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While exploring new applications for local LLMs, I built a Chrome extension that filters your Twitter feed based on natural language instructions.

For instance, you can instruct it to "Hide all tweets, except for tweets about machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs)."

I've tested it and got good results with a 10B parameter model, but I suspect a high-quality small model like Phi-2 might work almost as well.

It's open source and available at https://github.com/thomasj02/AiFilter

Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CligVVTC5io

I'd like to learn GPU programming but I'm having difficulty finding high-quality resources. I tried a class at coursera and was severely disappointed by both quality and content.

What are the best resources for learning things like GPU architecture, CUDA, Triton, etc?

My goal is to do be able to do something like take a description of Flash Attention and implement it from scratch, or optimize existing CUDA code.

Our middle-schooler is currently at a private school that we loved when we enrolled him. However in recent years it's gotten steadily worse, primarily due to high leadership turnover and faculty/leadership conflict.

We're thinking about homeschooling him for the remainder of grade school and then re-enrolling him into the traditional school system once he reaches high school. We're concerned however that we may not have the patience or pedagogical experience to effectively teach him.

Does anyone else have experience trying to homeschool? Success / failure stories, or best practices?

Recently I set my nine year old up with an old Linux desktop as his first real computer. Of course he is set up in the living room, no headphones, and with a kids Google account that I can fully monitor.

Right now a pain point is trying to set time limits on websites (like youtubekids or lego.com) because although I don't object to them per se, I also don't want him to spend hours browsing the lego website, watching videos, etc.

On iOS devices there are good tools that allow granular level time blocking of websites, apps, etc. Does anyone know of any tools that allow even basic password-protected time blocking on desktop browsers, or a cross-platform (iOS/Linux) time limiter?

I'm coming to the end of a non-compete and I'm going to start looking for a new position in the next couple of months. I'm planning on using a recruiter as part of my job search, since the industry I'm looking in is rather fragmented.

I get one or two cold emails from tech recruiters on LinkedIn every week, often from different recruiters at the same couple of agencies.

How do I choose a good recruiter? What do you look for as red flags or positive signals?

I'm a senior dev who's mostly programmed in C++ and Python, and I'm now looking at learning Rust. It's been about a decade since I learned a new language, and I'm wondering if anyone has tips beyond "read the docs, write lots of code."

Has there been any formal research on new programming language acquisition? Does anyone have a specific "new language" process that works particularly well for them?

The web has tons of guides on how to write technical design documents for software, but relatively few examples of great design documents that I could find.

Are there any technical design docs for OSS or proprietary software that are examples of what a good doc should look like? Ideally something that would show how the document evolved over time, but snapshots are fine too.