Encoding tic-tac-toe in 15 bits
Feb 19th, 2024 I recently stumbled upon a blog post by Alejandra González (a.k.a @blyxyas) that seeks to compress a tic-tac-toe game state into as few bits as possible. She arrived at a solution in 18 bits. This got me thinking, can we do better? As Alejandra points out, there are 765 possible game states. […]
Show HN: NotesOllama – I added local LLM support to Apple Notes (through Ollama)
Use Ollama to talk to local LLMs in Apple Notes. Inspired by Obsidian Ollama. Why should Obsidian have all the nice plugins? Download for macOS Requirements: Installed Ollama on macOS 13+ (Intel/M Chip)
Graphic Presentation (1939)
Reviewer: rohit1409 – favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite – September 26, 2015 Subject: Graphic Genius !!! Just imagine.. what we are being proud of presenting today was already evolved long before computer age.. A must have reference book for any Data or Presentation person.
Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn’t (2011)
Updated (2014-10-24): If you find this article interesting, you may be interested in the follow-up article on an editor for composed programs. Parsing is the act of taking a stream of characters and deducing if and how they conform to an underlying grammar. For example the sentence Bill hits Ben conforms to the part of […]
Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up
After months of resisting, Air Canada was forced to give a partial refund to a grieving passenger who was misled by an airline chatbot inaccurately explaining the airline’s bereavement travel policy. On the day Jake Moffatt’s grandmother died, Moffat immediately visited Air Canada’s website to book a flight from Vancouver to Toronto. Unsure of how […]
The Ruby on Rails Podcast Episode 508: YJIT with Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert
Simple Sharing Page A clean, simple landing page with an embedded HTML5 audio player (and audio cards for Twitter and Facebook). Embeddable Audio Player Paste this code to embed an HTML5 audio player with controls. Download URL Useful if you want to create a direct download link, embed in your own player, post from another […]
RFC 9512: YAML Media Type
1.1. Notational Conventions The key words “MUST“, “MUST NOT“, “REQUIRED“, “SHALL“, “SHALL NOT“, “SHOULD“, “SHOULD NOT“, “RECOMMENDED“, “NOT RECOMMENDED“, “MAY“, and “OPTIONAL” in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.¶ The terms “content negotiation” and “resource” in this […]
Remix Vite Is Now Stable
Today we’re excited to announce that support for Vite is now stable in Remix v2.7.0! After the initial unstable release of Remix Vite, we’ve been hard at work refining and extending it over the past few months with help from all of our early adopters and community contributors. Here’s what we’ve been up to: Let’s […]
AnyGPT: Unified Multimodal LLM with Discrete Sequence Modeling
We introduce AnyGPT, an any-to-any multimodal language model that utilizes discrete representations for the unified processing of various modalities, including speech, text, images, and music. AnyGPT can be trained stably without any alterations to the current large language model (LLM) architecture or training paradigms. Instead, it relies exclusively on data-level preprocessing, facilitating the seamless integration […]
iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol
Today we are announcing the most significant cryptographic security upgrade in iMessage history with the introduction of PQ3, a groundbreaking post-quantum cryptographic protocol that advances the state of the art of end-to-end secure messaging. With compromise-resilient encryption and extensive defenses against even highly sophisticated quantum attacks, PQ3 is the first messaging protocol to reach what […]