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We are excited to announce that the Minecraft Wiki has officially moved from Fandom to minecraft.wiki. This move allows us to bring about several improvements to the wiki. Firstly, the new website design features a fresh look with a new skin and a dark mode option. Additionally, the site now loads faster thanks to our […]
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In response to a reader’s question about the use of “which” in a 1934 US Supreme Court opinion, the author explains that “which” is used as a relative adjective to avoid ambiguity. While this usage is not as common nowadays, it still appears occasionally. The Oxford English Dictionary defines “which” in this context as a […]
Netflix’s DVD subscription service, which began in 1998, is coming to an end. The DVD distribution plant in Anaheim, once processing 1.2 million DVDs a week, now has just six employees left. The DVD business played a crucial role in transforming the entire entertainment industry, leading to the decline of competitors like Blockbuster. With the […]
In this article, the author discusses how Elixir and Erlang achieve reliability in software development. They explain the concepts of supervisors and supervision trees, which help manage errors and failures in a system. The author also mentions the “Let it Crash” philosophy in Erlang, which suggests that if there is no meaningful fallback or mitigation […]
μMon is an author’s personal take on host monitoring, designed to be minimalist and opinionated. It is based on technologies such as RRDtool, SNMP, lightweight shell scripting, and a small FastCGI server written in C++. The author migrated from a more complex monitoring setup to μMon in order to reduce complexity and create a durable, […]
In this article, the authors discuss their findings from utilizing the OpenAI fine-tuning API. They focused on two use cases: reliable output formatting and custom tone. Through their experiments, they found that fine-tuning with approximately 100 data points resulted in significant improvements in these tasks. Additionally, they observed that fine-tuned GPT-3.5 models were faster than […]
The two-tower embedding model is a method used in model training to connect embeddings from different modalities in the same vector space. This model is often used in personalized recommendation systems, where items and user histories are the two modalities. To ensure the embeddings from different modalities can be mapped to the same space, they […]
In this web content, the author delves into the process of converting a string to an integer using different techniques. They start by discussing how to convert a string to an integer in C++ and the potential errors that may occur during the conversion process. The author then introduces AVX-512, a new instruction set available […]
In this article, the author questions the need for modules in programming. They propose a different approach where all functions have unique names and are stored in a global key-value database. The author believes that this eliminates the difficulty of deciding which module to put a function in and avoids breaking encapsulation. They also suggest […]
The ChatGPT Conversations to Markdown converter is a Python script that allows users to convert their entire ChatGPT history and data export into neatly formatted Markdown files. The script adds YAML headers and includes Code interpreter input/output. Users can clone the repository and download their conversations data in ZIP format from the ChatGPT platform. Running […]