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If the file is short, they put the full text into the prompt. If it's longer, they use some sort of RAG with qdrant, it appears to be top-1 with context expansion, but nobody's kno…

https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2023/02/27/hybrid-vig... , https://jina.ai/news/hype-and-hybrids-multimodal-search-mean... are two I've been looking at Basically, get the BM…

For those who don't know about shadow stats, here's a good explanation of the issues with it, and why their numbers are off https://fullstackeconomics.com/no-the-real-inflation-rat…

Arrow's impossibility theorem only applies to ordinal voting systems. Quadratic voting is a cardinal system. Cardinal voting still isn't perfect, but it does get around some of the…

There's ~130 known unencoded scripts, about 70 historical and 60 modern (some of which are extinct, most of which just don't have that many users). Most of these have proposed rang…

If you switch the F to an M you should also switch the G to an A MAAAN

https://qntm.org/abolish

I'm fine with remote work - people don't all need to be in the same place. I'm just tired of work from home. Internet speed, work/life balance, space for desk and monitors, etc. Ho…

Apple Card is 1% cash back on all purchases, 2% if you use Apple Pay, 3% if you shop at Apple (and a couple others now). It as Apple Cash so it can be used anyway you use Apple Pay…

Apple TV+, Apple Music, Apple Arcade, Apple News+, purchases of books, movies, TV shows, music their 30% cut of App Store revenues and subscriptions; the $99 developer fee for the …

The ADA requires elevator doors to be open for >3 seconds, it's easier to just disable the door close button in general than time it

numpy/scipy/etc will have to support Accelerate instead of MKL.

They got rid of the writing section in 2016, it's back to 1600 (with optional essay)

Will I actually do this past day five this year for a change?

The wikipedia page for Turbo Pascal, at 43,234 bytes, is bigger than Turbo Pascal