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In this web content, Anita Zhang shares a playlist titled ‘asg2023’ which includes a 23-minute video. The content discusses the work of the Linux Userspace team at Meta and their goal of making significant contributions to upstream userspace projects. The team also focuses on ensuring that Meta is able to benefit from these improvements. The […]
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This web content is about the evaluation of LLMs (Language Model Machines) trained on PGN format chess games. Similar to the Othello World paper, this repository allows for the training, evaluation, and visualization of linear probes on LLMs that have been trained to play chess using PGN strings. The author provides examples of visualizations that […]
The NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation is a powerful GPU that offers exceptional performance for professionals in various fields. It is built on the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture and combines advanced RT Cores, Tensor Cores, and CUDA cores with 48GB of graphics memory. The RTX 5880 delivers industry-leading performance in single-precision calculations, ray-traced rendering, and […]
Pharus is a software that allows users to build a “liturgical lightbulb” that changes color according to the Calendar of the Anglican Church of Australia. This project came about when the author, a theological student training to become an Anglican priest, noticed the changing lighting in a cathedral and decided to bring that concept into […]
Libwebsockets is a versatile C library that provides client and server support for various protocols, including http/1, http/2, websockets, and MQTT. It offers a lightweight, scalable, and flexible solution, making it suitable for applications ranging from embedded RTOS to mass cloud serving. The library supports popular implementations such as JSON, CBOR, JOSE, and COSE, and […]
Our adorable segregation sim is an homage to the groundbreaking work of Nobel Prize-winning game theorist, Thomas Schelling, and his 1971 paper on Dynamic Models of Segregation. We took Schelling’s model and added a twist, demonstrating how a simple demand for diversity can actually lead to neighborhood desegregation. While Schelling’s model captures the essence of […]
The Rue de l’Avenir, or Street of the Future, was an electric moving walkway that was installed at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. This innovative attraction ran along the edge of the Exposition site and consisted of a fixed platform and two mobile platforms on a viaduct. Passengers could board at one of the […]
This tutorial introduces Angluin’s L-star algorithm with PAC learning for inferring input grammars of blackbox programs in Python. The algorithm allows us to learn the input specification of a blackbox program, where the program indicates if the input was accepted or not. The tutorial explains the concept of observation tables and how they can be […]
Viberary is a side project created by the author to find books based on “vibe”. The project uses a semantic search engine and a two-tower semantic retrieval model to encode user search queries and book corpus. The author explains the process of building Viberary, mentioning the challenges and decisions made along the way. The architecture […]
In the past, computers had blinking LED lights, noisy disks, and loud fans, which were considered “features” that helped developers identify performance issues. However, modern computers, like Macs, have become quieter and no longer have indicators, making it harder for developers to spot inefficiencies. The author gives examples of real-life situations where indicators would have […]