Playing audio files in a Pi Pico without a DAC
http://antirez.com/news/143
Published: March 6, 2024 10:52
The Raspberry Pico is suddenly becoming my preferred chip for embedded development. It is well made, durable hardware, with a ton of features that appear designed with smartness and passion (the state machines driving the GPIOs are a killer feature!). Its…
First Token Cutoff LLM sampling
http://antirez.com/news/142
Published: January 12, 2024 16:49
From a theoretical standpoint, the best reply provided by an LLM is obtained by always picking the token associated with the highest probability. This approach makes the LLM output deterministic, which is not a good property for a number of applications.…
Translating blog posts with GPT-4, or: on hope and fear
http://antirez.com/news/141
Published: January 9, 2024 21:28
My usual process for writing blog posts is more or less in two steps:
1. Think about what I want to say for weeks or months. No, I don’t spend weeks focusing on a blog post, the process is exactly reversed: I write blog posts about things that are so…