In collaboration with the US Geological Survey, Esri has updated their online USGS historical topographic map collection with over 1,745 new maps, now totaling over 181,000 unique maps. Corrected maps have been included based on user feedback. These maps date back to 1884 and can be used in various Esri applications. The Historical Topo Map […]

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minbpe offers a minimal, clean code solution for the byte-level Byte Pair Encoding algorithm used in LLM tokenization. The algorithm operates on UTF-8 encoded strings and is widely used in modern LLMs like GPT and Llama. The repository includes two tokenizers, BasicTokenizer, and RegexTokenizer, which preprocess text before tokenizing to avoid merges across category boundaries. […]

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In November 2019, the author delves into the 40th anniversary of Usenet’s conception, with a promise of an irregular blog post series instead of a proper paper. The series will cover topics such as the technological setting, hardware and economics, file format implementation, user experience, authentication and norms, public announcement, Usenet growth, B-news, the great […]

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OS-Copilot introduces a framework for creating generalist computer agents capable of interacting with various operating system elements. FRIDAY, a self-improving agent built using this framework, excels at automating general computer tasks and outperforms previous methods by 35% on a benchmark test. The FRIDAY agent operates with a high level of self-refinement and self-directed learning, allowing […]

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JSR is a new package registry introduced by the Deno team to address issues in the JavaScript ecosystem. It aims to innovate the package registry side, allowing flexibility in version dependencies with semver expressions. JSR supports TypeScript alongside JavaScript, ensuring efficient type checking and automatic document generation. It enforces limitations like dependencies only on JSR […]

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This code is a sample program that can act as a packet sink or a proxy. It can listen to packets or send them to a new destination. The examples provided show how to set it up as a proxy or a bi-directional proxy. The program uses multishot receive, DEFER_TASKRUN, and fixed files. It includes […]

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Ollama is now available on Windows in preview, offering the ability to use large language models with built-in GPU acceleration and access to the full model library. No virtualization is required, and vision models can be easily run by dragging and dropping images into the Ollama interface. The Ollama API runs automatically in the background, […]

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The output impedance of headphone sources plays a crucial role in sound quality and compatibility with headphones, often overlooked by manufacturers. Most headphones function optimally when the output impedance is less than 1/8th of the headphone impedance. Higher output impedance can lead to voltage drop issues, frequency response deviations, and compromised bass performance. The 1/8th […]

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In October 2023, a group of authors introduced Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency, focusing on “Representation Engineering” to interpret or control AI model behavior. Their work, published in May 2023, explored steering GPT-2-XL. The Responsible AI Safety and Interpretability researchers also considered utilizing control vectors for various scenarios, like making models power-seeking […]

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Jake Adelstein takes readers into the world of the yakuza in Japan, revealing a surprising level of admiration for these tattooed gangsters. Yakuza fan magazines glamorize their lifestyle, detailing their elaborate ceremonial events and apparent dedication to traditional values while glossing over their criminal activities. The magazines often feature interviews with yakuza bosses and explicit […]

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