No Spoilers, Please! Why Curiosity Makes Us Patient
Curiosity makes people hungry for knowledge—but not necessarily in a hurry
Slow Listening: Dive Into These Independent Radio Stations From Across the
Whether you have diverse tastes or a niche one, there are independent radio stations out there that could feel like home.
Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out. - YouTube
We build a Generatively Pretrained Transformer (GPT), following the paper "Attention is All You Need" and OpenAI's GPT-2 / GPT-3. We talk about connections to ChatGPT, which has taken the world by storm. We watch GitHub Copilot, itself a GPT, help us write a GPT (meta :D!) . I…
Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
Credit card rewards are mostly funded out of interchange, a fee paid by businesses to accept cards.
How credit cards make money
Credit cards make money through net interest, interchange, fees, and marketing contributions.
Static domains for all ngrok users
All ngrok users can now claim one static domain for free. You no longer need to worry about agent restarts causing broken links, nor updating application URLs.
SciPy 1.13.0 Release Notes — SciPy v1.14.0.dev Manual
A Trail Gone Cold
Against the odds, a tiny Icelandic town speaks of a local Black ancestor. Geneticists and historians combine forces to uncover the man’s eventful life.
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I collected several books from different media. You can download any book from here and enjoy your reading. Happy reading! - emrancub/books
Conquering System Design Diagrams: My Shift to Mermaid.js
Diagrams are the cornerstone of software development, illuminating complex systems and fostering...
DALL-E now lets you edit images in ChatGPT
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More AI image generation tools at your fingertips.
My Synesthesia Transforms Speech into Text I ‘See’ in My Head
From the time I learned to read, I have experienced a form of mental closed-captioning called ticker-tape synesthesia
Implementing Bloom Effect with Mapbox and Three.js
Bloom effects are typically used to enhance the brightness and lighting effects of images or scenes,...
“Yapping” Is TikTok's New Favorite Word — Here's What It Means
On TikTok and X, users love the word "yapping" and all of its derivatives to describe the act of talking too much. Here's what the slang term means online.
This Hellish Alien World’s Skies May Create an Eerie Rainbow ‘Glory’ Effect
"There's a reason no glory has been seen before outside our solar system — it requires very peculiar conditions."
The Many Lives of Walton Goggins
The actor plays dual roles in 'Fallout'—a monster and the man he used to be—prompting a look back at his own unlikely past.
Meet RAGFlow: An Open-Source RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Engine Ba
In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, businesses face the perpetual challenge of harnessing vast amounts of unstructured data. Meet RAGFlow, a groundbreaking open-source AI project that promises to revolutionize how companies extract insights and answer…
ISO 19005-1:2005
Document management — Electronic document file format for long-term preservation — Part 1: Use of PDF 1.4 (PDF/A-1)
Economic Growth Makes Physical Stuff Cheap and Time Precious
Or: You Know The Economy is Good When You Can't Find a Babysitter
Alabama, UConn Share Analytical Mindset—And Even Used Same Firm
More than half of the NCAA Tournament's top teams have used HD Intelligence services, as basketball's data revolution sweeps through the college game.
The most expensive handbags ever made
Multimillion-dollar bags from Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Mouawad, and more are some of the most expensive in history
Carrie at 50: the bloody history of Stephen King’s audacious debut novel
The ‘king of horror’ has published more than 60 novels and sold over 350 million books – but it all began 50 years ago with the tale of a teen misfit with telekinetic powers who gets her first period in the school shower. Jessie Thompson looks back on a great, career-making…
3 Body Problem’s most mind-bending question isn’t about aliens
Would you swear a loyalty oath to humanity — or cheer on its extinction?
SVM and Kernels: The Math that Makes Classification Magic
Imagine you're at a party separating people who love pizza (yum!) from those who...well, have...
RAG Step-by-Step: Open Source Edition
In a previous post, I demonstrated how to implement RAG using the Load-Transform-Embed-Store...
The Reddit pages that investigate influencers
In 2020, a young woman who asked to be called Anna decided to buy some hair supplements that she learned about from a social media influencer. The influencer, Danielle Bernstein, regularly posts about clothing and beauty on Instagram, and had claimed that the supplements…
A Benchmark and Taxonomy of Categorical Encoders
New. Comprehensive. Extendable.
The Mystery of 4,400 Preserved Brains—And One Scientist’s Quest to Solve It
The former undertaker collects human brains, talks to them, and hopes they won’t haunt her.
Valery Slauk’s Magnificent Creepy Folk and Mythological Artistry
Valery Slauk, a celebrated Belarusian artist, specializes in book art and easel graphics, particularly employing the etching technique. His work delves into Slavic mythology, crafting captivating worlds that blend literary inspiration with boundless imagination. With a deft…
Should I use Nginx or Apache Server?
Both Nginx and Apache are popular webservers that are used to host applications and websites on the...
Memories are made by breaking DNA — and fixing it
Nature - Nerve cells form long-term memories with the help of an inflammatory response, study in mice finds.
The Value Of A Promise
When you hear a company like Substack or Canva make a promise, you may get pretty cynical that they’re going to keep it. Honestly, I get that.
How to drive a stake through your own good heart
OR: The demise of the Optimize Guys
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Pretty Darn Fascinating
The story of the PDF, the portable document format that’s become one of the internet’s defining information formats. It’ll be with us after we’re long gone.
A Brief History of the GIF, From Early Internet Innovation to Ubiquitous Re
How an image format changed the way we communicate
Advanced Data Structures: Sets, Tuples, and Comprehensions
Advanced Data Structures: Sets, Tuples, and Comprehensions In the world of programming,...
The Beer Advertising Posters Designed by Henry Jerome Schile in The 19th Ce
German-American artist Henry Jerome Schile was born in Oberharmersbach, Baden-Württemberg, in 1829. He emigrated to the US in 1851 and worked in New York in the middle of the 19th century. h/t: vintag.es Henry Schile’s work is described by Harry T. Peters in America on Stone as…
Tokyo is the new Paris
It's simply the greatest city in the world. If you haven't been there, you need to go.
How To Build A Better “Blackwell” GPU Than Nvidia Did
While a lot of people focus on the floating point and integer processing architectures of various kinds of compute engines, we are spending more and more
The Best Python Cheat Sheet
A dense Python cheat sheet with just what you need. Comprehensive but selective coverage of core Python, with links to detailed documentation and resources. Responsive design with light and dark modes. Download and print PDF. Feedback is welcome.
Essential Formulas for Data Science in Finance
In this article, I'll take you through a guide to some essential formulas for Data Science in finance with implementation using Python.
The Rise Of The Bee Bandits
Where once there was cattle and horse rustling, the American West is now confronting the theft of its bees.
Detecting Hallucinations in Large Language Models with Text Similarity Metr
In the world of LLMs, there is a phenomenon known as "hallucinations." These hallucinations are...
Examples of Prototypes – From Low-Fidelity to High-Fidelity Prototypes
Let's go through 6 carefully-picked prototype examples and learn about the difference between low and high fidelity prototypes.
Tommy Emmanuel shows off his 'fearless' fingerpicking guitar style
One of the best acoustic guitarists in the world performs a live set for World Cafe.
Top Open Source Large Language Models (LLMs) Available For Commercial Use
The top open source Large Language Models available for commercial use are as follows. Llama - 2 Meta released Llama 2, a set of pretrained and refined LLMs, along with Llama 2-Chat, a version of Llama 2. These models are scalable up to 70 billion parameters. It was discovered…
As Wildfires Grow Fiercer, Some Companies Look to Rebuild the Tree Supply C
As forests succumb to ever-fiercer wildfires, the federal government and some adventurous private companies are trying to resuscitate an industry.
What's the Fastest Language in the World?
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14 Secret Code Words You Might Want to Know
Some words, when used in specific situations, have deeper meanings than you realize: They’re codes to alert those in the know while keeping others in the dark.