rlevy | 2 years ago | on: Generative AI and ChatGPT Enterprise Risks [pdf]
In the section on open source models, this is missing the important distinction of which ones have licenses prohibiting commercial use.
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rlevy | 2 years ago | on: Gpt4all: A chatbot trained on ~800k GPT-3.5-Turbo Generations based on LLaMa
What’s the third book?
rlevy | 3 years ago | on: LineByLine: Memorize Anything
That implies a good old fashioned one-time purchase
rlevy | 4 years ago | on: Spring Core on JDK9 is vulnerable to remote code execution
Yes
rlevy | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Vizzu – Open-source charting library focused on animating charts
I would good money to have something like this in a PowerPoint extension.
rlevy | 5 years ago | on: Scrollycoding – A new way to write code walkthroughs [video]
This is slick! Anything similar for languages beyond Python?
rlevy | 7 years ago | on: Turing Tumble – Build Marble-Powered Computers
Agreed. I was surprised by how much my 6 year old became engaged in the story. He frequently asks to play/solve more so he can find out what happens next in the story.
rlevy | 7 years ago | on: How to Train and Build a Conversational News Chatbot
This is neat but there’s a big gap between natural language search and conversation.
rlevy | 10 years ago | on: RAML – RESTful API modeling language
RAML is essentially a YAML with a specific schema. Tell your IDE to treat .raml files as .yaml and all the syntax highlighting, etc will work perfect
rlevy | 10 years ago | on: RAML – RESTful API modeling language
Swagger seems to have more awareness and adoption but we have fully embraced RAML due to its "composability" features which eliminate much of the boilerplate and copy/paste/tweak required by Swagger. Making the API spec easier to author & maintain is well worth the downsides of not being able to tap into the Swagger ecosystem. If we really needed something from the Swagger ecosystem, I don't think it would be difficult to create a RAML->Swagger converter. There is already a converter that goes the other direction.
But whichever one you choose, this stuff is awesome. We author API specs and then codegen mock services, client side wrappers (Angular services or Backbone models/collections), server side DTOs and controllers, and pretty documentation. Having that all done from a single authoritative text file under source control has drastically reduced the friction between frontend and backend developers.
rlevy | 10 years ago | on: Pointer Events Now in Firefox Nightly
The pointer API is significantly easier to use for non-trivial interfaces so yeah it does make the world better. For now, yes you need to worry about all 3 API sets (or use a pointer polyfill that tries to do that for you). As older browsers phase out, you'll be able to switch to only working with pointer events. Same with any other new browser API - not super useful on day 1 but eventually there is enough adoption that we can rely on it.
rlevy | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Democracy.io by EFF – Write to your representatives
1 rep in the house (who can't vote), no senators
rlevy | 10 years ago | on: Tron-Club, a monthly circuit-building kit
Amazon and google are also words to find in a dictionary but that doesn't get in the way of enforcing their trademark
rlevy | 10 years ago | on: EFF Stands With Innovative Developers in the Wake of Oracle v. Google
The trial at this point is entirely about copyright, not patents
rlevy | 10 years ago | on: Supreme Court denies review of Google v. Oracle API copyright case [pdf]
Yes, on each side
rlevy | 10 years ago | on: Excel-Based Automated Web Testing Framework
Authoring JSON in Excel does not sound like a productivity booster. That's painful and defeats the purpose of using Excel because of its familiarity.
rlevy | 10 years ago | on: 64 Network DO’s and DONT’s for Game Engines. Part IV: Great TCP-Vs-UDP Debate
rlevy | 11 years ago | on: With 5000 apps, Pebble is winning the smartwatch developer war, at least for now
That's not entirely correct - you also must write C code. You can write JS that runs on the phone and can do stuff like call web services, store data, and communicate with the watch. But it's old fashioned C code that you need to have running on the watch in order to render stuff, get sensor data, or exchange messages with the JS running on the phone.
rlevy | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Review healthcare.gov plan prices in 1 click rather than 16
the actual healthcare.gov (if you can get in) actually does a decent job of letting you compare plans in detail... there are far more factors to consider than just monthly deductible. various copays, out of network coverage, whether dental and vision are included, etc. this site does none of that
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