Fine-tuning is a crucial paradigm for adapting pre-trained large language models to downstream tasks. Recently, methods like Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) have been shown to effectively fine-tune...

By Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni, co-authors A MIND AT PLAY: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age  “Do you mind if I hang you upside down by your legs?” From any other professor, this…

This is a blog post for my presentation at the conference POC2024. The slides are uploaded here.

Online roguelike with sci fi & space themes.

In 2022, three companies with strange names and no clear business purpose beyond  patent litigation filed dozens of lawsuits in Delaware federal court, accusing businesses of all sizes of pate…

Is the SSD soldered? - Mac mini (2024)

Nature - The collective-flow-assisted nuclear shape-imaging method images the nuclear global shape by colliding them at ultrarelativistic speeds and analysing the collective response of outgoing...

 An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language, Featuring Ideas from Lambda Calculus

Earlier this year was a Fedora change proposal seeking to make KDE Plasma the default over GNOME for Fedora 42

As a person in tech, I see that there is a lot of emphasis on scalability, speed, the next shiny doll that everyone wants to…

Learn how to protect privacy in datasets using k-anonymity and l-diversity.

Early in the internet era, he was also behind other AOL messages, including “Welcome!” “They said my voice was heard more than 35 million times a day,” he once said.

Law enforcement officials in Detroit, Michigan are warning other police officers about an alleged iPhone change that causes Apple devices stored for...

intentrace is strace with intent, it goes all the way for you instead of half the way. intentrace is currently in beta - sectordistrict/intentrace

Netflix launched its interactive content efforts in 2017.

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Journal of Economic Growth - We have constructed a comprehensive database that traces the publications of father–son pairs in the premodern academic realm and examined the contribution of...