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March 30, 2025

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Everything new on Apple TV+ in April 2025

Severance season 2 may be over (read my Severance season 2 ending explained piece and Severance season 3 hub for more details on where things may go next) but you won’t want to cancel your Apple TV+ subscription just yet. Indeed, there are plenty more fantastic TV shows to enjoy throughout April on one of the world’s best streaming services. Okay, there aren’t any new movies for the film buffs among you to be entertained on the platform. Apple‘s specialty is creating unmissable TV Originals, though, and it just so happens that you’ll be well stocked on that front between

March 30, 2025

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Fine-tune Llama 2 with DPO

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has become the de facto last training step of LLMs such as GPT-4 or Claude to ensure that the language model’s outputs are aligned with human expectations such as chattiness or safety features. However, it brings some of the complexity of RL into NLP: we need to build a good reward function, train the model to estimate the value of a state, and at the same time be careful not to strive too far from the original model and produce gibberish instead of sensible text. Such a process is quite involved requiring a number

March 30, 2025

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PDF Reports for SonarQube ( Community Edition ) Analysis

Hi everyone, Hope you're all doing well. I know SonarQube tends to be a polarizing topic here—I've seen my fair share of "X vs SonarQube" threads on this sub. I'm not exactly a SonarQube fanboy either, but in most corporate environments I've worked in, SonarQube has been the default choice—mostly because it's mature and ticks the compliance boxes. That being said, I recently ran into a frustrating gap: there's no easy way to generate and share PDF reports from the SonarQube Community Edition. This was becoming a bit of a blocker for reporting and stakeholder communication, so I ended up

March 30, 2025

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Used Gemini 2.5 Pro to write a sequel to my old novels & ElevenLabs for creating a audiobook of it. The result was phenomenal.

Okay, gotta share this because it was seriously cool. I have an old novel I wrote years ago and I fed the whole thing to Gemini 2.5 Pro – seriously, the new version can handle a massive amount of text, like my entire book at once – and basically said, "Write new chapters." Didn't really expect much, maybe some weird fan-fictiony stuff. But wow. Because it could actually process the whole original story, it cranked out a whole new sequel that followed on! Like, it remembered the characters and plot points and kept things going in a way that mostly

March 30, 2025

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🌟 Why Web3 Is More Than Just Crypto: A Developer’s Guide 🚀

Welcome, developers! 👨‍💻👩‍💻 If you’ve been hearing buzzwords like “Web3,” “blockchain,” and “decentralization” everywhere, but you’re still scratching your head wondering what it all means beyond cryptocurrency 💰, then this guide is for YOU. In this epic post, we’ll dive deep into the world of Web3, explore its vast potential beyond crypto, and equip you with the knowledge to become a Web3 wizard ✨. Let’s get started! 🎉 📜 What Exactly Is Web3? Before we jump into why Web3 is more than just crypto, let’s first define what Web3 actually is. Web3 (short for “Web 3.0”) represents the next evolution