The Puzzling History of China’s Most Controversial Flavoring

Monosodium glutamate, better known as MSG, is a Japanese import that became as Chinese as Kung Pao chicken. But its spread was more historical accident than foreordained.

The Dead Hang Delight: How This Quick Surprisingly Simple Exercise Can Change Your Life

Would you like to strengthen your upper body and core muscles, while improving your flexibility and breathing? Here’s how to do it.

FlashSigmoid: A Hardware-Aware and Memory-Efficient Implementation of Sigmoid Attention Yielding a 1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained significant prominence in modern machine learning, largely due to the attention mechanism. This mechanism employs a sequence-to-sequence mapping to construct context-aware token representations. Traditionally, attention relies on the…

Top 9 Different Types of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAGs)

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a machine learning framework that combines the advantages of both retrieval-based and generation-based models. The RAG framework is highly regarded for its ability to handle large amounts of information and produce coherent, contextually…

Graphiti: A Python Library for Building Temporal Knowledge Graphs Using LLMs

The challenge of managing and recalling facts from complex, evolving conversations is a key problem for many AI-driven applications. As information grows and changes over time, maintaining accurate context becomes increasingly difficult. Current systems often struggle to handle…

Europe jumps on the train

More and more people are using this form of travel to get around the continent, using high-speed routes and a network of night trains that continues to expand. We traveled from Madrid to Prague and witnessed how the future of European transportation is clean and fast

How pour-over coffee got good

Pour-over coffee has long been popular with coffee enthusiasts, but it frustrated coffee shops because it takes so long to make. That’s changing.

Building a Simple RAG Application Using LlamaIndex - MachineLearningMastery.com

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Place authenticity’ is an important overlooked part of life | Psyche Ideas

From indie bookshops to artisan cafes, spending time in unique, characterful places can enrich your own sense of self

Design Patterns in Ruby

The catalog of annotated code examples of all design patterns, written in Ruby.

Unraveling the Design Equations of the Class E Power Amplifier - Technical Articles

In this article, we analyze the operation of the Class E amplifier and examine the underlying assumptions of its design equations.

The Northwest-AI-Hub which is researching hybrid gain cell memory that combines DRAM's density with

Katherine Bourzac / IEEE Spectrum: The Northwest-AI-Hub, which is researching hybrid gain cell memory that combines DRAM's density with SRAM's speed, gets a $16.3M CHIPS Act grant via the US DOD

The Secretive Dynasty That Controls the Boar’s Head Brand

The deli-meat company made its owners fabulously wealthy. But they have remained silent, even as the company faces the biggest scandal in its history.

NN/g’s Free UX Templates and Guides

Use this curated set of free NN/g templates and guides for inspiration and to accelerate your product development activities and UX career.

Linux / UNIX: DNS Lookup Command

Explains how to use host or dig command to query DNS name servers, dns lookup under UNIX or Linux for troubleshooting purpose.

Report: Samsung Is Struggling With 10-20% Yields at 2nm

The company's difficulties have allegedly caused it to withdraw personnel from its Taylor, TX facility while it reassesses its plans.

Even Better Specs

Guidelines for Maintainable Tests

No Culture is Not Stuck

You just can't see what it's become.

Command Line Tools I Like (2022) · rwblickhan.org

The personal site of R. W. Blickhan

TSMC and NVIDIA Transform Semiconductor Manufacturing With Accelerated Computing | NVIDIA Blog

TSMC is moving to production with the NVIDIA cuLitho computational lithography platform to accelerate manufacturing of advanced semiconductor chips.

$2 H100s: How the GPU Bubble Burst - by Eugene Cheah

H100s used to be $8/hr if you could get them. Now there's 7 different places sometimes selling them under $2. What happened?

What's New in Ruby on Rails 8 | Hacker News

A Rodeo Doctor Fixes Much More Than Broken Bones

A fixture in bull riding events around the country, Dallas surgeon Tandy Freeman tends to much more than just concussions and broken bones.

Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global societ

Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global society that shadows our own

How Everyone Got Lost in Netflix’s Endless Library

Ten years after Silicon Valley remade TV, it’s become clear how the streaming revolution distorted our collective viewing habits — and sense of the culture.

McDonald’s Macarons

How U.S. fast food took over the world — and then went local

Using LLMs for Automated Data Categorization in Google Sheets

This post unveils a well-kept secret unknown to many: using externally hosted Large Language Models (LLMs) in Google Sheets to perform NLP tasks on text

By default, the script uses the "facebook/bart-large-mnli", a BART model trained for multi-class text classification

paste the token in your script, replacing the ‘ <YOUR HUGGINGFACE API KEY> ‘ part with your token, save the script, and go back to Google Sheets to start playing!

Just Listen to This Extremely Remote Canadian Mechanic Talk About His Work Truck

After this walkaround, you'll love the rig, too.

The Long Road to Fiber Optics

Over the past six decades, advances in computers and microprocessors have completely reshaped our world.

Non-Obvious Signs of Early Startup Traction — And How to Spot Them

We gathered the most surprising anecdotes from seasoned founders about when things clicked into place.

10 GitHub Repositories to Master Computer Vision

The GitHub repository includes up-to-date learning resources, research papers, guides, popular tools, tutorials, projects, and datasets.

Piecing Together an Ancient Epic Was Slow Work. Until A.I. Got Involved.

Scholars have struggled to identify fragments of the epic of Gilgamesh — one of the world’s oldest literary texts. Now A.I. has brought an “extreme acceleration” to the field.

Injera Is the Soul of Ethiopian Cuisine

Injera takes days to prepare, but this quick recipe streamlines the process.

From Mauritius to Sudan You Told Us Where To Look. Here Are the Results

Satellite imagery is increasingly used by open source researchers to analyse conflict,natural disasters, mining activities and even construction work. With the help of Planet Labs PBC and Umbra Space, Bellingcat can take a snapshot of anywhere in the world by “tasking” their…

Vulcan Bridge in Vulcan West Virginia

This rural bridge gave the government of West Virginia a red scare.

Market Basket Analysis Using High Utility Itemset Mining

Finding high-value patterns in transactions

The Nazi of Oak Park

It was a stunning revelation: A respected high school custodian had been a concentration camp guard. This excerpt of a new book examines how the disclosure of a dark secret in the early ’80s divided a suburb.

Lemony Shrimp and Bean Stew

With minimal prep and a quick cook time, this shrimp stew feels elegant for such an easy weeknight meal You can also take the dish in a number of directions: Substitute the shrimp with an equal amount of flaky white fish or even seared scallops, or stretch the dish into a meal…

The Hospitality Solution in Your Business

A look at the main provocation of Will Guidara’s Unreasonable Hospitality: that you can solve (certain) business problems with hospitality, and that it only takes a little thoughtfulness to do so.

Decoding the jargon behind Google’s antitrust ad tech trial: a glossary for the confused

From industry terms like "header bidding" to "AdX" to "DSPs" to internal Google terms, such as "Jedi Blue," there's a lot to wrap your head around.

ABCs of Power Amplifier Classes: Class A

Design, operation and characteristics of the most linear amplifier class of all.

How a Gang of Harmonica Geeks Saved the Soul of the Blues Harp | Collectors

Harmonica players will suck and harmonica players will blow, but mastering the harmonica is tougher than its diminutive size and simple mechanics suggest....

Understanding Haptic Technology and the Use of Piezoelectric Actuators

Haptic feedback systems using piezo-based actuators are important for a variety of applications, especially automotive. Learn the challenges and the solutions to be considered for this technology.

Was doomed US submarine caught by a monster whirlpool in the South China Sea?

Newly released data from a giant whirlpool near the Paracel Islands could give fresh clues about a major US Navy incident.

ankane/neighbor

Nearest neighbor search for Rails.

Top 10 Most Excellent Gems to Use in Any Ruby Web Application

It can be a challenge when you’re not using Rails to find gems which integrate well. Here are some solid options you can use in any Ruby web application.

NirDiamant/Prompt_Engineering

This repository offers a comprehensive collection of tutorials and implementations for Prompt Engineering techniques, ranging from fundamental concepts to advanced strategies. It serves as an essen...

The inside story of Roku’s TV program

How a scrappy startup upended the U.S. TV market.

How McDonald’s Became China’s New Favorite Wedding Venue

Young Chinese are increasingly opting for simple, affordable wedding ceremonies. That’s leading many to the golden arches.

Hybrid Memory Designed to Cut AI Energy Use

Researchers developing dense, speedy hybrid gain cell memory recently got a boost from CHIPS Act funding