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AlexeyBrin
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Thanks, this is a good sign. I had a bad experience with Jetson Nano to realize a few years later that it will be stuck forever to Ubuntu 20.04. I don't want to repeat the experience especially w…
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I find it a bit strange that they recommend to use Ubuntu 20.04 [0], when 24.04 was recently launched ... I would have expected at least 22.04 support. [0] https://tenstorrent.com/har…
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> It is then the same as Microsoft/Google or any other for profit company - you also get "software as is" and even if Excel blows up all your data MSFT is not liable for it. But sti…
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Can you recommend a tutorial/document about fine tuning a small model for selecting the correct functions ? Would be great to have something local that can replace OpenAI functions/tools API…
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I think you are confusing Dennis Ritchie with Ken Thompson.
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Homebrew also installs everything under /opt/ on aarch64. Pretty convenient when you want to nuke it and start fresh.
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Try to use Modern Fortran for a week for anything numerically related and you will understand. The language is pretty easy to use for scientists, fast and can be learned in a reasonable amount of time…
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Most BASICs had some primitive form of Logo language "on board". You send DRAW commands in strings e.g. "r90 f100". Clearly not as nice as having Logo installed on your computer.
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Thanks for letting me know, BBC BASIC was indeed advanced for the period.
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The BASIC version that run BBC Micro had proper functions and subroutines with local variables (I think it even had recursion, but I'm not 100% sure). AFAIK, all Microsoft BASIC (of which AppleSo…
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An amazing book about the history and evolution of BASIC: Endless Loop: The History of the BASIC Programming Language by Mark Jones Lorenzo
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Buy a second hand Jetson Nano and you can learn CUDA on it.
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For hobby programming, Python is the best (unless you want to do web development in which case JavaScript is what you want). For Python, a really good book for beginners is Python Crash Course .
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Maybe Discovering Modern C++ 2nd edition. But check the table of content before buying, it may be too beginner level for you.
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The author has two books about writing small games that can run in the boot sector. First book also has a quick course in 8086 Assembly: Programming Boot Sector Games More Boot Sector Games …
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The small problem with this trend is that in order to grow, a senior developer needs to learn by experimenting with code, a lot of code ... At this rate, in a few decades there will be no more senior …