Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany
I was browsing social media this morning, and I saw a claim I’ve seen go past a few times now – that there’s a maximum size for a PDF document: Some version of this has been floating around the Internet since 2007, probably earlier. This tweet is pretty emblematic of posts about this claim: it’s […]
MobileDiffusion: Rapid text-to-image generation on-device
Posted by Yang Zhao, Senior Software Engineer, and Tingbo Hou, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Core ML Text-to-image diffusion models have shown exceptional capabilities in generating high-quality images from text prompts. However, leading models feature billions of parameters and are consequently expensive to run, requiring powerful desktops or servers (e.g., Stable Diffusion, DALL·E, and Imagen). While […]
People Don’t Understand OOP
“OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things.” Alan Kay (the guy who coined the term “Object Oriented Programming”) It seems like a lot of people dislike Object Oriented Programming. The first things that come to mind when hearing these three letters are […]
DeepSeek Coder: Let the Code Write Itself
DeepSeek Coder comprises a series of code language models trained from scratch on both 87% code and 13% natural language in English and Chinese, with each model pre-trained on 2T tokens. We provide various sizes of the code model, ranging from 1B to 33B versions. Each model is pre-trained on repo-level code corpus by employing […]
Generating Fantasy Maps (2016)
These are some notes on how I generate the maps for my Twitter bot @unchartedatlas, which is based on a generator I originally produced during NaNoGenMo 2015. There’s JavaScript code for the generator on Github here, and the original messy Python generator code can be seen here. You may also be interested in this companion […]
The Burial of William the Conqueror: A Comedy of Errors
William the Conqueror is one of those historical figures who need no introduction. Thanks to his famous victory at Hastings in 1066, he dramatically changed England’s future. (Whether he changed it for good or ill is a topic for another time.) However, what this post is about is not William’s life, but his death. William […]
I Moved My Blog from IPFS to a Server
Written by Neiman on January 31, 2024 It’s safe to say I was a pioneer of IPFS + ENS websites. When I set up my first ENS+IPFS website in March 2019 there were no more than 15 others. Between 2019 to 2022 I co-built an IPFS+ENS browser extension (Almonit), an IPFS+ENS search engine (Esteroids), and of […]
Fighting Infomania: Why 80% of Your Reading Is a Waste of Time
I returned to college Junior Fall dissatisfied. I’d just finished a summer internship doing management consulting with a government contracting firm, and in the process, realized that working in a company wasn’t for me. The original plan had been to leverage it into a better internship somewhere else, and eventually a full-time offer, but with […]
Show HN: Some blind hackers are bridging IRC to LMMs running locally
#ollama-bot This is a rudimentary IRC bot that communicates with a local instance of ollama. #Installation You’ll need to have ollama installed in order to actually use the bot. Instructions for doing that are out of scope for this document. Then, build the bot from source: git clone ‘https://git.2mb.codes/~cmb/ollama-bot cd ollama-bot go build Put the […]
Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation
Note: As part of our Preparedness Framework, we are investing in the development of improved evaluation methods for AI-enabled safety risks. We believe that these efforts would benefit from broader input, and that methods-sharing could also be of value to the AI risk research community. To this end, we are presenting some of our early […]