Text Editor Data Structures

Text editors can be an interesting challenge to program. The types of problems that text editors need to solve can range from trivial to mind-bogglingly difficult. Recently, I have been on something of a spiritual journey to rework some internal data structures in an editor I have been building, specifically the most fundamental data structure to any text editor.

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Live Comment System Design

Real-time experience makes the platform feel like a place of activity for the clients. Live commenting is a feature that allows clients to publish real-time comments on live videos. The live comments are usually a mixture of feedback from the clients on the live video or casual conversations between clients.

The modern way of serving images

All-in-one guide for responsive & performant images and the introduction of the 'boolean' image tag in HTML.

Jacobson's Rank

Rank is a fundamental operation for Succinct Data Structures. It counts the number of set bits up to a given index in a bit array. How can this be done in constant time and sub-linear space?

Understanding DeepMind's Sorting Algorithm

Working code examples meant to clarify AlphaDev's deep learning assembly optimizations.

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Improving Performance with HTTP Streaming

How HTTP Streaming can improve page performance and how Airbnb enabled it on an existing codebase.

Understanding GPT tokenizers

Large language models such as GPT-3/4, LLaMA and PaLM work in terms of tokens. They take text, convert it into tokens (integers), then predict which tokens should come next.