Technical 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.
Technical 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
Casual/Personal 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
Technical 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,
