Stories by tosh

Worst Volume Control UI

Twitter Finagle: Backoff.scala

Sam Altman, the ChatGPT King, Is Pretty Sure It’s All Going to Be OK

Timeouts, Retries and Backoff with Jitter

Triton Language and Compiler

The Beginner's Guide to Databases

Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback

Vectorized port of Klong array language

Bayesian Approaches to Brain Function

ANN Benchmarks: approximate nearest neighbor libraries in Python

GPT 4 and the Uncharted Territories of Language

Attention is Turing Complete [pdf]

ChatGPT Kicked Off an A.I. Arms Race

ChatLLaMA: We're Building a Chatbot

Not a Toothy Grin

On Eliezer Yudkowsky's Time op-ed

Faiss: A library for efficient similarity search

Using DTrace to find block sizes of ZFS, NFS and iSCSI

OpenAI: Safety Best Practices