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How I (almost) replicated OpenAI’s GPT-2 (124M version)

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Network data observed by the NetBlocks Internet Observatory indicate network disruptions in Russia on Saturday 23 January 2021. The outages come amid protests against the detention of prominent opposition activist ...

Introduction I’m sure some of my followers have seen my recent social media posts regarding the 200+ Raspberry Pi Model B’s I purchased on ebay – if you have not then follow my twitter for sneak peaks and updates! I purchased the job lot of Pi’s for just…

<p>IRMA is a set of free and open source software projects implementing the Idemix attribute-based credential scheme, allowing users to safely and securely authenticate themselves as privacy-preserving as the situation permits. Users receive digitally signed…

SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos.

France has passed a law protecting the “sensory heritage” of its rural areas, in the face of complaints about the noises and smells typical of the countryside.

Microsoft is opening up old Win32 APIs long used for 32-bit Windows programming, letting coders use languages of their choice instead of the default C/C++ option.

Perhaps macroeconomists should think about studying this interesting question.

The kernel project goes out of its way to facilitate building with older
toolchains. Building a kernel on a new system can be enough of a challenge
as it is; being forced to install a custom toolchain first would not
improve the situation. So the kernel…

management of Fedora Project updates

Recently, Juliana has gotten into Stardew Valley. Hard. Since I’m a huge fan myself, I'm doing a Game Design Perspective on the game to celebrate. I'll be looking at the game mechanics and how the interlocking layers make the game tick. In Stardew Valley…

Suspicious files contacting Russian servers are thought to have been found on devices given to schools.

Neural networks can be as unpredictable as they are powerful. Now mathematicians are beginning to reveal how a neural network’s form will influence its function.

We’re coming up on the tenth anniversary of LMDB, and I’ve been thinking back to the bad old days of cache tuning that we struggled with, before LMDB’s advent. As noted in the LMDB design doc tuning caches used to be a major pain point in administering OpenLDAP.…