Custom elements (web components) modelling with coroutines

A deep dive into the Probabilistic B-tree or Prolly Tree data structure including examples. Prolly Trees are used to create version controlled databases.

We aren’t equipped to decide whether to have children, but that’s okay—we aren’t equipped to regret having them, either.

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has significantly transformed both the construction and application of information retrieval (IR) systems. However, current interactions between IR systems...

Last week Friday, a tragedy happened in Gainesville, Florida. A doctoral candidate hanged himself in the campus building of University of…

Copycat video feature Reels helps Meta app in fightback against Chinese-owned rival

Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they were that they understood how HEAD works in Git. The results (out of 1700 votes) were a little surprising to me:

SEA-KIT designs and builds hi-tech USVs (uncrewed surface vessels) for the commercial, defence and security and luxury sectors. SEA-KIT over-the-horizon, long-range USV solutions reduce risk, carbon emissions and cost with remotely-controlled, multi-mission…

Tilt/Shift lenses are rather exotic. Is there still a reason to use them for digital photography? Which T/S lenses work best on Sony A7...

We consider a proposed alternative to quantum gravity, in which the spacetime metric is treated as classical, even while matter fields remain quantum. Consistency of the theory necessarily...

BBC News is shown the secret site protecting the remains of the Sycamore Gap tree felled last year.

The Linux kernel uses a number of hardening techniques to try to protect itself against comprom [...]

Here is Claude 3's system prompt!
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Students said they were given little information about when and if the devices would be returned, and many wondered if they’d lose access to the work they saved.

The lack of a cooling fan on the M3 MacBook Air has severe consequences, as it throttles due to extremely high temperatures