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Why do people even like Rust?

A common argument for choosing to use rust is: "Well, it's memory safe isn't it?". But that is not a good argument; many (most) languages are memory safe. "But it gives you speed/concurrency and control?", yes but so does C, C+

The case for unit-normalized loss (with back-propagation)

Imagine you're me - struggling to debug unstable training[1] - then while taking a detour[2] into optimizers you find out that not only does batch accumulation affect the step-size (effective learning-rate), the scalar loss value you end up with also scales the gradients. I had assumed

Virtualizing my old desktop with QEMU

In the process I made a disk image of my OS, in case I needed some data I forgot to back up. Now I could have restored the disk image, booted into it, and then back it up. But then I got an idea, what if I just boot into it with QEMU.

Distributed Evolutionary Strategies

Distributed Evolutionary Strategies

It's a framework based on a paper by OpenAI, however at this point we have far increased the functionality described in the paper. We also have a roadmap for other features which are planned to be implemented, such as ESAC.

Diving into Evolutionary Strategies

In a recent project I've had the chance to work with 'self-learning agents'. While an easy way to go is to just take a common A3C library and use that, I wanted to explore evolutionary strategies (ES). They piqued my interest because of simplicity, and the

Yet another guide to Neural Networks

This is a theoretical introduction to Neural Networks. This introduction is meant to help gain intuition and help out with common issues. Not to get you going with any framework in particular. [Disclaimer of problem classification] The fundamental theory Neural networks are but transformations Recommended: You can create and test

Generalized 'parallel' popcnt

For a recent project I was looking to use Bloom filters to verify a efficient serialized structures (receiver can verify if they have the correct arbitrary deserialization). Now popcnt is a quite common function; it's available on many architectures as a single instruction. It counts the amount of

Analysing 'Choose your own adventure' books

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Analysing 'Choose your own adventure' books

A recent interest of mine has become analysing Choose your own adventure books. I've never read the original choose your own adventure books, but got introduced to it because of an upcoming project. There are quite a few interesting things to observe in these books without even going

Real-time natural TTS

Deep Learning TTS has been a hot subject for several years now, and while the results are impressive, most of these models are way to slow to use in production. In this article we are going to explore an end-to-end solution for TTS for near real-time, and possibly even mobile,

Stereo Audio Combiner

Stereo Audio Combiner

For years I've been looking for a solution to real-time audio combining. Trying to combine the music from my phone and the content from my desktop into the same speakers. Originally I tried it with free software, running a line into my desktop from my phone, and playing

Call-to-Mail Forwarding

Call-to-Mail Forwarding

This project aims to redirect an incoming phone call to an e-mail address, without any third-party services, the entire system running locally. Essentially telling the person what they need to do to contact you by other means. A similar thing can be done using phones when it goes over to