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A brief history of Dell Unix (2008)
[update December 2021: files for 86Box install at update December 2020: Dell Unix on 86Box “Today let me present Dell Unix more properly, with 1024×768, 256 colors video and proper networking…
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Large language model data pipelines and Common Crawl
This article provides a short introduction to the pipeline used to create the data to train large language models (LLMs) such as LLaMA using Common Crawl (CC).
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Damas-Hindley-Milner inference two ways
What is Damas-Hindley-Milner?
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The Cryptographic Doom Principle (2011)
When it comes to designing secure protocols, I have a principle that goes like this: if you have to perform any cryptographic operation before verifying the MAC on a message you’ve received, it will somehow inevitably lead to doom.
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How to think about creating a dataset for LLM fine-tuning evaluation
I summarise the kinds of evaluations that are needed for a structured data generation task.
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Array languages vs. the curse of the spreadsheet
It has been said that the most popular programming language in the world is the spreadsheet (and in particular these days, Excel). There...
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A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health textbook from 1929
"Science and The Way to Health" by Andress and Brown
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Don't microservice, do module
Looking beyond the hype and explaining why microservices should nearly become extinct.
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Turing's topological proof that every written alphabet is finite (2010)
Recently one of my colleagues was reading Alan Turing’s groundbreaking 1936 article “On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem.” This is the article in…
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Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...
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Encoding tic-tac-toe in 15 bits
I recently stumbled upon a blog post by Alejandra González (a.k.a @blyxyas) that seeks to compress a tic-tac-toe game state into as few bits as possible. She arrived at a solution in 18 bits. This got me thinking, can we do better?
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Google now defaults to not indexing your content
Picture this: It’s ten years ago, and you’ve just launched a new WordPress blog. Within hours, sometimes even minutes, your content is indexed by Google. You search for a unique sentence from your…
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From Gatsby gridlock to Astro bliss: my personal site redesign
Jacob Wenger's online garden
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Humans 1, Chimps 0: Correcting the Record
Behavioural economics, data science and artificial intelligence.
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Low-latency scripting for game engines
The basics condensed into one very large document
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JavaScript garbage collection and closures
GC within a function doesn't work how I expected
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Defensive Communication (1961)
I provide this HTML version of a historical article because it was not easily available but was central to my article: Reagle, J. (2010). “Be nice”: Wikipedia norms for supportive communication. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (Special Issue on Web Science) , 16(1), 161–180…
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Annual pre-pay and marketing budgets
Dozens of founders have used this technique to transform the cash-flow of their businesses. Now it's your turn.
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Two ways to use an LED as a light sensor with Arduino
I needed to log when a light switched on and off during the night as part of debugging an oddly behaving movement sensor. To do that I built...
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Solving Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe
This morning, I came accross Cameron Sun’s Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe on HN . However, the comments were disappointing, with people proposing probabilistic models, linear programming, minimax algorithms, and heuristic evaluations to develop AI approaches for the game, none of which quite correct. In this post, I’ll…
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SIMD < SIMT < SMT: Parallelism in Nvidia GPUs (2011)
Programmable NVIDIA GPUs are very inspiring to hardware geeks, proving that processors with an original, incompatible programming model can become widely used.
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A review on protein language models
Protein “language” is a lot like human language. Given the similarities, researchers have been building and training language models on protein sequence data, replicating the success seen in other domains, with profound implications. In this post, I will explore how transformer models have been applied to protein data…
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Clojure macros continue to surprise me
Clojure macros have two modes: avoid them at all costs/do very basic stuff, or go absolutely crazy.
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If I could dissect a sauropod
Luke Horton asked in a comment on a recent post: Given the chance to examine a titanosaur cadaver with your hypothetical army of anatomists, what would you look for first? *FACEPALM* How we’v…
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Back to our roots
Matthew Honnibal is a computational linguist from Sydney based in Berlin, Germany. He's the author of the spaCy Natural Language Processing library and the co-founder of Explosion.
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My IRC client runs on Kubernetes
Trust me, there's a reason for this