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The intersection of literature and cutting-edge science has led to groundbreaking research, such as Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna’s Nobel Prize-winning work on CRISPR. To address the challenges of navigating the vast expanse of scientific literature, an AI co-scientist system was developed. This system, built on Gemini 2.0, generates novel research hypotheses and proposals in […]
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Mastra is a robust Typescript framework designed for building AI applications efficiently. It offers key elements like workflows, agents, RAG, integrations, and evals. Users can easily run Mastra locally or deploy it on a serverless cloud. Notably, Mastra leverages the Vercel AI SDK for model routing and supports various LLM providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, […]
Magma is a groundbreaking foundation model that excels in interpreting and grounding multimodal inputs to achieve various tasks. Combining vision-language understanding with spatial and temporal intelligence, Magma can navigate complex settings and complete tasks like UI navigation and robot manipulation. Pretrained on a diverse range of datasets, Magma outperforms other models in both in-distribution and […]
Twenty years ago, my husband broke his ankle and was on crutches for almost two months. When he broke his other ankle last year, his doctor advised him to start walking on it after surgery. Surprisingly, new studies show that early weight-bearing on a broken leg can actually help the bone heal faster and improve […]
Subtrace is the Wireshark for Docker containers, allowing developers to monitor incoming and outgoing requests in their backend server with ease. This tool works seamlessly without requiring any code changes and supports multiple languages. Users can view detailed information like payload, headers, status code, and latency, with minimal performance overhead. Subtrace is built on Clickhouse […]
The author reflects on the impact of their previous article on creating fast interpreters using tail calls and the musttail attribute, particularly in Protocol Buffer parsers and VM interpreters. They highlight recent achievements such as a tail call interpreter being merged into Python 3.14, boasting a 9-15% improvement in performance. They further discuss an experimental […]
In this post, we put together the SQLite file format knowledge and the SQL parser to implement a query evaluator that can handle basic SELECT statements. While the current implementation lacks support for filtering, sorting, grouping, or joins, it serves as a foundation for future features. Controversially, using an existing SQLite database for testing may […]
Designing systems to achieve perfection in consistency, availability, latency, and throughput simultaneously is a challenge. Balancing these properties is key. Bluesky made tradeoffs in design to boost performance while sacrificing some consistency, leading to a 96% reduction in P99s. With millions of users, hot shards occur when some users heavily load a shard, causing delays […]
Yufeng Gao shares exciting details about his forensic analysis of DMR tapes, revealing a working system from s1/s2 tapes that contain the earliest machine-readable UNIX kernel, positioned between V1 and V2. The s1 tape includes the kernel, while s2 has distribution files. The kernel supports both V1 and V2 a.outs, possesses a 16 KiB core […]
Summary: A seemingly random job posting leads to a crazy interview where the core responsibility is getting punched in the stomach daily before being allowed to go home. The benefits and compensation package are incredibly generous, leading the protagonist to struggle with the decision to leave their current job. Despite the bizarre nature of the […]