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benhoyt / markov.py
Created November 11, 2023 15:45
Generate text from an input using a simple Markov chain generator
import collections, random, sys, textwrap
# Build possibles table indexed by pair of prefix words (w1, w2)
w1 = w2 = ''
possibles = collections.defaultdict(list)
for line in sys.stdin:
for word in line.split():
possibles[w1, w2].append(word)
w1, w2 = w2, word
@yoavg
yoavg / LLMs.md
Last active February 17, 2024 18:39

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

@alirobe
alirobe / reclaimWindows10.ps1
Last active April 23, 2024 06:15
This Windows 10 Setup Script turns off a bunch of unnecessary Windows 10 telemetery, bloatware, & privacy things. Not guaranteed to catch everything. Review and tweak before running. Reboot after running. Scripts for reversing are included and commented. Fork of https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script (different defaults). N.…
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### UPDATE: For Win 11, I recommend using this tool in place of this script:
### https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
### https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
### https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQZ5oQg8XA
### iwr -useb https://christitus.com/win | iex
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@XD-DENG
XD-DENG / server.R
Created March 19, 2016 04:28 — forked from xiaodaigh/server.R
Shiny: Disable Button
library(shiny)
disableActionButton <- function(id,session) {
session$sendCustomMessage(type="jsCode",
list(code= paste("$('#",id,"').prop('disabled',true)"
,sep="")))
}
shinyServer(function(input, output,session) {
@solenoid
solenoid / gist:1372386
Created November 17, 2011 04:49
javascript ObjectId generator
var mongoObjectId = function () {
var timestamp = (new Date().getTime() / 1000 | 0).toString(16);
return timestamp + 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'.replace(/[x]/g, function() {
return (Math.random() * 16 | 0).toString(16);
}).toLowerCase();
};
@hackable
hackable / expressjs-base64-image.js
Created October 18, 2011 05:21
Node.js base64 encode a downloaded image for use in data URI
express = require("express")
request = require("request")
BufferList = require("bufferlist").BufferList
app = express.createServer(express.logger(), express.bodyParser())
app.get "/", (req, res) ->
if req.param("url")
url = unescape(req.param("url"))
request
uri: url
encoding: 'binary'