Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

Did you know you can link directly to a specific word on a webpage and have the browser automatically scroll down and highlight it? It’s called Scroll to Text Fragment, and it's a game-changer for sharing quotes, data, or proof.  This is especially useful when the content you want to link to doesn't have a standard HTML anchor (like #heading). This feature lets you link directly to any specific word or text block on a webpage, highlighting it for the user automatically. I was amused to find that  La Opala Crockery is 100% Vegetarian  and it proudly sports on its packaging the green dot logo that's typically used by food products. They also mention this claim on their blog in a long article. I wanted to share the link on a forum that mentions the exact sentence so that readers can jump to the specific point. Here’s how the link can be constructed to highlight "100% vegetarian" - https://www.laopala.in/blog/what-sets-laopala-cup-set-apart #:~:text=100% vegetarian Th...

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This Week I Learned -  * "Hallucination is a feature when you’re being creative." - S Anand * "AI doesn't have to be right to be useful. The goal is outputs you can iterate over time — not perfection on the first try." -  Agentic Thinking 101, Udacity * "...language models hallucinate because the training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over acknowledging uncertainty" -  Why Language Models Hallucinate * "Large language models (LLMs) do not work like databases, storing facts in neat rows and columns, and retrieving the right answer when asked. They are trained on enormous collections of text and learn statistical patterns in language. When prompted, they generate a response by predicting what will come next, one piece at a time. An LLM generates text one word at a time, each word a probability drawn from patterns it absorbed during training. A setting called the temperature governs how adventurous those draws are. If the temperature is l...