Emre Sevinç

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Aasdf#@$%@*vadasdfasd o nasil bir dersmis, ne menem bir hoca imis yahu!

"What do professional so!ware developers need to know to succeed in an age of Artificial Intelligence?" #AI #coding #software #business #Google arxiv.org/pdf/2506.00202

Serial Experiments Lain - TV Tropes The creators of Serial Experiments Lain drew on a freaking lot of sources. The series takes on a whole new meaning when you understand all the Shout Outs and allusions . So here's a quick guide to the...

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I don't know how old the original code is, but taking the source code featured in an anime from almost 28 years ago, and being able to compile & run it on a modern Common Lisp compiler in any popular operating system at the end of 2025, without making any changes... 🤯

The original Common Lisp source code is still available from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) AI Repository at: www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/proje...

Serial Experiments Lain - Wikipedia

According to Wikipedia, "The program being typed by Lain can be found in the CMU AI repository;[33] it is a simple implementation of Conway's Game of Life in Common Lisp." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_...

TIL "Serial Experiments Lain", an #anime from 1998, features some real Common #Lisp code 🤯in its Episode 7: youtu.be/Infs7wG6eKY?...

TimescaleDB vs. QuestDB: Performance benchmarks and overview | QuestDB Compare QuestDB and TimescaleDB with up-to-date performance benchmarks and architectural comparisons.

Interesting benchmark: "TimescaleDB vs. QuestDB: Performance benchmarks and overview" #TimeSeries #data #database #performance #PostgreSQL #IoT #SQL
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Musical sensation: Presentation of newly discovered Bach works // 75 years of Bach Archive Leipzig YouTube video by Bach-Archiv Leipzig

And performed on Monday! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDGR...

New Bach pieces discovered in the Royal Library of Belgium. 🎹🎼🎵🎶 #baroque #music #Bach #Belgium 🇧🇪
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Emre Sevinç's review of Data Governance with Unity Catalog on Databricks 5/5: I'd easily consider this book's contents as required reading if you're working with Databricks on a daily basis, especially if you need to design architectures where Unity Catalog will be one of ...

My review of "Data Governance with Unity Catalog on Databricks: Implement Data and AI Governance with Databricks Data Intelligence Platform" #Databricks #Architecture #book #goodreads 📙 www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Updated "Data Processing Resources: Command-line Interface (CLI) for CSV, TSV, JSON, and XML" #CLI #data #utility #Linux
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Emre Sevinç's review of The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect 4/5: Why didn't I hear about this book before!? That is the question. I mean, according to its Wikipedia entry, "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect", the book is more than 30 years old. OK, I get it...

My review of "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect" #Goodreads #book #scifi #ScienceFiction #AI #philosophy

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Reminds me of "important things are seldom urgent, and what is urgent is seldom important". (On another note, being slow and smooth in order to become fast and effective heavily reminds me of martial arts)

... then calculate its accuracy against a test data set (holdout data set).

GitHub - armish/nokta-ai: Turkish Diacritics Restoration with Neural Networks Turkish Diacritics Restoration with Neural Networks - armish/nokta-ai

That would be indeed a good benchmark! It should be relatively easy to compile a proper Turkish corpus with many foreign names and terms, create its 'ASCIIfied' version, then maybe use Arman's recent neural network based github.com/armish/nokta... to train a model and ...

Diacritics restoration: can we do better by using neural networks and deep learning? Perspectives from a 10-year-old open source project UPDATE (2025-09-17): Five years later, I should call it more like “Perspectives from a 15-year-old open source project”! OK, let’s get on with an exciting update! ➡ Bülent Arman A…

Nice to see the evolution of solutions to an interesting Natural Language Processing problem in the last 15 years:

#NLP #GPU #NeuralNetworks #AI #DeepLearning #programming

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"16th September" by René Magritte #art #Belgium

Emre Sevinç's review of Yapay Zekayı Kant’la Düşünmek 4/5: Son zamanlarda yapay zeka ve felsefe arakesitinde okuduğum en özgün ve ilginç kitaplardan birinin anadilimde olması ne güzel! Bununla birlikte, bu kitabı kolayca herkese tavsiye edemem, zira kita...

"Yapay Zekâyı Kant'la Düşünmek | Hesapkuramsal Karmaşıklık Ekseninde Makine Zekâsının Sınırları" kitap eleştirim #philosophy #AI #AGI #Kant #Heidegger

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Back to school for kids, back to lifelong learning for me #Azure #Databricks 📚📖📑

Emre Sevinç's review of Meaning in Life and Why It Matters 4/5: I learned about the author of this book thanks to "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis" lectures by John Vervaeke. The title of the book might mislead some people and make them think that this is s...

My review of "Meaning in Life and Why It Matters" by Susan R. Wolf: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #philosophy #book #goodreads 📕

QUIZ: How well do you know Python? Over in one of the Ideas threads, I put the theory that very few people know absolutely everything about Python. So here’s a bit of a quiz to try. Contains some esoterica. This is a for-fun quiz, ...

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Python syntax and semantics quiz NOTE: All questions are to be answered based solely on your own knowledge. Looking up documentation, or testing things in the REPL, is considered cheating. This quiz is purely for entertainment purpos...

Quiz: How well do you know Python? "Python syntax and semantics quiz" 🐍 #Python #quiz #programming
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Emre Sevinç's review of Building Medallion Architectures 5/5: It is perfectly safe to say that the Medallion Architecture and related topics in this book are bread and butter of the daily work of our team: We work on the data architecture, engineering, gove...

My review of "Building Medallion Architectures: Designing with Delta Lake and Spark":

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#DataArchitecture #DataModeling #DataEngineering #Governance #Business

"I want to practice durable computing and I want peace of mind knowing that solving a problem today means it will stay solved (the solution stays runnable and walks the same and talks the same) for the rest of my time. That, or I’m out." 💯

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#durable #computing

Stones, Departures, and Memories It’s been almost a year. I don’t know why it took me so long to write about this. I don’t even know why I insist on recording this memory. But here it is: it was an exceptionally …

Stones, Departures, and Memories
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There are different kinds of silence, for example the silence of a home when the kids aren't around. Makes you think about your past...

Emre Sevinç's review of Blue Giant Omnibus Vols. 1-2 4/5: I found this little gem thanks to the recommendation of my brother (who is a sax player like the protagonist). The book brought back so many memories and created new ones. I didn't think it would...

What a nice, quick read that was... #books #manga #music
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