Confession time: I don't fully understand how terminals, shells and SSH really work (and my guess is you don't either). And I don't mean the cryptography behind SSH. I mean how SSH and the terminal — and the shell for that matter — interact with one another.
The space is divided into four rectangles . Each of those rectangles is divided such that it contains a maximum of four children . Each child is either a point or a smaller rectangle.
The Python standard library’s logging module is a go-to for adding observability to applications. Many tools also integrated with it or enhance its capabilities, such as structlog and Sentry.
I discovered a cluster of at least 109 extensions in Chrome Web Store. A few are committing affiliate fraud or spying, most are simply hoarding overly wide privileges before abusing them.
What will happen to GPT-{n} once LLMs contribute much of the language found online? We find that use of model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects in the resulting models, where tails of the original content distribution disappear. We refer to this effect as Model Collapse and show that it can…
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Yes, if you have enough CPU RAM
Learn and deploy over 900+ cutting edge PyTorch classification models on Android.
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you had a bunch of parameters to tune for a better result, but there were just too many to exhaustively search all possibilities? I recently saw a …
Dismantling a Shoddy Malware Operation The Discovery I had been made aware of a malware spreading site called obspremium.com. This site is claiming to offer a so-called “premium” version of the popular open source recording and streaming program Open Broadcaster Software at obsproject.com. “OBS Premium” hosts a direct…
I like Sun Ray laptops. They make surprisingly useful thin clients. Here, going from right to left, I'm playing Quake on my Solaris UltraBoo...
A brief introduction tutorial to Constraint Programming with Python, we introduce some relevant definitions and solve our old Pokémon Centers and Pokémon Gyms problem this time with CP!
I've been on many projects that get canceled. We're building cool stuff. We're going above and beyond, and we're excited. But the project encounters reality, shifting priorities, or budgeting constraints, and the work never goes anywhere. It always feels tragic, but then I move on. But what if I didn't let a project…
P cores are conventional in that they can deliver excellent performance at maximum frequency, but with high power use. E cores may take 4 times as long for a task, but use less than a third of the …
1. “We have to have a business with some inherent characteristics that give it a durable competitive advantage.” Professor Michael Porter calls barriers to market entry that a business may have…
"Just say whatever comes into your head each time..."
Incident #210 Status Complete, one action item outstanding. Summary Sentinel consumed by wolf after repeated false alarms. Impact Loss of sentinel. No flock impact. Root causes Sentinel generated noisy alerts due to premature deployment, incomplete training, and overly monotonous task. Oncalls failed to respond to…
An introduction to Ash Framework, written for new Elixir developers. Comes with LiveBooks for interactive examples, live-coding video walkthrough, and illustrations.
I frequently reference a process called Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) when discussing LLMs, whether in the research news or tutorials.
Time for some hard-core geeking-out. This comment on HN by /u/jiggawatts struck me as a brilliant idea: it's an intuitive counter-example t...
If you don't pursue safety in a way that is cost effective, you are killing people.[David Okrent]
I semi-regularly hear developers who claim that using Rust would not gain them anything because they would have to use `unsafe`. But this is not true. Local reasoning matters.
Special thanks to Morgan Beller, Juan Benet, Eli Dourado, Karl Floersch, Sriram Krishnan, Nate Soares, Jaan Tallinn, Vincent Weisser, Balvi volunteers and others for feedback and review.
Fanatics has rolled up power in all areas of sports merchandising. And now it's coming for baseball, football, and basketball trading cards.
Whose Creators They Failed to Credit
I’ve been having some troubles with Zigbee. Yes, at our airbnb we have a rather big dining room where I’ve put 7 Zigbee RGBWW Smart bulbs. The problem is that each time I try to turn all 7 on or off there’s either a lag or some of them just won’t switch on or off. The controller is a Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB dongle, yes…
A recent Twitter thread brought home to me that there is widespread confusion about what types actually are, even among the most prominent researchers. In particular: are types the same thing as sets ? At the risk of repeating some of my prior posts, perhaps it’s time for a little history about type theory, set theory…
Content Warning: usage of Dremel, bad soldering, bad desoldering, underestimating high voltage, Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field
I shipped identical boxes, less than a mile, with multiple delivery companies — one was seized by the police. This is the UX of delivering parcels.
