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I can’t imagine having a hobby that involves passing by, and in some cases climbing over, the exposed remains of others who died doing that same activity.

Back in the day in elementary school we were each issued a tonette

Lacks an isVeryEven() method, otherwise looks feature complete.

In other words STPA is a design review framework for finding some less obvious failure modes. FMEA is more popular but relies on making a list of all of the knowable failure modes …

A notebook is a REPL with an inline wiki. Of course it is not intended for running production code, it’s just an R&D environment to document, share, and test ideas

Article mentions people were raiding beaches for free building materials like sand and stone for concrete, which would be a problem at a large volume. Enforcing the same rules on i…

Way too soon! He recently did an interview with Dave and Krist from Nirvana about the 30th anniversary of In Utero. They described recording prank phone calls during the recording …

Strongly recommend watching Andrej Karpathy’s “Lets build GPT-2” videos on YouTube which dives into an actual PyTorch implementation, then download the code and study it carefully.…

LLMs have a limited context size, i.e. the chat bot can only recall so much of the conversation. This project is building a knowledge graph of the entire conversation(s), then usin…

The dandelion root is 450 cm?! That explains why pulling up the sprouts does nothing to prevent it from sprouting again.

OpenSearch perhaps? The search query results returns a list of hits (matches) with a text_entry field that has the matching excerpt from the source doc

That’s pretty much correct. An LLM is often used rather like a forecast model that can forecast the next word in a sequence of words. When it’s generating output it’s just continuo…

The ops-examples github has many examples in many popular languages

For this type of unikernel project C makes sense. I’m a fan of both C and Rust. I like that Rust prevents typical code safety problems, but I like that C hardly changes over time w…

Yes and me too! I fell for the same gov-looking web site scam when renewing a passport in a hurry, courtesy of Google paid search rankings. Do no evil, but how about earning money …

I wonder how deeply the board and the rotating CEOs actually understand the technology and practicality of achieving AGI, or whether they are falling over themselves due to buying …

Works on mobile browser too! Usually these type of demos don’t. Nice work.

it was the My Eyes Are on Fire Festival

I don’t think it’s Ivy League schools to blame for this as much as VCs willingness to buy/sell BS and hype when it’s coming from an Ivy League grad.

I can believe it. There are those skilled at performative intellectualism, i.e. sounding very smart and insightful, but the performance itself is the product, it is all they sell a…

Lookup edge service providers like Cloudflare or Akamia. If you’re hosted by a large cloud provider then look into their free and premium edge services offerings. Traffic can be fi…

What really turned developers away from Apple after the Apple II was not only the price but that you couldn’t sit down at a Macintosh and start programming it like you could with a…

The added complication is also because insurers refuse to pay providers unless every procedure, billing code, time of service, justification, physician notes, physician network acc…

Concurrency is like a single cook preparing many different recipes at the same time, and parallelism is multiple cooks in the same kitchen. Single-threaded processes can use async/…

Seems we are all now using the ultimate product of the hypertext concepts of the 80s: the web itself.