The product approach to open source communities
A business wouldn’t take its product development for granted, so why would you neglect the OSS community that’s fundamental to the project’s very existence?
Read moreKL divergence from normal to normal
The previous post looked at the best approximation to a normal density by normal density with a different mean. Dan Piponi suggested in the comments that it would be good to look at the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence. The previous post looked at the difference from between two densities from an
Read more4 Strategies to Give Effective Feedback to a Difficult Person
Respect is like air. As long as it’s present, nobody thinks about it. But if you take it away, it’s all that people can think about.Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreHow I Used Amazon Bedrock to Write, Schedule, and Post My Tweets
Finding the time to create and post on social media takes time and expertise I don’t have. So I asked AI to do it for me.I’m a lazy person. Beyond being lazy, I’m also forgetful. That’s a killer combo when it comes to repetitive tasks that I have to do week
Read moreServer-side Swift? Why not?
Let's build a real-time chatroom with Vapor and WebSocketsContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read morePracticing Data Engineering with a Kaggle Competition
This year I've been quite deep into the topic of generative AI, especially in terms of large language models. At some point, I felt like I needed to step back and return to more practical AI applications.So I took part in a natural language processing Kaggle competition. My final score
Read moreUnderstanding React Error Boundary
React Error Boundary is a crucial concept to understand. This article introduces error boundaries and how to effectively implement them. Continue reading Understanding React Error Boundary on SitePoint.
Read moreNormal approximation to normal
In my previous post on approximating a logistic distribution with a normal distribution I accidentally said something about approximating a normal with a normal. Obviously the best approximation to a probability distribution is itself. As Norbert Wiener said “The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the
Read moreLogistic / Normal approximation
In a recent post I pointed out that a soliton, a solution to the KdV equation, looks a lot like a normal density for fixed x. As someone pointed out in the comments, one way to look at this is that the soliton is exactly proportional to the density of
Read moreReact vs React Native: Pros, Cons, and Key Differences
Discover the key differences between React and React Native, and weigh the pros and cons of these open-source JavaScript libraries. Continue reading React vs React Native: Pros, Cons, and Key Differences on SitePoint.
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