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magenta.nvim is a plugin designed for LLM agents in neovim, providing a chat window to interact with an AI coding assistant and tools for context management and inline edits. It differs from similar plugins like cursor-compose, cody, or windsurf by allowing the AI agent to choose context via tools. The plugin leverages an elm-inspired architecture […]
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The author explores using a local LLM to improve search relevance without relying on expensive AI. By comparing LLM’s preferences for product relevance to human ratings, the author aims to create a reliable search relevance evaluator using their laptop. Various experiments are conducted, such as combining multiple LLM decisions to make smarter choices and analyzing […]
The concept of treating data like code is gaining momentum, with tools such as lakeFS and Oxen.ai offering a Git-for-data system. Branching off the main branch for job executions provides a safe space for data manipulation and metadata recording before deciding whether to merge back into the main branch. Test executions can be conducted using […]
Yasser has taken on the challenge of creating an LLVM alternative, Tilde, due to his belief that LLVM is too slow and bloated. His project, Tilde, focuses on providing a faster and more efficient compiler backend library. Early tests have shown promising results, such as a faster preprocessor and improved processing of translation units. Tilde […]
Lightpanda Browser is an open-source browser optimized for headless usage, supporting partial Web APIs and Playwright and Puppeteer compatibility through CDP. It offers fast web automation for AI agents, LLM training, scraping, and testing with ultra-low memory footprint and exceptional speed, outperforming Chrome by 9x in memory consumption and 11x in execution. The browser can […]
Computer scientists have tackled the library sorting problem, involving efficient book organization to minimize time. A groundbreaking algorithm introduced a random, non-smooth approach, significantly reducing the previous upper bound insertion time to (log n) times (log log n)3 – very close to the theoretical limit. This innovative method uses a limited degree of history to […]
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Wild linker Wild is a linker focused on speed for iterative development, with plans for incremental linking in the future. While not yet implemented, Wild is already quite fast without incremental linking. For production builds, GNU ld or LLD are recommended. Wild is currently usable for development on x86-64 Linux, offering faster warm build times. […]
The author discovered CVE-2024-54507, a ‘sus’ sysctl in the XNU kernel, while testing macOS 15.0. Upon investigation, it was found that the sysctl_udp_log_port function was causing a PARTIAL2 KASAN load violation due to an out-of-bounds read. By treating a uint16_t pointer as an integer pointer, the bug allowed for the leakage of 2 bytes of […]
Traditional vector search methods typically use sentence embeddings, but ColBERT goes further by representing text as token-level multi-vectors instead of a single vector. This approach allows for greater detail and improved search accuracy compared to traditional methods. While token-level late interaction requires more computing power, the combination of sentence-level vector search with token-level rerank can […]