Speedrunning LoRA fine-tuning: frozen task, frozen hardware, public wall-clock leaderboard. modded-nanogpt for fine-tuning. - Saivineeth147/lora-speedrun

In the previous article, we explored the importance of standards: how the unspoken agreements governing electrical sockets, paper sizes and file formats form the foundations of a world in which choices remain open and power is not concentrated in the hands of a single player. We concluded with a question: if open standards are so beneficial, why aren’t they universally adopted? The answer, in the case of document formats, lies in a single page produced by Microsoft Office. Getting rid of it is harder than it seems. A file is never just a file When you save a document on your computer, you are choosing a format — that is, the language in which your document is written in a way that the computer can understand: the set of rules that determines how words, tables, images and formatting instructions are stored and, consequently, how they can be retrieved, shared and read in the future. For decades, the dominant format for office documents has been that produced by Microsoft Office. Initially as binary files with extensions such as DOC and XLS, then as XML-based formats introduced with Office 2007: DOCX, XLSX and PPTX. These formats are used by hundreds of millions

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The Dutch archaeological mission working in the Theban necropolis, led by Dr. Carina van den Hoven of Leiden University, has brought to light a tomb in the lower sector of Sheikh Abd al-Qurna, on the west bank of the city of Luxor, during the excavation campaign carried out by the team this season.

Czech government backs mobile phone ban in schools, a little mishap on metro line C, and a more expensive fare for Petřín.

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My two-year-old son used a Brio wooden train set to explain constraint solving to his silly Dada.

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“My love for Randy and my professional experience were not enough to save him,” a physician writes about her husband’s suicide.

The landscape of NYC changes so much that the New York City Office of Technology and Innovation updates a dataset of building footprint shapes weekly.

⚡️ Ziggity an ultra fast, keyboard driven terminal UI for Git, written in Zig. - simoarpe/ziggity

There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it.

One of the rarest and most coveted synthesizers in music history, the PS-3300, is back.

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