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An interesting look into the way LLMs form an understanding of their users. We can observe some of how they categorize us by gender, age, and wealth — shaping their behavior towards us. Hopefully, greater understanding will help us identify and correct biases; ensuring LLMs remain helpful rather than another reinforcement of harmful stereotypes, or worse.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/inside-the-ai-black-box/682853/
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LLMs often need to interact with external systems. Kiran Prakash explains how they do this kind of function calling, not by executing the calls directly, but passing sufficient data about the call to a separate program.
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Why not to raise NotImplementedError in #ruby #rubyonrails
Couldn't agree more. https://nithinbekal.com/posts/abstract-methods-notimplementederror-ruby/
I did not know about `bundler/inline`. This is very nice.
Defining gem dependencies in single file Ruby scripts:
https://nithinbekal.com/posts/bundler-inline-gemfile/
I recently worked in #Rails 7.2.alpha using #Ruby 3.3 on regular #Windows, and some slowness aside, everything worked absolutely fine for my needs.
Thanks for doing such a great job, the Rails, Ruby, #RubyonWindows, RubyGems, SQLite3 and Puma teams.
(regular windows = no docker, no WSL2)
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