Significant Bits
Substantive, in-depth technical conversations about software engineering (broadly construed).
- Update frequency
- every 24 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 7
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Read/Write/Nil with Michael Knyszek and Michael Pratt
Please read important erratum at end of these notes!
Astute listeners will notice that this is the first episode in over a year. I recorded not one but two awesome interviews...and then failed to edit…
Iota: whisper.cpp
Links:
- my little whisper.cpp bug fix
- why the logits were calculated inconsistently
- wav2vec2 on arxiv and huggingface
- the openai whisper asr model announcement
- beam search patience
- top notch guide to CTC
- the…
Iota: Random algorithms
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, whi…
Write It Down with Shay Nehmad
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
This was a fun and decidedly humbling conversation with Ben Johnson about SQLite, databases, Litestream, and LiteFS.
Links:
Iota: Rolling Hashes and FastCDC
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…
Trailer
The plan: Guests teach me substantive topics in software engineering, and I ask dumb questions.
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