Did some housekeeping on Nayan’s website — removed jquery and bootstrap, updated fonts to Merriweather, now uses matcha.css, a semantic CSS framework, and a bit of basscss.
Still using Jekyll.
$ rbenv install 3.3.1
$ gem install bundler jekyll
$ gem update --system 3.5.10
$ bundle init
$ bundle add jekyllProgramming and Tech
Used ngrok for the first time. It is a very handy product. and an open source alternative - hookdeck (i haven’t tried this one yet). ngrok has a nice localhost web interface, and a cloud based dashboard that is fantastic.
An ode to PostgreSQL, and why it is still time to start over | CedarDB - The All-In-One-Database based on this paper (Neumann & Freitag, 2020) and The Umbra Database System — “Umbra is designed to process data at line-speed under all circumstances. In memory, we process hundreds of gigabytes per second while gracefully falling back to flash-based storage. Using data-centric code generation, parallel execution, and advanced query optimization techniques, Umbra executes the most complex queries with ease.”
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Rekindled interest in Roc and Odin programming languages.
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wsrv.nl An image cache & resize service. Manipulate images on-the-fly with a worldwide cache.
You pass the image URL and a set of parameters. wsrv.nl will then fetch the image, resize it, cache it and display it. The next time the request comes, it will serve the cached version.
usage:
<img src="//wsrv.nl/?url=wsrv.nl/lichtenstein.jpg&w=300&h=300">
Generative AI
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(Dalal & Misra, 2024) and the youtube video - LLM talk at MIT by Prof. Vishal Mishra (and as I found out, the founder of Cricinfo)
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todo have to check out Azure AI Studio on the recommendation of RRVR.
Interesting follows
- Giuseppe Paleologo, X account - quantitative investing, portfolio management etc
Reading
Continue to read “The courage to be disliked” from last week.