# convolutional neural network (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 11 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover convolutional neural network. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Best Time to Negotiate: When You Don't Need To](https://jamesrobb.ca/blog/best-time-to-negotiate/) _2026-08-14 · me@jamesrobb.ca (James Robb) · Who Am I? on James Robb_ The 29th of August is approaching and more and more blogs and opinion pieces I see are discussing the case for and against Iceland having accession talks with the EU. Reading some of the pieces written by friends and former colleagues stirred me up enough to want to discuss the issue myself. I am voting yes. This isn’t a comprehensive case for yes - I would be speaking well outside of what… ## [In The Heat of The Moment: Samsung Tablet Data Extraction](https://jamesrobb.ca/projects/heat_of_the_moment_samsung_tablet_data_extraction/) _2026-05-31 · me@jamesrobb.ca (James Robb) · Who Am I? on James Robb_ While visiting a friend recently he mentioned that he dropped his tablet and hasn’t been able to get it to turn on since. As it usually goes in such situations, there were no backups to speak of. The tablet was his daily driver and held a bunch of writing and photos that he wanted to recover, if possible. Not being a techy himself, and hesitant to throw hundreds of dollars at repair services… ## [AGI Isn't Here Yet. That's Not an Excuse to Do Nothing.](https://jamesrobb.ca/blog/agi_isnt_here_yet/) _2026-04-01 · me@jamesrobb.ca (James Robb) · Who Am I? on James Robb_ Each new generation of LLMs delivers a smaller leap than the one before. Improvements do come, but they’re increasingly incremental. Most of the progress we are seeing now is around tooling - coding agents like Codex and Claude Code are changing the way much (if not most) software is being built today. But that’s an entirely different thing than the AGI that was just around the corner… ## [Underfunding Our Playschools Is Not an Option](https://jamesrobb.ca/blog/underfunding_playschools_not_an_option/) _2026-03-20 · me@jamesrobb.ca (James Robb) · Who Am I? on James Robb_ I recently wrote an opinion piece I had published on Vísir’s website (a popular news outlet in Iceland). In it I discuss my feelings on the state funding for playschools in Reykjavík and urge voters to choose political parties that understand and value the importance of adequately funding playschools. The article on Vísir is published in Icelandic - the English version is below. English… ## [Talk: L'IA et le futur des agents personnalisés](https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2026-03-12-talk-ia-futur-agents-personnalises/) _2026-03-12 · jerpint_ Slides from my presentation on AI and the future of personalized agents. ## [The paradox of shipping more while coding less](https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2026-03-01-ai-coding-agents/) _2026-03-01 · jerpint_ The tension between not writing any code while contributing significantly more ## [HUMANS.md](https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2026-02-25-humans-md/) _2026-02-25 · jerpint_ A convention to keep code digestible for us humans ## [MetaMerge: Model Merging with Meta Networks](https://bknyaz.github.io//blog/2026/meta-merge/) _2026-02-19 · Boris Knyazev & Albert M. Orozco Camacho · blank_ Merging ViTs and LLMs using a pretrained (graph) neural net. ## [Coding at the speed of thought](https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2026-02-15-coding-at-the-speed-of-thought/) _2026-02-15 · jerpint_ Thinking is becoming the new bottleneck in coding ## [EFTA00400459 has been cracked, DBC12.pdf liberated](https://neosmart.net/blog/efta00400459-has-been-cracked-dbc12-pdf-liberated/) _2026-02-07 · Mahmoud Al-Qudsi · The NeoSmart Files_ Three days ago, I wrote a post about stumbling across uncensored/unredacted plain-text content in the DOJ Epstein archives that could theoretically be reconstructed and reversed to reveal the uncensored originals of some of the files. Last night, I succeeded in … Continue reading → The post EFTA00400459 has been cracked, DBC12.pdf liberated first appeared on The NeoSmart Files . ## [Home Internet From Space (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/0rbFoYfdRHrI) _2026-02-07 · **Sponsored**_ Residential satellite internet that brings connectivity to homes beyond conventional networks ## [How I Maintain My Blog in the Age of Agents](https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2026-02-07-how-i-maintain-my-blog-in-the-age-of-agents/) _2026-02-07 · jerpint_ Using AI agents to remove the friction from blogging, written entirely from my phone. ## [Claudiobooks - Short Form Audiobooks Narrated by AI](https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2026-02-06-claudiobooks/) _2026-02-06 · jerpint_ Introducing Claudiobooks, a project that makes short-form AI-narrated podcasts grounded on public domain books. ## [Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments](https://neosmart.net/blog/recreating-epstein-pdfs-from-raw-encoded-attachments/) _2026-02-04 · Mahmoud Al-Qudsi · The NeoSmart Files_ Heads-up: An update to this article has been posted. There have been a lot of complaints about both the competency and the logic behind the latest Epstein archive release by the DoJ: from censoring the names of co-conspirators to censoring … Continue reading → The post Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments first appeared on The NeoSmart Files . ## [Sigh: The Vibe-Coded Job Hunt Tool No One Asked For](https://jamesrobb.ca/projects/sigh/) _2026-01-30 · me@jamesrobb.ca (James Robb) · Who Am I? on James Robb_ Introduction # One of the first things I needed to do this year was find a new job. The last company I worked for had a huge round of layoffs in November of last year, and I was one of the people that was let go. I took a couple of months to spend time with my family and travel, but sigh , it’s time to get back to it. To aid me in my hunt, I “built” Sigh to help me track all of… ## [Sharding UUIDv7 (and UUID v3, v4, and v5) values with one function](https://neosmart.net/blog/sharding-uuidv7-and-uuid-v3-v4-and-v5-with-one-function/) _2026-01-28 · Mahmoud Al-Qudsi · The NeoSmart Files_ UUIDv7 (wiki link) is seeing strong and eager adoption as a solution to problems that have long plagued the tech industry, providing a solution for generating collision-free IDs on the backend that could still be sorted chronologically to play nicer … Continue reading → The post Sharding UUIDv7 (and UUID v3, v4, and v5) values with one function first appeared on The NeoSmart Files . ## [How to (safely) swap the contents of two files opened in (neo)vim buffers](https://neosmart.net/blog/how-to-swap-the-contents-of-two-files-opened-in-neovim-buffers/) _2026-01-24 · Mahmoud Al-Qudsi · The NeoSmart Files_ Raise your hand if you’ve been here before: you have file1 open in a vim or neovim buffer and you want to “fork” its contents over to file2, but you need to reference file1 while you do so. So you … Continue reading → The post How to (safely) swap the contents of two files opened in (neo)vim buffers first appeared on The NeoSmart Files . ## [I don't write code anymore - I sculpt it](https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2026-01-24-i-dont-write-code-anymore-i-sculpt-it/) _2026-01-24 · jerpint_ how I'm using ai tools in 2026 ## [Portable (Cartesian) brace expansion in your shell](https://neosmart.net/blog/portable-cartesian-brace-expansion-in-your-shell/) _2026-01-23 · Mahmoud Al-Qudsi · The NeoSmart Files_ Cartesian expansion, also known as brace expansion, is an incredibly powerful feature of most unixy shells, but despite being fundamentally simple and incredibly empowering, it’s been traditionally relegated to the dark and shadowy corners of command line hacking, employed only … Continue reading → The post Portable (Cartesian) brace expansion in your shell first appeared on The NeoSmart Files . ## [Building a Multi-Tenant Metrics Pipeline for Thousands of Clients](https://jamesrobb.ca/projects/metrics_pipeline/) _2026-01-21 · me@jamesrobb.ca (James Robb) · Who Am I? on James Robb_ Introduction # The last big project I worked on during my time at Yellowbrick was a brand new observability stack for the core product, an OLAP data warehouse. The company had finished a big push to create a cloud version of the product (which up to that point ran on a custom appliance) and we were finding that our mostly log-driven approach to observability was falling short. Diagnosing… ## [REAM: Compressing Mixture-of-Experts LLMs](https://bknyaz.github.io//blog/2026/moe/) _2026-01-15 · Boris Knyazev · blank_ Merging experts in Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) LLMs to compress a 235B LLM. ## [Watch chovy live code (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/vrvhUcPiT0F1) _2026-01-14 · **Sponsored**_ Join Mosh Coding streams with collaborative screen sharing and remote control, open source. ## [Namecheap takes down domain hosting video archives of Israeli war crimes](https://neosmart.net/blog/namecheap-com-revokes-domain-hosting-video-archives-of-israeli-war-crimes/) _2026-01-01 · Mahmoud Al-Qudsi · The NeoSmart Files_ Namecheap.com, the popular domain name and webhosting platform, has disabled the Genocide.live domain name, which was home to a publicly accessible archive of over 16,000 videos documenting alleged Israeli war crimes, the vast majority of which were recorded since the … Continue reading → The post Namecheap takes down domain hosting video archives of Israeli war crimes first appeared on The… ## [FreeBSD 15.0 post-upgrade reboot loop](https://neosmart.net/blog/freebsd-15-0-post-upgrade-reboot-loop/) _2025-12-09 · Mahmoud Al-Qudsi · The NeoSmart Files_ This post is less of a deep dive into a bug I ran into upgrading an x86\_64 machine from FreeBSD 14.3 to FreeBSD 15 and more of a PSA: I have a possible workaround for anyone that runs into the … Continue reading → The post FreeBSD 15.0 post-upgrade reboot loop first appeared on The NeoSmart Files . ## [The Rise of the 0.1x Engineer](https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2025-12-08-01x-engineer/) _2025-12-08 · jerpint_ The 0.1x engineers of the future will have to learn to trudge through the slop ## [Different Models, Same Slop?](https://www.jerpint.io/blog/different-models-same-slop/) _2025-11-22 · jerpint_ Are Big Lab Models Converging to the Same Slop? ## [NiNo: Learning to Accelerate Training of Neural Networks](https://bknyaz.github.io//blog/2025/nino/) _2025-09-30 · Boris Knyazev · blank_ Explaining our ICLR 2025 paper and visualizing neuron permutation symmetry. ## [The idiomatic ZFS on Linux quickstart cheat-sheet](https://neosmart.net/blog/zfs-on-linux-quickstart-cheat-sheet/) _2025-09-10 · Mahmoud Al-Qudsi · The NeoSmart Files_ I’m a FreeBSD guy that has had a long, serious, and very much monogamous relationship with ZFS. I experimented with Solaris 9 to learn about ZFS, adopted OpenSolaris (2008?) back in the “aughts” for my first ZFS server, transitioned my … Continue reading → The post The idiomatic ZFS on Linux quickstart cheat-sheet first appeared on The NeoSmart Files . ## [Gemstone Faceting Gallery](https://www.mikechatzidakis.com/posts/gems) _2025-05-07 · michael chatzidakis · Michael Chatzidakis_ I work on a variety of material such as: Opal, Topaz, Cubic Zirconia, Ruby, Rutile, LYSO, LuAG, Emerald View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize ## [Explaining The Zoo](https://thebucketless.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/explaining-the-zoo/) _2025-04-01 · thebucketless · The Bucketless_ Over on his soccer substack, Devin Pleuler has brought up The Zoo model a couple times while admitting that he doesn’t fully understand how it works. The Zoo was the winning entry to BDB 2020 which was about predicting yards after handoff. One of the big advantages of the model is that it will provide … Continue reading Explaining The Zoo → ## [Python's 'shelve' is really useful for LLM debugging](https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2025-03-16-python-shelve-as-cache/) _2025-03-16 · jerpint_ Python's shelve module is a persistent key-value store perfect for LLM debugging. ## [ArXiv-txt, LLM-friendly ArXiv papers](https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2025-02-21-arxiv-txt/) _2025-02-21 · jerpint_ Make arXiv papers easily available in LLM-friendly formats. ## [Prime Noise-Cancelling Picks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aM4y9b9Z4TCX) _2025-02-21 · **Sponsored**_ Browse Prime-eligible, 4-star-and-up noise-cancelling earbuds with fast shipping and deals ## [Realtime HTML Rendering with LLMs](https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2025-02-14-txt2html/) _2025-02-16 · jerpint_ Using LLMs to directly generate the html for a response. ## [2025: Agency gained and lost](https://gracewlindsay.com/2025/01/24/2025-agency-gained-and-lost/) _2025-01-24 · neurograce · Grace W. Lindsay_ If you’ve had even a passing glance at tech journalism over the past few months, you know the top buzzword for AI in 2025 is agentic. Agentic AI (according to many think pieces and press releases at least) is going to revolutionize industry. It’s going to streamline complex pipelines and maximize efficiency. It will make \[ \] ## [I had different agents play 'The Password Game' - they didn't do so well](https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2025-01-25-agents-password-game/) _2025-01-22 · jerpint_ Comparing multimodal agents and how they struggle on 'The Password Game' ## [Performance of LLMs on Advent of code 2024](https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2024-12-30-advent-of-code-llms/) _2024-12-30 · jerpint_ Taking a look at how LLMs performed on the latest AoC competition. ## [Recap on Advent of Code 2024](https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2024-12-25-advent-of-code-24/) _2024-12-25 · jerpint_ Overall thoughts on the 2024 challenge