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Can LLMs learn from a single example?
We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but now we think it shows LLMs can learn effectively from a single example.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 21,821 posts.
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When deployments are easy, code becomes simpler
You bump into DORA in the wild a lot.
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Deno KV Is in Open Beta
Deno KV, the easiest way to add a strongly consistent database to your app, is now in open beta.
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Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root?
Update: This post sparked a lot of excellent discussion and debate on workarounds, and there are now multiple working solutions to allow certificate injection...
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Amiga Systems Programming in 2023
If you ever get a chance to look through the classic Amiga OS source-code still floating around some murky corners of the internet, it is a thing of beauty and astonishing capabilities. It’s an inspirational piece of computing history with unmatched capabilities for the time. Remember, this was all on a computer…
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Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python
Blog about linguistics, programming, and my projects
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Chinchilla’s death
“With more careful calculations, one can win; with less, one cannot” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War .
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Refact Code LLM: 1.6B LLM for code that reaches 32% HumanEval
Today we're introducing Refact LLM: 1.6B code model with infill real-time code completion (including fill-in-the-middle(FIM) capability) and chat.
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Svelte is surprisingly easy to learn
Discover the hidden power of Svelte – the JavaScript framework that feels like déjà vu. Uncover how Svelte simplifies web development, reimagining JS.
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The curl-wget Venn diagram
In my view, wget is not a curl competitor. It is a companion tool that has a feature overlap with curl. Use the tool that does the job. Getting the job done is the key. If that means using wget instead of curl, then that is good and I don't mind. Why would I? To … Continue reading The curl-wget Venn diagram →
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The History of Windows 95
The Dawn of Microsoft's Golden Age
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Cola: A text CRDT for real-time collaborative editing
A deep dive into the theoretical framework and the technical implementation of a text CRDT.
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Just Build It...
Thoughts on building, shipping and iterating quickly
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GameRoy: JIT Compilation in High-Accuracy Game Boy Emulation
Over the past two years, I have spent a lot of time working on my Game Boy emulator, GameRoy. It has reached a good point, where it has a GUI interface (including a debugger and disassembler) and passes numerous tests (comparable to some of the most accurate emulators). I even made a port to Android!
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Using uninitialized memory for fun and profit (2008)
This is the story of a clever trick that's been around for at least 35 years, in which array values can be left uninitialized and then read during normal operations, yet the code behaves correctly no matter what garbage is sitting in the array. Like the best programming tricks, this one is the right tool for the job…
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Explaining the Postgres iceberg
Have you seen this legendary SQL iceberg meme? Let's talk about it while wearing our PostgreSQL hat!
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Internals of async / await in JavaScript
If you have ever used JavaScript in the past, there is a high chance you have encountered the async / await syntax. async / a
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Philosophy of Coroutines
I encountered the idea as a student, when I first read The Art of Computer Programming . I’d been programming already for most of my childhood, and I was completely blown away by the idea, which was entirely new to me. In fact, it’s probably not an exaggeration to say that in the whole of TAOCP that was the single…
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Some flying robot behavior improvements
Hello, today we are going to talk about some flying robot behavior improvements. Some of the problems we fixed were reported countless times, so I hope that some people will appreciate it :).
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Patterns with Rust Types
Patterns to use types for better safety and design
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Elixir/Erlang Secure Coding and Deployment Hardening Guidelines
Documentation, specifications and code from the Security Working Group of the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
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Docker Is Four Things
Docker is not just a way of running programs on Linux without a virtual machine. Docker is 4 things.
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When should you use the IN instead of the OR operator in Postgres?
Query performance often varies depending on how you write queries. For PostgreSQL, what provides better performance? The IN or OR operator?
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Keeping Figma Fast: perf-testing the WASM editor
When a laptop crashed in an empty office, we knew it was time to overhaul our performance testing framework.
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Applying SRE Principles to CI/CD
Slow, unreliable CI/CD? Learn how to use SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets to maintain focus, prioritize effort, and rebuild developer trust in CI/CD.
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Pgvector 0.5.0 Feature Highlights and how tos
An overview of new features in pgvector 0.5.0, including HNSW, parallel index builds, and more!