36 Hours in Split, Croatia

This Croatian port city is fueled by long seafood lunches, ancient traditions and wine-filled evenings.

Inside 4chan’s top-secret moderation machine

Internal company documents reveal how the imageboard’s chaotic moderation allowed racism and violence to take over.

8 Tips for Shaping Product Aesthetics with UI Mood Boards

Discover what UI moodboards are and learn how they can help you perfect product aesthetics. Get our do's and dont's of UI mood board.

10 Terrifying 21st Century Novels

Why not take a walk with us, past the KEEP OUT sign and underneath the velvet rope, to the forbidden section of the library, where the evil books dwell…

System Calls in Linux

System calls are an integral part of the Linux architecture. Learn about the most common types of system calls in Linux.

'Duped': Inside the Black Market for Illegal Temporary License Plates

When a Harlem 20-something answered a Craigslist ad, he had no idea he was about to become a dealer of illegal ghost plates.

LMM Garden | Discover, search, and compare LLMs

Welcome to the LMM garden! A searchable list of open-source and off-the-shelf LLMs available to ML practitioners. Know of a new LLM? Add it

Intel Is All-In on Back-Side Power Delivery

The company’s PowerVia interconnect tech demonstrated a 6 percent performance gain

iryna-kondr/scikit-llm

Seamlessly integrate LLMs into scikit-learn.

How to Use Sinatra to Build a Ruby Application

In this article, we'll introduce Ruby on Rails' lesser-known but powerful cousin Sinatra. We'll use...

A Tiny Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China—and Won

Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war.

10 Jupyter Notebook Tips and Tricks for Data Scientists

Unlock the full potential of Jupyter Notebook with expert tips and techniques, including time-saving shortcuts, powerful magic functions, and advanced features, to boost your productivity.

AMD’s RX 7600: Small RDNA 3 Appears

Editor’s Note (6/14/2023): We have a new article that reevaluates the cache latency of Navi 31, so please refer to that article for some new latency data.

Diminishing Returns in Machine Learning Part 1

Hardware Development and the Physical Frontier

Using the Needs Stack for competitive strategy

This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who aim to disrupt you, or you them.

The importance of a name.

A catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry.

New research suggests that a subset of patients with psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia may actually have autoimmune disease that attacks the brain.

How to hold onto a sense of wonder

Katherine May's new book examines the idea of awakening wonder in an "anxious age." And when I tell you that I dog-eared almost every page in this book, I'm telling God's honest truth.

The Mystery of the Disappearing van Gogh

After a painting by the Dutch artist sold at auction, a movie producer claimed to be the owner. It later vanished from sight, with a trail leading to Caribbean tax havens and a jailed Chinese billionaire.

The Ultimate Guide for Optimal SoC Floorplan

Floorplanning plays a crucial role in the physical design of an SoC and lays the foundation for an efficient and high-performance ASIC layout. In this article, we will discuss ten essential floorplanning commandments that physical design engineers can follow to ensure a…

Creating Custom Rails Generators

A complete and concise overview to help you create custom Rails Generators and avoid the speed bumps that might otherwise slow you down.

The Case for Running AI on CPUs Isn’t Dead Yet

GPUs may dominate, but CPUs could be perfect for smaller AI models

An Illustrated Guide to Mouth Gestures and Their Meanings Around the World

An excerpt from François Caradec’s book “Dictionary of Gestures.”

The Complete Collection Of MTV’s Headbangers Ball: Watch 1,215 Videos from

Premiering in April 1987, MTV's Headbangers Ball featured music videos from metal and hard rock bands of the 80s and 90s--everyone from AC/DC and Mötley Crüe, to Ozzy Osbourne, Def Leppard and Twisted Sister, to Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Van Halen.

How Having Synesthesia Helps This Perfumer Create Unique Scents

When perfumer Frédéric Malle experiences a fragrance, he also perceives it as an array of colors. This is what it's like to see — and smell — the world as someone who has synesthesia.

$100 Million Gone in 27 Minutes

After possibly the most expensive jewelry heist in U.S. history, Brink’s went after the victims.

What working as a military psychologist taught me about coaching people

3 tips for coaching people, from a former military psychologist

Re-implementing LangChain in 100 lines of code

LangChain has become a tremendously popular toolkit for building a wide range of LLM-powered applications, including chat, Q&A and document search. In this blogpost I re-implement some of the novel LangChain functionality as a learning exercise, looking at the low-level prompts…

Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags (Published 2023)

Can you tell the difference between a $10,000 Chanel bag and a $200 knockoff? Almost nobody can, and it’s turning luxury fashion upside down.

The Internals of PostgreSQL: Database Cluster, Databases, and Tables

PostgreSQL, a widely adopted open-source relational database management system (RDBMS), offers robust...

Taxonomy of procrastination

There’s a little accountant named Jim that lives in my head

The Secret Sound of Stax

The rediscovery of demos performed by the songwriters of the legendary Memphis recording studio reveals a hidden history of soul.

Sklearn Pipelines for the Modern ML Engineer: 9 Techniques You Can’t Ignore

Master Sklearn pipelines for effortless and efficient machine learning. Discover the art of building, optimizing, and scaling models with ease. Level up your data preprocessing skills and supercharge your ML workflow today

Appending to Arrays in Bash

In this quick Bash tip, you'll learn about appending to an existing array in bash.

The Untold History of the ‘Whassup?’ Super Bowl Commercial

How a grainy VHS tape became one of the most famous ads of all time — and went viral before viral was even a thing.

Their Eyes See Color. Their Brains Can’t Make Sense of It.

A family in the Netherlands has a rare and perplexing brain condition that helps explain how we recognize color.

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Plex has free movies and TV shows available with no sign up required.

How to draw any regular shape with just one JavaScript function | MDN Blog

Learn how to use JavaScript to draw any regular shape to a HTML canvas with a single function, and how to modify it to draw multiple shapes.

Why French Sounds So Unlike Spanish, Italian & Other Romance Languages, Eve

French is known as the language of romance, a reputation that, whatever cultural support it enjoys, would be difficult to defend on purely linguistic grounds.

Mastering CSS Blend Modes

CSS mix blend modes provide an easy, yet powerful way to create visually interesting designs.

Why we sometimes sense invisible others

In times of high stress or effort, people sometimes feel the presence of others – an effect which isn't an hallucination. But what exactly is it?

20 Frameworks to Improve Your Web Development

In the continually evolving world of web development, frameworks play an important role in automating...

For a Chile Con Queso Like No Other, Head to Southern New Mexico

At Chope’s Town Bar & Cafe, one family has closely guarded a recipe that makes the most of the region’s beloved chiles.

Scalar Quantization and Product Quantization - Zilliz blog

A hands-on dive into scalar quantization (integer quantization) and product quantization with Python.

Not All Vector Databases Are Made Equal

A detailed comparison of Milvus, Pinecone, Vespa, Weaviate, Vald, GSI and Qdrant

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The Art of Prompt Design: Use Clear Syntax

Explore how clear syntax can enable you to communicate intent to language models, and also help ensure that outputs are easy to parse

Memory Allocation

A visual introduction to memory allocation.

ARM’s Cortex A53: Tiny But Important

Tech enthusiasts probably know ARM as a company that develops reasonably performant CPU architectures with a focus on power efficiency.

Intel CPU Die Topology - by Jason Rahman - Delayed Branch

Over the past 10-15 years, per-core throughput increases have slowed, and in response CPU designers have scaled up core counts and socket counts to continue increasing performance across generations of new CPU models.