Computer science recap for week 9/2023

From 27/2/2023 to 5/3/2023

Newsletter sent every monday with a recap of articles, projects and tutorials from previous week.

Articles #

GOTOphobia considered harmful (in C) 478 comments in 8 discussions
Civet - The Modern Way to Write TypeScript 422 comments in 5 discussions
The Universe of Discourse : I wish people would stop insisting that Git branches are nothing but refs 246 comments in 3 discussions
[R] Language models can now teach themselves HOW to use tools (i.e any API) in real time, completely automated. When given a task, SLAPA knows to search for the API documentation and learn all the information. Then he create API calls. If they don't work, he learns from his mistake and tries again. 194 comments in 2 discussions
Prompt Injection on Bing Chat triggered by search content 156 comments in 4 discussions
Stop using ridiculously low DNS TTLs (2019) 132 comments in 2 discussions
[N] EleutherAI has formed a non-profit 122 comments in 2 discussions
[R] Microsoft introduce Kosmos-1, a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) that can perceive general modalities, learn in context (i.e., few-shot), and follow instructions (i.e., zero-shot) 115 comments in 3 discussions
World Building With GPT 110 comments in 2 discussions
Linux 6.3 Drops Support For The Intel ICC Compiler 93 comments in 2 discussions
Containers vs. Pods - Taking a Deeper Look 78 comments in 1 discussion
Writing an OS in Rust to run on RISC-V 72 comments in 1 discussion
Microsoft unveils AI model that understands image content, solves visual puzzles 53 comments in 2 discussions
A Review of The Art of the Metaobject Protocol, by Richard P. Gabriel (2010) 53 comments in 3 discussions
How to contribute to a project you have no idea about 44 comments in 5 discussions

Releases #

Projects #

GitHub - tg12/gpt_jailbreak_status: This is a repository that aims to provide updates on the status of jailbreaking the OpenAI GPT language model. 131 comments in 4 discussions
RVVM – The RISC-V Virtual Machine 81 comments in 2 discussions
Automatic differentiation in C 28 comments in 4 discussions
[P] Built my first ever open-source project 7 comments in 1 discussion
Coordinate Hash Trie: A Trie Variant Balancing between Time, Space, and Simplicity 4 comments in 2 discussions
[D] Is there a new SOTA for text-to-talking-head generation? 4 comments in 1 discussion
How to keep the unstructured medical data private? 3 comments in 1 discussion
[P] Let me share my Proj: ESG AI with webpage Streamlit
testc: A new sample driver for A/UX
Developing language frequency lists from Reddit/Twitter posts and Wikipedia articles

Videos #

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