article thumbnail

The world of Yakuza fan magazines (2009)

Hacker News

By Jake Adelstein TOKYO: The Japanese mafia, better known as the yakuza, has been the subject of fan magazines for decades.

131
131
article thumbnail

Popular Science Magazine Archives May 1872-March 2009

Hacker News

Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

118
118
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Story time: How I started coding

Ines Montani

I spent hours writing, designing and printing my own magazines, and I dreamt about one day becoming a journalist or book author. Some designs of my old blog, klammerauf.org, from 2006-2009 It was common to redesign your site for no particular reason about once a month, so there was always something to do.

article thumbnail

Fine-tune Llama 2 for text generation on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Machine Learning Blog

nn### Input:nFélix César Luna (30 September 1925 – 5 November 2009) was an Argentine writer, lyricist and historian.nnnn### Response:n Ground Truth response: Felix Luna died on November 5th, 2009 Response from the non fine-tuned model: Félix César Luna (30 September 1925 – 5 November 2009) was an ArgentinennWhen did Luna die?nnn###

ML 115
article thumbnail

Honoring the Legacy of Chip Design Innovator Lynn Conway

Hacker News

They received multiple joint awards including the Electronics magazine 1981 Award for Achievement, the University of Pennsylvania ’s 1984 Pender Award , and the Franklin Institute ’s 1985 Wetherill Medal. The IEEE Computer Society awarded her its 2009 Computer Pioneer Award.