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.

Hofstadter’s Law: It always Takes Longer Than You Expect

The Death and Life of Prediction Markets at Google—Asterisk

Over the past two decades, Google has hosted two different internal platforms for predictions. Why did the first one fail — and will the other endure?

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Python libs for sentiment analysis

Sentiment analysis, i.e., determining the emotional tone of a text, has become a crucial tool for researchers, developers, and businesses to comprehend social media trends, consumer feedback, and other topics. With its robust library ecosystem, Python provides a vast choice of…

How Google Ads Was Able to Support 4.77 Billion Users With a SQL Database 🔥

#60: Break Into Google Spanner Architecture (5 Minutes)

Why Middlemen Don't Get Eliminated

Thoughts on business models that don't seem to make perfect sense

the result of that economic revolution is that three of the top ten companies by market cap are middlemen, and two of the remainder, Nvidia and TSMC

Expedia and Booking Holdings are collectively worth over $180bn

ChatGPT Doesn’t Have to Ruin College

The power of a robust honor code—and abundant institutional resources

Mistakes from my Failed Startup in Scalping Concert Tickets

And why you will never get Taylor Swift tickets at face value

How to Count Video Frames Using FFmpeg on Linux

An uncivil civil war

Civil war is in the air. Why not revisit one that has already taken place?

The Different (and Modern) Ways To Toggle Content | CSS-Tricks

Let’s spend some time looking at disclosures, the Dialog API, the Popover API, and more. We’ll look at the right time to use each one depending on your needs. Modal or non-modal? JavaScript or pure HTML/CSS? Not sure? Don’t worry, we’ll go into all that.

Why Are Cooling Towers Shaped Like That? — Practical Engineering

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is not smoke. And this isn’t a smoke stack (at least not the kind we normally think of). It serves a totally different purpose at a power plant than smoke stacks whose job is moving combustion products…

The truffle industry is a big scam. Not just truffle oil, everything

You may be familiar with the truffle oil scam, but everything else you think you know about truffles is probably a lie too.

131M American Buildings

Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...

These Women Were Some of Afghanistan’s Best Athletes. Then They Started Getting Death Threats.

They led a cycling revolution in a country where women were forbidden to ride. When the Taliban returned to power, their only hope was a harrowing escape to an uncertain future.

Understanding Ruby 3.3 Concurrency: A Comprehensive Guide

Let's explore Ruby's concurrency ecosystem, its various concurrency models, and their practical applications in modern software development

Deploying a Jekyll site with Kamal

Since Kamal 2 can host multiple sites on the same server, I am consolidating my apps into larger hosts so I have less servers to worry about. Most of my apps are Rails apps, but I have a few static jekyll sites like this blog and I decided to look into how could I move this site…

The Roots of Fear: Understanding the Amygdala

Treating anxiety, depression and other disorders may depend on the amygdala, a part of the brain that controls strong emotional reactions, especially fear. But a deep understanding of this structure has been lacking. Now scientists at the University of California, Davis have…

White-label ad exchange platforms: Key features to look for

Digital advertising is developing at the speed of light, and things like Attekmi white label ad exchange are becoming an

Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation

Major organizations like 37signals and GEICO highlight the economic and strategic reasons to reconsider cloud infrastructure.

New Zemeckis film used AI to de-age Tom Hanks and Robin Wright

Time-hopping film Here used AI trained on every Tom Hanks movie to make him appear young again.

Amazon’s Cloud Crisis: How AWS Will Lose The Future Of Computing

Nitro, Graviton, EFA, Inferentia, Trainium, Nvidia Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Handicapping Infrastructure, AI As A Service, Enterprise Automation, Meta, Coreweave, TCO

The Shipwreck Detective

Nigel Pickford has spent a lifetime searching for sunken treasure—without leaving dry land.

4 tips when getting started with Hotwire

A few best practices to keep in mind when getting started with Hotwire and Rails.

The 20 Best Lessons from Social Psychology

Last spring, I took a class on social psychology. It was one …

What Companies Do Well is Not Necessarily How They Make Money

Thoughts on business models that don't seem to make perfect sense

Stockbrokers used to make their money from commissions, but depending on the model their big profit centers are either some net margin on interest spreads

Oil companies

Choosing and Implementing Hugging Face Models

Pulling pre-trained models out of the box for your use case

Best practices to keep secrets out of GitLab repositories

Learn strategies to secure secrets and what to do if secrets are accidentally leaked in a GitLab repository.

What is the “Cyclopean Cave” — and why are these guys hauling buckets of Colorado mud to find it?

Outside Leadville, spelunkers are following a hunch that a pioneer journalist’s fantastical cavern could be right below their feet.

LLM Chunking, Indexing, Scoring and Agents, in a Nutshell - DataScienceCentral.com

LLM Chunking, Indexing, Scoring and Agents, in a Nutshell. The new PageRank of RAG/LLM. With details on building relevancy scores.

OpenAI Adds Search Engine to ChatGPT

The popular online chatbot can now access and deliver information from across the internet in real time, including news, stock prices and sports scores.

Beyond the Basics: Top 10 Cutting-Edge Trends in Stationery Design - Yanko Design

Stationery remains essential, adapting to global trends like sustainability, and minimalism, and bridging the gap between digital and analog domains. With technological advancements, stationery for school and office settings is progressing towards smarter, sustainable products…

10 Essential Python Libraries for Data Science in 2024

The richness of Python’s ecosystem has one downside – it makes it difficult to decide which libraries are the best for your needs. This article is an attempt to amend this by suggesting ten (and some more, as a bonus) libraries that are an absolute must in data science.

Tackling the Impossibility—and Necessity—of Counting the World’s Languages

A language scientist delves into historic and current efforts to catalog the planet’s 7,000-plus languages, uncovering colorful tales.

Disgruntled customers discuss quitting VMware

Ars Technica speaks with users and channel partners disgruntled by Broadcom’s changes.

Agile Web Development with Rails 8

Get the comprehensive, insider information you need for Rails 8 with the new edition of this award-winning classic.

Meet the Italian 'Fruit Detective' Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen…

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help combat a growing agricultural crisis

Triton Kernel Compilation Stages

The Triton open-source programming language and compiler offers a high-level, python-based approach to create efficient GPU code. In this blog, we highlight the underlying details of how a triton program is compiled and the intermediate representations. For an introduction to…

Beyond Pageviews: Measure Content Performance And User Engagement In GA4

GA4 provides valuable insights into user interactions on your website. Learn how to analyze key metrics like sessions, session duration, and events to refine your digital strategy.

Nuclear Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator

Fast prototyping revives a 70-year-old reactor design

The Basics of Rack for Ruby | AppSignal Blog

Rack is the foundation for every popular Ruby web framework in existence. In the first part of a three-part series, let's set up a Rack app.

'It's a unique language spoken by two people': The twins who created their own language

Up to 50% of twins develop their own communication pattern with one another. Most lose it over time, but for the Youlden twins it has become a normal way of communicating.

HPC Gets A Reconfigurable Dataflow Engine To Take On CPUs And GPUs

No matter how elegant and clever the design is for a compute engine, the difficulty and cost of moving existing – and sometimes very old – code from the