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Emergent abilities of large language models
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Teaching ChatGPT to speak my son’s invented language
Becoming fluent in my son’s invented language was too difficult for me, so I decided to see how would AI do.
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Use GitHub Actions to Make Your GitHub Profile Dynamic
Automatically Update Your Profile with Fresh Content and Showcase Your Latest Work
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Why is GPT-3 15.77x more expensive for certain languages?
How large language models process multilingual data differently
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Problems with AWS Amplify and its use of DynamoDB
Something something Amplify is bad
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P < 0.05 Considered Harmful
The unreasonable persistence of an old standard
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I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days
How I Fixed a Parasitic Drain on my Car in 408 Days
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Two algorithms for randomly generating aperiodic tilings
[Part of a series: Penrose and hats | Spectres | finite-state transducers | more transducers | refining tilings ]
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My diatribe against “skeptics” (2016)
April 10, 2023. The backlash was immediate after I spoke at the 2016 Northeast Conference on Science & Skepticism , which bills itself as a “celebration of science and critical thinking.” Although the conference had allotted me 10 minutes for questions, the stage manager, Jamy
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Effective Spaced Repetition
“To flash conviction on the mind.”
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Modeling Git Internals in Alloy, Part 2: Commits and Tags
Understanding Git better by using lightweight formal methods
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What I've Learned About Formal Methods in Half a Year
A retrospective on a few months of working on a graduate degree in computer science.
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RePalm
Dmitry.GR: PalmOS on new hardware!
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Hacker News Ranking Algorithm
Here's a small thought experiment that explores an alternative approach to ranking posts on HackerNews.
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Using RP2040 PIO to drive a poorly-designed displa
Dmitry.GR: Driving a poorly-designed display and touch board using no CPU at all
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I think faster than light travel is possible [video]
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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OpenVMS 9.2 for x86 is finally available for hobbyists
Published: 09-04-2023 23:59 | Last update: 11-04-2023 22:29 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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Who invented vector clocks?
Back in spring 2020, I was wrapping up the distributed systems course I was teaching, and for the last lecture, decided to spend a little time poking at the question of who actually invented vector clocks. Most people who need something to cite for vector clocks cite Friedemann Mattern’s “Virtual Time and Global…
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What does a research grant pay for?
People don't usually share what a research grant pays for, so here are the budgets from mine.
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Street fighting engineers vs. martial arts engineers
Street fighters and Martial artists.
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Ideas That Changed My Life
David shares 50 ideas that changed his life. Read here.
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Closing a stale SSH connection
Suppose you’re connected to a remote host with SSH and after a while the SSH session goes stale. The terminal is unresponsive and no keypress seem to take effect. There might be something with the network, the remote host is restarting or maybe your machine has been in hibernation, there could be multiple reasons for…
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Two types of software engineers
One assumes it's easy because it's a non-technical problem, the other assumes that's why it's hard
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Modular Errors in Rust
It is thankfully common wisdom nowadays that documentation must be placed as near as possible to the code it documents, and should be fine-grained to a minimal unit of describability (the thing being documented). The practice provides numerous benefits to the codebase and project as a whole:
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Sunset at the South Pole
Hunkering down for the winter!
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