We are introducing voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT, offering a more intuitive interface. Users can engage in voice conversations and show ChatGPT images to enhance their interactions. These features have various applications, such as having a live conversation about a landmark while traveling or analyzing images to troubleshoot a problem. Voice conversations can be […]
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Apache Open Office, a suite of office productivity software offered by The Apache Software Foundation, seems to be an un-maintained project despite its recent version release in 2014. The software’s history dates back to the creation of StarOffice in 1985, which was later open-sourced by Sun Microsystems resulting in the birth of OpenOffice.org. However, with […]
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 […]
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 […]