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Redirect One Domain to Another Via Cloudflare

Redirect One Domain to Another Via Cloudflare

Recently, we managed to resolve a redirection issue involving two sites. Site A contains historical data, while Site B has a domain name. Our goal is to direct URLs from Site B to the content on Site A while minimizing effort. We had three options: 1. Use some paid redirection

Daily Productive Sharing 690 - Prompt Engineering

Daily Productive Sharing 690 - Prompt Engineering

One helpful tip per day:) Lilian Weng reviewed the prompts used by large language models (LLMs) in recent years and provided detailed explanations: 1. Zero shot prompt: Directly giving instructions -- this is the most basic instruction. 2. Few shot prompt: Providing example(s) and giving instructions -- this is

Connecting Carrd to Customized APIs

Connecting Carrd to Customized APIs

Carrd is an elegant and concise web page building tool, which is great for making a one-page site. Amazing, it is built by only ONE person – AJ. DONE! Carrd = a free platform for building simple, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything.https://t.co/6o0oZarLhQ — aj (@ajlkn) March

How Did We Improve An Algorithm Speed by 60 Times?

How Did We Improve An Algorithm Speed by 60 Times?

Recently, my mentee and I refactored a key algorithm in one of our projects, and we achieved a 60-time speed gain. Problem We need regenerate a Docx file based on the OCR result, aiming to match the original format. However, the OCR result does not contain the font size, and

A Rare libmagic Bug in Docker

A Rare libmagic Bug in Docker

We recently caught a rare bug: One of our services is used to upload files to our storage service, and after uploading, it would check file format, and pass the extracted type to the next service. This file type inspection relies on python-magic. The bug occurs as it detected a

How Did We Save Our Video Classifier Cost by 84%

How Did We Save Our Video Classifier Cost by 84%

A recent project in our team was to improve the computing efficiency of a deep-learning-based video classifier. After carefully tuning the models and migrating to Kafka, we successfully reduced the cost by 84%. Background When we received the request, the model team already developed a POC version of the video

How Did We Improve Our Document Translator Speed by 20X?

How Did We Improve Our Document Translator Speed by 20X?

The first project after I joined this company was to help the team to deliver a document translator project. When I joined, the team already built a MVP version: it worked, but it was very slow. Translating a 50-page Microsoft Docx file would cost us more than 10 minutes, which