at the Palo Alto SummerWinds location, is an icon in the local native plants community. A few quotes about her from the GardeningWithNatives mailing list: “Judy is a wonderful resource and advocate” (link), “Judy at [SummerWinds] in Palo Alto is the best!” (link), “Judy at [SummerWinds] Palo…
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“Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?”
A couple thoughts looking at this fascinating paper from 2023: “Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?”:
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Telling g++ about homebrew-installed lib
I’ve been having fun looking at some code created by a friend/ex-coworker, including https://github.com/hfgong/walker_vose. It makes use of the beloved to me GoogleTest C++ test framework. I guess probably the right thing to do is to set things up via one of the methods mentioned in the GoogleTest docs, Bazel or CMake. (I was very…
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Undoing perspectival distortion
I have a lot of photos containing a sign or other rectangular object where I’d like to undo the distortion that comes from having the plane of the camera not exactly parallel to the plane of the rectangle. I’ve also been wanting to play with Tauri, a framework for creating apps, for a while. So,…