The accomplishments of large language models are attributed to the architecture that they follow - Transformer Models

A video editor with motion smoothing.

Super cool post on how to use electric grid frequency variations to match them into recorded sound clips, and basically allowing to timestamp the clip.

Codon is a high-performance Python compiler that compiles Python code to native machine code without any runtime overhead. Typical speedups over Python are on the order of 100x or more, on a single thread. Codon supports native multithreading which can lead to speedups many times higher still.

Twenty five years ago, The Big Lebowski blew into theaters like a tumbleweed on an empty street.

Domestic audiences barely showed up, with the comedic detective tale only earning $18 million. Audiences gave it a B CinemaScore. Critics sniffed that it wasn’t as good as Joel and Ethan Coen’s last release, the Oscar-winning Fargo.

But that was just, like, their opinion, man.

“I thought it was going to be a big hit,” star Jeff Bridges tells THR, along with sharing some of his personal behind-the-scenes photos from the film’s set, many of which appeared in his 2003 book, Pictures. “I was surprised when it didn’t get much recognition. People didn’t get it, or something.”

Comprehensions are a fantastic language feature in Python. They are an elegant alternative to manually constructing and populating data structures. Comprehensions are declarative – they just say what they are, as opposed to the implicit logic of manual looping. When it comes to simple object creation, comprehension should be used whenever possible. This goes not just for lists, but also for dictionaries and sets.

However, a widely perceived drawback to comprehensions is that they are harder to debug. When something goes wrong with a manual loop, the first thing to do is to print out the iterated values as they turn up. But the values of a list comprehension can’t be accessed, so print-debugging isn’t possible. To deal with this, it’s common to unravel the comprehension into a manual loop. Manual loops are uglier and more complicated and more error-prone than comprehensions, but that’s the price that must be paid for debuggability.