Releasing the largest multilingual open pretraining dataset Common Corpus is a new "open and permissible licensed text dataset, comprising over 2 trillion tokens (2,003,039,184,047 tokens)" released by French AI Lab PleIAs. This appears to be the largest available corpus of openly licensed training data: 926,541,096,243 tokens of public domain...
Michael Levin and Josh Lowitz: Thank Goodness for iPadiPad Pro remains the most popular model, with almost half of all iPad sales in the most recent quarter (Chart 1). This is about the same share of sales compared to the year-ago quarter.Combine this with the fact that the
I love being the person who can make sound from a piano where there was silence. I hope that I can also be the person who inspires more people to find their own sound.
It was with the sounds of the cicadas, that Sestuna walked through the streets, looking for the rumored cafe with the ability to travel in time. She could hear the sounds of the first fireworks in the background, the children running around the streets. She passed the Obon festival, before she reached the right block. The sounds of children...
overview I figured the reasoning capabilities would lend themselves to chess, and they do. Right now I am limited by the 50 o1-preview requests I have to do research in this area so keep this mind when I share. testing vs stockfish I was playing o1-preview against stockfish (via lichess), and it held up for the most part, but stockfish was...
Ten Years of AWS Lambda Everything starts somewhere. Today, Werner Vogels shared his annotated version of the original AWS Lambda PRFAQ. This is a great inside look into how product development happens at AWS - the real working backwards process in action. This was, in some ways, the start of serverless computing2. Tim Wagner, Ajay Nair, and...
Sending a From header is part of building a polite crawler, along with respecting Robots.txt and sending a unique User-Agent. The From header simply contains an email address that can be used by the site’s owner to reach out if your bot is creating any issues for them.
In the last post, we looked at some of Zig' weirder syntax. Specifically, this line of code: var gpa = std.heap.GeneralPurposeAllocator(.{}){}; While you'll commonly run into the above when looking at Zig code or going through Zig learning resources, some people pointed out that the code could be improved by doing: var gpa:...
I spent this past weekend at The Hackers Conference, “an annual invitation-only conference traditionally held in the San Francisco Bay Area.” I was invited by my sister, a computer engineer based in Santa Clara, CA, and I was too curious not to attend. Here’s my entry in the photo roster (photo taken at conference registration): […]
I seem to have uploading of images working. And even better I can paste them into my blog posts here. I am a happy camper. Only took three days. Hopefully I never have to do this again.
Abstract: Suppose we have a language involving non-denoting singular terms. (The language of everyday mathematics provides one example. Terms like \(\frac{n}{m}\) and \(\lim_{x\to\infty} f(x)\) do not denote, for appropriate choices of \(m\) and of \(f\).) It is not too difficult to define inference rules for an appropriately free logic that...
In no particular order: The parameters for FORMAT in DOS to prepare a 720 KiB double density floppy disk, instead of high density. When Funan Centre in Singapore was The IT Mall. How to answer a phone call that’s a fax. “Hello, Ruben speaking…” PSSSHHHHHHHHHH aaah hang up and press the button! How to recover a PC bitten by the Chernobyl virus,...
short sci-fi story about a speedrunner in a game that lets you play through a human lifetime in 25 minutes #
crate digging through YouTube for homegrown videos with generic default filenames as titles; see also: astronaut.io #
This is a story about hunting frogs, a surprising adventure that unfolded at Devcon 2024 in bustling Bangkok. Picture a lively Ethereum conference, buzzing with innovative energy and filled with passionate people. Among this excitement, a simple frog-themed game became the gateway to understanding how movements begin and grow.The GameThe game...
I used to write weekly reviews. Nudged by Doing weeknotes, I want to get back to doing them. I'm still figuring out how I'd like to put these notes together as part of a weekly review process picking up some stuff from my blog posts, toots, Org inbox, and journal entries. That way, I can revisit fleeting notes and flesh them out a little more,...
Jan Miksovsky has an absolutely tremendous article about how he cobbled together some disparate pieces of hardware and software in order to help improve the quality of life of his mother who has amnesia. Everything about this article illustrates what got me into making websites. Everything about this article is what fuels my curiosity and...
the love song may not be dying, but it's changing #
AMA - Morning Person or Evening Person? I am definitely a morning person. I don't always relish another work day, but I love the early hours of the day.
Big fan of and checking in but what I don’t like is having to add extra elements to present a nice look and feel for them. Dealing with the disclosed content also requires extra elements if you want to apply a layout, for example. It looks like that is changing though! I’m especially looking forward to giving the new ::details-content...
Recipe week day three is a cheesy chicken and bacon pasta that I tried for the first time last week and it was banging. You should try it.
This tutorial exists because of a particular quirk of mine: I love to write tutorials about things as I learn them. This is the backstory of TRPL, of which an ancient draft was "Rust for Rubyists." You only get to look at a problem as a beginner once, and so I think writing this stuff down is interesting. It also helps me clarify what I'm...
Ollama: Llama 3.2 Vision Ollama released version 0.4 last week with support for Meta's first Llama vision model, Llama 3.2. If you have Ollama installed you can fetch the 11B model (7.9 GB) like this: ollama pull llama3.2-vision Or the larger 90B model (55GB) like this: ollama pull llama3.2-vision:90b I was delighted to learn that Sukhbinder...
django-plugin-django-debug-toolbar Tom Viner built a plugin for my DJP Django plugin system that configures the excellent django-debug-toolbar debugging tool. You can see everything it sets up for you in this Python code: it configures installed apps, URL patterns and middleware and sets the INTERNAL_IPS and DEBUG settings. Here are Tom's running...
7 y/o just asked me if 0 - 0 = -0 and I am absolutely delighted by this question
Hacker News doesn’t send Webmentions when a post is created like Lobste.rs will, and there’s not currently a service on sites like Brid.gy that will provide them for you. Even the Hacker News API doesn’t provide search or filtering by site. Luckily, there is a service provided by Algolia that ...
I have spent a lot of time thinking about how to organise content on my website. I want you, my readers, to be able to learn about the different types of content to write – from poetry to technical blog posts to stories – and find the posts that may be most interesting to you. There are several ways in which I organise my content: My homepage...
Yesterday, Lettini took a chance and posted about Jelly on Hacker News, a discussion site notorious for it's mercurial population of tech-maybe-too-saavy experts. Jelly is a tough sell for some of them, those with the technical skill to pipe email at a low level through custom-built filters running on their own cloud servers. I'm not going to lie...
In April of this year, I sold TinyPilot, the bootstrapped hardware company I founded and ran for four years. I wrote a post in May that told the story of the sale, but I’d like to share more about the practical lessons I learned from the experience. In this post, I’m sharing what went well, what I want to improve in the future, and what surprised...
FYI We have news! We're in the home straight, finishing up Complete CSS and with that, we have a launch date: November 26 at 12pm GMT. Sign up to get updates and we'll email you as soon as it is live. We've been working on Complete CSS since February 2024. The aim of the game for me was to pull together all of the stuff I've been talking about...
Ars Live: Our first encounter with manipulative AI I'm participating in a live conversation with Benj Edwards on 19th November reminiscing over that incredible time back in February last year when Bing went feral. Via @benjedwards Tags: bing, generative-ai, arstechnica, ai, speaking, llms, benj-edwards
The world isn’t static, and you never know when your needs are going to change. When they do, the software you use to live your life should adapt to you, not the other way around.
There's a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba's Qwen research team. On first impression it looks like the buzz is well deserved. Qwen claim: Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct has become the current SOTA open-source code model, matching the coding capabilities of GPT-4o....
Dan Moren: M4 Mac Mini Review: Phenomenal Cosmic Power, Itty-Bitty Form FactorWhen it comes to desktop Macs, it’s quite possibly the best one Apple offers.This is an amazing metric and does seem to check out. The Mac Studio and Mac Pro specced out with M2 Ultra
Quick reference: in a new scratch buffer, Quick reference: in a new scratch buffer, In[1]:In[1]: ((with-current-bufferwith-current-buffer (current-buffer) (make-comint-in-buffer (current-buffer) (make-comint-in-buffer "perl""perl" (current-buffer) (current-buffer) "perl""perl" nil nil "-de""-de" "0""0")) )) That’s it! That’s it! Some Some cliclis are not built on readline, and they are a pain to use. There’s no support for editing the input, and every keypress inserts characters –...s are not built on readline, and they are a pain to use. There’s no support for editing the input, and every keypress inserts characters –...
Since the beginning of September, I've been searching for a job after being laid off from my previous role at the end of June.… Continue reading → The post Looking for a job is tough appeared first on Sergey Kaplich.
I haven’t been blogging for the past ~eight months, because I was quite busy finishing my PhD thesis. I have finally submitted it by the end of August, and as of today, I have also succesfully defended it, which marks the end of my six (!) years1 long PhD study in the area of High-Performance Computing and Computer Science. My PhD study...
M4 Mac mini's efficiency is incredible I had to pause some of my work getting a current-gen AMD graphics card running on the Pi 5 and testing a 192-core AmpereOne server to quickly post on the M4's efficiency. I expected M4 to be better than M1/M2 (I haven't personally tested M3), and I hoped it would at least match the previous...
I loved reading syndicated comic strips when I was a kid. I had all the Garfield Fat Cat Three Pack volumes, and oodles of Far Side and FoxTrot. It was also so much fun as a kid seeing them adopt Xmas decorations at that time of year. And yet, I never really made the transition to web comics; Matchstick Cats from my friend Neil notwithstanding. I...
Here’s a simple calculation that I’ve done often enough that I’d like to save the result for my future reference and for the benefit of anyone searching on this. A linear combination of sines and cosines a sin(x) + b cos(x) can be written as a sine with a phase shift A sin(x + φ). […] The post Linear combination of sine and cosine as phase shift...
Logic for Programmers is now in Beta! v0.5 marks the official end of alpha! With the new version, all of the content I wanted to put in the book is now present, and all that's left is copyediting, proofreading, and formatting. Which will probably take as long as it took to actually write the book. You can see the release notes on the leanpub...
You can skip this entire article and just click here, if I’m totally honest. If you would like to know, slightly more, keep reading… Micro.Blog has come up on my radar a lot over the last few years, mostly by...
there is only one hard problem in computer science: abstracting the entirety of CSS into HTML classes
I swear, I'm surrounded by people who want to watch me waste my time. I was telling the Purdue Linux Users Group about the wonders of RSS and how great it is, but my friend overheard the conversation and said, jokingly, "You should do Bad Apple, over RSS". I whined, complained, claimed it would be "too easy" and that "I need a harder project"....
For the record, Bluesky can be “worse” than Mastodon (in important ways that we care about) and still be a temporarily valuable place to get folks off of Twitter/X.
Please take what follows with a Titanic-sized grain of salt and do your best not to do what I did, but despite that, I thought this little hack was interesting and I figured I'd share it anyway. I typically use Reveal.js for my presentations, especially when talking about the web platform, as it makes it easy to do slides and demos, all in my...
Popular Rockchip SBC distro in limbo after maintainer burns out Recently Joshua Riek posted he's dropping off from GitHub. If you haven't heard of him, he's one of the few reasons working with Linux on Rockchip SBCs is so much easier today than it was just a few years ago. His Ubuntu Rockchip distribution is built for Ubuntu 22 and...
For years there has been a stinky cloud of web performance misinformation and propaganda coming from folks in the React community.So much so that apparently a 57 score on Lighthouse is “fast” (even with 1160ms of TBT and a 5.4s LCP).(There is *some* nuance here, of course—but we haven’t graduated to those discussions yet!)If you too want to...
Have you heard about the iPhone 16 camera fault that's a massive issue and makes upwards of half of iPhone 16s technically defective? If you said yes, you're probably watching Shayne Mostyn's YouTube channel, which has been dedicated almost entirely to this "controversy&
2024-11-11-07 Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything - BJ Fogg, PhD - 2020 #visual-book-notes #book #habits #productivity Text from sketch Tiny Habits - BJ Fogg, PhD (2020) - Notes by Sacha Chua 2024-11-11-07 Help people do what they already want to do Help people feel successful. Motivation + Ability +...
Suppose you want to write a shell script searches the current directory for files that have a keyword in the name of the file or in its contents. Here’s a first attempt. find . -name '*.py' -type f -print0 | grep -i "$1" find . -name '*.py' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -il […] The post Resolving a mysterious problem with find first appeared on...
Web excursions brought to you in partnership with CleanMyMac X, all the tools to speed up your Mac, in one app. mighty_docs – AI-Powered Developer Documentation Assistance Get accurate answers from the latest dev docs, customized for your tech stack, locally on your computer. This looks great for web developers,...
I've been generating a lot of web apps recently. It's been exhilarating to be able to launch projects (albeit on the small side) that I've always wanted to see be created finally be willed into existence. Last week on the train back from London I embarked on my largest project yet, https://tldr.express. I've been amazed by Agents like...
FauxRPCFauxRPC, a tool for generating fake gRPC servers, now integrates with , a tool for generating fake gRPC servers, now integrates with protovalidateprotovalidate, which lets you define validation rules in your Protobuf definitions. Now every request processed by FauxRPC will be automatically validated against your protovalidate rules. Not only will you get high quality data validation in your application, but now you can have..., which lets you define validation rules in your Protobuf definitions. Now every request processed by FauxRPC will be automatically validated against your protovalidate rules. Not only will you get high quality data validation in your application, but now you can have...
Day two of recipe week is this recipe for candied jalopenos that I like to make a batch of at the start of the summer for pizzas on my Ooni.