25 February 2024

22 links · Sunday

Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models

Hallucination has been widely recognized to be a significant drawback for large language models (LLMs). There have been many works that attempt to reduce the extent of hallucination. These efforts have mostly been empirical so far, which cannot answer the fund…

ARCHITECTURE.md

If you maintain an open-source project in the range of 10k-200k lines of code, I strongly encourage you to add an ARCHITECTURE document next to README and CONTRIBUTING. Before going into the details of why and how, I want to emphasize that this is not another …

Jan-Piet Mens

The demise of Authy desktop has brought about a number of changes, probably the one of which I most appreciate is a mobile app which lets me edit codes: with 2FAS I can edit labels on codes, and I’...

Life Is Good For Uber. Not So Much For PayPal

Uber To understand how investors view Uber, look at this stock chart: Uber’s stock price has increased by 34% in 2024 and doubled in the last year, easily outperforming the S&P500. The pr…

justpath to explore PATH quickly

I always get the feeling that nobody knows what a PATH is and at this point they are too afraid to ask. In those rare cases you want see what kind of a mess your PATH variable is, what tools can you use? Print to screen with bash, split by line, maybe sort for…

Bluesky Frustrations — Part 2

On Thursday the Bluesky team announced that users now can host their own content on the network. This sent me on a tangent looking into the AT Protocol (atproto) again. It turns out that a good amount has changed since I last dug into things.

you should try a partner dance

I have been going swing dancing at Century Ballroom every week since the start of the year. Swing is a partner dance that has leaders and followers. Before every song, it is customary for the leader, typically a guy, to ask a follower, usually a girl, to dance…