Links:my little whisper.cpp bug fixwhy the logits were calculated inconsistentlywav2vec2 on arxiv and huggingfacethe openai whisper asr model announcementbeam search patiencetop notch guide to CTCthe bitter lesson (and in meme form)Errata:* I r

Iota: Random algorithms

Feb 15th, 2024 21m 36s

In which I ramble about randomness and random algorithms. Now with theme music!Paper Cuts planned reading: Habitability and Piecemeal Growth, in Patterns of Software (just pages 7–16 of the book, which is pages 25-32 of the PDF)Selected links:*

Write It Down with Shay Nehmad

Feb 5th, 2024 41m 40s

Shay Nehmad on how writing is the key to becoming a better engineer, how to do it, and more.Links:* Cup O' Go podcast* Code Complete book* Shay's blog* Obsidian and Logseq

Litestream and LiteFS with Ben Johnson

Jan 23rd, 2024 36m 25s

This was a fun and decidedly humbling conversation with Ben Johnson about SQLite, databases, Litestream, and LiteFS.Links:Ben on GitHubLitestreamLiteFS

Iota: Rolling Hashes and FastCDC

Dec 31st, 2023 22m 45s

No guest for this inaugural episode--just me this round.I cover the basics of rolling hashes and FastCDC, which appears to be the state of the art in content defined chunking.Mentioned in the episode:8 bit hash bugFastCDC paperPerkeep (once cal

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Nov 25th, 2023 56s

The plan: Guests teach me substantive topics in software engineering, and I ask dumb questions.Please send guest suggestions, topic ideas, excitement, and monopoly money to [email protected]

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