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Tufte's Razor · An interactive guide to the data-ink ratio
An interactive guide to Edward Tufte's data-ink ratio. Take a cluttered bar chart apart and watch its ink get counted, pixel by pixel.
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From: [email protected] - Spoofing Arbitrary Apple iCloud Identities
A case study on discovering two email spoofing vulnerabilities in Apple iCloud.
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You're Leaving Compute on the Table · Nishant Joshi
Six computers on one desk, a 2001 supercomputer's worth of compute, spending most of the day displaying spinners.
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RIP, vector database
turbopuffer is pushing the frontier of search. To do that, we have to fundamentally redesign our storage architecture so the vector index is no longer primary.
Topics: Databases
Entities: Databases
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Claude Says....
I don’t care. If I wanted the feedback of an AI, I would have prompted it myself.
Entities: Claude
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Implementing Undo - Computerphile
We use undo daily, but have you thought about what goes into making a functional undo in a program? Dr Steve Bagley takes us through some of the things we ne...
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Broadcasting conglomerates are attempting a takeover of over-the-air television. We must defend it.
The rise of cable, satellite and streaming over the past 20 years has made over-the-air television appear as a footnote of the information age, yet it remains one of the last distribution mediums operated in the public interest; unencumbered by rising...
Topics: Security
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Building a RAG Pipeline for Semantic Code Search: A Developer Diary and Field Notes - The JetBrains Blog
Part 1: Parsing, chunking, and vectorization Some time ago, we set out to build the best semantic code search platform we could: a RAG pipeline that gives LLM agents precise, citable evidence from re
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Refinement E-Graphs
The idea of a refinement e-graph is to add a baked in a <= relation that is about as privileged as the e-graph’s native =
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GitHub - rcalixte/ncdu: NCurses Disk Usage (an updated fork)
NCurses Disk Usage (an updated fork). Contribute to rcalixte/ncdu development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Iroh global content discovery
How to discover content globally with iroh using BitTorrent mainline DHT.