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Eulogy for Leo Cirino It’s really tough to tell you about the man we gather here to celebrate today.

Background At the tail end of June, I put my indie game development goals into overdrive, and Nixiesoft signed a lease for a small space in Norwalk, CT.

TL;dr: Use streamlink to capture the live twitch stream (HLS / MPEG-TS) Demux the audio and transcode to the ASR trained model format (f32-16KHz-mono) Run it through the Speech To Text (ASR) (wav2vec2 / whisper) Fine tune BART to summarize what’s said to a

The short version: Enable symbols in compile with -g (make sure the build doesn’t strip them) Make sure core dumps are being written.

With 15 minutes left on the clock, I needed a level editor, and I needed it fast.

Here’s a short companion walkthrough to my Performance @Scale talk on making a lossy inbound link, in the style of the Magic Modem.

About a month ago, I was on the phone with my dad, discussing the upcoming summer hackday at Netflix.

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Background At last, the day of reckoning draws nigh - all of the data has been collected, and we are ready to begin the analysis!

Background Network effects are usually hard to see from the point of view of one client, but when we receive data from a number of clients on the same networks, it’s much easier to see what’s going on.

Background Welcome to Part 3 of the Monitoring Fast Metric series!

Background Welcome to Part 2 in the Monitoring Fast Metrics series!

Background There are those that believe that we cannot log all of the data that we need in order to make a decision from something as large and as mind bogglingly fast moving as the open Internet.

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