Daily Shaarli

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May 31, 2025

Are we reading Machiavelli wrong?
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I'm really glad about this interview. I've been thinking that Machiavelli texts have been wrongly considered for a long time now. It's time to reconsider what Machiavellian should really mean.

C++ to Rust Phrasebook

It's a very good idea to help C++ developers pickup Rust.

Using ‘Slop Forensics’ to Determine Model Ancestry

Interesting research to determine how models relate to each other. This becomes especially important as the use of synthetic data increases.

Simpler backoff

A good reminder that it is sometimes better to use lookup tables.

Decomplexification
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Nice illustration on how you can hunt down complexity in your codebases. It is obviously a slow process but comes with nice benefits.