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Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
Most coders want AI to write code faster: I want AI to write FASTER CODE.
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I Made Stable Diffusion XL Smarter by Finetuning It on Bad AI-Generated Images
And then telling it to not generate those images!
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The Problem with LangChain
LangChain is complicated, so it must be better. Right?
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The best way to use text embeddings portably is with Parquet and Polars
Never store embeddings in a CSV!
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Visualizing How Developers Rate Their Own Programming Skills
As it turns out, there is no correlation between programming ability and the frequency of Stack Overflow visits.
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Stable Diffusion 2.0 and the Importance of Negative Prompts for Good Results
Negative prompts can be far superior than traditional prompt additions.
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Playing with 80M Amazon Product Review Ratings Using Apache Spark
Manipulating actually-big-data is just as easy as performing an analysis on a dataset with only a few records.
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Fun and dystopia with AI-based code generation using GPT-J-6B
At the least, AI-generated code is much more readable than the average human’s.
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Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster
c’mon, try doing a breakthrough