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Standard patterns in choice-based games (2015)
When I was analysing the structures of CYOA works a few years back, I began to recognise some strong recurring design patterns. I came up with some home-brewed terminology, but didn’t ever la…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,931 posts.
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Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent
Prime Agent is our open-source, self-improving coding harness built around two abstractions: the Recursive Language Model (RLM) and the Continual Harness. With Opus 5, it achieves 95.5% on ARC-AGI-3, surpassing the reported human expert baseline.
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Making a Stainless Steel Rubik's Cube
I wasn't entirely satisfied with the aluminum cube , so after thinking about the design for a while, I decided to make another one out of stainless steel. Just for fun, I thought I would make all the pieces using only manual machines. How hard could it be?
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What I learned in 2017 writing Go
A little over a year ago, I joined Cloud Foundry to work on Loggregator , Cloud Foundry's application logging component. Its core concern is best-effort log delivery without pushing back on upstream writers. Loggregator is written entirely in Go.
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The new 501(c)(3) and the future of free software in the US
Note: I'm a software developer, not a lawyer. I suspect I'm not the only coder whose eyes roll to the back of their head when legal or tax matters are discussed. However, if you're involved in the free software movement—especially in the United States—you may want to read through this, as long as it may...
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SAPwned: SAP AI vulnerabilities expose customers' cloud environments and privat
Wiz Research uncovers vulnerabilities in SAP AI Core, allowing malicious actors to take over the service and access customer data.
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Launch of the 3rd Edition of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial Book
News & blog about Learn Enough (including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial)
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Ruby 3.2.0
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.2.0. Ruby 3.2 adds many features and performance improvements.
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Demoscene, the secret behind Finnish game industry
This is my story as a game developer. It is also a story of how the Finnish game industry came to be.
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The FBI Is Breaking into Encrypted Devices – We’re Suing
We can't let the FBI keep the public in the dark about its ability to gain access to information stored on our personal mobile devices.
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Hubble captures the sharpest ever view of Andromeda Galaxy
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest and biggest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as Messier 31. The enormous image is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy’s…
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My Top 100 Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part One
I was recently interviewed by Fog Creek and one of the questions was about my favorite programming, coding and development books. I got very excited by this question as I'm a huge book nerd. I love books about computers, programming, and science. Every few months I spend a day or two researching the latest…
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EFF Challenges New Jersey Subpoena Issued to MIT Student Bitcoin Developers
As the popularity of Bitcoins has increased, government officials are concerned about criminal activity associated with the virtual currency. But a recent subpoena issued by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs to 19-year-old Bitcoin developer and MIT student Jeremy Rubin goes too far, and...
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Kickstarter is Debt
Kickstarter, Indiegogo and other crowdfunding platforms are often misunderstood. It definitely isn’t investment: It’s debt. Hardware startups struggle to manage their cash. It’s common to pay for large expenses (like tooling and inventory) 9–12 months prior to selling your product. This is why pre-
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Aroma: Using machine learning for code recommendation
Aroma is a code-to-code search and recommendation tool that uses ML to make the process of gaining insights from big codebases much easier.
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Baba Is Eval
Baba is You is a sokoban puzzle game where the rules themselves have to be manipulated to win. (For the uninitiated, the store page should explain the idea best.) The level of abstraction required to solve most levels makes it a formidable reasoning benchmark, with many reasoning steps being completely orthogonal to…
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Must ride mule to and from work location
“David, this one, tell me about it …” He’d let me look at his domain name portfolio. Not names he owned and parked, but domains he owned & developed. This was another early project of his – a job board solely focused on the ranching industry. All aspects – cattle, outfitters, dude/guest, hunting, and even ... Read more
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When not to use deep learning
I know it’s a weird way to start a blog with a negative, but there was a wave of discussion in the last few days that I think serves as a good hook for some topics on which I’ve been thinking recently. It all started with a post in the Simply Stats blog by Jeff Leek on the caveats of using deep learning in the small…
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Angry Bird’s “overnight success” only took 8 years.
by Paul Hontz
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Why we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack
A recent blog post posed the question Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack?. It triggered a very interesting discussion on Hacker News.
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Coolest Things I Learned in 2019
The most popular part of my Monday Musings newsletter is a section called “Coolest Things I Learned This Week.” This is a collection of the most popular ideas I shared in 2019.
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The Transformer Family
Many new Transformer architecture improvements have been proposed since my last post on “The Transformer Family” about three years ago. Here I did a big refactoring and enrichment of that 2020 post — restructure the hierarchy of sections and improve many sections with more recent papers. Version 2.0 is a superset of…
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Replicating GPT-2 at Home
How I (almost) replicated OpenAI’s GPT-2 (124M version)
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Cesium for Unreal Now Available
Cesium for Unreal for Epic Game's Unreal Engine is available as open source. Create the metaverse, digital twins, and simulations using 3D geospatial and a game engine.