One of those people who have heard about neural networks and machine learning n+1 times but don’t really understand the actual fundamental basics behind it? I surely am. Well, of course I know that there are some ways of training a network with pre-labeled data and then discovering similarities in never-seen data and yada yada … [Read more…]
I had to sign a PDF. I knew Google Drive has been offering me some “open with” options for ages and I decided to try DocHub.com. Absolutely brilliant. I opened the pdf I clicked sign They sent me an SMS with a link that opened a “sign here” web page I signed, refreshed the original web … [Read more…]
Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository is an excellent paper by Rachel Potvin and Josh Levenberg. They both work at Google, Rachel being an engineering manager and Josh a software engineer. Their writing, published in the Communications of the ACM in July 2016, may be found here. They provide a fascinating … [Read more…]
Data compression is a fascinating topic if you ask me. If you’re curious about it, I suggest you to read these two pieces of nice writing: The Elegance of Deflate and Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard. The first gives you a deep-dive into the inner-workings of widely used Deflate algorithm and the second … [Read more…]
In this blog post I’m writing about something that I consider really interesting and also very fascinating from the engineering perspective. I’m a huge fan of computer security related stuff and am intrigued by the many branches (ha!) it covers top to bottom with so many different aspects that you really cannot know everything at … [Read more…]