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A not so fast implementation of cosine similarity in C++ and SIMD

joseprupi.github.io

There isn’t much to see here, just me dusting off some old architecture knowledge to parallelize...
There isn’t much to see here, just me dusting off some old architecture knowledge to parallelize computations using SIMD, implement it in C++, and compare the results with Python. The task involved creating a vectorized version of the cosine similarity in C++ to compare its performance against Python, NumPy, SciPy, ...
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PEP 762 – REPL-acing the default REPL

python.org
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Show HN: Arch – an intelligent prompt gateway built on Envoy

github.com
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Court tells EPA to consider fluoride risk

undark.org
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In Jordan, a ‘stunning’ discovery under Petra’s ancient stone

nytimes.com
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Intel and AMD form advisory group to reshape x86 ISA

theregister.com

The shape of the x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) is evolving. On Tuesday, Intel and AMD...
The shape of the x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) is evolving. On Tuesday, Intel and AMD announced the formation of an ecosystem advisory group intended to drive greater consistency between the brands' x86 implementations. Intel and AMD have been co-developing the x86-64 instruction for decades. But while end ...
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A team paid to break into top-secret bases

bbc.com

Getty ImagesRed Teams try to break into high security facilitiesA crack team assembles and breaks into...
Getty ImagesRed Teams try to break into high security facilitiesA crack team assembles and breaks into a top secret military base or corporate headquarters - you've probably seen it in a film or on TV a dozen times. But such teams exist in the real world and can be hired to test the tightest security. Plenty of firm...
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The C23 edition of Modern C is now available for free

wordpress.com

The C23 edition of Modern C is now available for free download from https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02383654 This new...
The C23 edition of Modern C is now available for free download from https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02383654 This new edition has been the occasion to overhaul the presentation in many places, but its main purpose is the update to the new C standard, C23. The goal was to publish this new edition of Modern C at the same tim...
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Sqlite3 WebAssembly

sqlite.org

This site is home to the documentation for the SQLite project's WebAssembly- and JavaScript-related APIs, which...
This site is home to the documentation for the SQLite project's WebAssembly- and JavaScript-related APIs, which enable the use of sqlite3 in modern WASM-capable browsers. These components were initially released for public beta with version 3.40 and will tentatively be made API-stable with the 3.41 release, pending ...
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Python Inline Script Metadata

python.org

This specification defines a metadata format that can be embedded in single-file Python scripts to assist...
This specification defines a metadata format that can be embedded in single-file Python scripts to assist launchers, IDEs and other external tools which may need to interact with such scripts. This specification defines a metadata comment block format (loosely inspired by reStructuredText Directives). Any Python scr...
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U.S. Judge Asked to Collect $1.4M Moldovan Judgment Against Cloudflare

torrentfreak.com

Popular Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare has come under pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The...
Popular Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare has come under pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The company offers its services to millions of customers including multinationals, governments, but also some of the world’s leading pirate sites. These pirate sites have proven to be quite a headache f...
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Logging Best Practices: An Engineer's Checklist

honeycomb.io

The best DevOps and SRE teams have shifted their approach to monitoring and logging their systems....
The best DevOps and SRE teams have shifted their approach to monitoring and logging their systems. These teams debug problems cohesively and rationally, regardless of the system’s complexity. Gone are the days of having a slew of logs that fail to explain the cause of alerts, system failures, and other unknowns. Imp...
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Command AI Bought by Amplitude

command.ai

Today we have some major news to share: Command AI is being acquired by Amplitude.First, some...
Today we have some major news to share: Command AI is being acquired by Amplitude.First, some context for our customers: the Command AI product remains operational and will continue to be indefinitely. Over time, we will be migrating key infrastructure to Amplitude, so you may see some changes, but all of those will...
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Big Advance on Simple-Sounding Math Problem Was a Century in the Making

quantamagazine.org
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The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust

economist.com
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Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can't?

arstechnica.com

With the character block sitting unused, a later Unicode version planned to reuse the abandoned characters...
With the character block sitting unused, a later Unicode version planned to reuse the abandoned characters to represent countries. For instance, “us” or “jp” might represent the United States and Japan. These tags could then be appended to a generic 🏴flag emoji to automatically convert it to the official US🇺🇲 or Jap...
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Looking for help for Bloxtor: A Free Open-Source Web App Framework

github.com
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Mothbox 4.0

digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io
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Running LLMs with 3.3M Context Tokens on a Single GPU

arxiv.org
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TIL: iTerm2 has custom status bars

wompa.land
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Show HN: Mermaid ASCII Diagrams

mermaid-ascii.art
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Ask HN: Recommendation for LLM-based "documentation interaction"

ycombinator.com

I would like to try out fine-tuning (or whatever process is the right one) a LLM...
I would like to try out fine-tuning (or whatever process is the right one) a LLM on the documentation of one of our frameworks.Motivation: It's often difficult making the vast amount of information accessible for new users: A question may have been asked a couple times before, we may even have a good guide covering ...
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MP3 to EXE (1999)

rarewares.org
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Life expectancy rise slows down

nature.com

What chance do children born since 2010 have of living to 100? Less than 2% for...
What chance do children born since 2010 have of living to 100? Less than 2% for men and about 5% for women.Credit: Skye Hohmann/Alamy Put aside the hype about the growing number of us who are likely to make it to 100, because the rise in human life expectancy might actually be slowing down. At least, according to a ...

ageing epidemiology
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