Published in Towards Data Science·PinnedMember-onlyIllustrated: Self-AttentionA step-by-step guide to self-attention with illustrations and code — The illustrations are best viewed on the Desktop. A Colab version can be found here (thanks to Manuel Romero!). Changelog: 30 Dec 2022 — Use Medium’s new code block for syntax highlighting 12 Jan 2022 — Improve clarity 5 Jan 2022 — Fix typos and improve clarity What do BERT…Machine Learning9 min readMachine Learning9 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Sep 11, 2022Member-onlyDesign by Contract in RustAn ergonomic design using proc macros — Changelog: 31 Dec 2022 — Use Medium’s new code block for syntax highlighting Today I came across a beautiful piece of work: the contracts crate. This crate provides programmers with procedural macros to annotate functions and methods with Design by Contract specifications. A little background — Design by Contract (DBC)…Rust3 min readRust3 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Aug 17, 2022Member-onlyRust Ownership: 50 Code ExamplesTry them in the Rust Playground — Changelog: 2 Jan 2023 — Use Medium’s new code block for syntax highlighting Running into ownership problems like borrowing a value that has already been moved? If you are, then I’ve got 50 code snippets (fine, there are 53) for us to practise together in the Rust Playground. This article…Rust15 min readRust15 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Aug 5, 2022Member-onlyCreating a Rust Web App with Rocket and DieselI had a blast — Changelog: 30 Dec 2022 — Use Medium’s new code block for syntax highlighting Declarative, decoupled, laconic, batteries-included — adjectives that I would associate Rocket with after tinkering with it. I would say I really enjoyed myself. See here for a quick review. This is yet another article on Rust +…Rust7 min readRust7 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Jul 28, 2022Member-onlyUnhandled Exceptions in Kotlin CollectionsWhy didn’t you warn me earlier? — Kotlin’s collections package in the Kotlin Standard Library is full of wonderful goodies. Unfortunately, some of these methods can throw exceptions. This is extremely undesirable if your program doesn’t already handle these exceptions, causing your program to crash at runtime. Yucks. I have personally encountered exceptions like java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException or java.util.NoSuchElementException…Kotlin2 min readKotlin2 min read
Jul 26, 2022Member-only4 Ways to Take Control of Your Learning in CollegeMake the best out of it — Are you still in control of your learning? Or are you bogged down by how your lecturer delivers the course material? Is the course material insufficient? Are the slides not suited to how you learn? It’s time to regain control of your learning. 1. Look for other resources Don’t live your university life thinking that…Learning3 min readLearning3 min read
Published in Dev Genius·Jul 9, 2022Member-onlySpring Boot Externalised Configurations: 4 Things to AvoidAnd what you can do about them — Changelog: 30 Dec 2022 — Use Medium’s new code block for syntax highlighting In Spring Boot, configurations can be easily externalised so that we can work with the same application code across different deploys. However, there are some areas where you might shoot yourself in the foot later because of…Spring Boot5 min readSpring Boot5 min read
Published in Better Programming·Feb 16, 2022Member-onlyGoing From Python to Kotlin: 10 Language Features to KnowKotlin is fun — Changelog: 30 Dec 2022 — Use Medium’s new code block for syntax highlighting Mutability? Null safety? val and var? These are some Kotlin features alien to me when I first started. I was programming in Python before I picked up Kotlin (and JavaScript) for work a year ago. Transitioning from…Python7 min readPython7 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Jan 30, 2022Member-onlyHacking the Python syntax: Alternate lambda syntaxIn 60 lines of code — Introduction | Ternary operator | Alternate lambda syntax | No return keyword in function (coming soon)| List comprehension++ (coming soon) Changelog: 31 Dec 2022 — Use Medium’s new code block for syntax highlighting Table of contents Anonymous function Current syntax How are the others doing it? Target syntax Adding tokens Changing the grammar …Python8 min readPython8 min read
Published in Better Programming·Jan 21, 2022Member-only3 Perspectives I Uncovered From The Pragmatic ProgrammerAnd how you can benefit from them too — Everyone’s talking about The Pragmatic Programmer. My boss recommended that we read it. Blogs say this is one of the must-read books for software engineers. So I decided to check it out. The book deals with software, knowledge, and uncertainty sensibly. But what’s more important are the perspectives I have…Programming6 min readProgramming6 min read
