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I've been impressed by ollama running locally for my work, involving grouping short text snippets by semantic meaning, using embeddings, as well as summarization tasks. Depending o…

The trick is to already know how to use regexes to make searching the manpages easier! But you really have to nail down the rules for escaping when you want to search for perl's gn…

Clearly the US needs a constitutional amendment to preserve the right to keep and bear AI tools. Then we can arm the victims of AI tools with their own AI tools, for self-defense. …

The article is well-written and I even learned a few things. I'm glad for Nikhil's persistence troubleshooting it and fixing the bug upstream. Thanks, Nikhil!

Training computers on human stupidity has got to be infinitely scalable, by induction.

If only they passed the inverse law requiring gas and coal plants to buy renewable power to reduce their pollution impact. This raises the question, why should a power generator be…

What is the minimum resident RAM size per individual active unique series? Or what's a typical RSS RAM size for 10 or 100 million unique active series? How does unlimited cardinali…

absolutely true. imagine porting a decade or more of code for only the promised benefit of a more "pure" language. asyncio is nice, but excluding it and enhanced generator syntax f…

embed a cpython interpreter into the Go runtime as an embedded interpreter?

sorted() is widely used, adding will extend coverage considerably.