Edit distance
I was just talking to a colleague about edit distance because it came up in a project we’re working on. Technically, we were discussing Levenshtein distance. It sounds more impressive to say Levenshtein distance, but it’s basically how much editing effort it would take to turn one block of text
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The birthday problem is a party trick with serious practical applications. It’s well known to people who have studied probability, but the general public is often amazed by it. If you have a group of 23 people, there’s a 50-50 chance that at least two people have the same birthday.
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We chat with Deedy Das, a Principal at Menlo Ventures, who began his career as a software engineer at Facebook and Google. He then dipped a toe in the startup world, spending time at the company now know as Glean. More recently he started a career as a venture capitalist,
Read moreMasked self-attention: How LLMs learn relationships between tokens
Masked self-attention is the key building block that allows LLMs to learn rich relationships and patterns between the words of a sentence. Let’s build it together from scratch.
Read more(1 − z) / (1 + z)
“I keep running into the function f(z) = (1 − z)/(1 + z).” I wrote this three years ago and it’s still true. This function came up implicitly in the previous post. Ramanujan’s excellent approximation for the perimeter of an ellipse with semi-axes a and b begins by introducing λ
Read moreAutomating Vultr Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform
Learn how to efficiently manage and automate Vultr cloud infrastructure using Terraform. This step-by-step guide covers provisioning resources like cloud instances and Kubernetes clusters, ensuring consistency, scalability, and collaboration in your cloud deployments. Continue reading Automating Vultr Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform on SitePoint.
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