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The Remote Lounge, a bar located in NYC’s Bowery District, was known for its innovative use of technology. The bar was filled with monitors and closed circuit television cameras, each equipped with a servo that allowed patrons to control them from various terminals throughout the bar. Patrons could cycle through different cameras until finding someone […]
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In this web content, the author discusses the story of Captain Ahab’s quest for the white whale in Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick.” The author questions whether it is plausible for a man to encounter the same whale multiple times, highlighting three instances where a whale was harpooned, escaped, and then encountered by the same whaler again. […]
Treemaps are a valuable tool for visualizing data in a space-filling manner. While commonly used for displaying files on a disk, they can be adapted to explore and navigate messy data blobs. Treemaps are flexible and can be used to visualize any tree-like data, such as JSON or edn. The size of each rectangle in […]
Llama 2 can be run locally on various devices, including M1/M2 Mac, Windows, Linux, and even smartphones. One advantage of running Llama 2 locally is that an internet connection is not required. There are already a few open-source tools available for running Llama 2 locally, such as Llama.cpp for Mac, Windows, and Linux, Ollama for […]
PRQL, or Pipelined Relational Query Language, is a modern language for data transformation that serves as a powerful replacement for SQL. It is designed to be readable, explicit, and declarative like SQL, but offers additional features such as logical pipelines, variables, and functions. PRQL can be used with any SQL-based database as it compiles to […]
In this web content, the author discusses their online experiences and how it has changed over the years. They express a desire to connect with open-minded people from all over the world rather than being surrounded by echo chambers and political correctness. The author mentions their sensitivity to censorship and their preference for one-on-one communication […]
Dear Timmy, I regret to inform you that due to the current economic conditions, our family has had to make some challenging decisions. Your mother and I have made sacrifices like reducing our expenses and making cutbacks. However, it has not been enough. As a result, we have decided to eliminate redundancies in our family, […]
Textual Paint is a text-based image editor inspired by MS Paint. It offers features such as open and save images, file dialogs, drag and drop functionality, warnings for overwriting existing files or closing unsaved changes, and auto-saving of backup files. It supports ANSI art and raster images and includes all the tools found in MS […]
The author criticizes the digital infrastructure in cars, claiming that it poses a threat to privacy and security. The car industry’s dependence on microchips is highlighted, with the recent chip shortages during the pandemic causing production delays. Desperate for chips, car companies even resorted to buying washing machines just to extract the microchips from them. […]
In this web content, the author discusses large language models (LLMs) and their significance in the field of AI. The author explains that LLMs, specifically Transformer models, have the ability to understand and generate sequences of text. They highlight the generalization capabilities of LLMs, as they can learn to perform different tasks with minimal examples. […]