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Once a popular spectator sport in the United States, jai alai is now a dying sport. The Miami Jai Alai fronton, once bustling with lively crowds, now sits empty as more people choose to gamble in the freshly renovated casino. Leon Shepard, the only American-born player left on the Miami Jai Alai roster, reminisces about […]
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In this paper, the authors examine the performance and behavior of two popular language models, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, on various tasks. They found that these models can exhibit significant variations in their performance over time. For instance, GPT-4 showed high accuracy in identifying prime numbers in March 2023 but performed poorly in the same task […]
The big news today is Meta AI’s release of Llama 2, an openly licensed Large Language Model. Llama 2 is available for free for both research and commercial use, making it a significant development in the world of open source LLMs. Previously, Facebook’s LLaMA model had restrictions on commercial purposes, but Llama 2 removes that […]
Enigma Simulators are available online for those interested in decoding the Enigma code machine. No download is necessary, simply access the web-based simulator by clicking on the provided link. Certificates are up for grabs for those who can successfully decode the Enigma message. There are various categories that you can aim for, including being the […]
Lazydocker is a simple terminal UI for Docker and Docker Compose, written in Go with the gocui library. The author addresses the common frustrations that arise when working with Docker, such as restarting buggy microservices and managing cluttered log streams. Lazydocker aims to make the process easier by providing all the necessary information in one […]
Val is a programming language that focuses on mutable value semantics and generic programming for high-level systems programming. It aims to be fast by compiling ahead-of-time to machine code and using its type system to support in-place mutation. Val prioritizes safety by default, ensuring that ordinary code is memory safe, typesafe, and data-race-free. It borrows […]
Welcome to the Healthsearch Demo, an open-source project that showcases how user-written reviews and queries can be used to retrieve supplement products based on specific health effects. The search functionality in this demo accepts natural language queries and translates them into GraphQL queries using Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT4. These GraphQL queries are then […]
Minegrub is a Grub theme designed in the style of Minecraft. To install, check if you have a /boot/grub2 folder, and adjust file paths accordingly. Clone the repository and copy the folder to your boot partition. Change/add the line in /etc/default/grub to point to the Minegrub theme. Update the live grub config by running a […]
In this paper, the authors propose a theory to explain the divergent behavior observed in the training of large language models. They attribute this phenomenon to the Adam optimization algorithm, which can reach a state where the parameter update vector has a large norm and is uncorrelated with the direction of descent on the training […]
Ten years ago, the author wrote a piece called “Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh” that generated a lot of discussion and feedback. Now, as a professional programmer, they reflect on what they got right, what has changed, what they missed, and what they got wrong about Go. They still agree with most […]