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Welcome Lemmy.world
Extending the .world As some may know, I run several other Fediverse instances next to mastodon.world. When I decided it was time to a...
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Emerging architectures for LLM applications
A reference architecture for the LLM app stack. It shows the most common systems, tools, and design patterns used by AI startups and tech companies.
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A Bayesian view of Amazon resellers (2011)
I was buying a used book through Amazon this evening. Three resellers offered the book at essentially the same price. Here were their ratings: 94% positive out of 85,193 reviews 98% positive out of 20,785 reviews 99% positive out of 840 reviews Which reseller is likely to give the best service? Before you assume it's
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Compiling Typed Python
With a little effort, you can make your mypy-typed Python go zoom.
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Comparing Adobe Firefly, Dalle-2, and OpenJourney
“🔄 Update: after posting this on HN, some commenters provided Stable Diffusion and Midjourney results as well which are now included.” In the recent Photoshop Betas, users are now able...
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Things I wish I’d known before fulltime RVing (2017)
Pre-Post Note/ Nov 2017. Although this post was written in 2011 it’s still my most popular post ever (!!), so I’m refreshing it as part of our 8th year on the road. See my updates in it…
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RoboCat – A Self-Improving Robotic Agent
Robots are quickly becoming part of our everyday lives, but they’re often only programmed to perform specific tasks well. While harnessing recent advances in AI could lead to robots that could help in many more ways, progress in building general-purpose robots is slower in part because of the time needed to collect…
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Representing Enums in PostgreSQL
Recently, we had a discussion about whether we should use native enums in PostgreSQL, or rely on regular string columns with CHECK constraints. In the end, we decided that we wanted to go with the latter.
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Mullvad Leta: A search engine used in the Mullvad Browser
Online privacy isn't just about a VPN. That’s why we have developed the Mullvad Browser.
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Style your RSS feed
How to make your RSS feed look nice and provide useful information at the same time.
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Hashing
A visual, interactive introduction to hash functions.
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I give up on free software phones (2019)
A blog about free software and programming
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“Exit traps” can make your Bash scripts more robust and reliable (2013)
There is a simple, useful idiom to make your bash scripts more robust - ensuring they always perform necessary cleanup operations, even when something unexpected goes wrong. The secret sauce is a pseudo-signal provided by bash, called EXIT, that you can trap ; commands or functions trapped on it will execute when the…
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The Federated App Problem
Federated applications have a few problems. And I really wish it weren’t the case, I love the idea and philosophy of these applications. But I can’t see them being mass adopted.
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Gopher Wrangling: Effective error handling in Go
When programming in Go, the amount of error handling is something that slaps you in the face. Most API’s you deal with will expose errors. It can become overwhelming, but with a few tips and a guiding principle we can make handling errors easy, keep our code clean and give you the confidence that nothing is breaking…
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MVC Isn’t MVC
In December of 1979 Tyrgve Reenskaug, an employee of Xerox PARC, published a paper called MODELS-VIEWS-CONTROLLERS about a design pattern he had invented for developing applications with a graphica…
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Eight days later: Kbin, Lemmy, the landed gentry, and the rise of “threadiverse”
Draft! Work in Progress! Feedback welcome!
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AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years?
AI is introducing the third user-interface paradigm in computing history, shifting to a new interaction mechanism where users tell the computer what they want, not how to do it — thus reversing the locus of control.
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Theseus DHT Protocol (2018)
A distributed hash table with unusually strong security properties
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Hurl, a terrible (but cute) idea for a language
Sometimes we have ideas that are bad but demand to enter reality. A few months ago, while chatting with a friend, we toyed around with the idea of a language where the only control flow you get is error handling. This idea embedded itself in my brain and wouldn't let me go, so I kept just talking about it until two…
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Voicebox: Generative AI model for speech that generalizes across tasks
Voicebox is a state-of-the-art speech generative model based on a new method proposed by Meta AI called Flow Matching. By learning to solve a text-guided speech infilling task with a large scale of data, Voicebox outperforms single-purpose AI models across speech tasks through in-context learning.
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Plain text journaling in Vim
oppiliappan's μsings
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We need more of Richard Stallman's ideas, not less
We need more of Richard Stallman, not less par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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TypeScript 5.2's new keyword: 'Using'
TypeScript 5.2 introduces 'using', a keyword that disposes anything with a `Symbol.dispose` function upon leaving scope, making resource management easier.
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Bit Hacking (with Go code)
At a fundamental level, a programmer needs to manipulate bits. Modern processors operate over data by loading in 'registers' and not individual bits. Thus a programmer must know how to manipulate the bits within a register. Generally, we can do so while programming with 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit integers. For…
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We tried to book a train ticket and ended up with a 245k records data breach
Dieser Artikel ist auch auf deutsch erschienen To celebrate Franco-German friendship, German Transport Minister Wissing and his French counterpart Beaune came up with something special: 30,000 free Interrail tickets per country for travel in Germany and France for young adults between 18 and 27. Codename: “Passe…
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Filenames and pathnames in shell: How to do it correctly (2020)
This article explains how to correctly handle filenames in Bourne shells (the primary shell of Unix/Linux/POSIX systems), based on the issues discussed in 'Fixing Unix/Linux/Filenames'. Many programs fail to work properly on filenames that include spaces, begin with dash (-), include newlines, and so on, because…
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AI has poisoned its own well
What will happen to GPT-{n} once LLMs contribute much of the language found online? We find that use of model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects in the resulting models, where tails of the original content distribution disappear. We refer to this effect as Model Collapse and show that it can…
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How Canva saves Amazon S3 costs
Understanding our data and usage patterns was the real key.