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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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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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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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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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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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I Hacked the Magic Mouse
Magic Mouse hack with USB-C charger
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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.
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The Changing "Guarantees" Given by Python's Global Interpreter Lock
A look into the implementation details of CPython's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) and how they changed between Python 3.9 and the current development branch that will become Python 3.13.
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We Automated Bullshit
Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology2023369 points319 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details
ChatGPT is a bullshit generator. To understand AI, we should think harder about bullshit
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Deobfuscating World of Warships' Python Scripts
An in-depth analysis of how World of Warships obfuscates its game scripts and how to mostly deobfuscate them automatically.
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NilAway: Practical nil panic detection for Go
Uber has widely adopted Golang (Go for short) as a primary programming language for implementing backend services and libraries due to its high performance. The Go monorepo is the largest codebase at Uber, comprising 90 million lines of code (and growing). This makes tooling for writing reliable Go code a critical…
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An automatic indexing system for Postgres
The pganalyze Indexing Engine simulates hundreds of possible combinations to recommend missing Postgres indexes using its 'What if?' analysis.
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I analyzed Stack Overflow for secrets
I analyzed stackoverflow for secrets and leaks.
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HTML Web Components: An Example
In my article on HTML web components , I said: But the unique power of web components (in the browser) is that they can render before JavaScript. React…
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You don't need a CRDT to build a collaborative experience
You don’t need CRDTs You don’t need CRDTs for collaborative experiences. First lets get the ‘what-about-ery’ out the way… Things you do need CRDTs for …
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Push ifs up and fors down
A short note on two related rules of thumb.
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My primality testing code is faster than Sir Roger Penrose's
But, I guess he did win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2020 so I can't really brag. However, it was a great surprise when looking at two pa...
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Curl on 100 Operating Systems
In a recent pull-request for curl, I clarified to the contributor that their change would only be accepted and merged into curl's git code repository if they made sure that the change was done in a way so that it did not break (testing) for and on legacy platforms. In that thread, I could almost … Continue reading…
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Why do people still use VBA?
Introduction Recently, I watched a video by YouTuber ThePrimeTime which details a dev’s frustrations with business culture. Prime is an ex-entrepreneur who currently works in software development at Netflix. His views in this video have been criticised for being jaded by FAANG business cultures he has worked in. I…
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Writing a GPT-4 script to check Wikipedia for the first unused acronym
Curious what the first ‘unused’ alphabetic acronym is, I have GPT-4 write a script to check English Wikipedia. After three bugs, the first unused one turns out as of 2023-09-29 to be the three-letter acronym ‘CQK’, with another 2.6k TLA unused, and 393k four-letter acronyms unused. Exploratory analysis suggests…
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YJIT is the most memory-efficient Ruby JIT
This year, the YJIT team and I have gotten a paper accepted at MPLR 2023 (Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes), which is now freely available through ACM open access. The paper, titled “Evaluating YJIT’s Performance in a Production Context: A Pragmatic Approach”, goes into details of the strategy taken to…
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.NET 8
Today Microsoft announced the availability of .NET 8, the latest version of one of the world’s leading programming languages and development platforms.