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View all tags →Today, I was setting up an Amazon Lex chatbot and came across a couple of challenges. In simple terms, Amazon Lex is like a more structred version of ChatGPT. It uses advanced natural language understanding (NLU) and aut…
Read moreRevisiting CSS: A Pleasant Surprise I don't often write CSS. To my surprise, I discovered that modern CSS now has its own native variables, known as Custom Properties. These are now widely supported across all major brow…
Read moreYour remote tracking branches This cleans up the big origin list you get when you do git branch --remote git remote prune origin Local branches that have been merged This removes your local branches that have been merged…
Read moreOpenAI recently made their GPT-4-backed vision capabilities available to API developers. Here's OpenAI's Vision API Guide. After seeing this demo on Twitter and examining the code here, I decided to experiment with it my…
Read moreI was trying to get a copy of an Android app APK file today. This can be really handy if you need to back up an app that's not on the Play Store anymore, or if you're trying to debug a problem and you don't have the orig…
Read moreDrop into bash on the most recently ran container: docker exec -it $(docker ps -ql) bash
Read moreI was having a look around at vector databases to have a play with document search and realised that suddenly there's support all over the place for them, even from the big players. ELI5: geo databases query 2 dimensiona…
Read moreThis means they can do the same calculation twice and get different answers. Be careful if you use GPUs for security related things. This is because of how floating point arithmetic works in CPUs/GPUs - the same thing th…
Read moreA beginner’s guide to building Quantum Computers, breaking encryption, and stopping quantum hackers.
Read on MediumLet’s see if we can make our own autonomous AI agent in 25 lines of code.
Read on MediumPandora lets ChatGPT access the internet, code in any language, access local files and install any software.
Read on MediumChatGPT’s Code Interpreter can do far more than Python scripts, including JavaScript, PHP, and even video processing.
Read on MediumTree-of-Thought prompting broadens ChatGPT’s reasoning by encouraging structured exploration of ideas.
Read on MediumEffective conversations with ChatGPT beat elaborate prompt incantations, even for serious work.
Read on MediumFostering an environment where mistakes are less likely.
Read on MediumBorrowing the classic guessing game makes it easier to isolate software issues quickly.
Read on MediumFailure cascades in multiplicative systems when any factor drops to zero, so design to avoid single points of failure.
Read on MediumClickbait title: What you think you know about technology strategy is all wrong.
Read on MediumAnswers to the questions engineers ask about life at Passenger.
Read on MediumLaunching myTrip early let Passenger learn from real users before the app was “ready.”
Read on MediumSystems thinking and behavioural economics offer guidance for leading through the pandemic.
Read on MediumA half-finished thought on growing teams that was still worth sharing.
Read on MediumAsking what you can remove without harm is the heart of a performance culture.
Read on MediumLessons from expanding an engineering team tenfold over a decade.
Read on MediumA tour of the mix of SQL and specialist data stores Passenger relies on, and why each fits its job.
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