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Wild bee biologists are uncovering new bee species across the Pacific Northwest, revealing the lack of knowledge about native pollinators. Rowan Rampton, a graduate student in biology, stumbled upon a mysterious bee in an alpine meadow in Castlegar, British Columbia. With expert mentor Lincoln Best’s help, he identified it as Hoplitis emarginata, a rare bee […]
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Akuity’s mission is to enhance engineer productivity through the Akuity Platform, the advanced continuous deployment tool for Kubernetes. A new feature, KubeVision, improves visibility for platform administrators and developers. While Argo CD is powerful, the application-centric focus makes some tasks cumbersome. KubeVision offers data collected by Argo CD through convenient dashboards. The Kubernetes Explorer allows […]
During the renovation of the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C., a hidden chamber was discovered beneath Jefferson Drive. The round brick cistern, built in 1847 for rainwater storage, remained sealed for over 120 years. The 30-foot deep chamber was found by construction crews, offering a glimpse into the museum’s past. While myths of underground Smithsonian […]
AnythingLLM is the ultimate AI application that allows you to chat with your documents using AI Agents without any complicated set-up. You have the flexibility to choose from a variety of LLMs and vector databases, and easily create a private ChatGPT that can be run locally or hosted remotely. This full-stack application divides your documents […]
A new AI system, AlphaProteo, has been developed by Protein Design and Wet Lab teams that can design novel proteins to bind to target molecules, aiding in drug design, disease understanding, and more. AlphaProteo outperforms existing methods by generating high-strength protein binders with better success rates and affinities. Notably, AlphaProteo successfully designed a protein binder […]
TinyStatus is a user-friendly tool for creating personalized status pages to monitor various services efficiently. It offers features like monitoring HTTP endpoints, ping hosts, and tracking incident history. The tool has a simple setup process and can be customized through YAML configuration. Surprisingly, it automatically updates status at set intervals and allows for easy customization […]
Physicists at JILA achieved a groundbreaking discovery by measuring a nuclear transition in thorium-229, paving the way for a “nuclear clock” that could probe the forces binding the universe. The precise measurement, reported in Nature, has implications for testing the constancy of fundamental physics laws. The accidental cancellation of forces in the thorium-229 nucleus makes […]
Creating a vector index with pgvector is as simple as running CREATE INDEX ON t USING hnsw(col vector_l2_ops). This article delves into the inner workings of the underlying index file generated by pgvector in Postgres, explaining its storage in Postgres files. The metadata page and subsequent HNSW graph pages are explored, revealing the structure of […]
Ligo presents AlphaFold3, an open-source project aimed at advancing biomolecular structure prediction. The release includes the full AlphaFold3 model with training code. The first phase focuses on single-chain protein prediction, with plans to add ligand, multimer, and nucleic acid prediction capabilities. While still in the early research phase, the project aims to create a fully […]
Shanice Sharpe is struggling to keep up with the rising rent at her one-bedroom apartment in Toronto, with hikes influenced by AI software, sparking controversy. Dream Unlimited, the landlord, is using YieldStar, leading to allegations of artificial rent inflation and harm to tenants across Canada and the US. The software collects data to suggest rent […]