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The Illustrated Retrieval Transformer
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jalammar.github.io
The Illustrated Retrieval Transformer
Discussion: Discussion Thread for comments, corrections, or any feedback.
Translations: Korean, Russian
Summary: The latest batch of language models can be much smaller yet achieve GPT-3 like performance by being able to query a database or search the…
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The World of Vintage Operating Systems
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Winworldpc
WinWorld: Library
WinWorld is an online museum dedicated to providing free and open access to one of the largest archives of abandonware software and information on the web.
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Homelessness Rises Faster Where Rent Exceeds a Third of Income (2018)
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Zillow
Homelessness Rises Faster Where Rent Exceeds a Third of Income
Income growth has not kept pace with rents, leading to an affordability crunch with cascading effects that, for people on the bottom economic rung, increases the risk of homelessness.
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“A New Future for GnuPG”: GnuPG is now financially self-sustaining
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lwn.net
Koch: A New Future for GnuPG
Longtime GnuPG maintainer Werner Koch has posted an update on the project,
mostly focused on the new associated "GnuPG VS-Desktop" business that is,
it seems, going quite well:
For many years our work was mainly financed by donations and smaller
projects.…
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Show HN:
Changedetection.io
detect changes in websites and JSON feeds
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GitHub
GitHub - dgtlmoon/changedetection.io: Best and simplest tool for website change detection, web page monitoring, and website change…
Best and simplest tool for website change detection, web page monitoring, and website change alerts. Perfect for tracking content changes, price drops, restock alerts, and website defacement monito...
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In 1953 a telco executive predicts the rise of smartphones and video calls
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KQED
A Bay Area Man’s 1953 ‘Prophecy’ Predicted Smartphones, Video Calls and Apple Watches
Mark R. Sullivan envisioned the future of technology with eerie accuracy.
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YouTube and Twitter delete Joe Rogan interview with scientist
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Mail Online
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YouTube and Twitter delete Joe Rogan interview with scientist who helped invent mRNA vaccines: Dr Robert Malone claimed US is now…
YouTube removed Joe Rogan's podcast episode with Dr Robert Malone where the doctor discussed pandemic-related topics and criticized vaccine mandates.
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Statistical Rethinking [video]
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Statistical Rethinking 2022 Lecture 01 - Golem of Prague
Introduction to the course: Goals, golems, drawing the owl, meet a DAG
Slides available on course webpage: https://github.com/rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2022
Intro music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S61ENc51Z1Q
Prague music: https://www.youtube.com/…
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Ask HN: Why is there a chip shortage?
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Dura: You shouldn't ever lose your work if you're using Git
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GitHub - tkellogg/dura: You shouldn't ever lose your work if you're using Git
You shouldn't ever lose your work if you're using Git - tkellogg/dura
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The Drenching Richness of Andrei Tarkovsky
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The New Yorker
The Drenching Richness of Andrei Tarkovsky
The Soviet director bestowed a new way of looking at the world. Amid the awe-inspiring imagery, his drift toward nationalist mysticism can take on an ominous tinge.
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Speaking Freely: Why I Resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Lean Out with Tara Henley
Speaking Freely
Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Airports Had to Deal With Over 2B Litres of Airplane Toilet Waste in 2019
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Travel Stats Man
Airports Had to Deal With Over 2 Billion Litres of Airplane Toilet Waste in 2019 - Travel Stats Man
On a worldwide scale, airplane yearly toilet waste is estimated to be 900 million - 2.2 billion litres total.
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Myopericarditis rates in young men after Covid-19 vaccine second dose [pdf]
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The Matrix looks dramatically different on Hulu versus on HBO Max
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When WikiLeaks bumped into the CIA: Operation Kudo exposed [video]
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media.ccc.de
When Wikileaks bumped into the CIA: Operation Kudo exposed
This talk is about the experience of the Wikileaks project when it bumped into a small problem with the CIA. While it builds up on my las...
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C Runtime Overhead (2015)
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Choose-Your-Own-Adventure AI Dungeon Games
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gwern.net
Choose-Your-Own-Adventure <em>AI Dungeon</em> Games
Neural networks like GPT-3 power text adventure games where you can do anything; but they are too expensive. I propose that if we turn them into Choose Your Own Adventure hypertext games, they become feasible and enable new gameplay.
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Emile Leray survived the desert by building a motorcycle from broken car (2017)
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2022)
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High beef prices and the destruction of independent cattle ranching
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Substack
Economists to Cattle Ranchers: Stop Being So Emotional About the Monopolies Devouring Your Family Businesses
Agricultural economists manipulated data to block Congress from acting on high beef prices and the destruction of independent cattle ranching. Why? Because they think monopolies are good.
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