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The authors introduce Mistral 7B v0.1, a language model with 7 billion parameters that is designed for high performance and efficiency. Mistral 7B outperforms Llama 2 13B in all evaluated benchmarks and also surpasses Llama 1 34B in reasoning, mathematics, and code generation. The model incorporates grouped-query attention (GQA) for faster inference and sliding window […]
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The Kenya Nut Company, located near Nairobi, is set to become the first farm in the world to produce fossil fuel-free fertilizer on-site. U.S. startup Talus Renewables has built a small fertilizer plant that uses solar power to extract hydrogen from water. The hydrogen then combines with nitrogen in the air to create liquid ammonia, […]
Emacs, by default, has a habit of leaving backup files all over the place, which can be quite annoying. However, there are ways to address this issue. One solution involves creating separate directories for backups and autosaves. Another surprising default setting in Emacs is the way it handles backups. Instead of simply creating a copy […]
A new study from the University of Liverpool suggests that wandering albatrosses may use infrasound to navigate their long foraging trips. Infrasound is a type of low-frequency sound that is inaudible to humans but present in the marine environment. The researchers used GPS trackers to analyze the flight paths of 89 wandering albatrosses and compared […]
K3s is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution that is specifically designed for IoT and Edge computing. It is a certified Kubernetes distribution that can be easily installed with a simple curl command. K3s is perfect for edge environments and IoT appliances as it is highly available and can handle production workloads in resource-constrained locations. It is […]
The author presents a chart that lists words that are rejected as non-delimited table or column names by various SQL systems. The chart includes systems such as Apache Derby, BigQuery, Db2 (LUW), H2, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle DB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and SQLite. The author notes that some words that are actually reserved words in SQL […]
In a recent poll on the Lazarus/FPC forum, it was discovered that pascal coders tend to be older than most coders. Despite their age, these coders still enjoy coding in pascal and find it fun after decades of experience. However, this raises the question of whether pascal is outdated and should not be used for […]
The Curry-Howard correspondence is a profound discovery that links computer science and mathematical logic. It establishes a connection between mathematical proofs and computer programs, elevating programming to the level of mathematics. The correspondence was independently discovered by Haskell Curry and William Alvin Howard, who noticed the similarity between functions in mathematics and the implication relationship […]
In this article, the author discusses the dilemma of using licensed fonts for web projects without wanting to spend a significant amount of money. They explain that copyright law does not protect the individual glyphs of a font, but rather the font file itself. Type foundries protect their fonts by copyrighting the font files and […]
Governor Gavin Newsom has signed the California Right to Repair Act into law, marking a significant milestone in the Right to Repair movement. The legislation, championed by state senator Susan Talamantes Eggman and cosponsored by iFixit and other organizations, aims to give consumers the right to fix their own electronic devices. With access to original […]