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Character Creation Assistance, a hobby ML project

Level of difficultyMedium
Reading time8 min
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For one of my projects I was exploring Reddit to understand how players create characters in video games, what is important to them in this process, and what their preferences are. It turns out that communities sharing their creations or seeking help with specific character designs remain active even for games released years ago. This realization sparked the idea for a hobby project that could assist these players in creating the characters they envision.

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ChatGPT-4: How to use it for free

Reading time3 min
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ChatGPT-4, the latest model from OpenAI, boasts impressive capabilities like text generation, question answering, problem-solving, coding, and even image analysis. However, accessing it requires a $20 monthly subscription on OpenAI's website. For residents of certain countries, accessing the service poses additional challenges due to restrictions, necessitating the use of foreign payment methods and VPNs.

We've created a list of the top-4 services that offer completely free access to ChatGPT-4. This article will delve into the advantages and limitations of each option, comparing them side-by-side.

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Hashicorp Vault — gcs + gcpckms

Reading time5 min
Views187

Secret Management and Why It’s Important

Hi! My name is Evgeny, and I work as a Lead DevOps at Exante. In this article, I will discuss the practical experience of setting up a high-availability HashiCorp Vault with a GCP storage backend and auto unseal in Kubernetes (K8s).

Our infrastructure used to consist of thousands of virtual and physical machines hosting our legacy services. Configuration files, including plain-text secrets, were distributed across these machines, both manually and with the help of Chef.

We decided to change the company’s strategy for several reasons: to accelerate code delivery processes, ensure continuous delivery, securely store secrets, and speed up the deployment of new applications and environments.

We decided to transition our product to a cloud-native model, which required us to change our approach to development and infrastructure. This involved refactoring our legacy services, adopting a microservices architecture, deploying services in cloud-based Kubernetes (K8s), and utilizing managed resources like Redis and PostgreSQL.

In our situation, everything needed to change—from applications and infrastructure to how we distribute configs and secrets. We chose Google as our cloud provider and HashiCorp Vault for secret storage. We've since made significant progress on this journey.

Why HashiCorp Vault?

There were several reasons:

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Your Guide to the Best Free AI Tools

Reading time8 min
Views400

The world of AI is rapidly expanding, placing powerful tools within reach of individuals and businesses alike. These tools offer innovative solutions to a myriad of challenges. This article presents a curated selection of the top free AI tools currently available, designed to meet a diverse range of needs – from crafting compelling content and analyzing complex data to streamlining workflows and enriching your leisure time.

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Ladybird Browser: First Impressions & Easy Installation Guide

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time4 min
Views616

In this article, I would like to introduce a new web browser called Ladybird. This ambitious open-source project aims to revolutionize the browsing experience. Although it hasn't been officially released, I had the opportunity to test it on Ubuntu. In this article, I'll show you what it looks like and explain how you can run it on your computer.

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This AI tool Takes Prompt Engineering to the Next Level

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time3 min
Views529

Hey there! I'm excited to dive into an exciting topic today — how AI can help us create more effective prompts. Did you know that AI-generated prompts can be 30% more effective than those crafted by humans? Let's explore how we can harness this power to simplify prompt engineering and make our interactions with AI more efficient.

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Making of Heroes of Might and Magic III — Factory Town in 3D

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time7 min
Views1.2K

Hello everyone, this is Denis Weber.

Heroes 3 is one of my favorite games from my childhood. I can call it the king of turn-based strategy games. Once again, while playing Heroes, I thought about what a castle from a game could look like in 3D, but all I had was a low quality screenshot.

If you prefer the video format, I will leave a link to the video at the end of the post.

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Tree-sitter and Preprocessing: A Syntax Showdown

Level of difficultyMedium
Reading time5 min
Views430

According to the description,


Tree-sitter is a parser generator tool and an incremental parsing library. It can build a concrete syntax tree for a source file and efficiently update the syntax tree as the source file is edited.

But how does Tree-sitter handle languages that require a preprocessing stage?

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Data labeling – training on cats

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time8 min
Views329

At some point while diving deeper into automation processes you are faced with the need for data labeling, although just a couple of weeks ago, the phrases data labeling and you were standing at a party called "Earnings on the Internet" in different rooms. Or it would be better to say that you were standing by the pool, and the data labeling was on the third floor, smoking on the balcony with experts in the field of machine learning. How did we meet? Probably, someone pushed it off the balcony into the pool, and I helped it out, soaking my clothes along the way.

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Spans in C#: Your Best Friend for Efficient Coding

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time5 min
Views1.5K

I’ve been wanting to sort it out about String memory optimization and all these ways to improve the performance and memory usage for Collections and Arrays in C#(as you remember String is an array of chars, loaded a bit differently but anyway) code. I finally managed to find some time to dive deeper into the System.Span.

I have put together this guide to share what I’ve learned. It’s filled with practical tips and examples to help you leverage Spans in your own projects. If you want to optimize your C# code, this guide is a great place to start!

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From Junior QA to Product Owner: My Growth Story at EXANTE

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time7 min
Views489

Hi, I’m Nastya, the Product Owner of EXANTE’s desktop and web trading terminals. I began working at the company nearly five years ago as a Junior QA Engineer. Since then, I’ve advanced to QA Lead and ultimately to Product Owner. In this article, I’d like to share my growth journey within the company and the steps that helped me progress. I hope that my story will be helpful to those seeking to advance their careers but are unsure where to start.

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