On Prompt Engineering

High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) in Computer Networking

Introducing Compact Mode: Optimize Available Screen Space with Blazor DataGrid

JEP draft: Implicit Classes and Enhanced Main Methods in Java

Issue #337

2/22/2023

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How we doin party people? Got distracted this morning by someone commenting on LinkedIn that nuclear power is a far cry from renewables. Since starting Find Energy, I've become a strong proponent of nuclear power, so had to inform them that nuclear generally has a substantially lower number for CO2 equivalent emissions / kilowatt hour generated.
Anyway, here's the issue.

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On Prompt Engineering

Published: 18 February 2023
Tags: ai, machine learning

Ben Congdon discusses the idea of "prompt engineering", which is the idea of designing prompts for large language models (LLMs) in order to get them to produce interesting or useful results.
Some highlights:

  • Prompt engineering is blowing up because new AI tools are usable by pretty much anyone
  • Prompts can be used to tune AI models to follow specific rules
  • ChatGPT is "70-80%" sure prompt engineering is going to grow in the coming years


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High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) in Computer Networking

Published: 17 February 2023
Tags: networking

Krishna Kaushal does a technical dive into High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC), a widely used data communication protocol in computer networks.
Some highlights:

  • High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) is a layer 2 protocol that is used to transmit data over point-to-point and multipoint links
  • First introduced by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1979 and is now widely used in many communication systems
  • HDLC uses a frame structure to transmit data over a network


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Introducing Compact Mode: Optimize Available Screen Space with Blazor DataGrid

Published: 2 February 2023
Tags: c#, dotnet, sponsored

Telerik UI covers how to optimize the available view port using Blazor DataGrid's compact mode option.
Some highlights:

  • Brief intro on compact mode
  • Blazor Grid configuration
  • How to further customize the grid


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JEP draft: Implicit Classes and Enhanced Main Methods in Java

Published: 13 February 2023
Tags: java, compiler

Brian Goetz presents a new proposal for adding implicit classes and enhanced main methods to the Java language.
Some highlights:

  • Aims to reduce the complexity of writing simple programs in Java
  • Not meant to be a dialect of Java
  • Useful for students learning Java and experts writing command line tools/short scripts


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