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In this web content, the author reflects on their struggle to understand the distinction between their own world and the world outside of the United States. They mention receiving requests to add right to left language support in Standard Notes and the difficulty they faced in finding a solution. The common suggestions they received involved […]
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The Fast Vector Similarity Library is a highly efficient tool designed for tasks like data analysis, machine learning, and statistics that require measuring the relationship between vectors. Written in Rust, it offers high-performance computing and can be easily integrated with Python. The library implements several popular similarity measures, such as Spearman’s Rank-Order Correlation and Hoeffding’s […]
Many years ago, I discovered a short and clear Python code for a prime sieve function that generates an infinite sequence of prime numbers. The code is based on the Sieve of Eratosthenes, an ancient Greek algorithm for finding primes efficiently. The key to this algorithm is a map called D, which keeps track of […]
In this web content, the author discusses the benefits of open-source software development and collaboration. They emphasize the importance of diverse collaboration in producing superior solutions. The development of Aeron, a high throughput messaging system, is used as an example of successful open-source development. The author highlights the passion and pride that often drives open-source […]
I have been involved in competitive robotics for a while now, starting with FLL at a young age and continuing on to VEX. This year, our school reformed our FTC team after a 3 year hiatus. Out of our 15 members, 14 were new to the competition, but most had past robotics experience which we […]
The new log/slog package in Go 1.21 brings structured logging to the standard library. Structured logs use key-value pairs for easy parsing, filtering, searching, and analysis. Structured logging has consistently ranked high in the annual survey of Go programmers and many popular Go packages already provide it. By including structured logging in the standard library, […]
Marine biologist Lorian Schweikert discovered that hogfish can camouflage even after they’re dead, prompting her to investigate how they blend into their environment. Schweikert and her team identified a new type of cell deep in the hogfish’s skin that allows the fish to monitor its surroundings and edit its skin color. The hogfish’s ability to […]
In this web content, the author discusses their experience of building a package manager specifically for SQLite extensions. They explain that they needed a structured approach to managing these extensions, as there was no existing package manager for SQLite. The author goes on to describe the design decisions and implementation details of their package manager, […]
At a recent conference, mathematicians announced that they had proven the telescope conjecture false, making it the only one of Ravenel’s original conjectures to not be true. This discovery has far-reaching implications, showing that the universe of different shapes in high dimensions is more complicated than previously thought. To classify shapes, mathematicians use homotopy theory, […]
This web content, written by Peter Alfeld from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah, provides a summary of how to approach and solve mathematical problems. The author emphasizes the importance of understanding the problem, identifying the unknown and the given data, and determining if the conditions are sufficient or redundant. They suggest […]