It′s mid-fall which means a new version of C# is coming soon. It′s time to find out what updates will soon appear in the language. Although C#12 has fewer features than previous versions, it still...
What it takes to pass a file path to a Windows API in C++
If you thought JavaScript was a mess, here's what it takes to pass a file path to a Windows API in C++: 🧵 - Windows uses UTF-16, but most modern software uses UTF-8 - Converting UTF-8 to UTF-16 requires calling MultiByteToWideChar twice (once for size, second to convert) - Alternatively you can set...
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Following up on the work from our previous blog post, we are releasing today an arXiv paper titled “Giraffe: Adventures in Expanding Context Lengths in LLMs”. Giraffe is a new family of models that are finetuned from base LLaMA and LLaMA2 that we release. We include a 4k Giraffe and 16k Giraffe fine...
Linux enthusiasts rejoice! After a long journey, according to StatCounter's data, by June 2023, Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share.
