Lup Yuen Lee 李立源 @lupyuen@qoto.org

China's Hardtech Corporate VCs: Changing from Alibaba / Tencent to Huawei / CATL / BYD

https://interconnect.substack.com/p/hardtech-corporate-vcs-rising-in

Wholemeal Sourdough with Bread Machine

Recipe: https://gist.github.com/lupyuen/3272756eb8b93ebbcf23b92e13f3bfa9

Turing Machine: Alan Turing’s most important machine was never built

https://www.quantamagazine.org/alan-turings-most-important-machine-was-never-built-20230503/

Bootstrapping Uber’s infra on Arm64 with #ZigLang

https://www.uber.com/en-SG/blog/bootstrapping-ubers-infrastructure-on-arm64-with-zig/

Temu moves HQ from Shanghai to Ireland (Pinduoduo)

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/03/2023/pinduoduo-ireland-dublin-temu

#Haskell at Standard Chartered

https://serokell.io/blog/haskell-in-production-standard-chartered

Before making a Phone Call on #PinePhone … Let's check if the 4G LTE Network is OK

Article: https://lupyuen.github.io/articles/lte2?4#check-the-lte-network

"GPT-4 was found to have memorized titles such as the "Harry Potter" children's books, Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four", "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, the "Hunger Games" books, "Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy", "Fahrenheit 451", "A Game of Thrones", and "Dune""

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/03/openai_chatgpt_copyright/

Doing Math in #FPGA (VHDL)

https://www.hackster.io/adam-taylor/doing-math-in-fpga-3aa701

WordPress drops Twitter social sharing due to API price hike

https://mashable.com/article/wordpress-drops-twitter-jetpack-social-sharing

Transmeta Crusoe: Very long instruction word (VLIW)

https://tedium.co/2023/04/26/transmeta-crusoe-processor-history/

Google will replace the Lock Icon in Chrome

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-will-remove-secure-website-indicators-in-chrome-117/

Sculpt OS for #PinePhone (Genode)

https://genode.org/news/sculpt-os-release-23.04

"a model trained on functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging scans ... was able to predict whole sentences they were hearing with surprising accuracy — just by looking at their Brain Activity" (GPT-1)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/01/1072471/brain-scans-can-translate-a-persons-thoughts-into-words/

OpenLLaMA: Open source reproduction of LLaMA (RedPajama)

https://github.com/openlm-research/open_llama

About WebGPU

https://cohost.org/mcc/post/1406157-i-want-to-talk-about

"LLMs hallucinate when their training dataset has limited, outdated or conflicting information about the question asked of them"

https://vectara.com/avoiding-hallucinations-in-llm-powered-applications/