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As the final model release of GPT-2’s staged release, we’re releasing the largest version (1.5B parameters) of GPT-2 along with code and model weights to facilitate detection of outputs of GPT-2 models. While there have been larger language models released since August, we’ve continued with our original staged release…
The Stripe CLI is a developer tool that helps you build, test, and manage your Stripe integration right from the terminal.
Regardless of specifics, however, the Income Sharing Agreement (ISA) structure is relatively consistent. To define it more explicitly, an Income Sharing Agreement funds a student’s tuition upfront in exchange for receiving a percentage of the student’s future earnings (hence “income-sharing”) based on a pre-defined…
My last post C++20: The Big Four started with an overview of concepts, ranges, coroutines, and modules. Of course, C++20 has more to offer. Today, let’s continue my overview of the core language.
It acted as the 16-bit legacy device driver layer.
From the operating system's point of view, we have a large pool of memory from some starting address to some ending address. We can use our linker script (the virt.lds file) to provide us symbols representing the address of the starting and ending points.
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Algebraic Structures are something I wish I’d understood better, sooner. I had a hazy idea of what they were, but didn’t know the correct terminology. That was a massive barrier to finding out more. This article is my attempt to stop that happening to others. We’ll look at: What are algebraic structures? How do we use…
Should I teach myself to code or get a college CS degree? This is a question that many face. Software development is a field that is heavily reliant on skills. So surely teaching yourself to code should be enough right? Wrong.
An archive of Steve Krouse’s Future of Coding research notes
Fellow core developer and Canadian, Mariatta, asked on Twitter about python -m pip and who told her about that idiom along with asking for a reference explaining it: I learned sometime ago that we should be doing `python -m pip install ...` instead of simply `pip install ...` but now I can'
To give users more control over their extensions, support for sideloaded extensions will be phased out starting with Firefox 73.
A long time ago, the Rust language was a language with typestate. Officially, typestates were dropped long before Rust 1.0. In this entry, I’ll get you in on the worst kept secret of the Rust community: Rust still has typestates.
TLDR: Here is the code to explore.
When demoing Hyperview to new engineers, there’s one comment that frequently comes up about the HXML data format:
In 1996, XML was invented. No sooner than it was created, it was adopted for all manner of misconceived applications for which it was a poor choice.
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After the Whistler All-Hands this past summer, I started seriously looking at whether Firefox should switch to using Bazel for its build system.
JavaScript and C both make you maintain your invariants the most painful way possible. Happily, there are better alternatives these days.
A peek into the homegrown solution we built as the first design tool with live collaborative editing.
