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University of British Columbia / Mohseni lab There’s been a lot of talk recently about so-called “forever chemicals” and how our society can use new technologies to remove these old toxins from the water and soils of our world. A new solution from the Univ. of British Columbia can both filter out and then destroy…
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Fort, anomalistics pioneer Anomalistics is the use of scientific methods to evaluate anomalies (phenomena that fall outside current understanding), with the aim of finding a rational explanation.[1] The term itself was coined in 1973 by Drew University anthropologist Roger W. Wescott, who defined it as being the "serious and…
Following up on my last post and a semi-related conversation with a new officemate, it seems to me that a lot of people might react something like this: Well, no surprise that we can’t trust these scientists: They have ties to Monsanto. What we need are objective, disinterested scientists who aren’t dependent on industry sponsors.…
It is often easy to present the Apple Watch, especially the Ultra model, as a rugged and powerful adventure companion that is suitable for crossing the Sahara with naught but your wits. And it is, it is a useful companion for all manner of dramatic adventures. However, I was recently reminded of another quieter but…
Confused? Does your brain hurt? Do you find this way of displaying the time unintuitive or outright stupid? Well, now you know how the rest of the world feels when they see the American date format. The Freedom Clock follows the exact same "logic". Let me see again...
I’ve noticed a fairly clear drop in traffic to my most popular articles related to Jenkins since ChatGPT launched. It has made me question whether there is any point writing a blog anymore if LLMs will just consume it and feed it to users in its own words. Is there a point in writing for…
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About DVDStyler is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application for the creation of professional-looking DVDs. It allows not only burning of video files on DVD that can be played practically on any standalone DVD player, but also creation of individually designed DVD menus. It is Open Source Software and is completely free. Features create and…
Inspired by nanoGPT, the simplest, fastest repository for training/finetuning small to medium-sized PALM models. This code tries to faithfully reproduce and create a functioning PaLM (Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.02311.pdf) as efficiently as possible. Trained on OpenWebText, using ~213M params and running on a single Nvidia 3090 GPU for 100,000 iterations (~26 hours) yeilds a val loss of…
