19+ hour, 32+ min ago  (32+ words) Swift is a relatively modern program language, appearing in 2014 as a replacement for Objective-C. Since then, it's become a popular solution for programming apps across Apple platforms. That led [Yeo. .....

1+ week, 23+ hour ago  (255+ words) How LLMs Can Be Assisted To Do Arithmetic Correctly Hackaday One of the most hilarious things you can do with an LLM-based chatbot is to ask it to do calculations. If it's a well-written chatbot frontend, it can detect requests…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (38+ words) One of the most hilarious things you can do with an LLM-based chatbot is to ask it to do calculations. If it's a well-written chatbot frontend, it can detect requests for arithmetic - like summing 1 a. .....

2+ week, 19+ hour ago  (36+ words) I studied physics in college, and I'm always surprised how fundamental some of the concepts are. Take waves for example. You really wouldn't expect the same underlying concept to be at work on sur. .....

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (31+ words) This week Jonathan chats with Alexander Neumann about Restic, a particularly compelling backup and restore solution written in Go. Why did the world need one more backup program? And what's Alexander'. .....

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (501+ words) A key part of any tertiary musical education is learning about all the wonderful (and less wonderful) types of chords out there. Typically this involves a great deal of exercises involving the identif. .. A key part of any tertiary musical…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (333+ words) Do We Need A 21st Century Calculator? Hackaday The HP-41 C analog on my phone gives the right answer I have two slide rules on my desk, and plenty more a few steps away, but I don't use them much, honestly…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (37+ words) Reading a book about bowling is not the same as actually bowling. If that resonates with you and you want to learn more about large language models, check out the LLM From Scratch project. The hands-o. .....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (34+ words) Once you peel back the hype and mysticism, large language models (LLMs) are a fascinating application of statistical models, effectively what you get when you dial a basic auto-complete model up to el. .....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (34+ words) There is a persistent belief in the 'AI' community that large language models (LLMs) have the ability to learn and self-improve by tweaking the weights in their vector space. Although there's scant ev. .....