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A few months ago, I challenged myself to write a C compiler in just 500 lines of Python. The task turned out to be quite difficult but interesting, and the resulting compiler is surprisingly functional and easy to understand. Most compilers use a two-pass approach, where the code is first parsed into a syntax tree, […]
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Ten years ago, Gabriel Anzziani announced his plans to create an oscilloscope watch on Kickstarter. The project gained popularity initially, but then seemed to disappear for a decade. However, to the surprise of early backers, they recently received the long-awaited oscilloscope watch in the mail. Anzziani updated the project page on July 30th, informing backers […]
In this web content, the author shares a bizarre experience they had with Comcast@home. They receive a letter summoning them to appear in court as a defendant in a cable fraud case. The author explains that they had signed up for Comcast@home cable modem service but had not signed up for cable TV service. The […]
ZFS is a local filesystem and logical volume manager that was created by Sun Microsystems and is now used on most Unix-like systems today. It consists of vdevs, pools, datasets, and volumes. Vdevs are composed of one or more physical drives and can be combined in mirrors or RAIDZs. Pools are composed of vdevs and […]
The Museum of Classic Chicago Television owes its existence to Sony’s win in the Betamax case. The museum’s president, Rick Klein, and his team began collecting analog commercials and TV clips in 2007 and transitioned to an online presence on YouTube. However, their channel is now at risk of being terminated due to copyright claims […]
The TinyLlama project is focused on pretraining a 1.1B Llama model on 3 trillion tokens. The goal is to complete this training within 90 days using 16 A100-40G GPUs. The project adopted the same architecture and tokenizer as Llama 2, making it compatible with many open-source projects built upon Llama. TinyLlama has 1.1B parameters, making […]
In 1965, J.D. Salinger decided to stop publishing his works and live a reclusive lifestyle in New Hampshire. This decision was met with disappointment from his readers who longed for more of his words. Many attempts were made to draw Salinger out of his seclusion, resulting in legal battles and controversies over copyright infringement and […]
Data compression plays a crucial role in today’s digital world, allowing for efficient storage and transmission of information. Traditional compression algorithms focus on reducing redundancies in data sequences, resulting in smaller file sizes but some loss of information. However, neural compression techniques, which use neural networks to represent and compress data, are emerging as a […]
LLM Finetuning Hub is a platform that provides code and insights for finetuning large language models (LLMs) to suit different use cases. The Evaluation Framework consists of four pillars that help evaluate LLMs holistically. The platform offers ready-to-use scripts for tasks such as finetuning LLMs on proprietary datasets, hyperparameter optimization, and more. The process of […]
Introducing Refact LLM, a code model with real-time code completion and chat capabilities. This model, with 1.6 billion parameters, achieves top performance among code LLMs and surpasses other code models like StableCode and CodeGen on the HumanEval metric. It is also 10 times smaller in size compared to similar models like StarCoder. Refact LLM was […]