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https://boyter.org/2010/09/small-steps-2-%E2%80%93-teaching-neural-network-learn-letter-b-z/
Small Steps 2 – Teaching a Neural Network to Learn the Letter A from B-Z | Ben E. C. Boyter
So in the previous article we managed to get our neural network to learn the difference between A and B. I mentioned at the end I was going to next test and...
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https://boyter.org/posts/publishing-my-second-pico8-game/
Publishing a second game using pico-8 | Ben E. C. Boyter
TL/DR; Play on itch.io or Plan or download from lexaloffle I previously wrote about making a game using pico-8. Once done I more or less instantly wanted to...
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https://boyter.org/posts/boilerplate-tax-ranking-popular-languages-by-density/
Boilerplate Tax - Ranking popular programming languages by density | Ben E. C. Boyter
I was looking through Google Scholar the other day looking for references to scc since I had previously had people reach out to me about how they were using it...
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https://boyter.org/posts/first-pc/
My First PC | Ben E. C. Boyter
At my current workplace we have been doing themed Friday stand-ups. The most recent was about your first PC love, or whatever technology you look back on...
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https://boyter.org/2010/12/mysql-popularity-ranking-algorithm/
MySQL Popularity Ranking Algorithm | Ben E. C. Boyter
Calculating the popularity of a page or article is something that usually comes up as a list of requirements for any social website. Essentially you want to...
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https://boyter.org/posts/search-index-implementations/
Search index implementations | Ben E. C. Boyter
A living document where I will be putting information about search index implementations as I learn about them. So there are a few talked about ways to search...
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https://boyter.org/2013/02/why-code-search-is-difficult/
Why Code Search is Difficult | Ben E. C. Boyter
I was chatting with a colleague the other day and he was asking me why code search is a difficult problem. After all its not quite as dynamic as the web so it...
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https://boyter.org/2014/07/feedback-loop/
Feedback Loop | Ben E. C. Boyter
About a month ago searchcode.com managed to sit on the front page of Hacker News (HN) for most of a day and produced a lot of useful feedback for me to act on....
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https://boyter.org/2017/03/golang-solution-faster-equivalent-java-solution/
Why is this GoLang solution faster than the equivalent Java Solution? | Ben E. C. Boyter
At work there is a tradition of a Friday quiz being posted by the winner of the previous week. I missed out on the most recent one due to having to duck off...
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https://boyter.org/posts/sloc-cloc-code/
Sloc Cloc and Code - What happened on the way to faster Cloc | Ben E. C. Boyter
It started by wanting to write a code counter that would be faster than cloc Update 2019-03-13 This is now part of a series of blog posts about scc Sloc Cloc...
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https://boyter.org/posts/move-mysql-database-between-servers/
Moving a MySQL/MariaDB database between servers using SSH | Ben E. C. Boyter
I’m in the middle of moving searchcode.com’s database to another server while upgrading it. This means I need to copy it somehow. It’s especially difficult in...
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https://boyter.org/2015/10/searchcode-local/
searchcode local | Ben E. C. Boyter
I am going to copy the searchcode pitch itself below quickly before explaining it a bit further. “searchcode offers powerful code search over billions of lines...
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https://boyter.org/posts/implement-go-channels-java/
How to implement Go Channels in Java | Ben E. C. Boyter
I have been doing interviews recently, and whenever someone mentions knowing a lot of Go and Java one of the questions I put to them is how to implement Go...
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https://boyter.org/posts/how-to-start-go-project-2023/
How to start a Go project in 2023 | Ben E. C. Boyter
I previously wrote about starting a Go project in 2018. A lot has changed since I wrote that and I had been wanting to write an updated version. What follows...
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https://boyter.org/2010/10/minimum-viable-product-mvp/
Minimum Viable Product MVP | Ben E. C. Boyter
As much as I like things to be perfect I soon discovered from my startup camp experience that its far more important to have a minimum viable product out there...
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https://boyter.org/posts/sloc-cloc-code-performance/
Sloc Cloc and Code Revisited - Optimizing an already fast Go application | Ben E. C. Boyter
Update 2019-03-13 This is now part of a series of blog posts about scc Sloc Cloc and Code which has now been optimised to be the fastest code counter for...
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