This is a simple guide on how to lose your work using the brilliant design of the Windows interface. Here are the steps: Copy-paste a file from one folder to another. Simple. Start working on the copy. Make sure to … Read more
This is Jessica. I previously blogged about conformal prediction, an approach to getting prediction sets that are guaranteed on average to achieve at least some user-defined coverage level (e.g., 95%). If it’s a classification problem, the prediction sets are comprised … Read more
Background 🤔 With all the hype around ChatGPT, I wondered how much impact ChatGPT really had. I mean, for a programmer, would ChatGPT be like a pair programmer? Like GitHub Copilot++? Or would ChatGPT totally replace programmers so that product … Read more
In a proof-of-concept study, ASU researchers adapted a suburban solar farm in the lower Sonoran Desert as an experimental breeding ground for biocrust. During the three-year study, photovoltaic panels promoted biocrust formation, doubling biocrust biomass and tripling biocrust cover compared … Read more
For the past month, I’ve been using the Unihertz Titan Pocket, a phone released in 2021 that rocks a 3.1-inch display above a full Qwerty keyboard. To be clear, it’s been by choice — my editors didn’t assign me to … Read more
Using RP2040 PIO to drive a poorly-designed display Table of Contents The givens Initially… The issues PIO Towards a solution The math The 16bpp mode Touch The 4bpp mode 1bpp and 2bpp modes The 8bpp indexed-colour mode Some more details … Read more
Apr 5th, 2023 @ justine’s web page When Meta released LLaMA back in February, many of us were excited to see a high-quality Large Language Model (LLM) become available for public access. Many of us who signed up however, had … Read more
Academics in the US have developed an attack dubbed NUIT, for Near-Ultrasound Inaudible Trojan, that exploits vulnerabilities in smart device microphones and voice assistants to silently and remotely access smart phones and home devices. The research team — Guenevere Chen, … Read more
OpenAI just released initial support for plugins to ChatGPT, allowing the language model to act as agents and interact with the outside world using APIs. Here we show a proof of concept using OpenAI’s chatgpt-retrieval-plugin with Meta’s LLaMA language model. … Read more
If you’re working with the Inkplate 10 (or similar model) you might commonly want to do something like: connect to WiFi, hit some API over HTTPS, and display something. If you’re doing this with the Arduino IDE then here’s an … Read more