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Executable Examples in Go
Did you know that Go lets us provide executable code examples as part of our documentation? It’s pretty neat. Let’s take a tour of this useful feature and see how it works.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,299 posts.
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Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressing AI risks
Non-proliferation only benefits incumbents
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Debian 12 “Bookworm”
After 1 year, 9 months, and 28 days of development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 12 (code name bookworm ).
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From Stacks to Trees: A new aliasing model for Rust
Since last fall, Neven has been doing an internship to develop a new aliasing model for Rust: Tree Borrows. Hang on a second, I hear you say – doesn’t Rust already have an aliasing model? I...
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Zig language server and cancellation
I already have a dedicated post about a hypothetical Zig language server. But perhaps the most important thing I've written so far on the topic is the short note at the end of Zig and Rust.
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We don’t trade with ants
When discussing advanced AI, sometimes the following exchanges happens: “Perhaps advanced AI won’t kill us. Perhaps it will trade with us” “We don’t trade with ants” I think it’s interesting to get clear on exactly why we don’t trade with ants, and whether it is relevant to the AI situation. When a person says “we…
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The Mao-Kissinger Meeting of 1973
The archives of declassified foreign relations documents from the United States, China and other countries can give us some insights. I’ve enjoyed reading some of the documents in Wilson Cent…
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LLMs are good at playing you
Large language models seem just like humans, but some of this is in our heads.
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Merklizing the key/value store for fun and profit
Joel Gustafson
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Chat Notebooks
Wolfram expands Notebooks, integrating LLM functionality into the new chat cell and Chat Notebook. Stephen Wolfram explains how chat-enabled and chat-driven versions work.
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I'm Not Invidious
TheFrenchGhosty's Blog
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NixOS for the Impatient
Using NixOS for a more tractable computing setup.
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Archive your Reddit data before it's too late
I've written a tool for creating a searchable archive of all your Reddit data.
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The impact of the ‘long peace’ on modern military capabilities
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2023268 points325 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
Fireside this week! We actually haven’t had one of these in quite a while; we had a gap week in April but the last Fireside looks like it was in March! In any case, here we are and here’…
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Buy well, buy once
Carl Jeffrey @fellowcreative (fellow™) is a Designer and Doer sharing ideas and thinking on creativity, community, sustainability, strategy, technology…
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Do open source licences cover the Ship of Theseus?
I recently downloaded a single-page HTML template for a project I was working on. I wanted a good-looking scaffold to help me getting running quickly. The code had an attribution licence which I was happy to comply with. I ended up removing about a whole bunch of the HTML that I didn't need. That also allowed me to…
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Why Do ML on the Erlang VM?
Another question might be; why do machine learning at all? I'm not big into ML/AI though I've been poking it more recently as the open models, such as Stable Diffusion and the more practical Whisper, caught my curiosity. I have a very decent GPU (3090 Ti) and I've poked around a bit. I don't consider ML a super…
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List one task, do it, cross it out
I have the reputation, at least among some friends and family, of being 'good in a crisis' – such as (to give a somewhat minor example) the day last year, deep in lockdown, when a shard of flying flowerpot ended up halfway through my partner's hand, sending her to hospital and upending our finely calibrated work and…
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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. Playing …
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Why you’re going about recovering from perfectionism all wrong (2021)
Stop murdering your village of weirdos.
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You can't reach the brain through the ears
Why do we have to learn everything the hard way?
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AI browser extensions are a security nightmare
AI-powered browser extensions come with alarming security risks, but most companies still don't have policies for how their employees can use them.
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Intravenous Caffeine
If there’s a hole in your body, you can put drugs into it.
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The Last Egg
Five more months until freshies...
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Another cluster of potentially malicious Chrome extensions
I discovered a cluster of at least 109 extensions in Chrome Web Store. A few are committing affiliate fraud or spying, most are simply hoarding overly wide privileges before abusing them.
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The guide to software development with Guix
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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Vivaldi on Android bypasses restrictions to let users access Bing Chat
The new version of Vivaldi on Android, tablets, and Chromebooks masquerades as competitors to benefit its users and lets users access Bing Chat.
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The History of VisiCalc (1999-2018)
VisiCalc -- Links to the information from its creators, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, on this web site
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Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta
The personal blog of Thomas Steiner