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By Anuradha Weeraman
Feb 2, 2025

DeepSeek-R1, at the cusp of an open revolution

DeepSeek R1, the new entrant to the Large Language Model wars has created quite a splash over the last few weeks. Its entrance into a space dominated by the Big Corps, while pursuing asymmetric and novel strategies has been a refreshing eye-opener. GPT AI improvement was starting to show signs

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By Anuradha Weeraman
Jul 13, 2024

Windows of Opportunity: Microsoft's Open Source Renaissance

Twenty years ago, it was easy to dislike Microsoft. It was the quintessential evil MegaCorp that was quick to squash competition, often ruthlessly, but in some cases slowly through a more insidious process of embracing, extending, and exterminating anything that got in the way. This was the signature personality of

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By Anuradha Weeraman
Mar 14, 2023

US-11604662-B2

I’m happy to announce, that after a long wait, patent US-11604662-B2 has been issued.

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By Anuradha Weeraman
Feb 2, 2025

DeepSeek-R1, at the cusp of an open revolution

DeepSeek R1, the new entrant to the Large Language Model wars has created quite a splash over the last few weeks. Its entrance into a space dominated by the Big Corps, while pursuing asymmetric and novel strategies has been a refreshing eye-opener. GPT AI improvement was starting to show signs

Artificial Intelligence
Windows of Opportunity: Microsoft's Open Source Renaissance post image
By Anuradha Weeraman
Jul 13, 2024

Windows of Opportunity: Microsoft's Open Source Renaissance

Twenty years ago, it was easy to dislike Microsoft. It was the quintessential evil MegaCorp that was quick to squash competition, often ruthlessly, but in some cases slowly through a more insidious process of embracing, extending, and exterminating anything that got in the way. This was the signature personality of

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By Anuradha Weeraman
Mar 14, 2023

US-11604662-B2

I’m happy to announce, that after a long wait, patent US-11604662-B2 has been issued.

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By Anuradha Weeraman
Jan 8, 2023

Parallelizing and running distributed builds with distcc

Parallelizing the compilation of a large codebase is a breeze with distcc, which allows you to spread the load across multiple nodes and…

Distributed Systems
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By Anuradha Weeraman
Nov 6, 2022

Getting started with Linkerd

If you’ve done anything in the Kubernetes space in recent years, you’ve most likely come across the words “Service Mesh”. It’s backed by a…

Distributed Systems
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By Anuradha Weeraman
Oct 2, 2021

On blood-lines, forks and survivors

The lineage of a classic operating system

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By Anuradha Weeraman
Aug 17, 2020

Debian is 27

Today, Debian celebrates its 27th birthday. It is now one of the oldest and most widespread Linux distributions with many offshoots and…

Unix Debian
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By Anuradha Weeraman
Mar 9, 2020

Building a tiny Linux kernel

Today we will go over the process of building a tiny Linux kernel, and booting into a shell. To start with, fetch the Linux source tree…

Linux Kernel
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By Anuradha Weeraman
Feb 20, 2020

Compiling the Linux Kernel with Clang

I decided to give Clang a spin to compile the kernel, and given that I’m not exactly an early adopter in attempting this, it was pretty…

Linux Kernel
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By Anuradha Weeraman
Sep 28, 2019

Linux on the Desktop: a cautionary tale of distributions, GPUs and encrypted filesystems

In the last 24 hours, I have been experimenting with this ridiculously named but absolutely gorgeous Linux distribution called Pop!_OS by…

Debian
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By Anuradha Weeraman
Jul 14, 2019

The man, the myth, the rebel

As we get ready for another Wimbledon finals between Federer and Djokovic in a few hours, I look back upon a past champion whose story I…

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By Anuradha Weeraman
Mar 17, 2019

Connecting to the Minnowboard over Serial

In this post, I will walk you through the process of connecting to a Minnowboard over a serial console connection, so that you can use it…

Hardware
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Anuradha Weeraman

A practitioner's views on computers, operating systems and technology

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On blood-lines, forks and survivors

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Building a tiny Linux kernel

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AlphaGo: a journey to machine intuition

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Dec 24, 2017

Dissecting Bitcoin, Part 2 — Challenges

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