19 May 2023

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Weekly Update 348

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Use environments and even more variables in Postman

Using variables to change environments is nice, but we can take this a step further, by using the actual Environments feature in Postman.This feature allows ...

Pushing through when « no one cares »

Pushing through when « no one cares »

Getting started with View Transitions on multi-page apps

Spurred by last week’s ShopTalk I rolled out View Transitions here on my static Jekyll site. I hadn’t realized View Transitions for multi-page apps (MPAs) and static sites are ready for testing behind a flag in Chrome 113+. View Transitions for MPAs are a feat…

Why Algorithmic Feeds Can Be Good

People like to say they prefer chronological feeds to algorithmic ones. The actual problem is we rarely see good algorithms built to help us and not drive engagement. But I’d love to see a social network giving me tools to catch up on the people I care about.

YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

My solar-powered blog is now on Lithium Iron Phosphate

In my last blog post I discussed how a small solar project - to power this blog on a Raspberry Pi - escalated into a full-blown off-grid solar setup, large enough to power the computer I use at the moment to write this update1. In this update, I want to discus…

Intelligence as efficient model building

Personal site for posts about my interests: the biotech industry, medicine, molecular biology, neuroscience, biorisk, science, consciousness, AI, innovation, decision making, philosophy, games, sci-fi, probability, and forecasting (among other things). I write…

Borys - Nonius Clock

A modern watch is less of a practical device and more a style choice. I’d like to present a novel quirky way to display time. This clock face only needs one moving part to tell time - the rotating ring. Yet, unlike a clock with only an hour hand, it has a prec…

Adam K Dean / From Einstein to Turing: Misdirecting GPT-4...

A recent discussion on Hacker News, titled "Let ChatGPT visit a website and have your email stolen," brought to light potential vulnerabilities in OpenAI's ChatGPT model, especially concerning its new web browsing capabilities. This stimulated an interest in u…

Two Immortals

The following is an unedited conversation I had recently had with ChatGPT.

How I won Telegram's $50,000 Sticker App Contest using Flutter

Telegram Contests Telegram runs its own platform contest.com with developer challenges aimed at adding or improving features of Telegram ecosystem. The contests are paid and prize pools are split between participants based on their results. Sticker App Contest…

Code Maze Weekly #173 - Code Maze

Issue #173 of the Code Maze weekly. Check out what’s new this week and enjoy the read. .NET and C# Top Picks Concurrent Hosted Service Start and Stop in .NET 8 [www.stevejgordon.co.uk] The newest feature of the Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting library and a welcom…

Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Essentials Align with Android 13

Microsoft made the announcement, that Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Essentials have been updated to target Android 13, aligning with Google's requirement for new Android apps to target at least Android 13 starting from August 2023. The update aims to ensure compat…

Uncensored Models

I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will explain. https://huggingface.co/ehartford/WizardLM-13B-Uncensored https://huggingface.co/ehartford/WizardLM-7B-Uncensored https://huggingface.co/ehartford/Wizard-Vicuna-13...

CORS in ASP.NET Core

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is an HTTP-header based mechanism that enables a server to...

C#12 New Features - NDepend

Discover the exciting new features introduced in C# 12. Stay up to date with the latest advancements in the C# language.