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LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens
We often think of the same information at different levels or abstraction. Here's a simple example:
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,273 posts.
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A Day in the Life: The Global BGP Table
Update: This article was discussed on Hackernews Much has been written and a lot of analysis performed on the global BGP table over the years, a significant portion by the inimitable Geoff Huston.
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How terminal works. Part 1: Xterm, user input (2021)
Hi there. I am going to post here thing about my work or my technical hobbies. This means c++, java, haskell, python, linux etc.
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Coding interviews are stupid (ish)
Musings on software, technology, and life by Darren Kopp
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Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
Freeways were supposed to be easy. What happened?
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Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – AI Twist on an Old Scam (2023)
Humane AI (Humane, hereafter) combines the mid-2010s failed concept of using a laser projector to project on the body with the early 2000s failed projector phone (something I wrote about in 2013), …
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Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale
Self-hosting and paid subscriptions promise an escape from surveillance capitalism. What guarantees do they really offer, and at what cost?
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S3 is showing its age
I'm squarely in the trough of disillusionment with S3.
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The most talented person in the world
Jodie is a cross-functional 3D designer and blogger. She has special interests in open source 3D printing for R&D and has spent a lot of time at different projects across the globe to learn more about 3D printing. Most of what she has learned is from hands-on experience.
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Tog's Paradox
Tog’s Paradox (also known as The Complexity Paradox or Tog’s ComplexityParadox) is an observation that products aiming to simplify a task for users tend toinspire new, more complex tasks. It’s one ...
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Elixir and Machine Learning in 2024 so far: MLIR, Arrow, structured LLM, etc.
An update on the latest advancements of Elixir, data, and Machine Learning.
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Rethinking Text Resizing on Web
By: Steven Bassett
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Critical Exploit in MediaTek Wi-Fi Chipsets: Zero-Click Vulnerability
a post going over 4 exploits for CVE-2024-20017, a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in a component of the MediaTek MT7622 SDK.
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Ruby 3.3 on Rails 1.0
Me think, why waste time say lot word, when few word do…2024259 points72 commentsSoftware Engineering details
Hey! I'm Vasiliy Ermolovich or @nashby. Here you'll find some blog posts I write once per 10 years
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An RNG that runs in your brain
Humans are notoriously bad at coming up with random numbers. I wanted to be able to quickly generate “random enough” numbers. I’m not looking for anything that great, I just want to be able to come up with the random digits in half a minute. Some looking around brought me to an old usenet post by George Marsaglia…
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Hacking misconfigured AWS S3 buckets: A complete guide
AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) buckets are a popular storage service used by software companies and organizations to store public as well as sensitive data. However, the implementation of this servic...
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Fogus: Things and Stuff of 2024
Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2024. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new.
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Debanking (and Debunking?)
Crypto advocates kicked off a recent, somewhat politicized, discussion of debanking. Strap in for scintillating banking compliance trivia.
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How I replaced deadly garage door torsion springs (2002)
Replacing broken torsion springs on a garage door.
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WASM Is the New CGI
I read a wonderful twitter thead about CGI and the birth of the web and this triggered a thought I've been kicking around. > Wasm is the new CGI And to be cle...
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Apple Hearing Study shares preliminary insights on tinnitus
The Apple Hearing Study is sharing new insights on tinnitus in one of the largest surveys to date.
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Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana
Improving the performance of a PC cooling system by writing a custom control loop in Python, and monitoring the results with Grafana.
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FLUX is fast and it's open source
FLUX is now much faster on Replicate, and we’ve made our optimizations open-source so you can see exactly how they work and build upon them.
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The Zombocom Problem
Welcome to zombocom… you can do anything at zombocom… anything at all… the only limit… is yourself…
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Butterflies accumulate static electricity to attract pollen without contact
Butterflies and moths collect so much static electricity whilst in flight, that pollen grains from flowers can be pulled by static electricity across air gaps of several millimetres or centimetres.