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I built a simple game with a self documenting API (HAL) and let claude and fable fight. Who won?

im running asahi fedora with niri on my M1 Air and apart from display port over usbc not working (it's coming) it's perfect. not too annoying to setup if the first thing you instal…

Weekend experiment. Im the CTO of a real bank so speed ran vibecoding a pretty complete bank ledger with real double entry accounting, FX, open currency positions etc.

Adding some facts. No-one in Georgia could access google, everything else worked. googleapis.com and google.com seemed to be the only thing affected. If you VPN'd out you were fine…

Was drinking in a bar in Espoo in 2012 or 2013 and heard this from someone at rovio. At the time they used Riak db and basho were onsite and we asked why they didn't enable inter s…

It's a risk that was very much understood and it's fully covered.

i had a similar experience working in copenhagen. read an article about copenhagen sub orbital rockets, looked up and out my window and my eye landed on the rocket i was just readi…

+++ATH QModem was the best (until everyone started pushing zmodem).

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Cool post, wish it existed 2 years ago when we started building Pave Bank, or 10 years ago when we started building Monzo. If you're starting a bank or need a ledger these days (an…

His name was Vile Rat. That was a weird, sad time.

I worked on a project just like this once.. a mobile phone network build in the middle east before the arab spring. 10/10 would not repeat the experience.

they just run other open models, so you're complaint isn't about Groq, it's about GPT-4 vs mixtral 8x7b accelerated

The paper talks about LLMs a lot, but would this result hold for all Transformers? Are Ternary Transformers going to make things like Whisper faster/better?

Pave Bank | Building the worlds first programmable bank | Singapore and Tbilisi 3 founders, ex-Monzo (YC https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/monzo-bank ), BigPay and VP bank in v…

GPT-3.5 (unfinetuned) has been matched by many OW (open weights) models now, and with fine tuning to a specific task (coding, customer care, health advice etc) can exceed it. It's …

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Can it do audio rate stuff? it reminds me a lot of PureData (or MaxMSP) but with a cooler interface.

vim mode in vscode is good enough honestly. i've not booted vim for anything other than quick hacks in ages. 99% of the time i `code` now instead of `vi`

It really is. I guess this'll be quite useful for people on chromebooks and iPads as well.

This isn't an artifact that was stolen, it was bought by or given freely to a doctor who donated it to the museum in the late 1800s. All the greek and egyptian stuff should be retu…

i wish there was a working guide on how to do this. I've been hacking away at trying to get the ldm-finetune repo to work with Stable Diffusions released checkpoints.