Perform outlier detection more effectively using subsets of features

Identify relevant subspaces: subsets of features that allow you to most effectively perform outlier detection on tabular data

How to Run a Paper Club (also: LIVE at NeurIPS 2024!)

Your ultimate Paper Club Starter Kit, from your friends at the Latent Space Paper Club, where we have now read 100 papers. Also: Announcing Latent Space Paper Club LIVE! at Neurips 2024! Join us!

A Short Introduction to Automotive Lidar Technology

A guide to the operating principles, techniques and technology in lidar systems.

cost thousands of dollars, and that number needs to drop by at least an order of magnitude

Wavelength

How to give a senior leader feedback (without getting fired)

There’s a right and wrong way to proceed. Here’s how to increase the chances your leader listens and takes action--while reducing the chance they feel threatened.

Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city

Findings suggest alphabetic writing may be some 500 years older than other discoveries

A short introduction to Interval Tree Clocks

A short introduction to Interval Tree Clocks, a causality tracking mechanism, based on a lightening talk I gave at dotScale 2017.

Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor

I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where signal lines were connected to the silico...

Your Data's Strange Undersea Voyage

The internet is a series of tubes. In the ocean.

Warp Is a Power User's Dream Terminal for Linux

Warp does have a bit of a learning curve, but once you get how it works, you will find it to be terminal nirvana.

Cable TV Is on Its Very Last Legs. Next Year May Be the End.

Comcast’s spinoff of its properties signals the accelerating decline of traditional TV—and a brutal reckoning for the media industry in the new Trump era.

Why Intel Lost Its CPU Crown To AMD (And How Ryzen Changed The Game) - SlashGear

Intel was a dominant leader in the CPU market for the better part of a decade, but AMD has seen massive success in recent years thanks to its Ryzen chips.

Intel Arc B580 "Battlemage" GPU Leak Confirms 12 GB Memory, Custom Models With Standard Power Connectors, Up To 2.8 GHz Clocks

Intel's first Arc B580 GPUs based on the Xe2 "Battlemage" architecture have been leaked & they look quite compelling.

AI Alone Isn’t Ready for Chip Design

A combination of classical search and machine learning may be the way forward

Tailwind CSS Cheat Sheet

Cheat sheet to learn Tailwind CSS quickly. Browse and search all Tailwind utility classes or CSS properties on one page.

Understanding Multimodal LLMs

An introduction to the main techniques and latest models

Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm

BM25 is a widely used algorithm for full text search. I wanted to understand how it works, so here is my attempt at understanding by re-explaining.

can I compare the BM25 scores of documents across multiple queries to determine which query the document best matches?

goal of a full text search algorithm is to take a query and find the most relevant documents

Princeton achieves 10x reduction in tritium needs for nuclear fusion

US scientists made a breakthrough in fusion energy, discovering a new fuel mix that could improve efficiency and reduce tritium reliance.

DataExpert-io/data-engineer-handbook: This is a repo with links to everything you'd ever want to learn about data engineering

This is a repo with links to everything you'd ever want to learn about data engineering - DataExpert-io/data-engineer-handbook

The Ancient Art of Saying No: Plutarch's Guide to Breaking Free from People-Pleasing

Ever feel like you can’t say no? Like you’re constantly doing things you don’t want to to avoid letting others down or having them think less of you? You’re not alone. Saying no to people’s requests is something I’ve had to work on throughout my adult life. I know a lot of other…

Sentence structure for writers: understanding weight and clarity [extract]

Some sentences just sound awkward. In order to ensure clarity, writers need to consider more than just grammar: weight is equally important. In the following extract from Making Sense, acclaimed linguist David Crystal shows how sentence length (and weight) affects writing…

What both these examples show is the importance of length, or weight.

Both illustrate the principle of end-weight.

PyTorch 101, Understanding Graphs, Automatic Differentiation and Autograd

In this article, we dive into how PyTorch’s Autograd engine performs automatic differentiation.

How to Build a Quantum Supercomputer

In the span of four decades, quantum computation has evolved from an intellectual curiosity to a potentially realizable technology. Today, small-scale demonstrations have become possible for...

Returns Are a Headache. More Retailers Are Saying, Just ‘Keep It.’

In a survey, nearly 60 percent of retailers said they had policies that refund customers for items that aren’t financially viable to send back.

Fifty-nine percent of retailers have keep-it policies for items that aren’t financially viable to ship back, according to a 2023 survey on holiday shopping trends by goTRG, now called ReturnPro, a firm that helps retailers including Walmart manage returns. Most companies don’t advertise the policy…

for every $1 billion in sales, the average retailer sustained $145 million in returns.

Support Vector Machine (SVM) Algorithm

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are a powerful and versatile supervised machine learning algorithm primarily used for classification and regression tasks. They excel in high-dimensional spaces and are particularly effective when dealing with complex datasets. The core principle…

New Ultrafast Memory Boosts Intel Data Center Chips

While Intel's primary product focus is on the processors, or brains, that make computers work, system memory (that's DRAM) is a critical component for performance. This is especially true in servers, where the multiplication of processing cores has outpaced the rise in memory…

I saw the Hurricane Helene response up close. This is how disaster relief actually works.

Volunteers, not FEMA, are the bedrock of disaster response. How do we best support them?

Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess

Are they good or bad?

I tried every email marketing tool — these are the best (2024)

After 14 years with MailChimp, I decided to switch. I researched the top 26 email marketing tools to find a replacement and here’s what I discovered.

The only computer science book worth reading twice? | Simon Dobson

World’s Largest Battery Maker Says Elon Musk ‘Doesn’t Know How To Make Batteries’

The 4680 battery was supposed to make EVs cheaper and better, but so far has proven to be more problematic than promising.

Top 15 Web Scraping Tools for Data Collection

Web scraping has emerged as a crucial method for gathering data, allowing companies and researchers to extract insightful information from the abundance of publicly accessible online content. Selecting the best online scraping tool might be difficult because there are so many of…

Zero-downtime with Rails credentials

Transitioning the codebase from using environment variables to Rails Credentials for Zero-Downtime Deploys.

Environment variables are not encrypted and therefore they can not be stored in any form of version control.

makes it easier to add new credentials because you don’t need to tell other developers to add them to their own .env file.

Linux Environment Variables: A Beginner’s Guide to printenv, set, export, and alias | R-bloggers

Table of Contents Understanding Environment Variables The printenv Command Working with set Command The export Command Using alias Command Practical Applications Your Turn! (Interactive Section) Best Practices and Common Pitfalls Quick Takeawa...

Shell Variables: Local variables that affect only the current shell session

Environment Variables: Global variables that can be accessed by all processes

The Power of Regret

A simple game shows how fear of regret shapes decisions.

MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia

Today marks two years since I first set up an e-ink display in my mom’s apartment to help her live on her own with amnesia.

The Influence of Bell Labs

We’ve talked previously about Bell Labs’ long, storied history as an innovation engine and a generator of new technology.

Memories of Flame: The crash of TWA flight 800

It’s time to take a comprehensive look at one of America’s most controversial plane crashes, and ask how it ended up that way.

The Backstage Scaffolder, a Powerful New Orchestration Tool

A look at what you can do with this tool as well as some of its limitations in comparison to its rivals.

Top 15 Cloud Hosting Providers

Cloud hosting has emerged as a key component for companies and developers seeking to expand their operations, improve performance, and guarantee strong data security in the current digital era. Selecting the best cloud service provider might be difficult because there are an…

How I ship projects at big tech companies

What I think about when I'm lead engineer on a project

Islands of the Feral Pigs | Hakai Magazine

In Hawai‘i, people, pigs, and ecosystems only have so much room to coexist, and the pigs exist a little too much.

Extra virgin olive oil is the flavour of mechanisation | Aeon Essays

Olive oil was revered and cherished by the ancients. But its distinctive peppery taste is really a modern invention

The Kitchen with Two Doors - Longreads

On the insatiable hunger for belonging.

Extreme Value Theory: Understanding and Predicting Rare Events

Let's have a closer look at EVT, its applications, and its challenges.

If you want luxury furniture for less, trek to a hidden Bay Area warehouse

“They just kicked everybody out.”

Analyzing the homerun year for LLMs: the top-100 most cited AI papers in 2023, with all medals for open models.

9 October 2024, Mathias Parisot, Jakub Zavrel.Even in the red hot global race for AI dominance, you publish and you perish, unless your peers pick up your work, build further on it, and you manage to drive real progress in the field. And of course, we are all very curious who is…

2 Mental Abilities Separate Humans from Animals

Two key features created the human mind

Hugging Face Releases Sentence Transformers v3.3.0: A Major Leap for NLP Efficiency

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has rapidly evolved in the last few years, with transformers emerging as a game-changing innovation. Yet, there are still notable challenges when using NLP tools to develop applications for tasks like semantic search, question answering, or…

Transforming Location Retrieval at Airbnb: A Journey from Heuristics to Reinforcement Learning

How Airbnb leverages machine learning and reinforcement learning techniques to solve a unique information retrieval task in order to…

How to Use the Cauchy Distribution in Python

In this tutorial, we’ll learn more about the Cauchy distribution, visualize its probability density function, and learn how to use it in Python.