February 2025

Reasoning models

@slightknack wrote a blog post experimenting with applying the DeepSeek-R1 techniques to the open weights Llama 3.2 model, specifically using it to solve Project Euler problems.

Restaurant review

@a wrote a blog post reviewing a restaurant in Boston called Ali’s Uyghur Kitchen, which serves Uyghur cuisine, a blend of Chinese, Islamic, and Central Asian styles.

@cloudyy: reading this post before dinner was not a good idea… If I am ever near Boston, I would definitely go to this restaurant.

Book reviews

@a wrote two blog posts reviewing two interesting books. One contains every single Unicode character and the other is about a manga that teaches the basics of SQL databases.

@cloudyy: I had heard about this manga series in the past, but I had no idea that it was actually a real thing.

Self-hosting and moving from sr.ht to a small VPS

@d-rens wrote a blog post talking about the move from sr.ht pages to a small Hetzner VPS and using nginx.

Online accounts stuff

Several of our members wrote posts about various online account-related stuff: @daudix, @vnpower and @xtex.

Why have goals

@iacore wrote a pretty philosophical short post about why we have goals and dreams and recommends the ancient Chinese book 道德經 (Dao De Jing).

@a: I also like 道德經 but I personally think the book 莊子 (Zhuangzi) is even better. Same genre and time period, but it has lots of funny parables, talking animals, and deep philosophy.

Discuss

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