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Bard and new AI features in Search
Introducing Bard (now Gemini), Google's conversational AI service — plus, new AI features in Search.
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I used GPT to build a search tool for my second brain note-taking system
In this post, I discuss how I used GPT embeddings to build a smart search tool for my second brain note-taking system.
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Voice.ai: GPL Violations with a Side of DRM
the one good use of copyright is prying things open
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The technology behind GitHub’s new code search
A look at what went into building the world's largest public code search index.
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I wish Asciidoc was more popular
I've been using Markdown for a long time, and have grown accustomed to it. It has various quirks, features, and oddities, but what doesn't…
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Crafting container images without Dockerfiles
Last month I have been developing a Rust tool to create container images from Conda environments, without going through Docker. It was a wild trip down the rabbit hole of OCI images, so I thought I’d share part of the adventure here. Enjoy! But why? If you are used to building container images, you might be asking…
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The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession
Tech is increasingly divorced from the real economy thanks to the COVID hangover and Apple’s App Tracking Transparency
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Why the conventional wisdom on how to grow muscles is wrong
Everything the bros told you about how to train was wrong. Ok, not everything, obviously, but quite a lot of “everyone knows this” ideas turned out to be wrong. And after having lived and trained in over 50 countries, I think I know why. The origin of broscience People often ask me how they train in Taiwan or Ecuador…
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A Quick Guide to Mutt
Mutt is not that difficult to get up and running, however, sometimes finding the proper information can be a bit difficult. It is hoped that this guide will get you started, and show you some nice enhancements that help to make mutt (and neomutt) so popular.
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How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky question.On one side, you will hear horror stories of people waki...
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All programming philosophies are about state
State is where architectures rot. Learn why OO, functional, declarative, imperative, IoC, and monoliths are all fighting the same fire in systems.
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OpenTTD 13.0 Released
Breaking news: OpenTTD 13.0 is now available! Depending on your perspective, we’re either two months early for our usual April 1st release, or a bit tardy for the Christmas 2022 release we intended.
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Weakening TLS protection, South Korean style
TLS protocol is fundamental to internet security. All South Korean security applications add their own “trusted” Certificate Authorities however, weakening this protocol severely.
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Announcing Masonry 0.1, and my vision for Rust UI
When I see the landscape of native GUI in 2022, I feel like something is missing.
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Artificial intelligence just lost a leader
Plus a position-search announcement from NSF Roger Schank just passed away. Roger was a top leader of AI. I overlapped with him for my time at Yale. In 1974, he became a professor of computer scien…
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Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France
Julius “Zeekill” Kivimäki, a 25-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a local online psychotherapy practice and leaking therapy notes for more than 22,000 patients online, was arrested this week in France. A notorious hacker convicted of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, Kivimäki had been in hiding…
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Getty Images v. Stability AI – Complaint
Copyright Lately is a copyright blog written, edited and published by Aaron Moss. That's me. I'm a partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp (MSK) in Los Angeles. I specialize in copyright law, trademark, and other intellectual property, media and entertainment litigation matters.
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Guinea worm disease reaches all-time low
Only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide in 2022, pushing the disease closer to eradication, The Carter Center announced Wednesday. The figure is the lowest annual case total ever reported, following the record of 15 cases set just the year before. When The Carter Center assumed leadership of…
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Don’t teach during code reviews
In this post, I'll show you a common pitfall you should avoid when teaching during code reviews.
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How to build a Linux-based wireless router out of spare parts (1998)
This is a brief mini-howto on how to build a linux based wireless router out of what amounts to spare parts, using the linux router project's single disk router software. The total cost of each end of the router, including antennas and cabling, is less than 1300 US dollars, which is a considerable cost savings over…
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Archiving in the time of streaming
Few things are harder to start than a narrative of the thing you “do” and what all the ramifications of it are. For people who don’t make it the center of their lives, your thing …
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Ghost boat with GPS leads father-son duo to man overboard
When Andrew and Jack Sherman discovered an unmanned boat nearly 40 miles off the coast, they used its Garmin chartpotter to find the captain.
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South Pole Topography
The relentless accumulation (and management) of snow.
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Introduction to FPGAs
Introduction Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are a form of programmable hardware that has become inexpensive and accessible recently. I recently purchased a Digilent Basys 3 FPGA development…
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Gen Z Netiquettes
Lessons learned with (no) blood and (all) tears