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Claude's Character
How character training cultivates traits like curiosity, open-mindedness, and thoughtfulness in Claude using a variant of Constitutional AI.
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Creating a matchmaker for your multiplayer game
Don't test in production. Test in simulation!
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Finding out where syscalls are called from: Stack traces with strace
One of the great strengths of strace as a debugging tool is that it shows you what a program is doing regardless of whether it was compiled with debug info or not. The downside of this is that you …
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Anti-patterns in event-driven architecture
Event-driven architecture is great, but it can cause a lot of headaches if it is used for the wrong purpose.
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My favorite 1980's Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes
Reflections on whatever I'm thinking about that week (the web, culture, computer graphics, math etc)
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Detecting a PS2 Emulator: When 1*X does not equal X
Using an odd floating point error to detect emulators
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The Backrooms of the Internet Archive
Like many bits of Internet Culture, this simple image of an empty series of rooms represents a deep-repressed or recently-remembered memory of a common Internet Legend, or it's just a shot of nothing. If the answer is that it's a shot of nothing, let's get you up to speed. This image floated around message boards
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Breaking up is hard to do: Chunking in RAG applications
A look at some of the current thinking around chunking data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.
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Compilers are too smart
Last week I noticed some unexpected assembly code in a function calling std::unordered_map::find (yes, I know, friends don’t let friends use STL, but that is a topic for another discussion). I decided to investigate a bit and it turned out to be quite a journey. It was a Clang compiler, ARM-based platform, I will use…
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South Pole Water Infrastructure
Fresh water from snow, at 70 below!
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WARC-GPT: An open-source tool for exploring web archives using AI
The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.
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Yes, you can play Duck Hunt without a television (but I can't)
Duck Hunt is considered a classic of the Nintendo Entertainment System. But surprisingly, the concept of hunting ducks did not originate in 1984– people have...
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Feynman’s Razor
If an expert can't understand your explanation, you've dumbed it down too much!
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Alarms in medical equipment
ISO/IEC 60601-1-8, Patterson and other alarms in medical equipment Sample Alarm Sounds - Sirens, buzzers and other sounds
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Writing memory safe JIT compilers
How to kill off a top source of browser exploits
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LedgerStore Supports Trillions of Indexes at Uber
Uber connects the physical and digital worlds to help make movement happen at the tap of a button. Billions of trips, deliveries, and tens of billions of financial transactions across earners, spenders, and merchants are made at Uber every quarter. LedgerStore is an immutable storage solution at Uber that provides…
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How Does GPT-4o Encode Images?
Here’s a fact: GPT-4o charges 170 tokens to process each 512x512 tile used in high-res mode. At ~0.75 tokens/word, this suggests a picture is worth about 227 words—only a factor of four off from the traditional saying. (There’s also an 85 tokens charge for a low-res ‘master thumbnail’ of each picture and higher…
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The regenerative urban garden I: No-till gardening
I am an advocate of regenerative farming . But I’m not a farmer myself. The piece of land I steward is 1/3 acre — still sizable for an urban lot, but laughably minuscule compared to what Real Farmers are working with.
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Inline Assembly Dangers
Resolving PS2SDK Soft Reset Issues
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Saving Three Months of Latency with a Single OpenTelemetry Trace
Discover how OpenTelemetry tracing and Coralogix analysis resolve latency issues, proving observability's role in enhancing system performance and reliability.
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The problem with lying is keeping track of all the lies
Or why clear consistency guarantees are how to stay sane when programming distributed systems.
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Dragonfly: A large vision-language model with multi-resolution zoom
Dragonfly is a vision-language architecture with multi-resolution zoom for fine-grained image understanding, including a medical model beating Med-Gemini.
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Let rand = main as usize (2022)
The other day I posted something silly, and learned some interesting things about raw pointers in Rust.
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Extracting concepts from GPT-4
Using new techniques for scaling sparse autoencoders, we automatically identified 16 million patterns in GPT-4's computations.
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Qwen2 LLM Released
GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Introduction After months of efforts, we are pleased to announce the evolution from Qwen1.5 to Qwen2. This time, we bring to you: Pretrained and instruction-tuned models of 5 sizes, including Qwen2-0.5B, Qwen2-1.5B, Qwen2-7B, Qwen2-57B-A14B, and Qwen2-72B; Having been…
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I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it
The personal website of Elias Daler about programming, technology and videogames
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Understanding QEMU Devices (2018)
Here are some notes that may help newcomers understand what is actually happening with QEMU devices: