This article provides a short introduction to the pipeline used to create the data to train large language models (LLMs) such as LLaMA using Common Crawl (CC).

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On January 28, 2022, about an hour before dawn, the four-lane Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, collapsed without warning. Five vehicles, including an articulating bus,…

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The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence and the End of Anonymous…

Instead of treating quantum particles as shape-shifters, we should think in terms of probability distributions

Every 60 seconds the equivalent of a lorry-load of plastic enters the global ocean. Where it goes after that remains largely unknown. But a new ESA Discovery study reported in Nature Communications has proven the concept of monitoring floating plastic litter…

Slack's engineering team recently published how it used a large language model (LLM) to automatically convert 15,000 unit and integration tests from Enzyme to React Testing Library (RTL). By combining Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) transformations and AI-powered…

natural farmer,
natural winemaker,
creator of @kisslinux and more - dylanaraps

A year ago I walked out of the office for the last time. I handed in my corpo laptop, said some good-byes, and since then I have been my own boss.
This first year has been funded by an NLnet grant, which I’m in the midst of wrapping up. As of now, the work…

Link to: https://oatmealdome.me/blog/why-dolphin-isnt-coming-to-the-app-store/

Beyond velocity and acceleration: jerk, snap and higher derivatives, Eager, David, Pendrill, Ann-Marie, Reistad, Nina

The birth of the second calf, a female, has surprised even her own mum.

Helium leaks and thruster problems have prompted NASA and Boeing to delay the astronauts’ return on the company’s Starliner vehicle.

In 2023, rightsholders submitted 2.6 million complaints to French authorities against users suspected of pirating content on BitTorrent.

The history of every major galactic civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Wh…