Advanced Queries in ActiveRecord for Ruby on Rails
Let's delve into advanced ActiveRecord queries, shining a spotlight on more complex joins, custom SQL, and strategic employment of database-specific features.
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Long-stay visa - France-Visas
For any stay in France longer than 90 days, you are required to apply in advance for a long-stay visa, where your nationality does not exempt you from requirements.
5 Principles for Writing Effective Prompts (2025 Update)
Solid techniques to get really good results from any LLM
Greg Brockman shared this template for prompting
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Matty Bakkeren on LinkedIn: #quantum #momenthesis #quantumcomputing #techinnovation | 11 comments
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The Binge Purge
TV’s streaming model is broken. It’s also not going away. For Hollywood, figuring that out will be a horror show.
Import a CSV File Into an SQLite Table
This tutorial shows you various ways to import CSV data into an SQLite table using sqlite3 and SQLite Studio tools.
How Protein Mania Took Over the Grocery Store
Americans can’t get enough of its favorite macronutrient. Big Food is heeding the call.
Tiktok LLM
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Buy All This, Look Rich
How Quince, the one-stop shop for everything from cashmere sweaters to caviar, seduced a generation of jaded shoppers.
Project: U.S. Land Values - PLACES lab
High-resolution prediction and uncertainty estimation of land value and conservation costs in the contiguous United States (NSF) National Science Foundation, Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences, Award #2149243 Accurate estimates of the fair market value of private land…
The Wild Economics Behind Ferrari’s Domination of the Luxury Car Market
Limiting production is helping to make its sports cars coveted—and the company the most valuable automaker in Europe
How ‘Event Scripts’ Structure Our Personal Memories
By screening films in a brain scanner, neuroscientists discovered a rich library of neural scripts — from a trip through an airport to a marriage proposal — that form scaffolds for memories of our experiences.
LLM Leaderboard
Comparison and ranking the performance of over 30 AI models (LLMs) across key metrics including quality, price, performance and speed (output speed - tokens per second & latency - TTFT), context window & others.
Microsoft Makes Quantum Computing Breakthrough With New Chip
Microsoft’s breakthrough with the first topological qubits and its own quantum chip, Majorana 1, could outpace Google’s brute force approach.
Which Discontinuities are Small Enough to Ignore?
Understanding and minimizing discontinuities is increasingly important as serial links become both shorter and faster. Applying the old edge rate to roundtrip relationship to the modern era, Donald Telian in this article offers a rule-of-thumb to help gauge which interconnect…
BERT
BERT is an open source machine learning framework for natural language processing (NLP) that helps computers understand ambiguous language by using context
Trial by Fire | The New Yorker
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How to Create Custom Performance Metrics in PyCaret
This article illustrates defining and using custom metrics through a code example.
BintangChip: Your specialty foundry for the analog world
BintangChip is one of the world’s leading specialty foundry groups for analog/mixed-signal semiconductor technologies. As a pure-play foundry, we provide manufacturing and strong design support services to our customers that design analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits and…
Her Greatest Hits
"Maybe it's only when you don’t know what you are listening for that you find what you were waiting all along to discover."
Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.
Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics. - umami-software/umami
uchū — the color palette for internet lovers
uchū is the color palette for internet lovers, by NetOperator Wibby.
The Uneasy Origins of Caste
An Unpleasant Story Triangulated from Scripture, Genetics, and Archeology
Here Are My Go-To AI Tools
I share my preferences for LLMs, image models, AI video, AI music, AI-powered research, and more. These are the AI tools I regularly use or recommend to others.
Applications of SpaCy in Real-World Text Analytics Projects
In this article, we will focus on practical use cases, showcasing how spaCy can be applied end-to-end in real-world scenarios.
WWII Bombers: The Aircraft That Shaped the War
World War II is when the bomber came of age, and such aircraft could impact the course of war. All the powers would field planes whose names would become synonymous with this conflict.
A Guide to the Cardamoms of the World
The Cardamom Expanded Universe is bigger than you think.
OnlyFans Sticky Business Model
PLUS: DoorDash, Apple Intelligence Ads, Walgreens Madness.
The Dark Side of UX: Lessons from OnlyFans’ Addictive Design
OnlyFans leverages a meticulously crafted UX to create a powerful sense of intimacy and exclusivity, captivating users while sparking ethical debates about manipulation and exploitation.
The Concise Guide to Heteroscedasticity
Heteroscedasticity might seem like just the opposite of homoscedasticity, but understanding it in its own right is crucial for any data analyst.
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WTF is open-source marketing mix modeling?
Marketers should be wary of open-source programs promoted by purveyors with a walled garden history.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up a Custom BPE Tokenizer with Tiktoken for Advanced NLP Applications in Python
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50 Years of Travel Tips
I’ve been seriously traveling for more than 50 years, and I’ve learned a lot. I’ve traveled solo, and I’ve led a tour group of 40 friends. I’ve slept in dormitories and I’ve stayed in presidential suites with a butler. I’ve … Continue reading →
calculator-app - Chad Nauseam Home
"A calculator app? Anyone could make that." (this was originally a https://x.com/ChadNauseam/status/1890889465322786878) Not true. A calculator should show you the result of the mathematical expressi…
"A calculator app? Anyone could make that."
I just discovered this guy. Holy smokes. : r/Jazz
The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
Jazz recommendations : r/Jazz
We Were Wrong About GPUs
Do my tears surprise you? Strong CEOs also cry.
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Jazz OTD: Trumpeter Johnny Coles penned this tune, recorded as part of pianist Horace Parlan’s sextet (w/Booker Ervin, Grant Green, Butch…
How to Implement Early Stopping in PyCaret
This article explains early stopping and how to use it in PyCaret for classification.
Datacenter Anatomy Part 2 – Cooling Systems
Cluster deployments are an order of magnitude larger in scale with Gigawatt-scale datacenters coming online at full capacity much faster than most believe. As such, there are considerable desi…
Datacenter Anatomy Part 1: Electrical Systems
Meta Datacenter Scrapped, Vertiv, Schneider Electric, Eaton, Legrand, Delta, Datacenter Bill Of Materials By Component, Transformers, Switchgear, Redundancy, UPS, OCP Busbar, Generators, Substation…
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The Concise Guide to Homoscedasticity
Homoscedasticity stands as one of those statistical terms that can seem unnecessarily complex at first glance.