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Re:LLaMA-7B in Pure C++ with full Apple Silicon support on Friday March 10, 2023 @07:12PM (#35103267)
There is also C++
Re:Bing AI can play chess on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @04:45PM (#35075175)
If you specifically asked for the best moves, presumably it would recite moves that correlated with won games, not just common moves.
Re:Makani’s first commercial-scale energy kite [video] on Thursday May 18, 2017 @02:24AM (#14365192)
This is the most epic hardware Google has ever created.
Do you have problems with long build times? How do you mitigate them?
Why do you say ducted fan?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016) on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @11:29PM (#12852053)
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Re:Go's first commit on Saturday August 27, 2016 @01:26AM (#12371142)
I don't get it. According to the github history there was a hello world commit in 1972, conversion to C in 1974, conversion to ansi-c in 1988, then the next commit was the first go specification in 2008.

Git was written in 2005.

What did these hello world commits have to do with go? Why are they in the git history?

I wasn't aware Windows had better security than Linux. Do you have a source for this?
I'm pretty sure that's the air exploding as the round pushes it out of the way