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boxxy is a tool for boxing up misbehaving Linux applications and forcing them to put their files and directories in the right place, without symlinks! Source: queer/boxxy: boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files.

We found that plants emit sounds, and that stressed plants—both drought-stressed (Dry) and cut plants (Cut; see STAR Methods)—emit significantly more sounds than plants of any of the control groups (p < e−6, Wilcoxon test for each of the 12 comparisons with Holm-Bonferroni correction). Three controls were used for each plant species and treatment: recording from the same plant before...

In applications where a user is interacting with a model dynamically, such as chatting with the model, there will typically be portions of the prompt that are never intended to be seen by the user. These hidden portions may occur anywhere, though there is almost always a hidden prompt at the start of a conversation. Source: brexhq/prompt-engineering: Tips and tricks...

Gyroflow is an application that can stabilize your video by using motion data from a gyroscope and optionally an accelerometer. Modern cameras record that data internally (GoPro, Sony, Insta360 etc), and this application stabilizes the captured footage precisely by using them. It can also use gyro data from an external source (eg. from Betaflight blackbox). Source: gyroflow/gyroflow: Video stabilization using...

布币来源于农具铲子，铲子在上古汉语中称为“钱”。汉语中用“钱”来称呼货币的做法由此产生，延续至今。 Source: 布币 – 维基百科，自由的百科全书

A narrative that is often glossed over in the demo frenzy is the incredible technical creativity that went into making models like ChatGPT work. One such cool idea is RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback): incorporating reinforcement learning and human feedback into NLP. Source: RLHF: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

With the knowledge you have built up of calling conventions, instruction sets, object files and FFI libraries, you should now be well equipped to explore how languages not mentioned in this post would call functions written in other languages. Source: Language Interoperability From the Ground Up

The key feature is one that I care about deeply: it enables zero-downtime deploys by running all traffic through a Traefik reverse proxy in a way that allows requests to be paused while a new deployment is going out—so end users get a few seconds delay on their HTTP requests before being served by the replaced application. Source: MRSK

Scale dehumanizes. Resisting the pull of scale is a recipe for a happy life. Source: Scale is Poison

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