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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 30, 2023

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OpenLLaMA is an open-source reproduction of Meta’s LLaMA language model and can be used commercially.

=> ↺ OpenLLaMA is an open-source reproduction of Meta’s LLaMA language model and can be used commercially.

The Berkeley team is now releasing an early version of the 7-billion-parameter OpenLLaMA model, which has so far been trained on 300 billion of 1.2 trillion tokens. Performance is already said to be approaching the level of LLaMA, and the team is confident that the fully trained OpenLLaMA will be competitive with Meta’s original.

On being paid to learn

=> ↺ On being paid to learn

Regular readers of my blog know I have been planning to write on my recent contract contributing to Quinn, the popular Rust implementation of the QUIC protocol. I originally intended to write a deep-dive into the QUIC features I implemented, but the blog post took a life of its own and ended up as a short essay on being paid to learn. Enjoy!

Hackaday Prize 2023: Scratch Made 8-Bit Educational Computer

=> ↺ Hackaday Prize 2023: Scratch Made 8-Bit Educational Computer

To demonstrate the functionality of an 8-bit computer processor at a very basic level,  [Mazen Gomaa] assembled a Homemade 8-Bit Educational Computer using common CMOS logic chips, a handful of prototyping boards, and an impressive number of carefully connected wires. [Mazen] was inspired by Ben Eater’s 8-bit TTL Breadboard Computer but opted to solder the chips and other components onto proto boards instead of using solderless breadboards.

New versions of LibreSSL released

=> ↺ New versions of LibreSSL released

The LibreSSL project has announced the release of versions 3.6.3 and 3.7.3, and (development) version 3.8.0 of the software.

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