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I really like Crash Course World History. I'm older than the target demographic for this resource to be sure, but it's a great high level overview and having this under my belt hel…

I discovered Anki 12 years ago while living in Japan. I was trying my hardest and absolutely failing to remember any of the Japanese I was studying. Maybe I was due for a learning-…

A lot of training data was curated in Kenya[0]. I would imagine if LLM data was curated in Japan our LLMs would sound a lot like the authors of their most popular English text book…

Yes but I think it's a good virtue to signal considering the circumstances. If they paid the ransom that would signal that ransoming this company works, incentivizing more ransoms.…

This is cool, very much the hacker ethos. But I didn't see any evidence that it can make a phone call though?

I think this guide is nice, and having a variety of articles like this is great so everybody can look at the different ideas and find what's right for them. I would urge people to …

This is something I want to see in the world. Do you have a public repo? I'm currently doing third party application development for the Yoto, and I've done a lot of hacking on MP3…

I keep feeling like there's a huge disconnect between the owners/CTOs/managers with how useful they think LLMs _are supposed to be_, vs the people working on the product and how us…

This is totally orthogonal to the issue but I think the best fix possible is to block the YouTube home page. I have gained value from algorithm-curated feeds in the past but it's n…

The models outlined in the white paper have a training step that uses reinforcement learning _without human feedback_. They're referring to this as "outcome-based RL". These models…

Just a friendly heads up, for the Japanese exercises the video starts just a bit too late and the word you're listening for is cut off. This might only be pertinent for languages w…

"The concept of running shoes as we understand them today, specifically designed to improve running efficiency and comfort, did not emerge until the late 19th and early 20th centur…

I love these easy-to-illustrate examples where a request seems simple, but adds a lot of trouble for the person implementing it. "It's just adding a new skin for their footwear, ho…

Back in the Windows 7 days I installed Skype on my parents computer before moving abroad, their user experience was basically like receiving a phone call. Even though they weren't …

You're right, it's possible and common to be recorded without somebody pointing a phone camera at you. That doesn't negate my point, right now the norm is that in many situations y…

Right now people have to point their phone cameras at at the thing they're photographing or recording, it's a very clear visual signal to others and there are cultural norms for th…

I wasn't even thinking about paywalls, the first thing I did was check to see if cookie banners and "Sign in with Google" popups went away. There's so many user-unfriendly things t…

> Ask any artist to explain how color works, and they’ll launch into a treatise about how the Three Primary Colors—red, blue, and yellow—form a color wheel I don't think the author…

I didn't read that to mean a literal two minutes. Based on his style of writing that was quoted in the article and the nature of his mistake I don't think he's reporting an in-dept…

When I took my graduate level operating systems class we had to do a bunch of coursework in C. Beej's Guides are the reason I passed that class. Thank's Beej!

I think there's a fair argument to be made that computing is the most complex synthetic thing humans have ever conceived all on our own. If we're talking about making systems in th…

For me bash is a weird exception to the rule "code is easier to write than it is read". I'm never doing anything crazy in a shell a script but it's easy to just ask ChatGPT to whip…

I agree that there's not much point in writing actual literal semantically correct code on a piece of paper, but I don't think that's at all the point of the article. The author ta…

I noticed that too! This could be a fantastic learning tool, my music professor described how to crescendo into the tension and decrescendo into the release but being able to exper…