llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model (via lobste.rs).
(…) an entire LLM inference engine with trained parameters bundled inside, relying on treating text containing magic symbols for fake "ligatures" to initialize the LLM and use it to generate text.
Q: How to troubleshoot a “Not authorized to perform operation” error message when automatically mounting flash drives and other external USB storage devices?
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The legacy of Lynn Conway, chip design pioneer and transgender-rights advocate.
Conway, professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer science, has died.
JitPack – Easy to use package repository for Git.
(…) makes it easy to release your Java or Android library. Publish straight from GitHub or Bitbucket.
Or: makes it easy to include Java libs not available at Maven &co.
The new colonization of Africa
Six years in the making, jaw-dropping new film The Grab shows a secret scramble by governments and private firms to buy up global resources
The Grab hears from farmers with horrific tales of displacement – prolonged homelessness, the death of a toddler from the cold, bulldozed ancestral burial sites. The culprit is not one country or company but a shadowy network of mercenary interests, farms backed by “a Russian doll of LLCs and LLCs” (…)
The inability of computers to do math is not merely theoretical. It poses a major practical problem in getting computers to do what people want them to do. A handout called “Dangers of Computer Arithmetic,” from a computer science course at the Rochester Institute of Technology, for instance, notes several operations that are likely to cause problems, among them “adding quantities of very different magnitude” and “calculating the difference of two very large values.”
Great effort has been expended in hiding these realities from ordinary users. The impression given to casual users is that computer math just works. But the underlying reality of “just works” is a quite complicated substructure invented by clever humans, and reality sometimes slips through the cracks. Try typing “999,999,999,999,999 minus 999,999,999,999,998” into Google, for an illustration of how hazardous it is for a computer to calculate the difference of two very large values.
Y.A.T.E.
kitty – The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator.
I was not told about Mr Gum before yesterday!
Natboff! One Million Years of Stupidity.
(…) a hysterical collection of stories, all set in Mr Gum’s hometown of Lamonic Bibber. Strap on your laughter goggles as you embark on a time-travelling journey through the funniest and maddest moments in history.
