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[Special thank you to Ian Kivlichan for many useful pointers (E.g. the 100+ year old Nature paper “Vox populi”) and nice feedback. 🙏 ] High-quality data is the fuel for modern data deep learning model training. Most of task-specific labeled … Read more

From: Robin SloanTo: main newsletterSent: September 2023 One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, Image 25, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1885 Here’s what happens next: My new novel will be published in June 2024 by MCD. Nine months to wait — but that’s a finite amount … Read more

Physical labour is exhausting. A long run or a hard day’s sweat depletes the body’s energy stores, resulting in a sense of fatigue. Mental labour can also be exhausting. Even resisting that last glistening chocolate-chip cookie after a long day … Read more

Nowadays, the gift economy leads a precarious existence, appearing mostly in commencement-day addresses in which graduates are exhorted to follow their dreams, while most of the poor things are worrying frantically about how to pay their debts. The family is … Read more

Thinking Forth This is the homepage of the Thinking Forth project. Thinking Forth captures the philosophy of the language to show users how to write more readable, better maintainable applications. This project makes the book available in electronic form (LaTeX … Read more

You can view the full source code for this chapter at GitHub. Since you are now properly acquainted with K, let’s do some programming. Most K programming happens through the REPL, because it is very useful to iterate upon previous … Read more