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What I mean when I say that machine learning in Elixir is production-ready

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MAY 9, 2024

My ElixirConf EU 2024 keynote &quot;Ship it! A roadmap for putting Nx into production&quot; is up on youtube. I'm hoping it will help folks gain the confidence to go o.

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An Unusual Furniture Design Niche: Behind-the-Sofa Consoles

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MAY 8, 2024

Michigan-based builder Mitten State Woodworks specializes in them, offering depths as narrow as 3&quot;, and as wide as 11&quot; The other dimensions are up to you and the size of your sofa. Here's an unusual furniture niche: Powered behind-the-sofa consoles. A built-in outlet provides two standard plugs

X becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods internet

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The internet is filling up with machine-generated &quot;zombie content&quot; designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the &quot;great AI flood&quot;

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My Journey into Personal Computer Software Development in 1983

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APRIL 20, 2024

In 1983, Personal Computers were quite the up and coming thing. Though they were mostly considered toys by many East Coast programmers (more expensive &quot;workstations&quot; were the rage), there had already been some interesting and promising applications developed for it. You could buy your own for a few thousand dollars.

Facebook bans ads for Votes for Women boardgame, claims "sensitive social issue"

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Votes for Women, the critically acclaimed card-driven wargame from designer Tory Brown, stands to miss out on up to $60,000 of backing for its second print run after Facebook repeatedly banned ads for the game due to it featuring a &quot;sensitive social issue&quot;

Let it snow()

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DECEMBER 25, 2023

Let it snow() The code could definitely be golfed… function snow(io = stdout) h, w = displaysize(io) iob = IOBuffer() ioc = IOContext(IOContext(iob, io), :displaysize=>(h,w)) print(io, repeat(&quot;n&quot;, h), &quot;e[&quot;, h, &quot;Ae[1G&quot;) # new lines and move back up air = ones(Int, w, h) flakes = [&quot; &quot;, &quot;*&quot;, &quot;❄︎&quot;, (..)

'Sunspot archipelago' 15 times wider than Earth could soon bombard us

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NOVEMBER 23, 2023

A massive sunspot region made up of at least six different sunspot groups has emerged on the sun's nearside. The &quot;archipelago&quot; of dark patches is spitting out solar storms at an alarming rate and Earth will soon be in the firing line.

Embedded Swift on the Raspberry Pi Pico

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MARCH 5, 2024

This is sort of a follow-up on Embedded Swift running on the Raspberry Pi Pico, but with a different take. I managed to create a very small Embedded Swift &quot;toolchain&quot; for building pure Swift executables for the Raspberry Pi Pico (it might also work with other RP2040 boards, but I'm only testing on the Pico).

Winklevoss twins' crypto firm Gemini sued over $689M in customer withdrawals

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Genesis alleged up to 230,000 users in the two companies' &quot;Earn&quot; investing program withdrew more than half of billion dollars from the crypto lending platform in the 90 days before it filed for bankruptcy in January.

Debian's /tmpest in a teapot

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JUNE 4, 2024

A mere 12 years later, the project will be switching to a RAM-based /tmp in the Debian 13 (&quot;Trixie&quot;) release. Additionally, starting with Trixie, the default will be to periodically clean up temporary files automatically in /tmp and /var/tmp. Debian systems have continued to store temporary files on disk by default.

Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm

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MARCH 17, 2024

Searching Google Scholar for &quot;certainly, here is&quot; turns up a huge number of academic papers that include parts that were evidently written by ChatGPT - sections that start with &quot;Certainly, …

Don't Say Velcro (2017)

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Our legal team decided to clear a few things up about using the VELCRO® trademark correctly. Don't say &quot;Velcro&quot;, say VELCRO® Brand.

Large Libel Models: ChatGPT-4 Erroneously Reporting Supposed Felony Pleas, Complete with Made-Up Media Quotes?

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MARCH 17, 2023

Some law professor colleagues and I are writing about whether Large Language Model creators (e.g., OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT-4) could be sued …

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You shouldn't run NSA-grade Wi-Fi at home. Here's how to do it

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JANUARY 4, 2024

For our 2023 holiday project, we're setting up an WPA3 Enterprise certificate-authenticated Wi-Fi network at home! And when your family from out of town asks to &quot;jump on the Wi-Fi real quick,&quot; you'll learn why this type of network is such a hassle to manage.

SNOMED CT Entity Linking Challenge - Benchmark

DrivenData Labs

JANUARY 22, 2024

We also provide an option to use LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models) to reduce resources required for training and to speed up CER model training. read_csv ( &quot;data/training_notes.csv&quot; ). set_index ( &quot;note_id&quot; ) print ( f &quot; { notes_df. "; ) 204 notes loaded.

The New York Times Launches a Strong Case Against Microsoft and OpenAI

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JANUARY 7, 2024

It seems that The New York Times Company (&quot;The Times&quot;) got fed up with the pace of its negotiations with Microsoft and OpenAI over their use of The Times' content for training and running their LLMs.

The Basics of Python Packaging in Early 2023

DrivenData Labs

MARCH 8, 2023

Most of this post will not be about those topics, but they will turn up later when we discuss popular tools that handle packaging and these other things. To do this, include a section (called "table" in TOML vocabulary) in your pyproject.toml that looks like this: [build-system] requires = [&quot;flit_core >=3.2, =61).

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Artificial intelligence skills can increase salaries by as much as 40%, study suggests

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Workers with artificial intelligence skills are &quot;particularly valuable,&quot; and command salaries 21% higher than average, but potentially up to 40% higher—in part because these skills can be combined with other valuable skills—according to a study from researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, and the Center for Social Data Science, University (..)

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Telecom Industry Is Mad Because the FCC Might Examine High Broadband Prices

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

We've long noted how the FCC (regardless of party) largely ignores how muted competition and monopolization drives up prices for consumers.

"Real" anonymous functions for Python

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MARCH 28, 2024

There are a number of different language-enhancement ideas that crop up with some regularity in the Python community; many of them have been debated and shot down multiple times over the years.

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Why the Eddie Murphy Rule Is About More Than Orange Juice (2019)

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Because of a wonderful orange juice scam in &quot;Trading Places,&quot; the Eddie Murphy Rule wound up in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulation act.

"Let them eat cereal" How "greedflation" fueled consumer ire against Kellogg

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MARCH 10, 2024

“There’s no reason for you to jack up your prices the way you did, except to screw us&quot;

Crash-only software: More than meets the eye

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APRIL 30, 2024

Next time your Linux laptop crashes, pull out your watch (or your cell phone) and time how long it takes to boot up. More than likely, you're running a journaling file system, and not only did your system boot up quickly, but it didn't lose any data that you cared about.

Deep Dive into the Vision Transformers Paper (ViT)

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

we host a paper club called &quot;Arxiv Dives&quot; to make us smarter Oxen ? ?. We believe diving into the details of research papers is the best way to build fundamental knowledge and keep up with the bleeding edge. Every Friday at Oxen.ai If you would like to join the discussion

First observation of a virus attaching to another virus

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

";I can’t believe this,” Tagide deCarvalho remembers thinking when she first saw it under the microscope. The work opens up the possibility of finding more examples of this kind of interaction.

NASA Pose Bowl - Benchmark

DrivenData Labs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You will also need to set up your environment. parent DATA_DIRECTORY = PROJ_DIRECTORY / &quot;data&quot; DEV_DIRECTORY = PROJ_DIRECTORY / &quot;data_dev&quot; IMAGES_DIRECTORY = DEV_DIRECTORY / &quot;images&quot; Let's take a look at two of the metadata files. png&quot; ). to_series ().

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I Broke IKEA

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

. * If it's spam, I press ### (the # key by itself normally opens my PBX menu, so it doesn't go through) and hang up immediately. "; and I had no idea who it was, immediately thought it was spam, and did the ### gesture. "; > [extremely rapid DTMF spam string] > &quot;Your delivery is scheduled for Tuesday. >

Microdot: A Web Framework for Microcontrollers

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

There are many different Python web frameworks, from nano-frameworks all the way up to the full-stack variety. Beyond that, it is Flask-inspired, which should make it reasonably familiar to many potential web developers.

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Ask vs. Guess Culture

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AUGUST 18, 2023

When unreasonable requests are followed up with &quot;but you could have just said no!" "; Exploring the clashes of ask culture and guess culture, at home and at work.

So let’s talk about this Wayland thing

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

It comes up a lot: &quot;Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session." "; &quot;The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y."

How to Make a Synthetic Diamond

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

How to Make a Synthetic Diamond: My 10-year Wedding Anniversary is coming up so I thought I'd make my wife something special. A few months back I'd seen a show on TV where they demonstrated how companies were now making &quot;cultured&quot; diamonds in the lab. There are a few different meth…

The many faces of fsck

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DECEMBER 16, 2023

Is there a new xkcd up yet?" "; As different as all these meanings are, every one of them (except the last) has been implemented by a program referred to as fsck. The question, &quot;Does this file system require fsck?" "; to &quot;Can this file system recover from any disk corruption event while still mounted?"

Checking in on troubles with dark matter

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AUGUST 5, 2023

It is common to come across statements like &quot;There is overwhelming astrophysical and cosmological evidence that most of the matter in our Universe is dark matter." "; This is a gross oversimplification. I never considered…

Insights into designing advanced stimuli-responsive porous materials

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JULY 21, 2023

The &quot;nothing&quot; (empty space) feature of porous soft materials is foundational to their properties and applications, and has been a focus of study for many years.

NP-hard does not mean hard (2017)

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AUGUST 16, 2023

When NP-hardness pops up on the internet, say because some silly blogger wants to write about video games, it's often tempting to conclude that the problem being proved NP-hard is actually very hard! ";Scientists proved Super Mario is NP-hard? "; Sorry, these two…

Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Many AI &quot;safety&quot; organizations or people have in the past advocated bans that would have criminalized the open-sourcing of models currently extant as of now, January 2024. "; 2: Center for AI Policy The Center for AI Policy -- different from the Center for AI Safety! -- is a DC-based lobbying organization.

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-Werror Is not your friend (2017)

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

22 May 2017 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 8 September 2023I want to make a few points up front to short-circuit common misunderstandings with this article: I have a zero warning policy on my projects. I supplement … Continue reading &quot;-Werror is Not Your Friend&quot; I turn on a lot of warnings.

Reasons Not to Be a Manager (2019)

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JULY 30, 2023

We split up into small discussion groups and talked about things related to managing teams and being a senior individual contributor (IC), and going back and forth throughout your career. One interesting question that came up repeatedly was: &quot;what are some reasons that…

How to Predict Harmful Algal Blooms Using LightGBM and Satellite Imagery

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

resolve () / &quot;data/final/public&quot; assert DATA_DIR. read_csv ( DATA_DIR / &quot;metadata.csv&quot; ) metadata. get_path ( &quot;naturalearth_lowres&quot; )) In [7]: fig , ax = plt. name == &quot;United States of America&quot; ]. name == &quot;United States of America&quot; ].

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On Craft

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

My grandpa -- my Missouri grandpa, who played slide guitar to me when I got homesick on the rare occasions I stayed with them -- grew up on a farm without electricity. He loved that I played harp, which he always called &quot;elegant,&quot; in an extremely Missouri accent, an accent that hugged every syllable.

Dentsu 'd.scribes' New And Improved AI Tool

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Dubbed d.scriptor, Dentsu says the new tool, &quot;allows us to use AI to speed up processes and scale output while maintaining the critical human element. It's yet another example of our purpose-built performance toolkit, filling a void in the marketplace."

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Abstractions, repetition and discovery (2015)

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Hands up if you've been in this situation; you are building out a handful of new features that happen to share certain facets. You sit back and think to yourself - &quot;these are really all variations on the same theme. "; Stop right there. The first one is straightforward - you add a view, a controller and so on.

Battery-electric “Infinity Train” will charge itself using gravity (2022)

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JULY 31, 2023

Australian mining company Fortescue is working to clean up its own operations by 2030, while developing green solutions it can sell to others. Today, the two companies announced their first project together: an electric &quot;infinity train&quot; designed to move loads of iron ore without ever needing to be charged.

How to write unit tests in C++ relying on non-code files?

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To sum up the problem, the HtmlTextConverter class takes a filename, reads the file into memory and converts its content into a not-very-sophisticated HTML text. append(&quot;simplefile.txt&quot;); HtmlTextConverter converter { filePath }; ASSERT_EQ(expectedOutput, converter.convertToHtml()); } It still didn’t work, the output was empty.

What I mean when I say that machine learning in Elixir is production-ready

An Unusual Furniture Design Niche: Behind-the-Sofa Consoles

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X becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods internet

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My Journey into Personal Computer Software Development in 1983

Facebook bans ads for Votes for Women boardgame, claims "sensitive social issue"

Let it snow()

'Sunspot archipelago' 15 times wider than Earth could soon bombard us

Embedded Swift on the Raspberry Pi Pico

Winklevoss twins' crypto firm Gemini sued over $689M in customer withdrawals

Debian's /tmpest in a teapot

Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm

Don't Say Velcro (2017)

Large Libel Models: ChatGPT-4 Erroneously Reporting Supposed Felony Pleas, Complete with Made-Up Media Quotes?

You shouldn't run NSA-grade Wi-Fi at home. Here's how to do it

SNOMED CT Entity Linking Challenge - Benchmark

The New York Times Launches a Strong Case Against Microsoft and OpenAI

The Basics of Python Packaging in Early 2023

Artificial intelligence skills can increase salaries by as much as 40%, study suggests

Telecom Industry Is Mad Because the FCC Might Examine High Broadband Prices

"Real" anonymous functions for Python

Why the Eddie Murphy Rule Is About More Than Orange Juice (2019)

"Let them eat cereal" How "greedflation" fueled consumer ire against Kellogg

Crash-only software: More than meets the eye

Deep Dive into the Vision Transformers Paper (ViT)

First observation of a virus attaching to another virus

NASA Pose Bowl - Benchmark

I Broke IKEA

Microdot: A Web Framework for Microcontrollers

Ask vs. Guess Culture

So let’s talk about this Wayland thing

How to Make a Synthetic Diamond

The many faces of fsck

Checking in on troubles with dark matter

Insights into designing advanced stimuli-responsive porous materials

NP-hard does not mean hard (2017)

Many AI safety orgs have tried to criminalize currently-existing open-source AI

-Werror Is not your friend (2017)

Reasons Not to Be a Manager (2019)

How to Predict Harmful Algal Blooms Using LightGBM and Satellite Imagery

On Craft

Dentsu 'd.scribes' New And Improved AI Tool

Abstractions, repetition and discovery (2015)

Battery-electric “Infinity Train” will charge itself using gravity (2022)

How to write unit tests in C++ relying on non-code files?

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