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Its really clever and minimal approach to getting (for my use case at least) the moral equivalent of a cloudflare tunnel without actually depending on CF. Super cool.

bitbang-webcam fires up your camera and gives you a link for anyone to view. Super cool as a quick way to relay vid. WebRTC is CRAZY!

This is super cool and totally works on my crappy low end LG tv. WebRTC is awesome. Nice

Hackers by Steven Levy is an incredible story of the industry’s early years (60-80’s) and the characters that were in it for the “love of the game” vs what is more common now (“sta…

"The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television" is a great book detailing the Farnsworth journey.

If you have any details written up on your kit (in partic what solar you used) I'd appreciate a link. I'm looking to do similar

We do the token counting on our end literally just running tiktoken on the content chunks (although I think usually its one token per chunk). Its a bit annoying and I too expected …

I struggled to get an intuition for this, but on another HN thread earlier this year saw the recommendation for Sebastian Raschka's series. Starting with this video: https://www.yo…

+1 you beat me to the punch! I think its helpful to start with simple RL and ignore the "deep" part to get the basics. The first several lectures in this series do that well. It he…

Token counting is importing when you are injecting fetched data into the prompt to make sure you don't overflow the prompt size (e.g. in retrieval augmented generation). You want t…

+1 the book is entertaining (esp for engineers). Also was released under the title "The Newtonian Casino".

https://github.com/antimatter15/alpaca.cpp has links

I agree this is an incredibly interesting paper. I am not a practitioner but I interpreted the gradient article differently. They didn’t directly find 64 nodes (activations) that r…

+1. I've benefited greatly from your content, e.g. your CNN lecture was incredibly accessible [0]. I still find transformers stubbornly elude my intuitions despite reading many des…