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Fine-tuning GPT-3.5-turbo for natural language to SQL
Tutorial and comparison with RAG methods
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,910 posts.
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Teaching with AI
We’re releasing a guide for teachers using ChatGPT in their classroom—including suggested prompts, an explanation of how ChatGPT works and its limitations, the efficacy of AI detectors, and bias.
19593
Mastodon Is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media – In a Good Way
A comment on a Hacker News thread inspired me to contemplate why Mastodon is everything we loved about social media before…
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New antifungal therapy for fungal meningitis
A team of University of Minnesota Medical School researchers successfully tested a new antifungal therapy to treat fungal meningitis. The trial results were published today in the peer-reviewed journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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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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Absurd Success
So… I’ve had the most unreal week of coding. Zero exaggeration, I’ve halved the RAM requirements of the search engine, removed the need to take the system offline during an upgrade, removed hard limits on how many documents can be indexed, and quadrupled soft limits on how many keywords can be in the corpus. It’s been…
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Echo Chess: The Quest for Solvability
Chess puzzles, but you are what you eat.
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Photogrammetry on commercial flights (2021)
Airplane window seats are great! Not only are they more comfy and easier to take a nap in, but they also have the most quaint form of in-flight entertainment: The outside world!
19600
Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants
a16z announces its Open Source AI Grant program, which will support a small group of open source developers through grant funding.
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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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High-Speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers
Remember when IBM’s Deep Blue won against Gary Kasparov at chess in 1996, or Google’s AlphaGo crushed the top champion Lee Sedol at Go, a much more complex game, in 2016? These competitions where machines prevailed over human champions are key milestones in the history of artificial intelligence. Now a group of…
19605
My Caste
Allow me to introduce you to one of the largest population groups in India, as recognized by the constitution of India: Other Backward Classes ( OBC Category ). OBCs are estimated to comprise 40-45% of India's population, therefore, about 500 million people belong to OBC category. In other words, 1 in 16 people in the…
19606
The global trading system is starting to rearrange itself
The global trading system is starting to rearrange itself, and it's mostly not Biden's doing.
19607
How to get transactions between almost any data stores
How to get ACID transactions between almost any data stores, with the Epoxy protocol.
19608
Understanding Llama 2 and the New Code Llama LLMs
In this edition of the newsletter, we direct our attention to one of the most prominent highlights of the summer: the release of the Llama 2 base and chat models, as well as CodeLlama, the latest highlights in the open-source AI large language model (LLM) landscape.
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Hundreds of thousands trafficked to work as online scammers in SE Asia, says UN
GENEVA (29 August 2023) – Hundreds of thousands of people are being forcibly engaged by organised criminal gangs into online criminality in Southeast Asia - from romance-investment scams and crypto fraud to illegal gambling - a report issued today by the UN Human Rights Office shows.
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Windows 11 system components use the default browser to open links in Europe
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23531 to the Dev Channel. Changes and Improvements [General] [REMINDER] Insider Pr
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New Map APIs from Google
Introducing new AI-powered products and tools from Google Maps Platform. Learn more
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ChatLZMA – text generation from data compression
I came across a random tweet, found a Wikipedia page and bumped into some smart people and long story short, apparently compression is equivalent to general intelligence.
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Bad Apple Font
It is possible to embed a animation into a font, with only a small amount of hacking
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Authentication on meet.jit.si
What’s going on? Starting on August 24th, we will no longer support the anonymous creation of rooms on meet.jit.si, and will require the use of an account (we will be supporting Google, GitHub and Facebook […]
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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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I’m so sorry for psychology’s loss, whatever it is
The plane crashed and nobody checked the bodies
19617
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!
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How Correlated Are You?
This post is an offshoot from Chapter 1 of Probably Overthinking It, which is available for pre-order now! Suppose you measure the arm and leg lengths of 4082 people. You would expect those measurements to be correlated, and you would be right. In the ANSUR-II dataset, among male members of the armed forces, this…
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How far can you jump from a swing?
In this post I derive the physics of pumping a swing and the physics of jumping from a swing. Then, using both pieces I compute the optimal strategy of jumping from a swing to maximize the traveled distance. I propose this game as a new Olympic sport.