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GitHub Copilot is generally available bit.ly/3zSuQ6h

DNS Esoterica – Why you can't dig Switzerland buff.ly/3z16giJ

The $250K cop has arrived in Rochester. Rising crime and a shortage of police officers means no shortage of opportunities for officers to work overtime – with some clocking 90+ hours a week. Gino Fanelli examines the implications of extensive overtime. rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/roch…

A Ruby program that generates itself through a 128-language quine loop buff.ly/3rxdzu9

This looks like a nice way to start diving into FPGAs. Distributed KV store using ~$300 hardware! adamwalker.github.io/Building-FPGA-…

This is huge: Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use! This is going to change the landscape of the LLM market. Llama-v2 is available on Microsoft Azure and will be available on AWS, Hugging Face and other providers Pretrained and fine-tuned

New blog post exploring the use of large language models for augmenting the quality of JSON Schemas michael.mior.ca/blog/llms-for-…

Pretty cool way to visualize how simple neural networks function! hackaday.com/2023/07/20/phy…

Cool to see ways Google and other are trying generative AI and databases together. Nice to see that there are local models available. cloud.google.com/blog/products/…

Auto-Regressive LLMs can't plan (and can't really reason). "While our own limited experiments didn't show any significant improvement [in planning abilities] through fine tuning, it is possible that with even more fine tuning data and effort, the empirical performance may well

Looks like the "Pythagorean" theorem might be a lot older than previously thought link.springer.com/article/10.105…

Disney made a real-life WALL-E Disney Research just revealed a new robot at #IROS2023, it uses reinforcement learning to walk and can even socially interact.

Midjourney, DALL•E 3 and GPT-4 have opened a world of endless possibilities. I just coded "Angry Pumpkins 🎃" (any resemblance is purely coincidental 😂) using GPT-4 for all the coding and Midjourney / DALLE for the graphics. Here are the prompts and the process I followed:

Some aspects of JSON Schema are tricky to master. In this new blog post, Juan Cruz Viotti, demystifies what lexical and dynamic scopes are in JSON Schema and how they work. 🔗 json-schema.org/blog/posts/und… 👇🧵

Chicago recognized the problems with ShotSpotter. Any chance of Rochester following suit? apnews.com/article/shotsp… Mitch Gruber Mary Lupien Willie J. Lightfoot Stanley Martin

We’re thrilled to announce we’re partnering with OpenAI to bring best in class technical knowledge and the world’s most popular LLM models for AI development together! This groundbreaking partnership with OpenAI will drive our mission to empower the world to develop technology

I've been using the Arc browser for quite a while now and I'm living it. My biggest complaint is that it isn't available on Linux and there's a good chance it never will be 😕 arc.net/gift/23cd28ee

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