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In the world of semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases play a crucial role that often goes unnoticed. If you’re exploring applications like large language models or semantic search platforms, choosing the right vector database is essential. To simplify the decision-making process, this article compares the leading vector databases of 2023, including Pinecone, […]
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Shuttle is a cloud development platform designed specifically for Rust apps. It offers a range of features to enhance productivity, reliability, and performance. This includes zero-configuration support for Rust using annotations, automatic resource provisioning, and first-class support for popular Rust frameworks. One unique aspect of Shuttle is its ability to deploy Discord bots using Serenity. […]
OpenSSH 9.5 has been released and it comes with significant changes. One of the key features is a transport-level ping mechanism and keystroke timing obfuscation. This obfuscation hides inter-keystroke timings by sending interactive traffic at fixed intervals, and it also sends fake “chaff” keystrokes after the last real keystroke. These changes are controlled by a […]
The Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro will offer a remarkable seven years of software support, meaning users can expect to use them until 2030 without their software becoming outdated. This is a significant improvement compared to previous offerings from Google, which provided only five years of security updates and three years of Android OS […]
Anna’s Archive has scraped all of Worldcat, the world’s largest library metadata collection, to create a TODO list of books that need to be preserved. They are hosting a data science mini-competition to invite others to analyze the data and discover interesting insights. The dataset consists of Worldcat library records from various OCLC member libraries, […]
The author of this web content discusses the idea of allowing language models to manipulate a greater number of hidden vectors before generating responses. They propose the use of a “pause” token, which is appended to the input prefix and delays the extraction of the model’s outputs until the last pause token is seen. By […]
Proponents of secret science argue that it has benefited society, but insiders during the Cold War expressed concerns about the impact of secrecy on research. Secrecy made it difficult to validate and replicate experimental protocols and results. Some research in classified fields was considered poor and would be laughed off if declassified. For example, the […]
CRDTs, or Conflict-free Replicated Data Types, are data structures that can be stored on different computers and allow for instant updates to each peer’s own state without the need for network requests. CRDTs are great for building collaborative apps without a central server. There are two types of CRDTs: state-based and operation-based. State-based CRDTs transmit […]
In this paper, the authors address the challenges of deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in streaming applications that involve long interactions. They highlight two main issues: the memory consumption during the decoding stage and the inability of popular LLMs to generalize to longer texts than the training sequence length. The authors propose a solution called […]
JSON Generator is a powerful and versatile tool that allows users to easily generate random or customized JSON data with just a few clicks. This online tool offers various features, including the ability to specify data types, set array sizes, and even create nested structures. It is a perfect solution for developers or anyone in […]