LLMs can be more useful and less prone to hallucination when they’re able to read relevant documents, webpages, and prior conversations before responding to a new user question. Unfortunately, LLMs have a finite context length that can be quickly exceeded when asking it to read these external resources. …

Did you know there is a type of compiler backdoor attack that is impossible to defend against? In this post I’ll show you how to implement such an attack in less than 100 lines of code. Ken Thompson, the creator of the Unix operating system, discussed the attack in 1984…

Using Venmo has always been a frustrating yet unavoidable part of my life. I cannot realistically use another platform because most of my peers use Venmo. I think Venmo lacks some core features that any P2P payments service should have. …

Have you ever wondered how computers calculate trigonometric functions like sin and cos? You might recall from calculus that any differentiable function can be expressed as an infinite polynomial sum known as the Taylor Series. …

My last job required me to learn Scala, which is considered to be a functional-OOP hybrid language. Seeing real-world applications of Scala was what ultimately sold me on the language’s concepts, and now I’m very grateful for the big perspective shift Scala has given me. Because I don’t often hear…

My friends and coworkers often ask me what tools I use because they view me as a productivity enthusiast. I have always enjoyed improving my productivity because the feeling of efficiency makes working more enjoyable. …

In this blog post, we are going to run some SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) performance experiments in WebAssembly and see whether the results agree with our theoretical predictions. I chose to do this in WebAssembly because it’s an exciting technology that I wanted to learn more about. What is SIMD SIMD is…

Click has made my Kubernetes experience a pleasure. I adopted Click after joining Databricks because using kubectl was too inconvenient. There aren't many articles or blog posts discussing Click, so I decided to write one in hopes of convincing you to try it out. What is Click Click is a Kubernetes REPL that…