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Practical Tips for Finetuning LLMs Using LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)
Things I Learned From Hundreds of Experiments
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Bootstrapping self awareness in GPT-4: Towards recursive self inquiry
Or, Look Ma – I Made GPT-4 Self Aware!
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Why I tend not to use content negotiation
In this essay, Carson Gross explores his preference for separating JSON and hypermedia APIs instead of using content negotiation, a feature in HTTP that allows clients to request different formats (e.g., HTML, JSON). He discusses the limitations of content negotiation in APIs, especially when mixing stable, versioned…
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I cancelled my Replit subscription
I cancelled my annual Replit Hacker plan and I'll let it lapse at the end of December of 2023. Replit is a popular and growing multi lan...
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datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated
I was going through the release notes of the new Python 3.12 version the other day, and one item caught my attention in the deprecations section:datetime.datetime’s utcnow() and utcfromtimestamp()…
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Revenge bedtime procrastination
Revenge bedtime procrastination occurs when people delay going to sleep in order to feel in control of their life and schedule. This phenomenon is particularly associated with people who feel that they have little time for themselves during the day, for example due to their work schedule, so they delay sleep until…
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The architecture of today's LLM applications
Here’s everything you need to know to build your first LLM app and problem spaces you can start exploring today.
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Lindenmayer systems
A Lindemayer system or LSystem for short consists of an alphabet of symbols that can be used to make strings, a collection of production that expand each symbol into some larger string of symbols, an initial “axiom” string from which to begin construction, and a mechanism for translating the generated strings into…
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Persuasion through status rather than argument
Intelligent individuals are better at understanding the reputational consequences of their beliefs
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A Timeline of the OpenAI Board
Yesterday, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were fired from the Board of Directors of OpenAI.
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Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021)
I’m beginning to think that the Windows PC that I built in 2015 is ready for retirement (though if Joe Biden can be president at 78, maybe this […]
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A software epiphany
Even though I don't respect podcasts as an information delivery system, I recently listened to a podcast that felt like having an epiphany.
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Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from space
Space-based phone location-tracking firm HawkEye 360 announced its partnership with U.S. weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin this morning. The UAE military is allegedly a "strong" customer.
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Nanoplastics promote conditions for Parkinson's across various lab models
DURHAM, N.C. – Nanoplastics interact with a particular protein that is naturally found in the brain, creating changes linked to Parkinson’s disease and some types of dementia. In a Duke-led study appearing Nov. 17 in Science Advances, the researchers report that the findings create a foundation for a new area of…
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Inverted perovskite solar cell breaks 25% efficiency record
Northwestern University researchers have raised the standards again for perovskite solar cells with a new development that helped the emerging technology hit new records for efficiency.
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I disagree with Geoff Hinton regarding "glorified autocomplete"
“People say, It’s just glorified autocomplete . . . Now, let’s analyze that. Suppose you want to be really good at predicting the next word. If you want to be really good, you have to understand what’s being said. That’s the only way. So by training something to be really good at predicting the next word, you’re…
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GTK: Introducing Graphics Offload
Some of us in the GTK team have spent the last month or so exploring the world of linux kernel graphics apis, in particular, dmabufs. We are coming back from this adventure with some frustrations and some successes. What is a dmabuf? A dmabuf is a memory buffer in kernel space that is identified by...
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Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0
calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.
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I Hacked the Magic Mouse
Magic Mouse hack with USB-C charger
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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI; Sam Altman departs the company.
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A PCIe Coral TPU Finally Works on Raspberry Pi 5
Coral.ai TPUs are AI accelerators used for tasks like machine vision and audio processing. Raspberry Pis are often integrated into small robotics and IoT products—or used to analyze live video feeds with Frigate. Until today, nobody I know of has been able to get a PCI Express Coral TPU working on the Raspberry Pi…
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Rocket v0.5: Stable, Async
Rocket is a web framework for the Rust programming language that makes it simple to write fast web applications without sacrificing flexibility or type safety.