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Thank you :)

I love these! “Not Quite the Same” sounds a lot like “The Wrong Abstraction” from my list. It’s a really important point and I’m glad to see there are more articles about it!

Thanks for the callout! I have much more experience with geography but you’re totally right. I’ll add a note

The US Navy still uses nomograms for chemistry control on nuclear reactors!

This is so cool. I would have loved this in college.

I’m implementing the Lox programming language (from Crafting Interpreters [0]) in Rust. https://github.com/cckolon/rlox [0] https://craftinginterpreters.com/

Exploration-exploitation tradeoff strikes again

How does this differ from something like MarineTraffic?

Your computer is a sweet machine

Nice, that’s really cool.

I use full length vectors (512 dimensions) and have seen very fast lookups with pgvector (HNSW index) and sqlite-vec on 20k vectors. I think any decent vector database should be ab…

This is really cool. How is reranking built in? Is there a model that runs inside the database? If so, how did you choose it?

Thanks! Yeah embedding is simple enough and my needs were small enough that I didn’t want to pay. Both llama-server and ollama are great options, and if container size isn’t an iss…

This is a really cool idea. By “different models” do you mean models fine tuned on different sources? How would you decide how to classify chunks?

https://jfmm.net/

Aren’t most inventions anti-labor by this rationale? We employ fewer farmers than we used to, but this is good for society because people who would be farmers are now working on ot…

https://carlkolon.com My submarine combat game was on the front page a while ago! https://bearingsonly.net

> 5 - 9 means strong effects, definitely not placebo. It’s impossible for anyone to say this convincingly about their own experience. If it were easy to tell whether an effect was …

Reminds me of Randall Monroe’s obsession with Simple English https://xkcd.com/547/