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One of the most irritating thing in Windows is no way to prevent an application from stealing focus. There are multiple questions on Stack Overflow regarding the issue, there are rumors that Microsoft wanted to do something but they cannot detect it reliably. There are workarounds like ForegroundLockTimeout but ultimately there is no good solution. … Continue reading Decreasing pain of stolen focus
We know that to compare floating point values we should use epsilon and not just compare bits. We may run into similar issues when comparing BigDecimal in Java: What is the output? Of course it is false, otherwise I wouldn’t write this post. This is because BigDecimal includes scale: So we should use this: and … Continue reading Comparing numbers is hard
This is the twelfth part of the Custom memory allocation series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 — Allocating object on a stack We already know how to allocate memory anywhere on the heap but if you think that it solves all problems with GC … Continue reading Custom memory allocation in C# Part 12 — Hiding objects from GC
This is the first part of the Bit Twiddling series. For your convenience you can find other parts using the links below: Part 1 — Modifying Android application on a binary level Part 2 — Reverse engineering Profesor Klaus Intensywny Kurs to fix missing microphone — Profesor Klaus Intensywny Kurs bez mikrofonu Part 3 — … Continue reading Bit Twiddling Part 1 — Modifying Android application on a binary level
This is the eighth part of the ML series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Linear regression in MXNet Last time we saw forward propagation in neural net. Today we are going to extend the process to backpropagate the errors. Let’s begin. We need … Continue reading Machine Learning Part 8 — Backpropagation in neural net in SQL