How to Learn Emacs (2012)

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This guide is aimed at computer programmers who want to master the GNU Emacs text editor. It has been said that the Emacs learning curve is not so much steep as long. While the initial learning curve is indeed much … Read more

Can LLMs learn from a single example?

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Summary: recently while fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) on multiple-choice science exam questions, we observed some highly unusual training loss curves. In particular, it appeared the model was able to rapidly memorize examples from the dataset after seeing them … Read more

Learn Physics with Functional Programming

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Look Inside! Download Chapter 14: NEWTON’S SECOND LAW Learn Physics with Functional Programming is your key to unlocking the mysteries of theoretical physics by coding the underlying math in Haskell. You’ll use Haskell’s type system to check that your code … Read more

Learn COBOL in 1 Day

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Take advantage of these new technical books designed to further your education in COBOL development and modernization. .NET and Java developers can quickly learn to work with COBOL applications by leveraging the skillsets they already have. Learn to combine COBOL, … Read more

How to find time to learn after work (2017)

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My software developer colleagues often ask me where I do get all the time for reading all the tech books or articles, watching conference talks and listening to podcasts. I analyzed my consumption for November and December and here is, … Read more

Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts

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tl;dr annotated AHK scripts here. Anybody who’s spent time with me knows how much I love AutoHotKey, the flat-out best Windows automation tool in the world. Anybody’s who’s tried to use AutoHotKey knows how intimidating it can be. So to … Read more

So You Want to Learn Physics

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Before You Begin Popular Books on Physics When you’re solving problems, working through textbooks, and getting into the nitty-gritty details of each topic, it’s so easy to lose the forest for the trees and forget why you even became inspired … Read more