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What I Learned from Building Google Search and How It Inspires RAG Development
From 2019 to 2023, I worked at Google on Search, which is often considered a “solved”...
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Why Postgres RDS didn't work for us
We were building a startup that measured marketing effectivness via a statistical attribution model. For this...
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Virtual Reality: still not quite there, again. – by Andrej Karpathy
The first time I tried out Virtual Reality was a while ago — somewhere in the...
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JavaScript was Brainfuck all along
Everybody loves JavaScript type coercion, right? Who doesn’t?And it is all too common knowledge that this...
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Words Make It Obvious That Your Text Is Written by AI
Have you ever read an article that made you say “This was made by AI”?I’m sure...
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How We Crowdfunded $750k for a Giant Book about Keyboard History
Thus it made perfect sense that on a vacation day during a work trip in 2016,...
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Basecamp Valuation Tops $100B After Bold VC Investment (2015)
CHICAGO — December 1, 2015–Basecamp is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group...
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How to Add 10 Years to Your Life
Photo by David Fanuel on UnsplashHere’s a simple tip to add 10 years to your life.Stop...
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Python types have an expectations problem
In the last ~10 or so years, many of the popular scripting languages gained optional static...
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On a Tesla: Don't
“How do you like it? Should we get one?”This was a question I used to get...
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Judge your Resume with AI: What's the worst that can happen?
Don’t worry, he’s not madLarge Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI have completely dominated the AI...
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ChatGPT clone in 30 minutes on AWS Kubernetes
In this blog post I will demonstrate how employing Cluster.dev can streamline launching one of the...
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Is Cloud the New Mainframe?
IBM mainframes were the original onsite private cloud. Racks of integrated compute and storage running a...
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The Annual Cost of Technical Debt: $1.52T
Para leer en Español clic aquí.In case you need any more reasons to prioritize software quality,...
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Web Animation with GSAP: A Superior Alternative to CSS and JavaScript
In the ever-evolving era of modern web animations, crafting captivating and intricate animations that truly dazzle...
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Indexing iCloud Photos with AI Using LLaVA and Pgvector
I’ve been fascinated about the rise of AI. However, for the most of the part, it...
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What Adrian Did Next – Part 2 – Sun Microsystems
Adrian Cockcroft, Richard McDougall, Allan Packer and Brian Wong. Los Altos CA, mid-1990’s — Photo by...
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An Ugly Single-Page Website Makes $5k a Month with Affiliate Marketing
Making money online is the dream for many people, but when you start, you realize there...
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IPv6 and the coming IP Apocalypse:2024
A story about trying out IPv6 in 2024 for a home ISP behind CGNAT (like Community...