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Customizing GPT-3 for Your Application
Fine-tune with a single command.
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Factorio – Statistics improvements, Linux adventures
Hello, welcome once again to the world of facts.
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Using Zig to provide stack traces on kernel panic on bare metal (2018)
Last week, I reached an exciting milestone in my career as a programmer. For the first time in my life, I ran code directly on hardware , with no Operating System sitting between the bare metal and my code.
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Show HN: “Statements and State”, the next chapter of my book on interpreters
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. André Breton, Mad Love
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JEP 431: Sequenced Collections
Introduce new interfaces to represent collections with a defined encounter order. Each such collection has a well-defined first element, second element, and so forth, up to the last element. It also provides uniform APIs for accessing its first and last elements, and for processing its elements in reverse order.
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Let's write a compiler, part 3: A parser
Tokenizing the source code input is a great start for our compiler. Now let's turn our attention to parsing the PL/0 grammar. Once we have finished with the parser, the front end of our compiler will be finished and we will have a PL/0 validator. This is a program that can read in PL/0 source code and inform the user…
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Tarsnap email confirmation bypass
One consequence of these unsolicited security scans is that — since they feed a variety of inputs to forms, including the account creation form — I see a lot of obviously fake signup attempts (alas, none yet from the world's most obviously fake domain name ). These are harmless, since the signup code sends out a…
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How Not to Write a Signal Handler
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A basic introduction to NumPy's einsum
Haphazard investigations
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Matrix Client Tutorial
Welcome to the Matrix. Matrix is an open protocol for decentralised communication. Matrix allows users on different servers to communicate with each other, similar to how people on different email servers can email each other.
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Let rand = main as usize (2022)
The other day I posted something silly, and learned some interesting things about raw pointers in Rust.
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Why no curl 8
In this little piece I'll explain why there won't be any version 8 of curl and libcurl in a long time. I won't rule out that it might happen at some point in the future. Just that it won't happen anytime soon and explain the reasons why. Seven point twenty nine, really? We've done 29 … Continue reading Why no curl 8 →
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De Bruijn notation, and why it's useful
At least a familiarity with the lambda calculus, including how it is evaluated. Some base knowledge of programming languages is also assumed.
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Amazon SageMaker Autopilot
Update September 30, 2021 – This post has been edited to remove broken links. Today, we’re extremely happy to launch Amazon SageMaker Autopilot to automatically create the best classification and regression machine learning models, while allowing full control and visibility. In 1959, Arthur Samuel defined machine…
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Spawn your shell like it's the 90s again
This article is a quick walk-through to gaining root privileges in the NetBSD, since it's so 90s you can play Captain Jack [3] , or [4] [5] if you prefer polish disco, just to feel the atmosphere while reading. Really, do it! ;)
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Interesting things about the Lua interpreter (2020)
The Lua programming language is unusual among its peers. It’s a dynamically typed, scripting language with a really small core (100-200kB), but runs efficiently, has far simpler semantics than other similar languages, and is just as old as the giants like JavaScript, Python, and Ruby – first made in a research lab…
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Android Studio’s “Code contains easter egg” inspection (2019)
There’s an inspection called “Code contains easter egg” that comes with Android Studio. This one:
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Collecting and curating material is good and we should do it more
Chronicling, plugin systems, and six other disjointed ideas combine in an argument of how to "engineerize" software more
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How .NET container images are maintained
An update on using .NET and containers together, learn how to tackle staying safe and keeping your container images up-to-date.
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NVK is now ready for prime time
As of today, NVK is now a conformant Vulkan 1.3 implementation on Turing (RTX 2000 and GTX 1600 series), Ampere (RTX 3000 series), and Ada (RTX 4000 series) GPUs.
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State Machines in Ruby: An Introduction
Let's build a simple state machine in Ruby and use the state machines gem.
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Layered Design in Go
This post will describe how I design my programs in Go. I needed this for work, and while I searched for a link, nothing quite fits my coding practices out there. The word “Layered” can pull up some fairly close descriptions, but I want to lay out what I do.
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Live Streaming in Rails 4.0
TL;DR Rails 4.0 will allow you to stream arbitrary data at arbitrary intervals with Live Streaming. HAPPY MONDAY EVERYONE! Besides enabling multi-threading by default, one of the things I really wanted for Rails 4.0 is the ability to stream data to the client. I want the ability to treat the response object as an I/O…
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Devious SQL: Message Queuing Using Native PostgreSQL
An interesting question came up on the postgresql IRC channel about how to use native PostgreSQL features to handle some sort of queuing behavior. While the specific usage was related to handling serialization of specific events to some external broker, the specifics are less important than the overall structure.
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How to deal with dirty side effects in your pure functional JavaScript
If you start learning about functional programming, it won’t be long before you come across the idea of pure functions. And as you go on, you will discover functional programmers appear to be obsessed with them. “Pure functions let you reason about your code,” they say. “Pure functions are less likely to start a…
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Use pytorch2+cu118 with ADA hardware for 50%+ speedup
GPUX is a distributed supercomputer.