Jed McCaleb Updated 2025-07-16
Interesting dude.
Normalized DFT Updated 2025-07-16
There are actually two possible definitions for the DFT:
RandomX Updated 2025-07-16
This innovative POW is optimized for CPUs and it's based on execution of random code and other memory-heavy techniques.
ISO_8859-1 Updated 2025-07-16
TODO look into those more:
Major downsides that most of those personal knowledge databases have:
  • very little/no focus on public publishing, which is the primary focus of OurBigBook.com
  • either limited or no multiuser features, e.g. edit protection and cross user topics
  • graph based instead of tree based. For books we need a single clear ordering of a tree. Graph should come as a secondary thing through tags.
Perl HOWTO Updated 2025-07-16
Project Gutenberg remove line breaks Updated 2025-07-16
Their txt formats are so crap!
E.g. for;
wget -O pap.txt https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.txt.utf-8
a good one is:
perl -0777 -pe 's/(?<!\r\n)\r\n(?!\r\n)( +)?/ /g' pap.txt
The ( +)? is for the endlessly many quoted letters they have, which use four leading spaces per line as a quote marker.
Proton VPN Updated 2025-07-16
Conda Updated 2025-07-16
Conda is like pip, except that it also manages shared library dependencies, including providing prebuilts.
This has made Conda very popular in the deep learning community around 2020, where using Python frontends like PyTorch to configure faster precompiled backends was extremely common.
It also means that it is a full package manager and extremely overbloated and blows up all the time. People should just use Docker instead for that kind of stuff: www.reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/kd88p8/comment/keco07k/

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