Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of vendor lock-in, simpler license management and support from active communities.

In the following slides, as part of the CRN 2024 Year In Review project, we take a look at some of the most popular open-source software products that have caught our attention this year.

This article is about the neural conundrum behind the slowness of human behavior. The information throughput of a human being is about 10 bits/s. In comparison, our sensory systems gather data at bits/s. The stark contrast between these numbers remains unexplained and touches on fundamental aspects of brain function: what neural substrate sets this speed limit on the pace of our existence?

You’re likely reading this text in a browser. Press Ctrl+F (⌘+F on macOS) and search for the word "text" on this page. The browser will instantly show you how many times the word appears. Even in texts hundreds of times longer than this page, browsers can quickly find the desired substring. Today, we’ll look at the algorithms that make this possible.

Recently I realize I've accumulated quite a few packages and wanted to do some cleaning and organizing.

These are the ones I kept and find useful.

The Story of Chaos Theory and Some Fun Facts About the Scientists.

With the advent of Llama 2, running strong LLMs locally has become more and more a reality. Its accuracy approaches OpenAI's GPT-3.5, which serves well for many use cases.

In this article, we will explore how we can use Llama2 for Topic Modeling without the need to pass every single document to the model. Instead, we are going to leverage BERTopic, a modular topic modeling technique that can use any LLM for fine-tuning topic representations.

Have you noticed that Git is so integral to working with code that people hardly ever include it in their tech stack or on their CV at all? The assumption is you know it already, or at least enough to get by, but do you?

Git is a Version Control System (VCS). The ubiquitous technology that enables us to store, change, and collaborate on code with others.

Many Linux users have experienced a lasting sense of accomplishment after composing a particularly clever command that achieves multiple actions in just one line or that manages to do in one line what usually takes 10 clicks and as many windows in a graphical user interface (GUI). Aside from being the stuff of legend, one-liners are great examples of why the terminal is considered to be such a powerful tool.

An LLM is no black box but an ML model (based on Neural Networks) that predicts the ‘next’ token given a sequence of previously predicted tokens and input prompt.
How is it able to get the context of the input? Using multi-head attention helps in focusing on important words compared to other tokens in the input sentence. If you’re interested in mathematics, you can read the below blog.

Over the summer, after finally getting around to learning Vim motions, I quickly fell down the Neovim rabbithole and have been procrastinating work by tinkering away at my configurations ever since! This post will be sharing setup that I have currently landed at to turn my Neovim editor into a supercharged workhorse.

There are three questions you have when you’re hiring a programmer (or anyone, for that matter): Are they smart? Can they get stuff done? Can you work with them? Someone who’s smart but doesn’t get stuff done should be your friend, not your employee. You can talk your problems over with them while they procrastinate on their actual job. Someone who gets stuff done but isn’t smart is inefficient: non-smart people get stuff done by doing it the hard way and working with them is slow and frustrating. Someone you can’t work with, you can’t work with.

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Hello friends, this is the first of two, possibly three (if and when I have time to finish the Windows research) writeups. We will start with targeting GNU/Linux systems with an RCE.

If someone were to ask me what I think is the most important sonic attribute in sound quality, my answer wouldn’t be imaging or soundstaging, it would be volume. More than anything else, volume determines if the listening experience turns out to be a wow or a meh. I’m not just talking about the overall loudness but also how it fluctuates from moment to moment, which is called dynamics. And the practice of reducing dynamics is called compression.

It feels like everything these days needs you to create an account and log in to use them. Philips Hue announced you need to plug your home’s light automation to their cloud, even if you just use it locally. They claim it’s for security.

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