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Introducing S2
Introducing S2, a serverless stream store that makes durable real-time streams feel as simple and scalable as object storage.
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Welcome to LLMflation - LLM inference cost is going down fast ⬇️
For LLM of equivalent performance, the inference cost is decreasing by 10x every year. What cost $60/million tokens in 2021 costs $.06/million tokens today.
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Enum of Arrays
A popular data-oriented design pattern is a Struct of Arrays. Is an Array of Enums also useful? Yes! But let’s do a refresher on struct of arrays (SoA) first:
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OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB
OpenAI o3 scores 75.7% on ARC-AGI public leaderboard.
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Building Effective "Agents"
Practical guidance from Anthropic on building reliable AI agents, from simple composable patterns to fully autonomous systems.
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Matt Mullenweg temporarily shuts down some Wordpress.org functions
In order to give myself and the many tired volunteers around WordPress.org a break for the holidays, we’re going to be pausing a few of the free services currently offered: New account registration…
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A comparison to Waymo’s auto liability insurance claims at 25M miles
Understanding the safety impact of Automated Driving Systems (ADS) is crucial for their widespread adoption, yet robust real-world evaluation remains a critical area of development. By leveraging insurance industry third-party auto liability claims, we analyze the Waymo ADS performance across 25.3 million fully…
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My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
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Doctors Without Borders declares the war in Gaza as genocide
Amid continued attacks, siege, and blockade, Israel is destroying conditions of life in Gaza.
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The era of open voice assistants
Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition is the best way to get started with our open and privacy-focused voice assistant.
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Kelly Can't Fail
Introduction You may have heard of the Kelly bet allocation strategy. It is a system for correctly exploiting information or bias in a gambling situation. It is also known as a maximally aggressive…
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Alignment faking in large language models
A paper from Anthropic's Alignment Science team on Alignment Faking in AI large language models
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Error Stacking in Rust
How to handle and report errors effectively in Rust applications is a common question. This blog shares our experience organizing variant types of Error in a complex system like GreptimeDB, from how an error is defined to how to log the error or present it to end-users. Such a system is composed of multiple components…
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Half My Life with Perl
I had never met Randal Schwartz before, but when I reached out to him about contributing to year 25 of the Perl Advent Calendar, he immediately agreed. This year I wanted to try some new things and Randal suggested giving a Perl-specific talk which he had given once before, but which was lacking in recording quality…
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A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
My camera bag with $10k of gear was stolen from my car. When I saw the broken glass and empty backseat, I immediately pulled up FindMy to track the thief - only to find that its last location was my office 3 months ago... because I hadn't changed the AirTag's battery. It was a terrible feeling on top of a worse one. T
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Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin
Meta has been on a years-long undertaking to translate our entire Android codebase from Java to Kotlin. Today, despite having one of the largest Android codebases in the world, we’re well pas…
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How we made our AI code review bot stop leaving nitpicky comments
Lessons learned from our challenges reducing LLM output: Discover everything that went wrong when trying to make our models say less.
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CRDTs and Collaborative Playground
Learn about Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types, Yjs, and how we built a collaborative, real-time playground in a web browser.
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Grammarly acquires Coda
We’re excited to announce that Grammarly is acquiring Coda. Here’s a look at Coda’s next chapter.
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ISO 8583: The language of credit cards
Discover the inner workings of ISO 8583, the global standard for credit card transaction messaging. Learn how it powers payment processing across networks and explore its structure, fields, and real-world applications.
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Ham radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo telescope
We have used the historic Dwingeloo radio telescope to receive signals from the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Only a few telescopes in the world have received these signals, which are very faint due to the distance of Voyager 1: almost 25 billion kilometers, more than four times the distance to Pluto.
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MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style
An MIT study on “legalese” suggests this convoluted language acts to convey a sense of authority in legal documents. The researchers also found that even non-lawyers use legalese when asked to write laws.
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Waymo will bring autonomous vehicles to Tokyo
こんにちは(Konnichiwa) and hello, Japan! We're thrilled to announce that Waymo, in partnership with Nihon Kotsu and GO, will bring our autonomous vehicles to Tokyo for our first international road trip. There, our Driver will learn and adapt to left-hand traffic and new driving nuances associated with operating in one of…
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Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API
We are adding a new generated code API to Go Protobuf.
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Veo 2: Our video generation model
Our leading video generation model
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Scanners Beware: Welcome to the network from hell
We’ve crafted a bold defense strategy that not only slows scans but actively disrupts and deceives attackers.
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Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal
Bartek Wydrowski, Google Research; Robert Kleinberg, Google Research and Cornell; Stephen M. Rumble, Google (YouTube); Aaron Archer, Google Research
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25 Years of Dillo
Back in 1999, a group of developers lead by Jorge Arellano Cid forked the Gzilla/Armadillo code originally developed by Raph Levien, and began working on what is now known as the Dillo web browser.