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I want to share why I am posting this paper and why I think this is an interesting read. From "Henry Faulds Proposes Fingerprints as a System of Identification": https://historyofi…

The whole setup works on my M2 MacBook Pro with 16 GB RAM. I use Gemma 4B via LiteRT-LM. I've found that LiteRT-LM has a much lower DRAM footprint than Ollama. I've also made tons …

I wish I had known about Pipecat a lot sooner. I found out about it a few weeks back, and since Gemma 4 launched, I've been building my own entirely local voice assistant using Gem…

I have come to a similar realization recently - its what I call "Take it home OSS" - i.e. fork freely, modify it to your liking using AI coding agents, and stop waiting for upstrea…

A fun tangent - if someone wants to explore how Azure is performing RDMA over RoCEv2 - check this paper out - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... There …

I am a bit late to this thread, nevertheless, I wanted to put my thoughts down as well. Horizon Worlds and the Metaverse were both pitched as a "social" platform. And this in itsel…

On a similar tangent, but on the opposite end of the spectrum, check out this month-old discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772003 ChatGPT's code execution con…

Happy Public Domain Day, everyone! Such a great project. A bit tangential here, but I am really looking forward to 2035 for the public domain. A ton of culturally significant works…

There is also AussieEspañol, who is attempting to travel from Argentina to Alaska in a tuk-tuk (an auto rickshaw) - https://www.youtube.com/@aussieespanol/videos Followed him a bit…

Hi! Author here. I agree that I should have explicitly stated the word "priority queues" since it is an ADT people can directly relate to. I will add it in. However, it is simply n…

When my friends and I were undergrads (3rd year, I believe), we had an absolute blast exploring this exact topic - the intersection of Bloom Filters and client side searching. So m…

I love what Norvig said. I can relate to it. As far as data structures are concerned, I think it's worth playing smart with your tests - focus on the "invariants" and ensure their …

Some interesting stuff from the Nature paper > The Perseverance rover has explored and sampled igneous and sedimentary rocks within Jezero Crater to characterize early Martian geol…

I recently listened to the episode on The Antikythera Mechanism and found it quite fun - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024x0g Also, I wanted to mention something interesting -…