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Pretty good! Translation by AI? First lessons quite well, but first quiz in German "Welche dieser Noten ist... ganze Tonoberhalb?" makes no sense.

Can it document modular synthesizer patch configurations?

How is this different from https://github.com/nextjournal/clerk ?

https://polioeradication.org/about-polio/history-of-polio/

What's the best strategy for a full backup and recovery if updating to LTSC goes wrong?

Do you like my definition of consciousness? while True: context += LLM(context) Using the idea of consciousness as the interface to oneself as proposed by Daniel Dennett.

context = "you are a useful model. you evaluate your own output for N steps after the initial user input" prompt = "here comes a prompt by the user" context += prompt for _ in rang…

How has this changed with the successful implementation of LLMs in the recent past?

GPT-4 supports a 128,000-token context window (per OpenAI). I'm trying to understand how much text that really is. Here's my rough estimate: 1 token ≈ ¾ word ≈ 4 characters A singl…

Cool! Will be interesting to compare to https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv ! Shameless plug for my html version of the xv6 book: https://xv6-guide.github.io/xv6-riscv-book/

HTML conversion https://xv6-guide.github.io/xv6-riscv-book/ and cmake build https://github.com/xv6-guide/xv6-riscv/blob/cmake/CMakeLists... for xv6: a simple, Unix-like teaching op…

There's also the BrainScaleS neuromorphic system that features wafer scale integration: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12359

Jeffrey Snover, inventor of PowerShell, wrote in 2007: "It was a mistake to think that GUIs ever would, could, or even should, eliminate CLIs." 16 years later. Has the situation ch…