On September 28th Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation making California the first state to ban sell-by dates. Assembly Bill No. 660 will take effect on July 1, 2026, banning the use of "sell-by" dates and standardizing language for date labels to reduce…

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Cosine similarity is the recommended way to compare vectors, but what other distance functions are there? And are any of them better?

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