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The history of Vi & Vim goes hand in hand with the history of open-source software. This article looks at the historical events that shaped the evolution of these text editors.

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This article focuses on improving the modeling performance of LLMs by finetuning them using carefully curated datasets. Specifically, this article highlights...

Before LLMs really became a thing, getting up and running with a text classifier for a non-standard problem from scratch, including the annotation of a dataset for training, would probably take at...

Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits.

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Consider the historical precedents

Why is this $500 tablet full of so much empty space?

Tim Perry recently claimed in an article that “Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root”. This sparked significant discussion on Hacker News. Thankfully my tests show that it is still possible to adjust the system certificate…

Nearly one in 10 of America’s unionized auto workers went on strike Friday at Detroit’s three automakers.

After a report called out Musk's union-busting, UAW's blue check got reinstated.

A compilation of my Raymarching and Signed Distance Field learnings and work. In it, I teach you how to leverage those techniques along with lighting models, smoothmin, soft shadows, and some math to create beautiful 3D raymarched scenes ranging from abstract…

Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"

Tracking engineer productivity is easier said than done.

by Thomas SIMON