List of interesting/helpful/queer/etc links:

Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning

• Chunking Strategies for LLM Applications
• GPT4All is the Local ChatGPT for your Documents
• On the Stability of Fine-tuning BERT: Misconceptions, Explanations, and Strong Baselines = Study notes on parameter-efficient finetuning techniques

Clojure

• Clojure, Faster: optimizing Clojure when it matters
• Fast and Elegant Clojure
• On The Nature Of Clojure Protocols
• Practical Data Coercion with Prismatic/schema: especially on how to make multiple coercion matchers work together
• Taming Advanced Compilation Bugs in ClojureScript Projects

CSS

• CSS Tips: CSS tips and tricks you won’t see in most of the tutorials
• Defensive CSS

Elixir

• Avoiding GenServer bottlenecks
• Elixir: a few things about GenStage I wish I knew some time ago

Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence

• 5 Deep Learning Activation Functions You Need to Know

Python

• Profiling and Analyzing Performance of Python Programs
• pytz: The Fastest Footgun in the West: why dateutil is preferred over pytz
• Strict Python function parameters: using positional- and keyword-only parameters to make function usages uniform
• Testing and debugging Apache Airflow

Rust

• Effective Rust
• Rust Concepts I Wish I Learned Earlier

SQL

• How do I insert a row which contains a foreign key?: with concise and smart SQL statement to insert many records
• SQL Style Guide

Misc

• AWS services explained in one line each
• Don’t Start With Microservices - Monoliths Are Your Friend
• Framework for writing good documentation
• Git - When to Merge vs. When to Rebase
  • Rule of thumb:
    • When pulling changes from origin/develop (or origin/master) onto local develop, use rebase
    • When finishing a feature branch, merge the changes back to develop (or master)
  • When to use what:
    • git pull origin when no local changes
    • git pull --rebase origin when there are local changes (but latest commit is not a merged with feature branch)
    • git merge --no-ff <branch> when merging feature branch back to master
    • git fetch origin then git rebase -r origin/<branch> when there are local changes (and last commit is a merge with feature branch)
• On Average, You’re Using the Wrong Average: Geometric & Harmonic Means in Data Analysis
• On Coding, Ego, and Attention: on self-improvement by not making work personal
• On finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow
• Prioritize Software Features By Mapping Complexity & Value With a Feature Matrix
• What’s New Between Java 11 and Java 17