A Keyframe-style Learning Rate Scheduler for PyTorch
When it comes to defining learning rate schedules in PyTorch, you have plenty of options. 15 different scheduler classes, to be exact.Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreHow Teams Spend Their Time
When teams build software and run it in production they need to divide their time between these responsibilities. How teams spend their time is a good indicator of team and system health. Most teams overestimate their capacity for feature development, causing tech debt to grow. Monitoring how time is spent
Read morePainless WebGPU Programming with taichi.js
As a computer graphics and programming languages geek, I am delighted to have found myself working on several GPU compilers in the past 2 years.This began in 2021 when I started to contribute to taichi, a Python library that compiles Python functions into GPU kernels in CUDA, Metal, or Vulkan. Later
Read moreHow To Develop Your Strategic Thinking Skills and Stay Ahead
Cross the boundary of your comfort zone to think about an idea to its extreme without mental guardrails to put it down.Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreData file character frequencies
I have a little script that will print the frequency of the most common characters in a file and the number of lines. All numbers are displayed along with their factorizations. It also prints the number of non-ASCII characters. CSV files These simple statistics are surprisingly useful. For example, when
Read morePlease Use Your Paid Time Off
The importance of using vacation to recharge and thriveContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreReplicating and Load Balancing Go Applications in Docker Containers with Consul and Fabio
Exploring a simpler alternative to set up and illustrate the concepts behind this implementationPhoto by Shubham Dhage on UnsplashMy usual solution for container replication, orchestration, and load balancing is Kubernetes. But last week, a friend asked me about a project she was working on — a fairly basic replication scenario — but she doesn’t have
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