@William Weber has been a long-term LowEndTalk member, joining way back in 2011. A veteran you could say. He’s a rather intelligent self-admitted high school dropout that loves his choice of drugs and guns… plus, he has a thing for … Read more
This maybe seems to be a weird post, especially for those who don’t live in Italy, because here in Italy there’s the common belief that the abilites of a worker, usually are less considered than the qualifies that it has. … Read more
I found the best anagram in English I planned to publish this last week sometime but then I wrote a line of code with three errors and that took over the blog. A few years ago I mentioned in passing … Read more
Written in collaboration with Joseph Miller. See the discussion of this post over on LessWrong. We started out with the question: How does GPT-2 know when to use the word an over a? The choice depends on whether the word … Read more
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Recently I introduced a high-performance write-path into rqlite and, to my great surprise, it exposed a bug in SQLite. The SQLite team … Read more
Dieser Artikel ist auch auf deutsch erschienen. Following the Twitter takeover, a number of services promising to be an alternative gained traction. One of those is “Hive Social”, which reached more than a million users in the last weeks. Of … Read more
AI Found a Bug in My Code I was playing around with the SalesForce CodeGen language model. It is set up to generate new code from a prompt. But I wanted to see how it would analyze existing code. I … Read more
Owner of an LGP-30 here, undergoing a “long-term” restoration. One thing to be very careful of is the drum. The spacing between the heads and oxide surface is extremely tight and with age, the heads can make contact due to … Read more
Credit: ORNL/Jill Hemman An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the University of Manchester, has developed a fast and economical method of converting methane, or natural gas, into liquid methanol at ambient temperature and pressure. The method takes … Read more
They are the ultimate “how to draw” books for a young child, created by a doting dad who just happened to be one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. The granddaughter of Pablo Picasso has discovered an extraordinary … Read more