loreanvictor

Can We Get More Decentralised Than The Fediverse?

I guess that the [fediverse][fediverse] will be as decentralised as email: a bit, but not that much. Most people will be dependent on a few major hubs, some groups might have their own hubs (e.g. company email servers), personal instances will be pretty rare. This is in contrast to personal blogging, where every Bob can easily host their own (and they often do). I mean that's already implied by the name: fediverse is [a federated universe, not a distributed one][fed-v-dis].

Why does this matter? Well I like not being dependent on one entity, but I would like it much more if I was dependent on no entities at all. In other words, I like to publish my own personal blog and get all the goodies of a social network, without being dependent on other micro-blogging / social content platforms.

So in this writing, I'm going to:

• ❓ Contemplate on why the fediverse gets federated not distributed (spoilers: its push vs pull)
• 🧠 Ideate on how could we get a distri

kconner

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

How to use this gist

You've got two main options:

rain-1

Purpose

Bootstrap knowledge of LLMs ASAP. With a bias/focus to GPT.

Avoid being a link dump. Try to provide only valuable well tuned information.

Prelude

Neural network links before starting with transformers.

yoavg

Some remarks on Large Language Models

Yoav Goldberg, January 2023

Audience: I assume you heard of chatGPT, maybe played with it a little, and was imressed by it (or tried very hard not to be). And that you also heard that it is "a large language model". And maybe that it "solved natural language understanding". Here is a short personal perspective of my thoughts of this (and similar) models, and where we stand with respect to language understanding.

Intro

Around 2014-2017, right within the rise of neural-network based methods for NLP, I was giving a semi-academic-semi-popsci lecture, revolving around the story that achieving perfect language modeling is equivalent to being as intelligent as a human. Somewhere around the same time I was also asked in an academic panel "what would you do if you were given infinite compute and no need to worry about labour costs" to which I cockily responded "I would train a really huge language model, just to show that it doesn't solve everything!". We

clumma

2019-05-18

Jonathan Blow on societal collapse

It's uncanny how closely this talk follows a line of reasoning I've been working on lately. If you're copied here, we may have discussed one or more of its aspects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk

(Jonathan Blow is an independent video game developer, speaking here at a conference in Moscow.)

neelabalan

from datetime import datetime
from typing import Optional

import pandas as pd
from rich import box
from rich.console import Console
from rich.table import Table

console = Console()

rutenkolk

#!/usr/bin/env bb
(ns script
  (:require [clojure.java.io :as io]
            [clojure.string :as s]
            [clojure.pprint :as pprint]
            [clojure.java.shell :refer [sh with-sh-dir]]
            [cheshire.core :as json]))

(defn prsh 
  ([sh]

rduplain

#!/bin/sh
# Use grub to boot .iso files directly from /boot/iso.
#
# This file lives at /etc/grub.d/25_iso and is executable.
#
# Open .iso files to inspect internal /boot files for grub config hints.
# /boot is on the third partition of a gpt-partitioned USB drive.

ISO_PART_UUID="0a5086cd-8fdf-4ae0-a248-67411ebbbb18" # UUID of /boot `blkid`.
ISO_PART_NUMBER=3

joepie91

ES Modules are terrible, actually

This post was adapted from an earlier Twitter thread.

It's incredible how many collective developer hours have been wasted on pushing through the turd that is ES Modules (often mistakenly called "ES6 Modules"). Causing a big ecosystem divide and massive tooling support issues, for... well, no reason, really. There are no actual advantages to it. At all.

It looks shiny and new and some libraries use it in their documentation without any explanation, so people assume that it's the new thing that must be used. And then I end up having to explain to them why, unlike CommonJS, it doesn't actually work everywhere yet, and may never do so. For example, you can't import ESM modules from a CommonJS file! (Update: I've released a module that works around this issue.)

And then there's Rollup, which apparently requires ESM to be u

lf94

RE: WHEN WILL WEB BROWSERS BE COMPLETE?
2020-10-31 02:46PM
A follow-up.

There has been some great conversation around the opinion piece. Having read all
200+ comments on YCombinator and Gist GitHub, I think it's most productive to
respond to them all in this follow-up piece.

The piece will be structured by looking at what I think are the most relevant
critiques and comments, followed by adding context to others' comments, and