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Io_uring, introduced in kernel 5.1, is a system for providing the kernel with a schedule of system calls and receiving the results as they’re generated. It combines asynchronous I/O, system call polybatching, and flexible buffer management, and is the most significant development in the Linux I/O model since Berkeley sockets. uring allows you to specify […]
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Psychic is an open source integration platform designed for startups that use LLMs and vector databases. It allows you to extract and transform unstructured data from various SaaS applications into a consistent schema. Instead of building one integration for each data source, you can build one integration that works for all data sources, and manage […]
The MMS project has developed a single multilingual speech recognition model supporting over 1,100 languages, as well as language identification models able to identify over 4,000 languages and text-to-speech models for over 1,100 languages. These tools aim to make it easier for people to access information and use devices in their preferred language. The project […]
Memory allocation is the process by which programs allocate space to their various tasks. This post details the basics of memory allocation and how to write your own allocator. The article explains how programs request and return memory using the malloc and free functions. Memory is represented as a sequence of bytes, and the simplest […]
Despite bees having a dance, known as the waggle dance, to indicate where food is, a significant portion of bees in a hive do not follow it and venture out alone. The actions of these rogue bees were found to be essential to the longevity of the hive because they would stumble upon new food […]
LWN has finally swapped its proprietary accounting system, QuickBooks, for the free open-source accounting system, GnuCash. After five years of searching for a better system, they discovered that many of the available complex systems were “unwieldy”, and those based on plain-text files lacked “useful features”. Importing and exporting data was paramount in their choice of […]
Are you experiencing intermittent cable modem internet connectivity issues? The root cause of many issues could be bad/loose cable/connector issues, which is something you can solve yourself. The first step is to confirm that the cable modem is having a problem, and one way to do this is to use the cable modem diagnostics webpage. […]
Foundation is a package that aims to provide a base layer of functionality useful in Swift applications. It includes fundamental types for numbers, data, collections, and dates, as well as functions for task management, file system access, and more. The package is a work in progress that aims to build a new and unified Swift […]
This web content provides information about the subreddit LLaMA and its rules. Posts must be directly related to LLaMA or LLMs, and low effort posts are discouraged. The community is open to collaborative resource sharing, but self-promotion should be limited to 10% of content and links must be directly to the source. Users are expected […]
privateGPT offers the ability to ask document-related questions without an internet connection. This system is built using LangChain, GPT4All, LlamaCpp, Chroma, and SentenceTransformers. To use privateGPT, users must install all required packages, download the LLM model, and reference it appropriately. The software supports various file extensions and allows users to ingest their own datasets. Additionally, […]