So Much Blood
In a recent post about trading stuff for money, I mentioned: Europe had a [blood plasma] shortage of around 38%, which it met by importing plasma from paid donors in the United States, where blood products account for 2% of all exports by value. The internet’s reaction was: “TWO PERCENT?” “TWO PERCENT OF U.S. EXPORTS […]
Tabular (YC S24) Is Hiring
Do you want to work on an extremely ambitious project? AI will be the biggest revolution to accounting since the invention of double-entry bookkeeping in 1494. As the cost of intelligence trends towards zero, we will be able to handle accounting’s unstructured data and language-based rules fully autonomously. The consequence will be profound. Accounting is […]
Zed: The Fastest AI Code Editor
For millions of years, humans have used tools to create things. We programmers have recently created some very useful tools for ourselves: large language models. So far, these futuristic tools have been accessible to programmers in one of three ways: p]:mb-2 [&>ol]:pt-3 [&>ul]:pt-3″>Running in a terminal emulator
EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program
Employees were told that the popular energy efficiency certification program would be “de-prioritized and eliminated,” according to documents and a recording. The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate Energy Star, the popular energy efficiency certification for dishwashers, refrigerators, dryers and other home appliances, according to agency documents and a recording of an internal meeting. E.P.A. […]
FTC bans hidden fees for live events and short-term rentals, effective May 12
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday released new documentation detailing its new “Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees.” The rule, set to take effect on May 12, prohibits hidden fees for live events, hotels, and short-term rentals. It also bans practices such as “bait-and-switch pricing” and any actions that conceal or misrepresent total prices […]
VVVVVV Source Code
This is the source code to VVVVVV, the 2010 indie game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Magnus Pålsson. You can read the announcement of the source code release on Terry’s blog! The source code for the desktop version is in this folder. VVVVVV is still commercially available at thelettervsixtim.es if you’d like to support […]
Alignment is not free: How model upgrades can silence your confidence signals
The Flattening Calibration Curve The post-training process for LLMs can bias behavior for language models when they encounter content that violates their safety post-training guidelines. As mentioned by OpenAI’s GPT-4 system card, model calibration rarely survives post-training, resulting in models that are extremely confident even when they’re wrong.¹ For our use case, we often see […]
Show HN: Whippy Term – GUI terminal for embedded development (Linux and Windows)
Whippy Term is a modern terminal program. It has been designed to have a modern UI and to run on modern OS’s like Windows and Linux. It also has a number of unique features such as bookmarks, built in hex dumps, extending through plugins, and native support for binary protocols. Embedded Developers It is primarily […]
Sutton and Barto Book Implementation
Installation $ python setup.py install This repository contains code that implements algorithms and models from Sutton’s book on reinforcement learning. The book, titled “Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction,” is a classic text on the subject and provides a comprehensive introduction to the field. The code in this repository is organized into several modules, each of which […]
iOS Kindle app now has a ‘get book’ button after changes to App Store rules
Amazon has updated its Kindle iOS app to take advantage of recent changes to Apple’s App Store rules. Amazon has updated its Kindle iOS app to take advantage of recent changes to Apple’s App Store rules. Andrew Liszewski is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but […]