Johannes Rudolph

@virtualvoid

Fiddling bits since 2342 @[email protected]

blog.virtual-void.net

Joined January 2009

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Johannes Rudolph
@virtualvoid
Jun 12, 2024
My job as a Rust Engineering Lead at a startup became victim of restructuring and I'm looking for a new role. I enjoy working on infra software, Open Source, with Rust, Scala, or whatever is needed. I'm also available contractually to support previous libs like Pekko Http.
Johannes Rudolph
@virtualvoid
Jun 14, 2024
Almost 50 years ago mastermind Loriot created this visualization of what happens during a rolling upgrade if you implemented sharding naively (w/o consistent hashing) dailymotion.com/video/x2x2dhm
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Johannes Rudolph
@virtualvoid
Jun 12, 2024
In other news, I won another prize at the Vesuvius Challenge for vesuvius-gui, an interactive browser for 3D volumes (like the vesuvius scrolls) written in Rust with egui. Thanks a lot to challenge team! scrollprize.substack.com/p/may-progress…
Vesuvius Challenge
@scrollprize
Jun 7, 2024
Congratulations to the May Progress Prize winners for contributions towards reading the Herculaneum scrolls!! scrollprize.substack.com/p/may-progress…
Johannes Rudolph
@virtualvoid
Dec 13, 2023
Thank you, @scrollprize, for awarding me a prize in the Vesuvius Challenge for my Open Source contributions cataloguing released segments and running OS ink detection models on them. It has been a fun journey and great collaboration! blog.virtual-void.net/2023/12/11/ves…
Johannes Rudolph
@virtualvoid
Aug 29, 2023
A short report on trying out different algorithms for selecting top-p elements from a distribution (aka Nucleus Sampling): blog.virtual-void.net/2023/08/29/cal…