Best of ComputingAugust 2023

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    How to Build a Large Language Model from Scratch Using Python

    Learn how to create your own large language model from scratch using Python. Elliot Arledge created this course to teach you about the data handling, mathematical concepts, and transformer architectures that power these linguistic juggernauts. You will learn about train and validation splits, the bigram model, and the critical concept of inputs and targets.

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    hackclub/putting-the-you-in-cpu: A technical explainer by @kognise of how your computer runs programs, from start to finish.

    GitHub - hackclub/putting-the-you-in- CPU: A technical explainer of how your computer runs programs, from start to finish. Read chapter 3 and I guarantee you will learn something new. Unless you're like, Linus Torvalds himself.

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    Unleash Docker Desktop 4.22: The Featherweight Heavy-Hitter for Supercharged Rapid Development

    The Docker Desktop 4.22 release brought a substantial boost to Docker Desktop’s networking stack, the technology used by containers to access the internet. This upgrade significantly enhances networking performance, which is particularly beneficial for tasks like docker builds. The new Resource Saver feature optimizes efficiency, enhances performance and simplifies the development workflow.

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    Avatar of bytebytegoByteByteGo·3y

    EP74: The Evolution of AWS Services

    This week’s system design refresher: Algorithms You Should Know Before You Take System Design Interviews AWS Services Evolution. In this exclusive report, engineers will finally get visibility into what the top 10% of dev teams are hitting in terms of crucial metrics – like cycle time, deployment frequency, rework rate, and more.