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.

Spuffynism

Solving a Dungeons & Dragons riddle using prolog

Bringing back the magic of Christmas using the magic of prolog

As part of a holiday D&D one-shot session where Santa Claus's toy factory had been sabotaged, our dungeon master presented to us, a group of Christmas elves, a riddle to solve.

9 cards, labeled with the names of Santa's reindeer were presented to us. The instructions indicated that we had to find the order reindeer were in, according to this riddle:

Vixen should be behind Rudolph, Prancer and Dasher, whilst Vixen should be in front of Dancer and Comet. Dancer should be behind Donder, Blitzen and Rudolph. Comet should be behind Cupid, Prancer and Rudolph. Donder should be behind Comet, Vixen, Dasher, Prancer and Cupid. Cupid should be in front of Comet, Blitzen, Vixen, Dancer and Rudolph. Prancer should be in front of Blitzen, Donder and Cupid. Blitzen should be behind Cupid but in front of Dancer, Vixen and Donder. Rudolph should be behind Prancer but in front of Dasher, Dancer and Dond

DavidBuchanan314

import os
import sys

"""
This (pure!) python script streams a gzip-compressed YUV4MPEG video to stdout.
It easily runs at 1080p60fps on my machine.

Pipe it into a media player like this:

python3 gzip_swar_life.py | mbuffer | gunzip - | mpv -

barncastle

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleAppFramework
{
    public static class ABA
    {

ronnyroeller

import { ApiGatewayManagementApi, DynamoDB } from 'aws-sdk';

import { scanItems } from './dynamodb';

const { AWS_REGION, TOPICS_TABLE } = process.env;

const dynamoDb = new DynamoDB({
  apiVersion: '2012-08-10',
  region: AWS_REGION,
});

snej

// Tails has grown a bit and moved out into its own repository: https://github.com/snej/tails/
// Please visit it there!
//
// If you want to see the tiny original version from May Forth 2021, it's still here;
// click the "Revisions" button above, or go to:
//   https://gist.github.com/snej/9ba59d90689843b22dc5be2730ef0d49/2d55f844b7622aa117b9275bbc9d189613f7ff7f

senderle

So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand...

If you, like me, resent every dollar spent on commercial PDF tools, you might want to know how to change the text content of a PDF without having to pay for Adobe Acrobat or another PDF tool. I didn't see an obvious open-source tool that lets you dig into PDF internals, but I did discover a few useful facts about how PDFs are structured that I think may prove useful to others (or myself) in the future. They are recorded here. They are surely not universally applicable --
the PDF standard is truly Byzantine -- but they worked for my case.

miraculixx

# (c) miraculixx, licensed as by the terms of WTFPL, http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/
# License: DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO with this code. 
#
# THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
# IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
# WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
#
from io import StringIO

from contextlib import contextmanager

raysan5

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

WARNING: Article moved to separate repo to allow users contributions: https://github.com/raysan5/custom_game_engines

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like [Unreal](https:

andy-thomason

Genomics - A programmer's guide.

Andy Thomason is a Senior Programmer at Genomics PLC. He has been witing graphics systems, games and compilers since the '70s and specialises in code performance.

https://www.genomicsplc.com