Symbolically nested
Explains the concept of 'symbolically nested' statistical models, their computational advantages, and their importance in survey analysis.
Explains the concept of 'symbolically nested' statistical models, their computational advantages, and their importance in survey analysis.
The author announces a change in the blog's content license from CC BY-SA 4.0 to the more permissive CC BY 4.0, citing a shift in perspective on licensing reciprocity.
Analysis of recent AI research papers on continued pretraining for LLMs and reward modeling for RLHF, with insights into model updates and alignment.
Discusses strategies for continual pretraining of LLMs and evaluating reward models for RLHF, based on recent research papers.
A summary of new features and updates for Azure WebApps in March 2024, focusing on the GA release of Automatic Scaling for Premium-tier apps.
How a company's 'Demo Friday' culture fosters collaboration, peer recognition, and deep technical learning across hardware and software teams.
A podcast episode discussing WWDC 24, developer challenges in the EU, and bugs in Xcode 15, with hopes for a more stable release.
A developer shares their experience porting a Unity game to Unreal Engine, focusing on the benefits and learning curve of using Blueprints for visual coding.
An update on vdirsyncer's sync algorithm improvements, including status handling, error categorization, and auto-creation of collections.
JDK 20-23 updates for Unicode CLDR Version 42, covering locale data changes and parsing enhancements for date/time strings.
The creator reflects on five years of running component.gallery, a design system showcase, sharing stats, visitor insights, and future plans.
Explores SObjectizer's runtime telemetry feature for monitoring actor model applications in C++, covering setup and practical usage.
Announces the addition of 6 new R programming books to the Big Book of R collection, covering statistics, machine learning, and data science.
A guide to customizing the default file header comment for new Swift files created within a Swift Package, using an IDETemplateMacros.plist file.
Explains how to use Azure Logic Apps' built-in input/output obfuscation to secure data in operational logging and how to validate the settings.
The author updates their blogroll, recommending two influential web design professionals and their insightful personal sites.
A technical guide on using the memleak tool from bcc to find memory leaks in a running Postgres C program, comparing it to Valgrind.
Explains the technical distinction between JavaScript engines (like V8) and JavaScript runtimes (like Node.js), clarifying their roles and components.
An overview of s6 and s6-rc, a suite of Unix service supervision and management tools, covering components like s6-log and s6-supervise.
C# 13 may allow the use of 'ref' and 'unsafe' in iterators and async methods, addressing current limitations with references and spans.