The Tokenizer is a necessary and pervasive component of Large Language Models (LLMs), where it translates between strings and tokens (text chunks). Tokenizers are a completely separate stage of the LLM pipeline: they have their own training sets, training…

Signal’s mission and sole focus is private communication. For years, Signal has kept your messages private, your profile information (like your name and profile photo) private, your contacts private, and your groups private – among much else. Now we’re taking…

Iris scan, voice samples and blood type to be included in database

12 Challenges readers Thandeka Xaba and Toby Mather raised some great points in the comments for yesterday’s Typology piece (thanks so much!).

I'm giving a talk at the online local-first meetup next week, hope to see a couple of you there localfirstweb.dev

Designed from the ground up to deliver the speed and modern features of JMAP mail to macOS with an interface that feels at home on your Mac.

LlamaIndex is a simple, flexible framework for building knowledge assistants using LLMs connected to your enterprise data.

An Ipsos poll asking the same series of questions asked in the BBC comedy series Yes Prime Minister, series 1, episode 2, "The Ministerial Broadcast" as posed by Sir Humphrey Appleby to Bernard Woolley

Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)

The tyranny of per-core licensing.

The deal would combine two of the largest credit-card companies in the U.S. at a booming time for the sector.

This website makes it seem like this “public” dataset is for the community to use, but it is instead a for-profit money maker for Google Cloud and you can lose tens of thousands of dollars. Last week I ran a noscript on BigQuery for historical HTTP Archive…

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We have a new crown in our logo for the first time. Find out how we made this change and why.

A study led by Western astrobiologist Catherine Neish shows the subsurface ocean of Titan—the largest moon of Saturn—is most likely a non-habitable environment, meaning any hope of finding life in ...

Edit: There’s a short follow-up to this post: Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: Follow up.
tl;dr: A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus …

Build reactive web UIs in Python. Contribute to hyperdiv/hyperdiv development by creating an account on GitHub.

The invisible substance called dark matter remains one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology. Perhaps, a new study suggests, this strange substance arises from a 'dark mirror universe' that's been linked to ours since the dawn of time.