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The wilderness of Poggio Montironi
Yesterday was a beautiful, sunny, cold winter Sunday.
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How Many Hobbits?
For those who don’t know me, I’m a demographer.
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The Winterkeeper
The Guardian’s The Winterkeeper: A Lifetime Spent Protecting Yellowstone National Park is a beautiful short documentary I truly enjoyed watching.
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Quoting Andrej Karpathy
I always struggle a bit with I’m asked about the “hallucination problem” in LLMs.
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Intro to Large Language Models (video)
Andrej Karpathy has a very well-done Intro to Large Language Models video on YouTube.
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I am speaking at the .NET Conference Italia 2023
In a few days, on Monday, December 4, at 10 a.m., I will present at the .NET Conference Italia 2023, which will be held at the Microsoft House in Milan.
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How to use XmlWriter along with StringWriter to properly serialize a UTF-8 string
Today, I (re)learned how to serialize an XML to a UTF-8 string.
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