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Disclaimer: I’m not an ML expert and not even a serious ML specialist (yet?), so feel free to let me know if I’m wrong! It seems to me that we have hit a bit of an “on-premises” vs. “on-premise” situation in the ML/AI and vector search terminology space. The majority of product announcements, blog articles and even some papers I’ve read use the term vector embeddings to describe embeddings, but embeddings already are vectors the..
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Disclaimer: I’m not an ML expert and not even a serious ML specialist (yet?), so feel free to let me know if I’m wrong! It seems to me that we have hit a bit of an “on-premises” vs. “on-premise” situation in the ML/AI and vector search terminology space. The majority of product announcements, blog articles and even some papers I’ve read use the term vector embeddings to describe embeddings, but embeddings already are vectors the..
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I recently had to return an item that I’d bought online. It’s free to return the item in-person to one of their retail locations, or $10 to ship it back. There was a store nearby so I elected to do an in-person return but the experience shows what can happen when software and processes are developed without involving the user. The store clerk was friendly and helpful. He asked for my online order number, found it in the system, and told m..
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As much as I like ZeroLog for Go logging Slog being added to the standard library fits in with my rule of avoiding 3rd party packages when they are not entirely required hence I have started moving anything I work on over to it. One thing I find especially annoying however is log messages inside tests. As such here is a quick code snippet which turns off all slog outputs, but only for tests. Stick it into any _test.go file to disable lo..
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I recently had to return an item that I’d bought online. It’s free to return the item in-person to one of their retail locations, or $10 to ship it back. There was a store nearby so I elected to do an in-person return but the experience shows what can happen when software and processes are developed without involving the user. The store clerk was friendly and helpful. He asked for my online order number, found it in the system, and told m..
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I recently had to return an item that I’d bought online. It’s free to return the item in-person to one of their retail locations, or $10 to ship it back. There was a store nearby so I elected to do an in-person return but the experience shows what can happen when software and processes are developed without involving the user. The store clerk was friendly and helpful. He asked for my online order number, found it in the system, and told m..
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Well, here we go again. This is your favourite eldritch goddess/rogue AI/mage reporting on our DnD campaign. All events fictional. This blog post is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. As planned, we did go with Sarith to collect water from the stream we had passed several times yes....
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I took a vacation this week, so I’m writing this weekly with more of a laid-back attitude. Product Design Sometimes the product innovation is the distribution (Matt Webb): An interesting story about how Moleskine “hacked” into bookshop distribution and what it can mean for tech businesses in general. Ink & Switch : This independent research lab / design studio has put together some really thought-provoking proofs of concept. Just ....
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Like many modern devices, some of the medical vaporizer devices from S&B (the Crafty , Venty and the Volcano Hybrid ) offer Bluetooth connectivity and an app to control them. Unfortunately the official mobile apps have / had some problems. The iOS version is no longer available after Apple decided to remove "drug related" Apps. So understandably the company no longer developed either their iOS or Android apps, instead releasing a we....
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Like many modern devices, some of the medical vaporizer devices from S&B (the Crafty , Venty and the Volcano Hybrid ) offer Bluetooth connectivity and an app to control them. Unfortunately the official mobile apps have / had some problems. The iOS version is no longer available after Apple decided to remove "drug related" Apps. So understandably the company no longer developed either their iOS or Android apps, instead releasing a we....
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I’m speaking at the .NET Conference Italia 2024 on Dec 16th in Milan at the Microsoft House. My session is titled C# 13 What’s New and Interesting and will be on the latest iteration of the C# language. We’ll also briefly touch on .NET 9, which was also just released. Hope to see you there (make sure to come to me to say Hi!)
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Censorship, AI Memecoins, 100K BTC, Time & the Ruliad (Issue #193) 2024-12-07 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith This week’s newsletter is out! In this week’s edition : Bitcoin & geopolitics, money history, India shorting USD, etherium 3 way war, Apple AI, censorship industrial complex, Irish elections, Saylor & Elon, AI memecoins trending, $100K BTC Issue details: Title: Censorship, AI Memecoins, 100K BTC, Time & the Ruliad Iss..
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Merry Christmas, Plus4chan. I'm an anon from 8chan, and we are organizing our inter-board Christmas ...
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Have you heard about Bell Labs? Recently, an article about it reached the Hacker News frontpage, triggering a flood of nostalgic comments. Bell Labs is, for many, a symbol of the ideal working environment for a curious mind: a place where there’s time, money and freedom to research whatever you want. In my own case, having a curious mind drew me from a young age towards computers and lured me into the world of programming.
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Sometimes the best code is the code you delete. Don't love your code and do what's best for the codebase.
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In this post I'll be listing the works from the "Gateway to Great Books" series that I'll be reading to keep track of my progress.
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Short story fika about being human and Historisk julmarknad at Gamla Uppsala
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liza.io
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1 year ago
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It’s been another eventful week at the new place! I went back to work (the commute is even better than I had expected), hosted my next short story fika, met up with a friend from Stockholm, and went to a Christmas market in Gamla Uppsala.
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This is the Simple Security Questions thread for simple questions. >>22024 was full. If with a simple question and without a suitable thread already existing, post it here and someone will probably try to answer it. Remember to do some research be
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lainchan.org
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1 year ago
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This is the Simple Security Questions thread for simple questions. >>22024 was full. If with a simple question and without a suitable thread already existing, post it here and someone will probably try to answer it. Remember to do some research before asking questions. No one wants to answer a question that a simple search can already resolve.
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Inspired by the historic Dahomey Amazons and founded by three of the biggest powerhouses in African music, Mamani Keïta, Mariam Doumbia, and Oumou Sangare, Les Amazones d’Afrique have been using their voices to advocate for women’s rights since their 2017 debut. The group has never shied away from mashing up tradition and technology. Still, on Musow Dance, with the endlessly inventive production of Jacknife Lee, they lean heavily into an al..
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There’s nothing better than a good night’s sleep. The problem: I don’t want to sleep, never been a fan of it. The average well-adjusted person’s day looks a little like this: My (not average, terribly-adjusted person) day however, looks more like this: Perpetual Sleep Deprivation Revenge Bedtime Procrastination is the name of the game. My day is unfulfilling, boring, spent doing a lot of things that I don’t rea....
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What advice would you give to someone moving from another language to Python? What good programming practices are inherent to the language? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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For long, AI Coding tools have naturally split into specialized roles to solve different developer needs, Inline assistants for real-time suggestions and Multi-file editors for broader changes. Today, these approaches are converging, making our development workflows more efficient than ever. I see two distinct categories of AI code assistants in our development landscape. The inline assistance category, championed by GitHub Copilot and Code..
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For long, AI Coding tools have naturally split into specialized roles to solve different developer needs, Inline assistants for real-time suggestions and Multi-file editors for broader changes. Today, these approaches are converging, making our development workflows more efficient than ever. I see two distinct categories of AI code assistants in our development landscape. The inline assistance category, championed by GitHub Copilot and Code..
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Non-Identity Problem and robust climate action - practical philosophy seminar notes
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liza.io
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1 year ago
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Last week I dropped in on what turned out to be a seminar in practical philosophy, featuring a paper about resultant moral luck . This week I was back, with more preparation this time - i.e., I read the paper in advance.
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Download Whonix – 26 Dec 25 Download Whonix (FREE) FREE Download Whonix. Privacy Protection. Anonymity Online. For Windows, macOS, Linux. ( What is a point release? ) Upgrade Alternatively, an in-place release upgrade is possible using the Whonix repository . This release would not have been possible without the numerous supporters of Whonix! Please Donate! Whonix – 9 Jan 26 Donating to Whonix ..
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Download Kicksecure – 25 Dec 25 Download Kicksecure (FREE) FREE download of Kicksecure. Kicksecure can be installed on a physical machine as the host operating system (OS), as a guest OS inside a virtual machine, or as a portable host OS on a USB data stick. ( What is a point release? ) Upgrade Alternatively, an in-place release upgrade is possible using the Kicksecure repository . This release would not hav....
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First Unix box I ever touched, in my first job, here on the Isle of Man 36Y ago. It was a demo machine, but my employers, CSL Delta, never sold any AFAIK. It sat there, running but unused, all day every day. Our one had a mono text display on it, and no graphics ability that I know of. I played around, I wrote "Hello, world!" in C and compiled it and it took me a while to find that the result wasn't called "hello" or "hello.exe" or an....
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Some days ago I saw a thread about an anon saying that hates OOP, SOLID and design patterns, and then I read some replies. One of them mentioned that OOP is unnecessarily complicated; a lot of steps to get a result (somewhat pic rel). So, one day, during my break, I thought about it: "What about functional programming?", so I searched and found this interesting material: https://mishadoff.com/blog/clojure-design-patterns/ https://de..
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LLM chats are often handy for refining answers to a question or task, part of a bigger goal. Navigating the chat transcript, copying and pasting, can be a frequent operation in the bigger goal. If we can do it more efficiently, the better. While chatgpt-shell offered chatgpt-shell-next-item and chatgpt-shell-previous-item commands, it had a few rough edges which prevented me from fully adopting. The default bindings C-c C-n and C-c C-p ....
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Fearless Concurrency Ep.7: Lock-Free Structures and Channels for Scalable Rust Code
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www.ardanlabs.com
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1 year ago
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Introduction: Welcome to Episode 7 of the Fearless Concurrency in Rust series! In this final episode, we explore advanced concurrency techniques that enable efficient, scalable, and robust multithreaded applications in Rust. The focus is on leveraging tools like lock-free data structures, channels for thread communication, and strategies for safely managing shared resources in complex systems. These approaches ensure developers can push th..
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K/V context cache quantisation has been added to Ollama. This enables significant reductions in VRAM usage, allowing users to realise the potential of expanded context sizes and run larger models at their existing context sizes.
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K/V context cache quantisation has been added to Ollama. This enables significant reductions in VRAM usage, allowing users to realise the potential of expanded context sizes and run larger models at their existing context sizes.
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Download Whonix – 26 Dec 25 Download Whonix (FREE) FREE Download Whonix. Privacy Protection. Anonymity Online. For Windows, macOS, Linux. ( What is a point release? ) Upgrade Alternatively, an in-place release upgrade is possible using the Whonix repository . This release would not have been possible without the numerous supporters of Whonix! Please Donate! Whonix – 9 Jan 26 Donating to Whonix ....
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Download Kicksecure – 25 Dec 25 Download Kicksecure (FREE) FREE download of Kicksecure. Kicksecure can be installed on a physical machine as the host operating system (OS), as a guest OS inside a virtual machine, or as a portable host OS on a USB data stick. ( What is a point release? ) Upgrade Alternatively, an in-place release upgrade is possible using the Kicksecure repository . This release would not hav....
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As of today, I’ve been blogging for 20 years. Holy crap, that’s a long time. I remember when I started,… The post 20 Years of Blogging and I’m still a n00b appeared first on Caseysoftware .
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ElasticGPT is a generative AI assistant designed to help Elastic employees quickly find information and answers from company data. Teams can use ElasticGPT via a self-service experience to summarize, categorize, and analyze information and data.
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If you want to make a good RAG tool that uses your documentation, you should start by making a search engine over those documents that would be good enough for a human to use themselves. This is exactly what I’ve been trying to communicate in my org in the past few months. It’s 2024 and we still can’t have a proper search engine in organizations to find relevant information from various sources. While this problem remains to be solved, o..
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A few days ago, redditor gollyned asked about best practices: developing on top of modern elisp packages . It reminded of my modern Emacs lisp libraries post, which I shared with them. While my post is roughly 4.5 years old, these days I continue to reach out to the likes of seq.el , map.el , subr-x.el and let-alist.el on a regular basis. My post also shared some great third party options . Maybe my post could use an update? H....
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Setup Caddy with automatic SSL certificates with Cloudflare
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akashrajpurohit.com
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1 year ago
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Recently I migrated my homelab from using Nginx with local domain certificates to using Caddy with automatic SSL certificates from Cloudflare. This post will go over the steps I took to set up Caddy with Cloudflare.
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