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U.S. military admits it has weapons in orbit(twz.com)
17 points by riordan 3d ago|3 comments
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by riordan 5d ago
We haven’t decided that—Substrait[0] is still the IR for query plans across different execution engines—but projects like QueryBrew are a great side effect of what a SOTA planner can accomplish. [0]: https://substrait.io
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Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows(research.meta.ai)
1209 points by riordan 1mo ago|638 comments
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by riordan 2mo ago
Except as the corporate spending card company they see just how much their customers are spending on inference and have made it a cornerstone of their marketing for the last two years. Their positioning is: You already have all your teams s
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by riordan 3mo ago
To be fair we were done transcribing and double verifying in about 2015. We’d get a batch of new menus from the imaging team, tweet it and no matter the size it’d be gone in about an hour.
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by riordan 3mo ago
And alligator pears are avocados!
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by riordan 3mo ago
The dataset of menus and items is all hand labeled and verified at menus.nypl.org.
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by riordan 10mo ago
This is why I preferred Mike Migurski’s nickname for PHP: Apachescript; easy to integrate to the web server and next fastest thing to C for Apache.
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The time has finally come for geothermal energy(newyorker.com)
160 points by riordan 10mo ago|272 comments
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by riordan 11mo ago
This absolutely rocks: like an open and usable version of the once beloved and now deprecated Echo Nest Audio Analysis api [0]. There used to be a tool to use this data to manage your own (Spotify-only) music library and while it wasn’t mag
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by riordan 1y ago
11 years ago, NY Magazine published my favorite startup zeitgeist article of the Uber-For-X era: “Let’s, like, demolish Laundry”. This feels like a perfect revisit of that for our darker and more cynical era. https://nymag.com&#x
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by riordan 1y ago
Seriously - I find myself coming back to read this once every few years because of how riveting the piece is (oh no -just realized the pun) Also I’ve heard wonderful things about The Great Miscalculation[0], a recently released book about
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by riordan 1y ago
There have been several projects over the past few years to make text embeddings visually explorable (notably Nomic.ai's Nomic Atlas). However, Apple's just released a tool that makes this kind of analysis super accessible and ins
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Embedding Atlas: a scalable way to explore text embeddings with DuckDB(github.com)
4 points by riordan 1y ago|1 comments
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by riordan 2y ago
> Polygons, curves, or lines are an afterthought. For example, the polygonToCells function returns a set of cells that are entirely within the polygon. If you want to join, you'd need to also have the set of all cells that entirely
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by riordan 3y ago
Chronicling America is great, but as you’ve noticed it’s limited to issues that are in the public domain. It’s not just LC, the National Digital Newspaper Program[1] has been funding hundreds of libraries across all 50 USA states to make it
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by riordan 3y ago
It’s good to hear that PWAs are still on Firefox Android, even though they’re out of Desktop. From my [fairly-out-of-the-loop-for-the-past-few-years] vantage point, Mozilla’s been a lot less invested in the PWA ecosystem since they abandone
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by riordan 3y ago
It’s not. If it holds up well in terms of operating it and extending it when things change, then it’s not “too simple”. You’ve just built on 4 extremely resilient and scalable technologies which have made the kind of “Big Data” hoop-jumping
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by riordan 3y ago
Likewise; this ticks so many boxes for me, but as a hippy-dippy non-gmail user I too have to second the IMAP/JMAP ask. Gmail absolutely hits that sweet spot of API capabilities and where the users are, so I can’t fault the project crea
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by riordan 3y ago
This is genuinely awesome. The crossstreet based search is a perfect approach in NYC. Reminds me of how I used to use Google’s sms service to get directions from about 2004-2010.
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by riordan 3y ago
Sunday service has always been particularly important to the New York City public libraries. Andrew Carnegie’s original deal always was, he would find the construction of the branches the libraries would run the branches, and the city would
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by riordan 3y ago
This is a big step forward, and is also making me nostalgic for the Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF)[0] blogrolls of the early 00’s. RDF-in-HTML standard that could express recommendations and relationships. That said, I’m glad to see Webmention a
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by riordan 3y ago
> In this context-- the section in article where it says present data is of virtually zero importance to analytics is no longer true. We need a real solution even if we apply those (presumably complex and costly) solutions to only the mo
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by riordan 6y ago
Indeed they did. I also fondly remember how wonderful the web development deployment workflow was in Coda. This was back before source control was ubiquitous and CI/CD was required for any real production environment. It was the cleane
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by riordan 7y ago
Not gaming related but if you want to know the origins of where everything in computation came from, George Dyson’s “Turing’s Cathedral” is a revelation. It’s the story of computer, told by interviews of the folks who created the architectu
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A Cynics Guide to Stanford (Or: Majoring in Unicorn)(nymag.com)
11 points by riordan 7y ago|4 comments
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by riordan 7y ago
It seems like you're putting the text out under CC-4.0-BY-SA [1] (Attribution, Share-Alike), which is great (the updated version of the same copyright for Wikipedia content). However, you're also collecting a TON of structured and
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How Banksy authenticates his work through certificates(reprage.com)
6 points by riordan 7y ago|2 comments
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by riordan 8y ago
One of the under-appreciated aspects of Colaboratory is that it's completely integrated into the Google Drive ecosystem, including multiple real-time users of the same notebook (sharing the same VM). This was a real game-changer for me
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XSweet: Open Docx to HTML Converter(xsweet.coko.foundation)
2 points by riordan 8y ago|0 comments

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