Fake primes
Someone asked on Math Overflow about the distribution of digits in primes. It seems 0 is the least common digit and 1 the most common digit. Dan Piponi replies “this is probably just a combination of general properties of sets of numbers with a density similar to the primes and
Read moreData Preprocessing: Exploring the Keys to Data Preparation
Learn what data preprocessing is, why it's important, and techniques for cleaning, transforming, integrating and reducing your data. Continue reading Data Preprocessing: Exploring the Keys to Data Preparation on SitePoint.
Read moreHibernate is not so evil
You just don’t know it well enoughPhoto from my presentation about Hibernate at Warsaw IT DaysA few years ago, when I was a Junior Backend Developer, I was really frustrated at Hibernate. Every time I made any change in the persistence layer designed by my older colleagues, I had serious problems with
Read moreThe AI Collaborator: How I Teamed Up with GPT to Create W’kid Smaaht
W’kid Smaaht (logo by Dall E 2)Recently, I did what many other engineers have been doing: putting ChatGPT inside Slack. And although there are many great examples on GitHub, this version is different in at least two ways:Practical: Easy to deploy in your organization’s AWS accountNovelty: It has a Bostonian personality ;-)Meet W’kid Smaaht
Read moreTesting Out Llama Cpp Grammar Constraint-based Sampling
A promising new sampling methodPhoto by Element5 Digital on UnsplashSome weeks ago I heard of an innovative work going in the llama-cpp repository that would add grammar constraint-based sampling to the repository.What does that mean? In summary, this new feature would give us a huge potential for generating complex structural output, such
Read moreHTTP-Modular: My Node.js Library for Converting Server-Side Functions Into ES Modules
Unleashing the power of ES modules for server-side logicPhoto by Christopher Gower on UnsplashRecently, I was inspired and developed a remarkable “programming magic.” I encapsulated this idea into a Node.js library called “http-modular.”The core concept was to transform server-side HTTP interfaces into JavaScript code that adheres to the ESM (ECMAScript Modules)
Read moreThe Ideal TabView Behaviour With SwiftUI Navigation Stack
Photo by Nick Fewings on UnsplashThere are tons of articles that explain Navigation Stack, which was introduced with iOS 16, but most of these pretty much reshare what Apple’s documentation says — and are similar to the sample Colors app that Apple shared. While that’s good to grasp the basics, it’s far from
Read moreJava 21: So How Should We Construct Strings Now?
Image by authorJava 21 brings in a lot of cool features, and one of them is the String Templates. While it serves more purposes than just classic String interpolation, for us Java developers, it’s yet another way to concatenate Strings in a “proper” way.What is proper, though? I poked around the bytecode
Read moreThe Overflow #191: Between product and engineering
Welcome to ISSUE #191 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: I/O-heavy operations on the edge, the earliest programs called AI, and happiness is a developer community called Laravel. From the blog Speeding up the
Read moreBuild a JavaScript Tool Library That Simulates Interfaces to Generate Random Data
Image generated using MidjourneyWhen it comes to web development, many frontend developers have experienced the waiting process for backend API integration. Initially, when the backend APIs are not ready, many developers are unable to start working and can only do some preliminary preparations, which can feel like a waste of time.Some
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