I did a bit more work with Clojure today. My imperative programming habits are still bleeding through. The exercise introduced cond as a sort of case statement for flow control. I wrote a simple cond...
I've following the work Exercism has been doing for several years now. I used their product to learn a bit of Elixir and Go a few years back. I got an email from the today promoting a focus on...
Logan says any changes to the model would have been communicated. It seems some folks have data that show the model's degradation. As competition emerges in the space, it could be a problem for...
A number of folks are reporting gpt-4 appears to be performing less impressively as of late (additional conversation). I was using gpt-4 to write code earlier today, and anecdotally, can say it seems...
I've been following Eric's posts about SudoLang since the first installment back in March. I've skimmed through the spec and the value proposition quite compelling. SudoLang seeks to allow...
NVIDIA researchers introduce an LLM-based agent with "lifelong learning" capabilities that can navigate, discover, and accomplish goals in Minecraft without human intervention.
The Alexandria Index is building embeddings for large, public data sets, to make them more searchable and accessible.
I've seen a lot of "GPT detection" products floating around lately. Sebastian discusses some of the products and their approaches in this article. Some products claim to have developed an "algorithm...
Brex wrote a nice beginner guide on prompt engineering.
A low-effort quality-of-life improvement for oncall has been starting a week-long shift on a Friday instead of a Monday. Beginning a weekend with oncall isn't the best, but it's more than offset by...