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What is Hugging Face?

What Hugging Face is and what it is for, and how it relates to Croissant metadata files and TensorFlow in a modern ML workflow.

machine-learning huggingface datasets tensorflow croissant Created Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000
Lustre Components: A Glossary

A reference glossary of the key components that make up a Lustre parallel file system—MDS, MDT, OSS, OST, MGS, clients, LNet, and the terms you need to read a Lustre layout.

storage hpc filesystems lustre Created Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000
What is Lustre?

A definition of Lustre, how its architecture achieves massive parallel bandwidth, and how it compares to other file systems common in HPC—GPFS/Spectrum Scale, BeeGFS, NFS, and Ceph.

storage hpc filesystems lustre Created Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000
What is a File System?

A formal definition of a file system, an intuitive TL;DR, and a look at parallel file systems with a focus on Lustre.

storage linux hpc filesystems Created Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000
An example of a Croissant file

What a Croissant file is, why it matters for machine-learning datasets, and a complete worked example describing a real, published HuBMAP CODEX spleen dataset.

datasets metadata croissant hubmap machine-learning Created Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000
What is a Token?

A formal definition of tokens and tokenization, and why language models process text as tokens rather than words or characters.

ai machine learning nlp llm Created Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000
What is a RAG?

A formal definition of Retrieval-Augmented Generation and why it is often preferable to training a language model from scratch.

ai machine learning rag nlp Created Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000
High Performance Computing

An introduction to HPC and how it relates to — and differs from — distributed systems.

hpc distributed-systems computing linux Created Sat, 16 May 2026 10:45:28 +0000
AI coding services and their VSCode and Cursor integrations

An overview of the most popular AI coding services today, their pricing, and how they integrate with VSCode and Cursor.

ai vscode cursor github-copilot claude Created Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000
CookLang: A Markup Language for Recipes

CookLang is a lightweight, human-readable markup language for writing recipes as plain text files. This post introduces the format, walks through the cook-cli tool, and highlights the best plugins and integrations in the ecosystem.

cooklang cli recipes plain-text rust Created Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000