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Augmenting LLMs Beyond Basic Text Completion and Transformation
Explore resources and tools created to inspire creativity, perform deep learning, and equip your company with Voice AI best practices.
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JavaScript Generators, Meet XPath
If the text is neatly neatly isolated inside an HTML element, it’s easy; this will do:
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Git: fetch and merge, don’t pull
This is too long and rambling, but to steal a joke from Mark Twain Blaise Pascal I haven’t had time to make it shorter yet. There is some discussion of this post on the git mailing list , but much of it is tangential to the points I’m trying to make here.
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Pruning AI networks without impacting performance
The IBM Research blog is the home for stories told by the researchers, scientists, and engineers inventing What’s Next in science and technology.
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Bypassing a Python sandbox by abusing code objects
Awhile ago, I stumbled upon a service that let you write python-bots to interact with a number of external services. The basic idea was th...
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What Outranks Thread Priority?
This investigation started, as so many of mine do, with me minding my own business, not looking for trouble. In this case all I was doing was opening my laptop lid and trying to log on.The first fe…
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A git Primer
Definitions git‘s Index Branches Remote Repositories Merges Managing a Website Using git Tags Essential Commands git is a wicked-powerful distributed revi
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Sending notifications programmatically: let me count the ways
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
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Where should the debugger set a breakpoint?
When you search for executions of a function in Pernosco (or set a breakpoint in a more traditional debugger), how does the debugger decide where to stop? You might think it just stops at the first instruction in a function, but that's not true in general. Debuggers actually stop immediately after the function's…
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Dynamic Queries in Ecto (Elixir Lang)
The macro Ecto Query dynamic/2 allows you to build query fragments and interpolate them into one large query. We get easy-to-manage query building in an accessible way. It allows you to control the parameters from the user and transparently create filtering of data stored in the database.
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Detecting file changes on macOS with kqueue
A while ago I wrote a small file watcher in Go for my own use with an accompanying blog post . I needed a tool that I could just plop in front of the command I was running as part of my iteration loop. I use it for recompiling C files when I modify them,
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Deconstructing the Postgres planner to find indexing opportunities
We take a behind the scenes look at the pganalyze Index Advisor and discuss a few recent improvements, such as utilizing selectivity information better.
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Implementing Raft: Part 2: Commands and Log Replication
This is Part 2 in a series of posts describing the Raft distributed consensus algorithm and its complete implementation in Go. Here is a list of posts in the series:
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My Experience of building Bytebeat player in Zig
I graduated last month, and my GSoC project along with my startup work finally wrapped up. To take a proper break and enjoy some deliberate...
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LLVM OpenMP Support
OpenMP support in Clang compiler is completed! Every pragma and clause from 3.1 version of the standard is supported in full, including combined directives (like ‘#pragma omp parallel for’ and ‘#pragma omp parallel sections’).
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High level mods/patches for console video games
This blogpost explores my journey of bringing higher level languages (in this case C) to console video-game modding, as an alternative to hand-tailored assembly mods.
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How GNU Guile is 10x better (2021)
In Rust at Facebook by Fitzhardinge of the Mercurial team , Jeremy says that a new language must be 10x better at something than one of the (other) incumbent languages.
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Evolution of tree data structures for indexing
I have to admit, my research blog posts are getting longer and longer. From one side I find it genuinely encouraging, because if one gets so much information just by scratching the topic, imagine what’s hidden beneath the surface! One university professor once said “what could be interesting in databases?”, and it…
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Experiment with Gemini 2.0 Flash native image generation
Developers can now test experimental image output generation with Gemini 2.0 Flash via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio.
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Essential JavaScript design patterns
Learning JavaScript Design Patterns is a book with examples of JavaScript design patterns and how to apply them to your code.
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LeakCanary: Detect all Android memory leaks
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
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Introduction to Metaprogramming in Nim
Metaprogramming is the writing of computer programs with the ability to treat programs as their data. It means that a program could be designed to read, generate, analyse and/or transform other programs, and even modify itself while running.
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Maze Generation: Wilson's algorithm
Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more!