a kind reader reached out about all of my iphone alarms and asked how specifically did I run OCR on my mac. I’m not one to gatekeep, so here’s how you can get yourself a nice local ocr ‘service’ that works in the terminal/CLI/python and costs 0 dollars:

Personal webiste for Stefan Abi-Karam.

Index creation time is a critical database metric. Learn more about how Lantern enables 90x faster index creation times than pgvector, and how Lantern compares to Pinecone.

RSS reader: Add, read, save, search. No limits, no account. Local processing.

Travel deep enough below Earth's surface or inside the center of the sun, and matter changes on an atomic level.

Under regulatory pressure, mobile OSes are opening up and adding features that will allow PWAs to disrupt app stores ... Yet with shockingly few exceptions, coverage accepts that the solution to crummy, extractive native app stores will be other native app…

A large international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has found evidence showing that the Small Magellanic Cloud is not a single galaxy—it is actually two, one behind the other. The group has ...

In a series of experiments published in Nature Communications, we found evidence that human judgments are indeed systematically influenced by adversarial perturbations.

I spent about ten days in the Ivory Coast, mostly in Abidjan, but also Yamoussoukro, Man, and Grand Bassam. (Note – The Ivory Coast is so French in culture and temperament that it insists on offici…

VileR's blog: old school PCs, games, graphics, programming, fonts, demos, and so on.

A look ahead at some ongoing projects in PostgreSQL in 2024 and beyond

Which is all about privacy and encryption, apparently

The World Health Organization estimates that 138,000 people are killed by venomous snakes every year.