Computer science recap for week 9/2023

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

Articles #

• GOTOphobia considered harmful (in C) 470 comments in 8 discussions

• The Universe of Discourse : I wish people would stop insisting that Git branches are nothing but refs 242 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. 195 comments in 2 discussions

• Prompt Injection on Bing Chat triggered by search content 151 comments in 4 discussions

• Civet - The Modern Way to Write TypeScript 140 comments in 2 discussions

• Stop using ridiculously low DNS TTLs (2019) 131 comments in 2 discussions

• [N] EleutherAI has formed a non-profit 121 comments in 2 discussions

• World Building With GPT 109 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) 107 comments in 2 discussions

• Linux 6.3 Drops Support For The Intel ICC Compiler 86 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 68 comments in 1 discussion

• A Review of The Art of the Metaobject Protocol, by Richard P. Gabriel (2010) 53 comments in 3 discussions

• Microsoft introduces AI model that can understand image content, pass IQ tests 50 comments in 1 discussion

• SpikeGPT: 230M-parameter Spiking Neural Network trained to be a language model 35 comments in 1 discussion

Releases #

• Gleam v0.27 - Hello panic, goodbye try 2 comments in 1 discussion

• dill 0.2.0 released: proxy built around the idea of dynamic listeners

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 78 comments in 2 discussions

• [P] Basic autodiff library for scalar values in C 28 comments in 4 discussions

• [P] Built my first ever open-source project 7 comments in 1 discussion

• The Implementation of the Coordinate Hash Trie 4 comments in 2 discussions

• How to keep the unstructured medical data private? 3 comments in 1 discussion

• [D] Is there a new SOTA for text-to-talking-head generation? 3 comments in 1 discussion

• Developing language frequency lists from Reddit/Twitter posts and Wikipedia articles

• testc: A new sample driver for A/UX

• [P] Let me share my Proj: ESG AI with webpage Streamlit

Videos #

• [D] The Sentences Computers Can't Understand, But Humans Can 16 comments in 2 discussions

• Autonomous Driving through Chaotic Traffic in India via Reinforcement Learning | Swaayatt Robots Private Limited 8 comments in 2 discussions

• [R] vid2avatar: 3D avatar reconstruction from videos in the wild via self-supervised scene decomposition

• Long Term Trust and Analog Computers