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Can gzip be a language model?

A while back I wrote about language modeling without neural networks, where I generated Shakespeare with an unbounded n-gram model: no weights, no training, …

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But yak shaving is fun

KO | EN This blog doesn’t use a static site generator or framework like Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby. I tried a few of them at first, but they gave me too little freedom to customize, so I decided to build the blog myself. Early on I just wrote posts in HTML,...

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all the ways in which terminals' text rendering is bad

terminals really want text to be a 2d grid of characters which can be rendered by just mapping each character onto a box on the screen. now, if your language uses a latin script, this can probably be made to work good enough. unfortunately, it turns out...

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Re: AUR REPORT THREAD - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

Not exactly malicious, but definitely spam. Using the github AUR repo: In all these cases it adds to bash/zsh etc shell configs to echo spam, in russian, on start. $ while read ref; do git grep --files-with-matches 'NoServices' $ref; done < <( git refs list...