Could a llama write your next novel? How about in the style of J. K. Rowling or Lee Child? I put a free open source LLM through its paces.
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Category: Interesting …
Who Broke the Internet?
The Power of a Single Word
It’s not often that a single word can change your entire perspective, shift your world view, and reveal something hidden[…]
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Relax, spring hasn’t started yet
It’s been a bitter, blustery week in Wellington and I’ve heard several people make remarks like, “So much for spring!”[…]
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Living in a Bubble
Surrounded by the world’s biggest moat, (the Pacific Ocean), with a government that reacted swiftly to the growing pandemic, and[…]
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DDOS Attacks – A Primer
For five (business) days in a row now the NZX, New Zealand’s Stock Exchange, has been crippled by so-called distributed[…]
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Curious QR Codes and COVID-19
Around 1.4 million Kiwis have so far downloaded the Ministry of Health’s NZ COVID-19 Tracer App. It’s very simple to[…]
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Don’t Panic! Don’t Panic!
There’s something dark and dangerous out there: “… something calculated to make one forget …” something “… as destructive of real life and real living as cocaine”.
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Quote: Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert’s letters are considered one of the finest bodies of letters in French literature.
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Footsteps
Wow …! … imagine each step you take represents 100 years of history. This simple conceit has stupefying implications. Let’s[…]
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