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Spinning Diagrams with CSS
This article discusses using CSS to make spinning 3D diagrams.
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Large language models: Scaling laws and emergent properties
More details on the science of training large autoregressive language models.
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Pico Cray – Small scale distributed computing
The Pico Cray is a cluster of 8 Picos and a controller Pico. All Picos are connected in parallel by an I2C bus. The controller is designated by one GPIO being held low, the processor Pico’s addresses are allocated automatically. The Controller Pico has a 320x240px display connected by SPI and a couple of buttons. ……
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Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster
New installer, Active Directory login and gaming performance enhance Ubuntu Desktop for work and play in the latest interim release of Ubuntu. […]
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Current issues with the Qt project from the outside looking in
I want to start with that Qt is still IMHO the best way to develop C++ apps. This post is not supposed to be a rant. This is for the decision maker at Qt. If you have any question about Qt feel free to join our /r/QtFramework subreddit! The Qt developers are wonderful to work with, and every new Qt version makes it…
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Lithuania: Students stop university from using only proprietary authentication
Vilnius Tech officials attempted to enforce the use of proprietary two factor identification (2FA) methods. Some students were concerned the methods would ...
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Building a ChatGPT-enhanced Python REPL
In this blog I share my experience in building a Python REPL augmented with ChatGPT. I explore how the application is built, and speculate on software engineering patterns and paradigms that might emerge in systems built on Large Language Models (LLMs). GEPL - Generate, Evaluate, Print, Loop Link to this section…
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Google DeepMind
DeepMind and the Brain team from Google Research will join forces to accelerate progress towards a world in which AI helps solve the biggest challenges facing humanity.
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Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit
2 weeks notice is the gold standard when quitting. But giving more notice (a lot more notice) actually has a lot of benefits.
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Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised
On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant. They intended to seize computers with customer data.
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A Plea for Fairness for Non-Profit Developers of Open Source Software
ISC and NLnet Labs today sent a joint letter to the European Parliament committee working on the EU Cyber Resilience Act.
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Glucomate: an app for people who record, track, and monitor their blood glucose
Zach Simone's homepage. iOS developer from Sydney.
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Record labels panic as A.I. generated song becomes ‘hit single’
Welcome to the new world.
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How to train your own large language models
From raw code to a model serving users: the data pipelines, training infrastructure, and evaluation work behind Replit’s language models.
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How RocksDB Works
Over the past years, the adoption of RocksDB increased dramatically. It became a standard for embeddable key-value stores.
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Geneticists develop novel gene therapy for glaucoma
The gene therapeutic approach, which shows promise for treating age related macular degeneration (AMD), may also be effective in treating other eye conditions such as glaucoma. It provided benefit in three additional models of mitochondrial dysfunction, including cells taken from patients living with an optic…
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Basic math related to computation and memory usage for transformers
We present basic math related to computation and memory usage for transformers
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StableLM: A new open-source language model
Stability AI's open-source Alpha version of StableLM showcases the power of small, efficient models that can generate high-performing text and code locally on personal devices. Discover how StableLM can drive innovation and open up new economic opportunities while supporting transparency and accessi
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When Interfaces Kill: What Happened to John Denver (1999)
How poor design killed John Denver dead.
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NaturalSpeech 2: Zero-shot speech and singing synthesizers
Kai Shen*, Zeqian Ju*, Xu Tan*, Yanqing Liu, Yichong Leng, Lei He, Tao Qin, Sheng Zhao, Jiang Bian
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Most of my skills are now worth nothing, but 10% are worth 1000x
...but the other 10% are worth 1000x
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Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand – the simple way
Daniel P. Gross is a computer software and hardware professional based in Toronto.
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Why some researchers think I’m wrong about social media and mental illness
Six propositions for evaluating the evidence.
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Offline is just online with extreme latency
I just finished watching “Local-first Software” by Peter Van Hardenberg and loved it! He talks about changing the paradigm we’re currently in where a program…
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Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel
Nano How-To explaining how to setup a root file system with only emacs.
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More optimizations in the compiler and JIT
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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How to make good small games
Polly the Frog by ...
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Yubico is merging with ACQ Bure and intends to go public
Yubico announces intent to go public through merger with ACQ Bure, to further grow and strengthen its position in the cybersecurity market.