Memory Optimization and Garbage Collector Management in Go
Managing the garbage collector in Go, optimizing memory consumption in applications, and protecting against out-of-memory errorsHello, my name is Nina Pakshina, and I work as a Golang developer at an online grocery delivery service. In this article, I will discuss managing the garbage collector in Go, optimizing application memory consumption,
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Read moreModern Software Engineering – Part 3: Documentation
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.” – Blaise PascalContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreBounds on the incomplete beta function (beta CDF)
The incomplete beta function is defined by It is called incomplete because the limit of integration doesn’t necessarily run all the way up to 1. When z = 1 the incomplete beta function is simply the beta function discussed in the previous post [1]. The incomplete beta function is proportional
Read moreUpper and lower bounds on the beta function
The beta function B(x, y) is defined by and is the normalizing constant for the beta probability distribution. It is related to the gamma function via The beta function comes up often in applications. It can be challenging to work with, however, and so estimates for the function are welcome.
Read more15 investors talk about their investment cadence in H1 2023
As part of our ongoing coverage of VC performance in the first half of 2023, TechCrunch+ surveyed 15 investors about their investment cadence and their plans for the second half of the year. As expected, it appears a good mix of investors wrote checks at the rate they’d aimed for,
Read moreFintech M&A gets a big boost with Visa-Pismo deal
It was a very busy week in the world of fintech, which certainly kept us on our toes. We covered a couple of notable M&A deals (including one of the biggest of the year so far), a different kind of financial services startup aimed at undocumented immigrants, Brex’s official recommitment
Read moreThe Attention Economy with Walter Flaat, Chief Data Officer, Dentsu Canada and Bookstores Come Back with James Daunt, CEO of Barnes & Noble
Two great interview shows for you this weekend: The Attention Economy – A study by Dentsu Canada and interview with Walter Flaat, Chief Data Officer In 2015 Time Magazine published a story with the headline “You Now Have A Shorter Attention Span Than A Goldfish.” Supposedly this was based on
Read morenth root of n!
Last week the function came up in a blog post. as the solution to the equation n! = bn. After writing that post I stumbled upon an article [1] that begins by saying, in my notation, The function b(x) … has many applications in pure and applied mathematics. The article mentions a
Read moreActivation functions and Iverson brackets
Neural network activation functions transform the output of one layer of the neural net into the input for another layer. These functions are nonlinear because the universal approximation theorem, the theorem that basically says a two-layer neural net can approximate any function, requires these functions to be nonlinear. Activation functions
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