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The RAG Obituary: Killed by agents, buried by context windows
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Nicolasbustamante
The RAG Obituary: Killed by Agents, Buried by Context Windows
Why Retrieval-Augmented Generation Won’t Survive the Context Revolution and the End of Chunking, Embeddings, and Rerankers as We Know Them.
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Cormac McCarthy's personal library
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Smithsonian Magazine
Two Years After Cormac McCarthy’s Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth
The famously reclusive novelist amassed a collection of thousands of books ranging in topics from philosophical treatises to advanced mathematics to the naked mole-rat
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The Company Man
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The Company Man — LessWrong
To get to the campus, I have to walk past the fentanyl zombies. I call them fentanyl zombies because it helps engender a sort of detached, low-empath…
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ICE to Buy Tool That Tracks Locations of Hundreds Millions of Phones Every Day
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404 Media
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
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Measuring My DIY Air Purifier
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Substack
Measuring my DIY Air Purifier
Cheaper and Better than commercial models? It's complex.
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F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf]
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IP over Lasers
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www.mikekohn.net
Mike Kohn!
Mike Kohn's music, software, and electronics projects.
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Keyhive – Local-first access control
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Inkandswitch
Keyhive: Local-first access control
Keyhive is a project exploring local-first access control. It aims to provide a firm basis for secure collaboration, similar to the guarantees of private chat but for any local-first application.
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JetBrains will start training AI on your code on non-commercial license
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USPS 'covert operations program' monitors Americans' social media (2021)
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Yahoo News
The Postal Service is running a 'covert operations program' that monitors Americans' social media posts
The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News.
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Typepad is closed for business
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Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release
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GitHub
v2.0.0 - Stable Release of Immich · immich-app immich · Discussion #22546
v2.0.0 - Stable Release of Immich Watch the video Welcome Hello everyone, After: ~1,337 days, 271 releases, 78,000 stars on GitHub, 1,558 contributors, 31,500 members on Discord, 36,000 members on ...
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The biggest semantic mess in Futhark
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futhark-lang.org
The Biggest Semantic Mess in Futhark
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
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I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone [video]
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YouTube
I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone!
I built a small language model in Minecraft using no command blocks or datapacks!
The model has 5,087,280 parameters, trained in Python on the TinyChat dataset of basic English conversations. It has an embedding dimension of 240, vocabulary of 1920 tokens…
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A 3K-year-old copper smelting site could be key to understanding origins of iron
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phys.org
A 3000-year-old copper smelting site could be key to understanding the origins of iron
Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the invention ...
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"DSEG": Original 7-segment and 14-segment fonts (2014)
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www.keshikan.net
"DSEG": 7segment and 14segment free font.
"DSEG" is a free font family, which imitate seven and fourteen segment display(7SEG,14SEG).
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Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did
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The Pragmatic Engineer
Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did
At FTX, Frank, and Pollen, software engineers were asked to do something potentially illegal, or to go along with what looked like fraud. They obliged in two out of three cases, landed in hot water, and now face jail time. A reminder why it’s never a good…
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Tinker by Thinking Machines
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Thinking Machines Lab
Tinker
Tinker is a training API for researchers and developers.
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How the AI Bubble Will Pop
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www.derekthompson.org
This Is How the AI Bubble Will Pop
The artificial intelligence boom is the most important economic story in the world. But the numbers just don't add up.
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We Bought the Whole GPU, So We're Damn Well Going to Use the Whole GPU
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hazyresearch.stanford.edu
We Bought the Whole GPU, So We're Damn Well Going to Use the Whole GPU
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NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendation system
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Bits of Freedom
Judge in the Bits of Freedom vs. Meta lawsuit: Meta must respect users’ choice
Bits of Freedom komt op voor internetvrijheid door de online grondrechten op communicatievrijheid en privacy te beschermen.
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