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Reminder to self: check to see if Delphi improved support for MMX/SSE/AVX instructions

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/13

This is from a long time ago [Wayback/Archive] Does Delphi support all MMX/SSE instructions? – Stack Overflow:

Delphi 2007 supports the MMX and SSE instruction sets. Certainly, Delphi 2010 and XE support up to the SSE4.2 instruction sets (but so far no support for AVX).

The [Wayback] Delphi 2005 Language Guide explained a bit, but no more recent PDF is available and the [Wayback/Archive] Embarcadero/IDERA Documentation Wiki is very much outdated on this information as per [Wayback/Archive] Talk:Assembler Syntax – RAD Studio:

Re: “Instruction Opcodes” The information on available instruction sets is outdated. D2010 and Fulcrum support the SIMD instruction sets all the way up to SSE4.2 (i.e., SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1 and SSE4.2).

–jeroen

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GitHub – dabochen/spreadsheet-is-all-you-need: A nanoGPT pipeline packed in a spreadsheet

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/12

A great visualisation that LLM are basically a bunch of numbers: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – dabochen/spreadsheet-is-all-you-need: A nanoGPT pipeline packed in a spreadsheet.

It also shows you that Excel is an excellent tool for working with numbers and formulas on a larger scale.

(note the file is a .numbers file developed in the Mac version of Excel)

Via:

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development, Excel, LLM, Office, Power User, Software Development | Comments Off on GitHub – dabochen/spreadsheet-is-all-you-need: A nanoGPT pipeline packed in a spreadsheet

Converting html div tables to normal tables

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/12

Sometimes normal html tables are better suited than the more style friendly div tables, as they better suit the underlying data and are easier when you need column or row spans using the colspan and rowspan html attributes, explain semantics better, and … display as tables even without styling!

Converting from div tables to normal html tables is not as straightforward than from normal html tables to div tables.

So here are some links that helped me with both div tables and the conversion:

[Wayback] How can I use jQuery to convert into HTML table? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback] yob!)

in case someone needs to convert on the-fly:

var div2table = $('.outer-div ').map(function () {
                var issue = $(this);
                var trline = issue.find('.inner-div').map(function () {
                    return '<td>' + $(this).text();
                }).get().join('</td>');
                return '<tr>'  + trline;
            }).get().join('</tr>');

div2table = '<table>' + div2table + '</table>';

where divs are

<div class='outer-div'><div class='inner-div'>this will be 1st TD</div>.....</div>

[Wayback] javascript – Converting div table to normal table – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback] Shaggy)

You could use JavaScript to create a table, loop through all the .row and .column elements in the div to popultate it, remove the div and append the table. Here’s something I threw together very quickly to get you started. (I commented out the line that removes the div so you can see both in the results).
[Wayback/Archive.is] HTML Table Generators and Converters | Div Table
[Wayback/Archive.is] HTML Table to Div Converter

–jeroen

Posted in Development, HTML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, jQuery, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Henk van Ess on the Google indexing and search algorithms

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/11

Many articles have been published on the Google Leaks earlier this year including a Twitter Thread by Henk van Ess. I will mention his and the original starting article which should give anyone hand and feet to dig deeper and assess for themselves how fast Google might be able to change this and get a feeling on much of it is still relevant over time.

A final note: I wasn’t aware that Google search used the Elixir (programming language) – Wikipedia. Cool!

--jeroen

Posted in Development, Elixir, Erlang, Functional Programming, Google, GoogleSearch, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “what’s an easy way to release the code of a project without allowing issues / pull requests? An archived github repo is almost like this, but it doesn’t seem to let you push new commits (I sometimes have code that I want to let people view but don’t want to maintain in any way)” / Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/11

Hopefully Gitlab can do this: [Wayback/Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “what’s an easy way to release the code of a project without allowing issues / pull requests? An archived github repo is almost like this, but it doesn’t seem to let you push new commits (I sometimes have code that I want to let people view but don’t want to maintain in any way)”

[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@b0rk @MrSwats In a lot of features, GitLab is way ahead of GitHub especially on fine grained settings. Of course this means it is way harder to configure. You can for instance organise your projects in hierarchies and configure access control on each node.”

Though GitLab has other drawbacks:

[Wayback/Archive] __ian__ = RfcReader() on Twitter: “@jpluimers @b0rk @MrSwats Gitlab has no way to disable commenting on commits or blocking assholes though, so 6 of one, half dozen of the other” / Twitter

–jeroen

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Covid and digital transformation cartoon – Business Illustrator

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/10

Digital transformation in your company was led by Covid-19, not your CEO, CTO or Head of Digital. Cartoon.

From the spring 2022 [Wayback/Archive] Covid and digital transformation cartoon – Business Illustrator

Searched because of [Wayback/Archive] Berend van der Kolk on X: “True for many organizations I guess😀”

[Wayback/Archive] GPddlWgbcAEdwxW.jpg (311×162)

--jeroen

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delphi – What is the meaning of the bScan parameter value 0x45 in keybd_event? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/06

From a long time go and a project that got cancelled, but maybe in the future I will need a similar thing again: back in the days not all raw key codes were readily documented or converted correctly from winuser.h to other environments (0x45 is the keyboard raw scan code value for VK_NUMLOCK of the Num Lock key).

[Wayback/Archive] delphi – What is the meaning of the bScan parameter value 0x45 in keybd_event? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] David Heffernan and [Wayback/Archive] kludg):

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Posted in .NET, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, Windows Development | Tagged: include | Leave a Comment »

Fixing the GitHub gist CSS so the editor uses more than 25% of my screen estate

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/05

Two years ago I asked [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Is there a way to make the @github gist text editor wider and taller? Right now (at 1920×1200) it uses about half the screen width and screen height. That wastes about 25% of screen estate. “.

~~I still have to figure out how to fix the height, but the width was relatively easy back then.~~ Hopefully this CSS fix still works today.

In the mean time [Wayback/Archive] Add full height gist creation by xthexder · Pull Request #68 · xthexder/wide-github: Conversation permanently fixed my problem.

[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “I fixed the width by modifying .container-lg and changing max-width from 1018px to 95%.”

Until GitHub fixes it themselves, I started with this fix in the extension [Wayback/Archive] Stylus – Chrome Web Store:

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Posted in CSS, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, gist, GitHub, HTML, Software Development, Source Code Management, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

maartensukel/example-textual-classification-citizen-reports: Example of a simple textual classification using TF-IDF and LR.

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/04

Cool technology:

[Wayback/Archive] maartensukel/example-textual-classification-citizen-reports: Example of a simple textual classification using TF-IDF and LR.

The classification is done by using a TF-IDF (Term Freuqency – Inversed document frequency) as representation for the text and a logistic regression to classify the text. Optimal hyperparameters for the dataset are found using a gridsearch.

Author: [Wayback/Archive] Maarten Sukel (@MaartenSukel) / Twitter

The source is based on Python Pandas and sci-kit learn (also known as sklearn).

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Hopefully a newer and more reliable “Computa Pranksta” mouse jiggler device will ever be released

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/30

For my link archive as this was a cool idea, but for many their device didn’t last that long:

[Wayback/Archive] ElectricRCAircraftGuy/eRCaGuy_ComputaPranksta_Support: Public support for my “Computa Pranksta” mouse jiggler device I sell on Amazon and elsewhere.

This device is a mouse jiggler. It keeps your computer awake. It can also be used to have some fun with your friends (please don’t take it too far–it’s meant to be used in good, friendly gest–not for any type of malicious purposes).

Notes:

There are software based Mouse Jiggler implementations as well; I wrote about one of them a loooooong time ago in Mouse Jiggler – MouseJiggle.exe will (virtually) move your mouse cursor so the screen saver does not start.
I have a bunch of “original” USB Mouse Jigglers of which there are compact and long ones. I forgot I had ordered the compact ones too, so I got reminded when I decommissioned the old kiosk machine after my mom passed away and had to lookup what a [Wayback/Archive] cru mj-3 – Google Search was (:

Links on those USB Mouse Jigglers below, but first some links on the Computa Pranksta:

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Posted in Development, Hardware, Hardware Development, Hardware Interfacing, IoT Internet of Things, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Power User, Software Development, USB | Leave a Comment »

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Reminder to self: check to see if Delphi improved support for MMX/SSE/AVX instructions

GitHub – dabochen/spreadsheet-is-all-you-need: A nanoGPT pipeline packed in a spreadsheet

Converting html div tables to normal tables

Henk van Ess on the Google indexing and search algorithms

Covid and digital transformation cartoon – Business Illustrator

delphi – What is the meaning of the bScan parameter value 0x45 in keybd_event? – Stack Overflow

Fixing the GitHub gist CSS so the editor uses more than 25% of my screen estate

maartensukel/example-textual-classification-citizen-reports: Example of a simple textual classification using TF-IDF and LR.

Hopefully a newer and more reliable “Computa Pranksta” mouse jiggler device will ever be released

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