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Taking the output of many dumb LLM search relevance judges and feeding the output to a decision tree to improve precision

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We need a vibe shift on dependencies in programming.

US agencies wasting billions on empty offices an “embarrassment,” RTO memo says.

Rights groups demand lawmakers add a warrant requirement to Section 702.

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Distributed coordination makes application complex and brittle. Because all systems eventually build on logs, we can use a shared-log approach to eliminate most coordination. We discuss this conceptually and show how this is practically implemented in the…

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Siri with Apple Intelligence gives confident but embarrasingly wrong answers to sports trivia questions, both famous (Super Bowls) and obscure (North Dakota high school hoops).

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CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI.

Engineers at the Naval Research Lab launched a spy satellite program called Parcae and revolutionized signals intelligence at the height of the Cold War. The program relied on computers to sift through intelligence data, providing a technological edge at…