This post discusses preview features in JDK 28 JEP 401, a major Valhalla milestone, has been integrated as a preview feature in JDK 28. This is very exciting, as value classes increase both our ability to communicate the semantics of our programs to others and the optimization opportunities available to the JVM. However, I have … Devamını oku
Nowadays, most people seem to over-engineer their RAG stack. They jump straight to embeddings, vector databases, and reranking pipelines. Meanwhile, their users just want to find the doc that says“How to reset my password.” In engineering, there’s always the right tool for the right problem. In AI Retrieval Systems it’s not different. Before we dive … Devamını oku
OSM US is incredibly excited to announce the latest Charter Project:OldInsuranceMaps.net(OIM)! If you’re a map nerd you’ll remember ever seeing a Sanborn Insurance Map in person. They often come in absolutely massive tomes that were once perhaps the closest you could get to OpenStreetMap before the digital age; over the years, each page becomes a … Devamını oku
Last week Bun 1.4 was released. This was the one that contains the rewrite of Bun from Zig into Rust, apparently containing more than 1 millions new lines of Rust code. And while this caused a bunch of drama in the programming community centered around the language switch, I think the most important thing about … Devamını oku
It ran its jobs 200 times as fast as any other computer on Earth At the height of theCold War, one very specialized computer was so secret that the world didn’t know it existed. It ran its jobs up to 200 times as fast as any other computer of its time. It wasthe U.S. National … Devamını oku
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — From the daily weather forecast to a baseball player’s batting average to an individual’s risk of developing lung cancer, understanding statistics can help people in the United States navigate their lives, according toMark Ramos, assistant research professor of health policy and administration at Penn State. However, more than half of adults … Devamını oku
python has 6 pre-declared “constants”:True,False,None,__debug__,Ellipsis(or equivalently…), andNotImplemented. but they all behave slightly differently, for some reason.True,False, andNoneTrue,False, andNoneare keywords. they aren’t identifiers, they’re just straight up their own lexical tokens. which is really weird; nothing else is like this in python. usually stuff is resolved during regular name resolution, not in the lexer itself.an interesting … Devamını oku
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today authorized the Libre Duo 10 Day Continuous Dual Glucose Ketone Monitoring System for people aged 2 years and older living with diabetes. The Libre Duo 10 Day is the first wearable device in the U.S. that continuously monitors ketone levels, and the first in the world to continuously … Devamını oku
OpenAI has spent the past couple years quietly building “Jalapeño,” an inference chip just announced at Hot Chips. Rumors of a successful tapeout had been swirling for a while. But now we have details. OpenAI invited us to look at their chip,go to their labs to check out how real it is, andbenchmarkit with ourInferenceXsuite. … Devamını oku
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