A blog about math by Nic Ford

Ollama now has initial compatibility with the OpenAI Chat Completions API, making it possible to use existing tooling built for OpenAI with local models via Ollama.

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The first email sent from space is a common story dredged up by lazy publications on a slow news day, the story that in 1991 Astronauts on Atlantis send an email to Earth containing Terminator 2 references. The story usually stops there.

But, you might have…

The philosopher was a champion of political and intellectual freedom, but he had no interest in being a martyr. Instead, he shows us how prudence and boldness can go hand in hand.

This paper uses chess, a landmark planning problem in AI, to assess transformers' performance on a planning task where memorization is futile $\unicode{x2013}$ even at a large scale. To this end,...

My 2K game coded in Z80 machine code when I was 11 years old.

LastPass is warning that a fake copy of its app is being distributed on the Apple App Store, likely used as a phishing app to steal users' credentials.

Apple has removed a fake app that was masquerading as password manager LastPass on the App Store. The illegitimate app was listed under an individual developer’s name (Parvati Patel) and copied LastPass’s branding and user interface in an attempt to confuse…

Casualties afoot as Sony merges Funimation with 2021-acquired Crunchyroll.

Free and open source air traffic control simulator

Reading becomes easier with experience, but it is up to each scientist to identify the techniques that work best for them.

As announced in March 2022, Crunchyroll embarked on a quest to unite anime fans under one banner, and waved farewell to the Funimation app and website on April 2, 2024.
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The Government of Canada hosts National Summit on Combatting Auto Theft.

EDIT: This had some moderate success on Hacker News, so check out the discussion there if you're interested. ./attachments/00016-2479171298.jpg I'm no coding genius, but I've got the chops and experi…

Corporate America may be bumping up against the limit of its power to keep raising prices as consumers in some markets cry uncle.

The help for the run and call with continuation blocks just say that it's too complicated. I want to know what a continuation is. Reading the manual left me still a little confused as to what continuations are.