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The philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech that is intended to persuade without regard for the truth. By this measure, OpenAI’s new chatbot ChatGPT is the greatest bullshitter ever. Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained to produce
The latest Go release, version 1.20, arrives six months after Go 1.19 . Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility . We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before.
This morning I received an interesting scam email. It might not be a new scam, but it was the first time I’d seen it.
Debug, simplify and execute.
Netlify has acquired Gatsby – cloud platform, and creators of web framework Gatsby – advancing composable web architectures with increased flexibility.
(Note: This is the companion post to my article at Public Books about evading data detection at Disneyland. For the…
A response to Hillel Wayne’s “I am disappointed by dynamic typing”
I had a very shower-y shower thought: why does turning my shower handle a tiny bit make such a huge difference in the comfort of the shower? Why are we wasting so much potential control area on water temperatures that no one wants? Who cares about ice...
A chilly recipe for boredom
My friend gave me permission to hack her, here's how I did it and how to stop it happening to you.
Join us in witnessing the legendary dodo's resurrection. Explore scientific breakthroughs, conservation efforts, and the ethical implications.
With this write-up, I want to outline my current thinking around large language models like OpenAI's chatGPT.
I read this recently and it got me thinking:
Update: Open source OSes might be saved from being covered depending on the interpretation of EU regulation 2019/1150 2.2.c.
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Back in 2017 I was fortunate enough to travel to RAF Lossiemouth together with a bunch of Finnish media courtesy of BAE Systems to get up and close with the Eurofighter Typhoon group operating ther…
The Rocketry Division is in the race to launch the world’s first student-built rocket into the cosmos.
How to modernize C arrays for greater memory safety: a case-study in refactoring the Linux kernel and a look to the future Kees Cook C i...
Combobulate is a package that adds advanced structured editing and movement to many programming modes in Emacs. Here's how it works, and how it can enrich your editing experience in Emacs.
Learn about Hermes, an open source document management system created by HashiCorp to help streamline writing and document processes.
The Go Execution Tracer (aka runtime/trace) was designed to achieve low enough overhead to be usable on “a server in production serving live traffic”. This is achieved by writing events into per-P buffers, using RDTSC for timestamps, and encoding into a relatively efficient binary format.
Annotations, such as Javadoc, help maintainers understand your coding decisions.
We’re launching a classifier trained to distinguish between AI-written and human-written text.
Alex shares more progress on the work-in-progress COSMIC DE for Pop!_OS. This one’s got new mockups for you to poke around in!
Forward thinking and designed for real life
Thanks to a discovery in a Dal lab, manufacturers of laptops and other tech devices now have an explanation for why the batteries that power their gadgets tend to lose some of their charge over time and a path forward to fixing the problem..
Old law proposes to turn the Bay Area's zoning system into something like Japan's in just two days.
