Tag: .NET
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports the ability to append data to an object
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/22/amazon-s3-append-data/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports the ability to append data to an object Feedly Summary: Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports the ability to append data to an object This is a first for Amazon S3: it is now possible to append data to…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/llm-chess/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now Feedly Summary: OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now Last week Dynomight published Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess pointing out that most LLMs are terrible chess players with the exception of…
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Hacker News: Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that work
Source URL: https://portswigger.net/research/listen-to-the-whispers-web-timing-attacks-that-actually-work Source: Hacker News Title: Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that work Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** This text introduces novel web timing attack techniques capable of breaching server security by exposing hidden vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and attack surfaces more effectively than previous methods. It emphasizes the practical…
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Hacker News: OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now
Source URL: https://dynomight.net/more-chess/ Source: Hacker News Title: OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text explores the unexpected performance of the GPT-3.5-turbo-instruct model in playing chess compared to other large language models (LLMs), primarily focusing on the effectiveness of prompting techniques, instruction…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/a-warning-about-tiktoken/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models Feedly Summary: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models Tom MacWright warns that OpenAI’s tiktoken Python library has a surprising performance profile: it’s superlinear with the length of input, meaning someone could potentially denial-of-service you by sending you…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: TextSynth Server
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/textsynth-server/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: TextSynth Server Feedly Summary: TextSynth Server I’d missed this: Fabrice Bellard (yes, that Fabrice Bellard) has a project called TextSynth Server which he describes like this: ts_server is a web server proposing a REST API to large language models. They can be used for example for text…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Steven Johnson
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/steven-johnson/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Steven Johnson Feedly Summary: When we started working on what became NotebookLM in the summer of 2022, we could fit about 1,500 words in the context window. Now we can fit up to 1.5 million words. (And using various other tricks, effectively fit 25 million words.)…