Marcus du Sautoy Around the World in 80 Games

The text reads very fluently and makes me want to order all the books by Toggle the table of contents Marcus du Sautoy. I didn’t realise that Mahjong was like Rummy and Poker in that it is a trick-taking game. After reading that, something clicked and I could finally see what it’s all about. The idea of Markov chain appeared a few times as the best way to model games, e.

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Generate Chronology: first steps

TL;DR I deployed a simple alpha website with python code, where: the user inputs a paragraph-referenced Word (.docx) document website automatically generates a paragraph-referenced Chronology in Word for download and further editing. These are the first lines of python I have written / glued together with large language models (LLMs). And the approach taken in the code borders on the absurd. But the story may make good reading for those interested in how current (2024) LLMs affect people early in their programming journeys.

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Why care about databases

In his memoirs, Edward Snowden spoke of an era where computers were still the preserve of a small minority, and random strangers would go to extraordinary lengths to help each other in online chats (something which predated the world wide web, which meant this took place outside of the web browsers e.g. Chrome or Firefox). He saw control of one’s own computer as key to privacy and integrity, and was scathing of “cloud computing” which misleading implies that your data is naturally and comfortably held “in the cloud”.

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Parsing LegalDocML Files

Recently I find that when engaging with abstract theoretical texts (e.g. Tom Bailey’s Ambiguous Sovereignty, it is often helpful to make a website out of it. The technical barrier of entry is low: LLMs can readily generate scripts that would allow me to split the text into smaller files and then create separate HTML files out of it. For a journal article, the whole process may take no more than 1-2 hours, and the process of playing around the text lets concept sip in and permits me to say (only with some exaggeration) that my eyes passed over all the text once (when I am testing out the website).

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2 days of Golang with LLMs

TLDR: how I modified and deployed this programme with little knowledge of Golang 1 Background and motivation I began picking up the standard web development tools (Javascript, HTML and CSS) around a year ago, and hand wrote some websites in plain HTML and React with minimal help from LLMs. Around a month ago, I was introduced to the Next eco system, and began heavily using LLMs. I have worked through the Next quick start myself, but the front end of every project has been drafted by V0.

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