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January 24, 2025

Nikos Vaggalis - Robots That Learn

 The recorded lectures/webinars of the Robot Learning lecture series run by Professor Jitendra Malik at the University of  California, Berkeley have been released as a YouTube playlist.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/169-robotics/17779-robots-that-learn.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at January 24, 2025 02:07 PM

January 23, 2025

Nikos Vaggalis - Zasper - The JupyterLab Alternative

 Zasper is a supercharged IDE written in Go that allows you to run data science workloads locally and efficiently.

Zasper started out as a front-end interface to JupyterLab like many others, but ended up as a ground up implementation of the Jupyter project.

It is written in Go and implements the Jupyter wire protocol to talk to the underlying IPython notebook kernels via zeromq sockets. 


https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/17778-zasper-the-jupyterlab-alternative-.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at January 23, 2025 02:05 PM

January 20, 2025

Nikos Vaggalis - Getting Going With RAG

 IBM has produced a cookbook of tips and methodologies on how to use RAG to power up any kind of business applications. Microsoft and Docling both provide tools for data ingestion from a range of document formats 

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/17767-getting-going-with-rag.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at January 20, 2025 05:29 PM

January 17, 2025

Nikos Vaggalis - Demystifying GPU Terminology

 The developers at Modal have created the GPU Glossary to help themselves and others get to grips with terminology related to NVIDIA GPU hardware and software. They have managed to collect, clean, normalize and present the dispersed information on the subject.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/91-hardware/17763-demystifying-gpu-terminology.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at January 17, 2025 05:06 PM

December 31, 2024

Nikos Vaggalis - database.build - In Browser Postgres Sandbox With AI Assistance

 database.build lets you run Postgres inside your browser local-first and ask questions on your data in natural language.

If it wasn't already great enough to have a Postgres instance
running inside your browser, then add to it spawning any number of instances and use LLMs to query your data.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17737-databasebuild-in-browser-postgres-sandbox-with-ai-assistance.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at December 31, 2024 07:16 PM

Nikos Vaggalis - The IProgrammer Perl 2024 Review

 We recap the main events that happened throughout 2024 in the Perl world as explored by IProgrammer.

And let's begin with the announcement of v5.40.0 out on June 9th

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/222-perl/17739-the-iprogrammer-perl-2024-review.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at December 31, 2024 05:35 PM

Nikos Vaggalis - Explore Programming Idioms

 Introducing a web collection of programming idioms in a variety of languages. How useful is that?

Programming Idioms collects useful code snippets for day to day usage at work. The same snippet is presented in more than 20 languages so that you can make useful comparisons when working in multiple languages or want to learn a new one by observing how the constructs are mapped between the languages.


https://www.i-programmer.info/news/98-languages/17730-explore-programming-idioms.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at December 31, 2024 04:29 PM

Nikos Vaggalis - DuckDB + Webassembly = WhatTheDuck

 Run DuckDB inside your browser thanks to Webassembly. When is that useful?

Running a database instance inside a browser is nothing new.
I've already explored the idea in Running PostgreSQL Inside Your Browser With PGLite where I explained:

PGlite is a WASM Postgres build packaged into a TypeScript client library that enableyou to run Postgres in the browser with no need to install any other dependencies.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17726-duckdb-webassembly-whattheduck.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at December 31, 2024 04:28 PM

December 30, 2024

Nikos Vaggalis - Simplify PostgreSQL Database Access With Neon Authorize

 By fusing PostgreSQL native row-level security with external to the database authentication providers, Neon Authorize offers a new, efficient and transparent way for securing access for database-driven applications.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17720-simplify-postgresql-database-access-with-neon-authorize.html


by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at December 30, 2024 06:29 PM

December 23, 2024

Nikos Vaggalis - Learn Python With Dan The Machine Learning Engineer

 aka Dan Kornas who runs a very successful X account about everything related to engineering ML applications. And what is he using in his tutorials? Python, of course.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/216-python/17705-learn-python-with-dan-the-machine-learning-engineer.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at December 23, 2024 07:39 PM