Popular Git Config Options
Hello! I always wish that command line tools came with data about how popular their various options are, like: “basically nobody uses this one” “80% of people use this, probably take a look” “this one has 6 possible values but people only really use these 2 in practice” So I asked about people’s favourite git […]
Dear writers: Delete your Findaway Voices account NOW
When Findaway Voices first appeared, it made it comparatively easy for independent authors to do audiobooks. Audio was still hard, mind you, but it was possible. Spotify bought Findaway. They began playing with payments, refunds, and returns. And now, the licensing terms have changed. Accordingly, you hereby grant Spotify a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, fully […]
Training LLMs to Generate Text with Citations via Fine-Grained Rewards
Abstract:While recent Large Language Models (LLMs) have proven useful in answering user queries, they are prone to hallucination, and their responses often lack credibility due to missing references to reliable sources. An intuitive solution to these issues would be to include in-text citations referring to external documents as evidence. While previous works have directly prompted […]
UI = F(statesⁿ)
“UI is a function of state” is a pretty popular saying in the front-end world. In context (pun intended), that’s typically referring to application or component state. I thought I’d pull that thread a little further and explore all the states that can effect the UI layer… First-party application states Every application whether it’s a […]
We stopped building cut and cover
Tunneling is one of the many technologies that make modern civilization possible. For one, a tunnel can dramatically reduce transportation costs by shortening travel times between two points. Prior to the construction of the Holland Tunnel beneath the Hudson River in New York, for instance, the only way across was via ferry, a journey that […]
LWM – Open LLM with 1M Tokens Context Window
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My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder
Six years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. For the first few years, all of my businesses flopped. The best of them earned a few hundred dollars per month in revenue, but none were profitable. Halfway through my third year, I created a device […]
$5 device accurately tests for breast cancer in under 5 seconds
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A five-dollar circuit board could hold the key to near-instantaneous breast cancer screenings. Scientists say a new handheld device is capable of testing for breast cancer in less than five seconds using just a small sample of saliva. This portable device is not only remarkably quick and user-friendly but also highly cost-effective. […]
The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023)
Fermin (he/him) – https://codeberg.org/sasanidas Format: 19-min talk; Q&A: BigBlueButton conference roomStatus: TO_INDEX_QA captions=”””“””Your browser does not support the video tag. Please download the video instead. 00:00.000 Introduction 00:17.000 Why Lisp matters 01:26.640 Why Emacs Lisp was chosen 02:54.841 Other “Emacsen” 03:38.581 Why not Common Lisp? 06:39.120 Common Lisp is still not dead or is always […]
Smoking has long-term effects on the immune system
Like other factors such as age, sex and genetics, smoking has a major impact on immune responses. This is the finding recently made by a team of scientists at the Institut Pasteur using the Milieu Intérieur cohort of 1,000 healthy volunteers, established to understand variability in immune responses. In addition to its short-term impact on […]