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> The idea of the dashboard is the following: I run the Codex through a web chat to identify the relevant quotes — relevant for my dissertation topic — and how they are relevant, i…

FWIW, folks on lobste.rs are (mostly) friendly and willing to extend invites if you seem like a real person. My understanding is that the invite system is primarily in use to avoid…

How about Microsoft Tay? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot) While the underlying model is certainly different, and my understanding is that current LLMs don’t learn “liv…

It’s worth noting that one of the paper’s authors is Todd Gamblin, the Spack project lead.

“The Elements of Computing Systems”, by Nisan and Schocken, starts at logic gates and works up to a functional computer that can play Tetris. So not quite Ohm’s Law, but close. htt…

I’ve seen most of these recommendations before, but the “mic-drowning case” to muffle room audio is new to me. Certainly makes sense, but are there any common commercial phone case…

I was already remote, but I’m moving from Seattle to Denver. Combination of family and a more favorable climate. The somewhat lower cost of living doesn’t hurt, but it’s not like D…

Many large companies have structured mentorship programs, but this is mostly for onboarding. Your mentor will help you learn about the company itself, e.g. all the different intern…

One of my favorite recurring team conversations is the one where everyone shares stories of the outages they've caused or the systems they've broken. This conversation has happened…

There are rack designs out there built on this idea, but they are usually pretty specialized. For example, the Cray XC series has racks with built in power, network, and out of ban…

It doesn’t support OpenVPN, but I’ll leave a plug for the Outline VPN from Jigsaw (Alphabet). [0] It’s similar in concept to Algo, in that you deploy your own VPN server on a VPS r…

> What's the takeaway? "Unfortunately this tool doesn't exist for blb++, but we should still improve our coding style for this application. Is there another way to improve our corr…

I’ve worked in a few different settings on large-scale scientific computing. For those applications: - Not cost-efficient at large scale. When you expect and plan to run thousands …

Among other reasons: there are still a fair number of non-Ethernet devices with IP addresses out there...

For networking in particular, Andrew Tanenbaum's book "Computer Networking" [0] is quite good, and covers everything from the physical layer on up. The most recent edition is from …