Interesting take on the subject of link sharing. Add context, complement it with your point of view, don’t just re-link a page, make it meaningful, explain, add something yours to the link your sharing because you are not a machine after all. “When you add a link to your website … | Continue reading
Although I’ve been slowly revising the Higgs FAQ 2.0, this seemed an appropriate time to bring the Higgs FAQ on this website fully into the 2020’s. You will find the Higgs FAQ 3.0 here; it explains the basics of the Higgs boson and Higgs field, along with some of the wider contex … | Continue reading
No livestream today. I wasn’t feeling well enough. No live stream next week either, as I’ll be traveling. Expression statements With the exception of specific built-in functions, function and method calls and receive operations can appear in statement context. Such statements may … | Continue reading
"I don't want to say I am shocked." Experts warn deadly bacteria to become increasingly common in North: 'It is surprising in the historical context' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Arseny Moskvichev dreams of the day he can have a meaningful conversation with artificial intelligence. “By meaningful, I mean a conversation that has the power to change you,” says the cognitive and computer scientist. “The problem,” says Moskvichev, “is that LLMs are complete a … | Continue reading
Today we’ll talk about labeled statements, which we’ve just recently mentioned in the context of terminating statements. Labeled statements A labeled statement may be the target of a goto, break or continue statement. LabeledStmt = Label ":" Statement . Label = identifier . Error … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2024 The joy of fighting words: Perhaps surprisingly, there aren't a whole lot of "fighting words" in the verses of The Iliad. Within the modern American legal context, what the heck are "fighting words?" The leading authority on the concept offers the followi … | Continue reading
Today we’ll talk about labeled statements, which we’ve just recently mentioned in the context of terminating statements. Labeled statements A labeled statement may be the target of a goto, break or continue statement. LabeledStmt = Label ":" Statement . Label = identifier . Error … | Continue reading
I'm a bit behind on my weeknotes, so there's a lot to cover here. But first... a review of the last 24 hours of Large Language Model news. All times are in US Pacific. 11:01am: Google Gemini Pro 1.5 hits general availability, here's the blog post - their 1 million token context G … | Continue reading
Gemini 1.5 Pro public preview Huge release from Google: Gemini 1.5 Pro - the GPT-4 competitive model with the incredible 1 million token context length - is now available without a waitlist in 180+ countries (including the USA but not Europe or the UK as far as I can tell)... and … | Continue reading
The first Eyewitness News theme was literally lifted from the 007 James Bond movie theme ... Wow! flug has a fantastic, chewy answer full of background and context for nouvelle-personne's fascinating question, "Tell me more about news music. What is it doing to me?" | Continue reading
Digital experience analytics is a term that covers several different domains of data tracking and understanding from a product context. The post Harnessing digital experience analytics for product optimization appeared first on LogRocket Blog. | Continue reading
Context I have an external drive. It’s a 4 terabyte drive, and I’m about to use it for backups. I also have an external SSD. It’s also a 4 terabyte drive, and I have filled 500 gigabytes of it with random stuff that I can afford to lose (which I have excluded from backups). I als … | Continue reading
Hi, I am happy to announce a new Cambalache stable release. With the UI ported to Gtk 4 I bumped the version to 0.90 to reflect the fact we are really close to 1.0 Release Notes: Migrate main application to Gtk 4 Update widget catalogs to SDK 46 Add support for child custom fragm … | Continue reading
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the thir … | Continue reading
First of all, make sure to see part 1 of this series, where we experience this beautiful T1 with its original drivetrain. This is a really well restored T1, and it works fine with its original drivetrain, and I think it’s important for context to see this T1 functioning with ... … | Continue reading
I published a long article yesterday on Tesla’s drooping sales in the 1st quarter of 2024 — compared to the 4th quarter of 2023 and even the 1st quarter of 2023. Some readers asked for broader context. Well, two of the automakers most similar to Tesla in class and vehicle ... [co … | Continue reading
I’d love to read about the early days of the Star Trek replicator. It’s a sometimes-useful macguffin in the context of Star Trek: The Next Generation and later shows: a device that can recreate virtually any object on command, from food to electronics. By the time ST:TNG was set, … | Continue reading
Lisp in space Lisp in space (podcast, 38 minutes) An interview on the Corecursive podcast with Ron Garret. In 1988 (when, for context, I was in the second year of my BSc) Garret started working on autonomous navigation software for Sojourner, NASA's first Mars rover, which flew i … | Continue reading
Andy Bell https://piccalil.li/blog/how-were-approaching-theming-with-modern-css/ in the context of heavy theming, semantic CSS is going to be the key for long term success, not atomic stylesheets (ASS) | Continue reading
The home team is joined by Michael Foree, Stack Overflow’s director of data science and data platform, and occasional cohost Cassidy Williams, CTO at Contenda, for a conversation about long context windows, retrieval-augmented generation, and how Databricks’ new open LLM could ch … | Continue reading
Do Say: “Whoa, where is Uncle Tony?” Everyone will be saying this, so you’ll fit right in. Don’t Say: “He’s in a better place now.” Ordinarily, this would be a fine thing to say at a wake, but the context will make this land a little different. Yes, odds are, wherever his remains … | Continue reading
Listened to Cup o' Go | Bikeshedding about bikeshedding, and Go Community Roundup Post details Proposals(re)accepted: add slices.Repeat functionaccepted: report use of too-new standard library symbols with go vetFrom around the communityBlog: Context-induced performance bo … | Continue reading
Greg Jackson in Harper’s Magazine: Great tracts of culture, notably the arts, arise to give sanctuary and form to private truth within a public context. They maintain a bridge between personal and social convictions—the solitary testimony of the soul and the necessary agreements … | Continue reading
This evening, I had a delightful discussion about programming language design. It was noted that some programming languages like C use curly braces. The curly braces have semantic meanings. In C, JavaScript, and other languages, curly braces denote a block of code. A block of cod … | Continue reading
Experimenting with password-based authentication implemented directly in Postgres, all sprinkled with a few twists. | Continue reading
Out with the RestTemplate (again), a look back, yes, back, at the just released Java 22 and forward at Java 23. And a solid piece on why we should fight against context-switching. | Continue reading
For subscribers, I am going to go into a little more depth about home sales and new home inventory, and why widespread misunderstandings about our unusual context presents an investment opportunity for those with confidence and patience. First, just a quick and dirty review of ho … | Continue reading
By Jacqui Banaszynski lassic news narratives tend to follow a single primary character through a story. There are other characters, of course, including people connected to the main character or more official or expert sources to provide context and perspective. Such classic narr … | Continue reading
Learn how to avoid ambiguous method calls in the specific context of the Mockito framework. | Continue reading
Of course you don’t need comments in your code. But your future self appreciates explanations: What is this nested loop good for? What is its purpose? Comments provide context, and shortcuts for understanding: “you don’t need to read this, just think of it as …” Once you explain … | Continue reading
Semafor published in a new format it calls Signals — sponsored by Microsoft, though I am earnestly sure no editorial lines were crossed — aggregated commentary about the U.S. iPhone antitrust case: If the government wins the suit, “the walls of Apple’s walled garden will be parti … | Continue reading
To fight a culture war justly is to be confident that your arguments have a reasonable chance of success; but this means that to fight justly is not only about carefully crafting arguments but also about sensitively observing the context in which you will deploy them. | Continue reading
shelmet This looks like a pleasant ergonomic alternative to Python's subprocess module, plus a whole bunch of other useful utilities. Lets you do things like this: sh.cmd("ps", "aux").pipe("grep", "-i", check=False).run("search term") I like the way it uses context managers as we … | Continue reading
Back in February Google announced Gemini 1.5, their latest, most powerful language model, and while access has been open via AI Studio, API access has only been available in the past few days. I thought I'd try out the new model and specifically make use of the larger context win … | Continue reading
As I’ve recently mentioned, ex parte proceedings are error-prone because the judge hears only one side of the story and doesn’t get enough context to spot the possible flaws. This systematic–and avoidable–risk of errors has materially contributed to the SAD... The post Judge Hamm … | Continue reading
Lawrence Weschler and Rich Blint at Wondercabinet: Weschler: It’s interesting in this context, you mentioned a second ago Giovanni’s Room, where part of the story is clearly about a deeply closeted white figure, an American in Paris, who gets involved with somebody who is clearly … | Continue reading
Structurizr offers a code-based approach for creating and managing C4 model architecture diagrams, addressing common challenges with traditional diagramming tools. It supports easy tracking and visualization of diagram changes through version control. This blog covers installatio … | Continue reading
Source: Apple. Earlier today, Apple announced that its Jing’an store will open in Shanghai on March 21st. Apple’s press release includes several images of the new store, but for more context and an extensive collection of images, you can’t beat Michael Steeber’s Tabletops newslet … | Continue reading
Misused go contexts can lead to severe performance issues. | Continue reading
The shock therapy administered by Milei and his economy czar Luis Caputo right after the Dec. 10 inauguration is showing results. In a severely recessionary context, inflation is slowing down (February prices rose 13.2% in monthly terms compared with 25.5% in December) while fore … | Continue reading
The home team discusses the challenges (hardware and otherwise) of building AI models at scale, why major players like Meta are open-sourcing their AI projects, what Apple’s recent changes mean for developers in the EU, and Perplexity AI’s new approach to search. | Continue reading
Lilly Chen is the founder of Brainstory, an AI-powered “think out-loud” app based on the Socratic method of questioning. In this interview, we talked about how to use AI for better thinking, how to practice open-mindedness and curious questioning, how to make context sharing effi … | Continue reading
The decay of rules-based trade means that companies can no longer find growth as easily by expanding to new locations, or expanding demand through low-cost single point sourcing. In this context, companies seeking growth must develop innovative offerings to expand demand. These o … | Continue reading
Former President Donald Trump has been quick to take advantage of an unexpected and nefarious benefit offered to politicians in the age of AI. Instead of saying that their quotes were taken out of context when facing unfavorable media coverage, they can now simply claim that the … | Continue reading
Pattern: You see some data. Do they matter? Transformation: Do the math to put the numbers into context. Gergely’s post reminded me of this Thinkie. 350K H100s. Is that a lot or a little. Almost 20% of worldwide units? Thats a lot!!! Envelope calculations aren’t complicated math. … | Continue reading
Kris Hardies points to this new article, Impossible Hypotheses and Effect-Size Limits, by Wijnand and Lennert van Tilburg, which states: There are mathematical limits to the magnitudes that population effect sizes can take within the common multivariate context in which … Continu … | Continue reading
When I was a kid we used card catalogs, microfilm, encyclopedia and almanacs. Much later there was the web with search, Wikipedia and archive.org. Now there's ChatGPT. Each level was a dramatic improvement of the previous one. Now everything we're all working on is cast in a new … | Continue reading