An Introduction to Absinthe

In the first part of this Absinthe for Elixir series, let's explore some of the basics of Absinthe and GraphQL.

Nathan

Language lessons with an extraordinary ape.

I’m a Former U.S. Treasury Secretary. Here’s How I Make Hard Decisions.

The need for a sound decision-making approach in the face of uncertainty is greater now than ever before.

Chris James - HTMX is the Future

Chris James, London - Software Engineer

What Are *args And **kwargs In Python - Guide With Examples

When we see the documentation of any function that contains *args and **kwargs, have you ever...

The Last Gamble of Tokyo Joe

Ken Eto rose through the ranks of the Chicago mob, and then it tried to kill him. The underworld would never be the same.

Passkeys may not be for you, but they are safe and easy—here’s why

Answering common questions about how passkeys work.

Welcome to Rails Cheat Sheet

A helpful list of resources for people who are just getting started out with Rails.

Hidden Data Science Gem: Rainbow Method for Label Encoding | by Anna Arakel

Make stronger and simpler models by leveraging natural order

What the Heck is Cuneiform, Anyway?

The writing system is 6,000 years old, but its influence is still felt today

Qubits 30 meters apart used to confirm Einstein was wrong about quantum

Experiment linked qubits using a supercold wire over 30 meters long.

Hacker News

Ribonucleic acids (RNAs) are single-stranded molecules that play an essential role in the cells of all living organisms. As "transcripts" of our genes, mRNAs, for example, are involved in the translation ...

Patient M: The man who started seeing the world backwards after being shot in the head

A study returns to the case of a soldier injured during the Spanish Civil War who inspired doctor Justo Gonzalo’s theory of the human brain

Baseball cap history and timeline

The Official Site of Major League Baseball

It’s May in Rome: A Time to Revere, and Fear, Fava Beans

Although favism, a blood disorder that can cause a violent reaction to fava beans, lurks throughout Italy, many Romans look forward to May, when the legumes are in season.

Google dives into the ‘supercomputer’ game by knitting together purpose-bui

Google's new machines combine Nvidia H100 GPUs with Google’s high-speed interconnections for AI tasks like training very large language models.

Google’s ChatGPT-killer is now open to everyone, packing new features

More languages, image inputs, and extension support among Bard features at I/O ’23.

One Of Rome’s Most Devastating Military Defeats Was Masterminded From Withi

Having served in the Roman army under a risky conscription scheme, Arminius's ambush in Teutoburg Forest inflicted massive damage to the Empire.

Dogs on India’s streets can be freer and happier than many pets | Aeon Essays

These canines have independent, peaceful, happy lives without a pet’s constraints. Why are they being persecuted and culled?

How Sight—Not Taste, Smell, or Touch—Became the Sense of the Supermarket -

When it comes to buying food, sight has usurped all other senses. What are the consequences of relegating smell, taste, and touch to the sidelines?

MakeItFrom.com: Material Properties Database

In a Baltimore basement, a jazz detective strikes gold

New recordings of old jazz performances at Baltimore's now-closed Famous Ballroom are being released for the first time.

11 Product Labels for Max Conversions

Paraphrasing technical product details into easy-to-understand labels drives ecommerce conversions. Here's how, with examples.

How Forensic Accounting Can Supercharge Your Financial Risk Analysis

Spot trouble early in a volatile environment with forensic accounting.

The Best of Science Fiction | Five Books recommends

The best sci fi books, recommended by those who know: from timeless classics of science fiction to the best new novels, taking in cli-fi, space colonies, time travel and more.

The Collectors Offering Thousands for Vintage Pyrex

Raiding Grandma’s cupboards is no longer enough.

How to Apologize to a Customer When Something Goes Wrong

Businesses are bound to make mistakes and disappoint their customers. But how you build your apology message and your careful attention to executing it appropriately can make the difference between losing those customers or increasing their loyalty. When delivered well, your…

Geospatial Data Analysis with GeoPandas

Learn how to manipulate and visualize vector data with Python’s GeoPandas

Why the concept of invisibility so captivates the imagination | Psyche Ideas

From ancient fables to the latest science theory, invisibility represents some of humankind’s deepest fears and desires

16 Recipes for Becoming a Next-Level French Cook

Once you know the basics of French cooking with dishes like vichyssoise and bouillabaisse, you're ready to move on to more advanced recipes for French classics like soufflés and coq au vin.

What is a Vector Database? | Pinecone

Discover Vector Databases: How They Work, Examples, Use Cases, Pros & Cons, Selection and Implementation. They have combined capabilities of traditional databases and standalone vector indexes while specializing for vector embeddings.

The Interesting Etymologies of 71 Everyday Words

Here’s (at least) one interesting way station each of these common words made on its journey to the present day.

Give it the Craigslist test — Erica Heinz

All the AI design hype got me twitching enough to write about the business risks of working so high-fidelity so fast.

Federation Architecture Overview - Bluesky

Soon, we’re launching a sandbox environment for federation. In advance, we want to share some technical details about our design decisions.

Lessons Learned from Having Passed all Twelve AWS Certification Exams

On April 24, 2023, I finished the AWS certification marathon of passing one AWS certification exam per month (“the certification marathon”). This blog post outlines the lessons learned from this journey and expands on the previously published successful blog post On AWS…

I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough

Bill Gates writes about visiting Kemmerer, Wyoming, the future site of the fourth-generation Natrium nuclear power plant being designed by TerraPower.

How Your Body Posture Communicates Feelings to Others

New research suggests that body postures can reveal our emotions to other people—and maybe even change how we feel inside.

The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack Ever

The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation.

Ruby Pattern Matching: An Advanced Guide

Pattern matching is a powerful technique in programming that allows you to match data structures and...

Everything Essential About the tmp Directory in Linux

Learn some crucial things about the /tmp directory. You'll also learn how it is different from the /var/tmp directory.

3D DRAM could be revolutionary – if it works

We asked memory semiconductor industry analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis how he views 3D DRAM technology.

People Differ Widely in Their Understanding of Even a Simple Concept Such as the Word 'Penguin'

We think about what a penguin is like in dozens of different ways—one reason why we often talk past each other

What Feeling Stuck Does to Your Body

Mental stillness creates tension, proving it's essential that we include movement in our lives.

Why so many top restaurants are launching grocery store product lines

A bunch of razor-thin restaurant margins doesn’t make a fortune so much as a bed of razors.

Should Print Circulars Stay or Go?

Kroger is following in the footsteps of Giant Eagle, attempting to phase out its print inserts in newspapers and mailed to homes in favor of digital alternatives.

You’ve Heard About Behavioral Finance. But What About Physical Finance?

Research suggests a fascinating link between the physical world and how investors price stocks.

Distilling Step-by-Step! Outperforming Larger Language Models with...

Deploying large language models (LLMs) is challenging because they are memory inefficient and compute-intensive for practical applications. In reaction, researchers train smaller task-specific...

SparseGPT: Massive Language Models Can Be Accurately Pruned in One-Shot

We show for the first time that large-scale generative pretrained transformer (GPT) family models can be pruned to at least 50% sparsity in one-shot, without any retraining, at minimal loss of...

openlm-research/open_llama: OpenLLaMA, a permissively licensed open source reproduction of Meta AI’s LLaMA 7B trained on the RedPajama…

OpenLLaMA, a permissively licensed open source reproduction of Meta AI’s LLaMA 7B trained on the RedPajama dataset - openlm-research/open_llama

The Mysterious, Naked Night Runners of Western Kenya

"When the wind blows you run away because you think it’s a night runner.”