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Interesting approach. I just finished some work for a similar task in a different domain. One thing that surprised me: tantivy's BM25 search is faster, more expressive, and more sc…

You bet I do. That's an hour of rubber-ducky time working through new architectures with someone who won't get tired of my endless blathering. I've worked through a bunch of bad id…

You know what's pretty good at cleaning up data that's a total trash fire? _More_ LLM. :-) I run a web service whose primary purpose is cleaning up messy, SEO-enshittified data fro…

The description of the algorithm notes that each irregular pentagon is divided into four sub-pentagons. Eyeballing the maps, I don't see any group of 4 pentagons forming a similar …

Are the examples all actual outputs of the program? It's entirely possible that my understanding of the grammar is off, but it looks like these examples are wrong: $ echo 'cat dog'…

We got one, and we love it. My daughter dropped hers and bent the case. We ordered a new case (which, admittedly, was a significant percentage of the price of a new laptop) and had…

That was my first thought also. OTOH, Framework's business model is "we're going to charge you more to get that thing you actually wanted without locking you into stupid business m…

Dragons Egg by Robert Forward had always been one of my favorites. Asks the question "what would like be like if it evolved on a neutron star," and has 20 pages of his notes on wor…

They did make a straight album, cleverly titled "The Smothers Brothers Play It Straight." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smothers_Brothers_Play_It_...

Hansen's Second Law: Clever is the opposite of maintainable There is nothing that will stop a code review quicker than "I discovered a clever way to..." A dozen engineers are going…

I was discussing low-load index investing with a friend, and the 7% over the last 200 years sounds great. He suggested the hypothesis that that's a reflection of the rise of the Un…

Some areas that I explored more deeply in my Earlier Days w.r.t hash tables (Java hash tables, at that) that aren't covered by the analysis are: * Memory footprint and GC load * Wr…