A simple Zettelkasten is the best way to start The tool does not make the artist. An artist can create art with either simple or complex tools. Their skill doesn’t depend on the complexity of the tool, but on their ability, creativity, and above all, on their understanding of the principles of art. A ...
My favorite PostgreSQL 18 Feature: Virtual Generated Columns Postgres 18 comes with flashy features like async I/O and UUID v7, but my favorite is more humble: virtual generated columns. They bring a reactive programming feel to Postgres.
Mobile Trackers your Ad-Blocker Doesn’t Know About – James O'Claire This is the full list of the main API endpoints that apps send data to. This is across ~70k android apps and the smallest endpoint has about ~90 apps that send data to it, meaning it’s unlikely to be an app developer’s domain.
Variance Bender Ad nauseam **It's 3 AM. Two friends sit on a dorm rooftop with fries between them. They've gone through several Angry O's; many have fallen into the bushes below them. The
Forecasting the Future of Recommender Systems - Ivan Vendrov Watch now | We speak with Ivan Vendrov about recommender systems and their impact on human attention and society.
Accelerated Game Of Life with CUDA / Triton Let’s look at implementing Conway’s Game of Life using a graphics card. I want to experiment with different libraries and techniques, to see how to get the best performance. I’m g…
The Chips of Theseus In this article, we discuss how we might achieve a digitization of the conscious mind.
So how does PCA actually work? In the age of big data, making sense of high-dimensional datasets is a common challenge. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is one of the most powerful tools in the data scientist’s toolkit for reducing dimensionality while preserving the essence of the d...
Behind The Scenes of Bun Install Learn how Bun is able to cut install times by up to 25×. Bun skips Node.js's overhead with direct system calls, cache-friendly data layouts, OS-level copy-on-write, and full-core parallelism.
Gregg Kellogg passed away from Coralie Mercier on 2025-09-11 (public-json-ld-wg@w3.org from September 2025) Received on Thursday, 11 September 2025 11:58:56 UTC
Procedural Island Generation (I) This is a coding blog where I post about the various projects that I am currently working on, both at work, or as an independent researcher. Most content here revolves around computer graphics and physics simulation.
Patrick Breyer (@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social) Attached: 1 image 🇪🇺YES: Germany is not supporting the EU's #ChatControl bill as proposed! The blocking minority needed to stop this illegal mass surveillance plan seems secured (for now). ✅ Opposition now also from LU🇱🇺 & SK🇸🇰! #KeepUpTheFight ...
Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models. For example, you might observe that asking ChatGPT the same question multiple times provides different result...
sort-research-rs/writeup/unreasonable/text.md at main · Voultapher/sort-research-rs Test and benchmark suite for sort implementations. - Voultapher/sort-research-rs
KDE launches its own distribution (again) At Akademy 2025, the KDE Project released an alpha version of KDE Linux, a distribution built b [...]
First Time In South Korea Guide Essential tips for your first trip to South Korea. Location, activity, accommodation, food and attraction recommendations.
Comparing Models for Retrieval Augmented Generation How would you choose a model for RAG? In this article we use a comprehensive set of metrics and good practices to compare and choose the best large language model to power your summaries for Retrieval Augmented Generation.
The unreasonable effectiveness of the pancake rule Having problems with your team being late to the daily stand-up? Try this!
Mirrors // FailZero Minimal, honest mirrors. No compression, no tricks — just the bits, synced hourly.
Bazel Knowledge: Smuggling capabilities through a tarball tl;dr: Linux capabilities are just xattrs (extended attributes) on files — and since tar can preserve xattrs, Bazel can “smuggle” them into OCI layers without ever running sudo setcap.
Trial and Error Driven Development One of the things that I learned (fortunately) relatively early on in my career is that it’s actually important to understand how things work.
Humans as Bottleneck Pre-Gutenberg press, access to information was a bottleneck. Pre-internet, easy access to information was a bottleneck. Pre-LLMs, finding the right resources...