2022#20 Readings 🇺🇦🌻
2 minutes read | 386 words by Ruben BerenguelThe stuff I have pending to read keeps increasing lately. Too much interesting material being written.
Writing Snake in 12 Lines of PyTorch
It’s 12 for the inner core logic and 15 more if you want interactivity. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Put it on the Crazy Pile: Ideas and Creativity
It’s always best to write down what is on your mind than to keep it floating there.
Pinpoint unique elements with BigQuery search features
Fast searching in unstructured fields. BigQuery is certainly full of features. And you only pay for the space needed for the indexes. You no longer need full table scans for this.
What We Can Learn About Expertise From a Poker Journey
By Gary Klein. Anything about expertise from Klein is worth reading.
Thread by @ai__pub about Stable Diffusion
Neat explanation of how Stable Diffusion (one method of generating images by neural networks) works.
The Mystery Inside Monkeypox Vaccines
This headline is a bit shitty. The strain used in smallpox vaccines is so old it no longer is known where it comes from. And it’s the same strain being used for monkeypox. That’s “the mistery”. The article is very interesting, though.
The Integrator Burden
This one hits hard. By John Cutler, on being glue.
Cramming ‘Papers, Please’ Onto Phones
Technical posts by Lucas Pope are rad. The development blog he was writing about Return of the Obra Dinn was brilliant.
How to present to executives
TLDR: advocates for Minto’s Pyramid Principle (summary from untools.co), I usually recommend this video about Executive Communication as a start to the principle.
