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a-s-k-afon Understanding the Y Combinator

You are not alone mate :p

a-s-k-afon Ask HN: How many battery cycles on your MacBook?

Cycle Count: 434 Condition: Normal Maximum Capacity: 88%

Long way to go

a-s-k-afon Baidu's Improving Retrieval Augmented Language Model with Self-Reasoning

The amount of accuracy while doing fine tuning or distillation is usually better than pre-training an existing model, not to mention the graph against the cost.

a-s-k-afon Baidu's Improving Retrieval Augmented Language Model with Self-Reasoning

I assume you are referring to fine tuning a model here?

a-s-k-afon Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming"

I mean, at one point this goat did like almost 7000 commits a year. That's around 20 a day.

a-s-k-afon Now that UUIDv7 is lexicographic, does that mean there is no use for ULID?

- 128-bit compatibility with UUID - 1.21e+24 unique ULIDs per millisecond - Lexicographically sortable! - Canonically encoded as a 26 character string, as opposed to the 36 character UUID - Uses Crockford's base32 for better efficiency and readability (5 bits per character) - Case insensitive - No special characters (URL safe) - Monotonic sort order (correctly detects and handles the same millisecond)

ULID's claim according to their official documentation are the above of which everything is taken care of by UUIDv7 officially now. Why should I or not shift back to UUIDv7?

a-s-k-afon Question: How do companies automatically setup subdomains by asking to add CNAME

I'm trying to build a custom domain network on my website but I couldn't figure out how people can use my subdomain to see their content

a-s-k-afon Python's pip on steroids

It's high time Python got some upgrade. Game changer for managing packages and dealing with unnecessary fallbacks. UV for Python is like pnpm for Javascript.

a-s-k-afon Is GitHub Gone Mad?

The github trending repositories are repeated... Multiple times over and over again. At first, I thought it was a glitch and refreshed a couple times, then realised something was seriously wrong when I saw the same pattern in other accounts & PCs. Links are below:

https://ibb.co/LrrK5t2 https://ibb.co/2PdL0jr https://ibb.co/ZhdTkQS https://ibb.co/ncxTrV3 https://ibb.co/JqcQDjw

If you don't face the same issue, please let me know if there is something wrong with my account.

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The field is advancing too fast to catch up with!