Initially, we had languages like Fortran (1957), Pascal (1970), and C (1972). Fortran was designed for number crunching and scientific computing. Pascal was restrictive with respect to low-level access (it was deliberately "safe", as meant for teaching structured programming). So C won out as a language that allowed low-level/unsafe programming (pointer arithmetic, direct memory access) … Continue reading A brief history of C/C++ programming languages
Describes a simple Markov chain algorithm to generate reasonable-sounding but utterly nonsensical text, and presents some example outputs as well as a Python implementation.
This looks useful, which is why I am linking to it, I haven't tried it or anything: "The simplest, fastest repository for training/finetuning medium-sized GPTs. - karpathy/nanoGPT: The simplest, fastest repository for training/finetuning medium-sized GPTs.
A very interesting concept and scenario that affects scale in surprising ways. In the category of everything old is nee again, this was identified and named back in the 1970’s!
Scalability is considered a hard problem to tackle. It’s always presented like it’s something magical done with secret, special tools that only big, million ...