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Griffin – A fully-regulated, API-driven bank, with Clojure
A fully-regulated, API-driven bank built with Clojure, enabling fintech companies to integrate banking features quickly and securely
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Zig is hard but worth it
"I learned Zig in a weekend! …Six hours! …6µs!" say the blissful lizards. Followed by something to the effect of, "It’s easy to pick up because the syntax is so simple."
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Nakatomi Space
[Image: From Die Hard, directed by John McTiernan based on the novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorpe].While watching Die Hard the other night—easily one of the best architectural films of …
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AI and Mass Spying
Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide a bug in your home or car, tap your phone, and listen to what you said. At the end, I would get a report of all the conversations you had and the contents of those conversations. If I hired…
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Meta blocking news links in Canada
For months, supporters of Bill C-18, the Online News Act, assured the government that Meta and Google were bluffing when they warned that a bill based on mandated payments for links was unworkable and they would comply with it by removing links to news from their platforms. However, what has been readily apparent for…
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Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays
From a person who really shouldn't be giving others advice.
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Khan Academy integrates GPT-4 as every student’s customized tutor
Khan Academy explores the potential for GPT-4 in a limited pilot program.
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I walked across Luxembourg
A hike from the west to the east of the Grand Duchy
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Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
In 2007, a small team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story.
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Urgent: Sign the petition now
Nearly 40,000 of all depositors at Silicon Valley Bank were small businesses. If swift action isn’t taken, over 100,000 people could soon lose their jobs.
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datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated
I was going through the release notes of the new Python 3.12 version the other day, and one item caught my attention in the deprecations section:datetime.datetime’s utcnow() and utcfromtimestamp()…
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Defamed by ChatGPT
Yesterday, President Joe Biden declared that “it remains to be seen” whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) is “dangerous.” I would beg to differ. I have been writing about th…
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Mercedes-Benz workforce to receive record profit-sharing bonus
Exklusive Einblicke und individuelle Angebote: Erleben Sie mit Mercedes-Benz das Maximum aus digitaler Live-PR. Exclusive insights and individual offers: Experience the maximum of digital live PR with Mercedes-Benz.
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EU's concealment of secret 'expert list' on CSAM regulation is maladministration
After a year-long inquiry, the EU Ombudsman recommends that the European Commission should monitor stages of progress in every Big Tech case that the Irish Data Protection Commission is responsible for.
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PeerTube v6
It's #givingtuesday, so we're giving you PeerTube v6 today! PeerTube is the software we develop for creators, media, institutions, educators... to manage their own video platform, as an alternative to YouTube and Twitch. 🦆 VS 😈: Let's take back some ground from the tech giants! Thanks to your donations to our…
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Non-determinism in GPT-4 is caused by Sparse MoE
It’s well-known at this point that GPT-4/GPT-3.5-turbo is non-deterministic, even at temperature=0.0. This is an odd behavior if you’re used to dense decoder-only models, where temp=0 should imply greedy sampling which should imply full determinism, because the logits for the next token should be a pure function of…
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Suing to protect right of incarcerated people to receive physical mail
In 2021, San Mateo County, California, banned people incarcerated in county jails from receiving physical mail. Instead, family and friends were required to mail their letters to Smart Communications, a private for-profit company based in Florida that would scan and destroy those letters so that...
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Run CLIP on iPhone to search photos
How I run CLIP (ViT-B-32) on iPhone to search the Photos album offline with Queryable: exporting Core ML text and image encoders for CLIP photo search
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Clocks and Causality – Ordering Events in Distributed Systems (2022)
In distributed systems, logical clocks play a key role in the ordering of system events. What are the various logical clock designs, and how do they help with event ordering? This article answers these questions.
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The networkQuality tool on macOS
Getting Started with networkQuality The networkQuality tool is a built-in tool released in macOS Monterey that can help diagnose network issues and measure network performance. In this post, we'll go over how to use the networkQuality tool and some of its key features. Running the Default Tests To
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Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs
Companies see huge server savings with Elixir.