reduz

During the past days, this great article by Sam Pruden has been making the rounds around the gamedev community. While the article provides an in-depth analysis, its a bit easy to miss the point and exert the wrong conclusions from it. As such, and in many cases, users unfamiliar with Godot internals have used it points such as following:

• Godot C# support is inefficient
• Godot API and binding system is designed around GDScript
• Godot is not production ready

In this brief article, I will shed a bit more light about how the Godot binding system works and some detail on the Godot

eonist

The art of prompt coding 🦾

Apps used: Cursor.so / github copilot chat / Amazon Q / codeium

⚠️️ Before you disregard the idea of prompt coding ⚠️️ Don't! Because everyone will be prompt-coding soon enough.

veekaybee

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

sharadhr

$HOME, Not So Sweet $HOME

• Preface
• 1 What is $HOME to you?
• 2 Setup
  • 2.1 Linux
    • 2.1.1 $HOME
    • 2.1.2 Dot-files and dot-directories
    • 2.1.3 XDG Base Directories
• 2.1.4 xdg-user-dirs

shirakaba

Creating an Expo app in 2023

12th July, 2023. I'm going to try creating an iOS app called Paranovel, using Expo. My environment for mobile app dev (Xcode, Ruby, etc.) should be in reasonably good shape already as I frequently develop with React Native and NativeScript.

Creating the app

Go to https://docs.expo.dev, and see the Quick Start: npx create-expo-app paranovel

This runs with no problem, then I get this macOS system popup:

cfm

Adapting the twelve-factor methodology for "Qubes-native" multi-VM applications: a preliminary sketch[^1]

Introduction

Virtualization is the conceptual technology on which modern services (server applications) are built. Whether an application happens to run on a fully- or para-virtualized VM[^2] or is containerized—or even runs on a “bare-metal” physical server after all—most modern services are designed in isolated, replicated, disposable components on commodity hardware.[^3] The [“twelve-factor methodology”][wiggins] (2011) is an influential articulation of the principles

rain-1

This worked on 14/May/23. The instructions will probably require updating in the future.

llama is a text prediction model similar to GPT-2, and the version of GPT-3 that has not been fine tuned yet. It is also possible to run fine tuned versions (like alpaca or vicuna with this. I think. Those versions are more focused on answering questions)

Note: I have been told that this does not support multiple GPUs. It can only use a single GPU.

It is possible to run LLama 13B with a 6GB graphics card now! (e.g. a RTX 2060). Thanks to the amazing work involved in llama.cpp. The latest change is CUDA/cuBLAS which allows you pick an arbitrary number of the transformer layers to be run on the GPU. This is perfect for low VRAM.

• Clone llama.cpp from git, I am on commit 08737ef720f0510c7ec2aa84d7f70c691073c35d.

JoeKarlsson

Real-Time Infrastructure Monitoring with Tinybird

This demo shows you how to build an infrastructure monitoring tool, similar to a mini-datadog, that keeps track of some stats from all of the computers running this included script. Using this data, we can plot time series and build something based on "real" data being captured in the moment.

The script

nat-418

Why Tcl?

Introduction

I use [Tcl] as my scripting language of choice, and recently someone asked me why. This article is an attempt to answer that question.

Ousterhout's dichotomy claims that there are two general categories of programming languages:

kconner

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

How to use this gist

You've got two main options: