Lynn Conway, a pioneer of microelectronics chip design, made significant contributions to the field during the 1970s. Her work at Xerox PARC and IBM revolutionized chip design and greatly impacted the modern information technology revolution. However, what people didn’t know until recently is that Lynn also underwent a gender transition in the late 1960s. She […]

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Outlines is a library for neural text generation that serves as a flexible replacement for the generate method in the transformers library. It provides methods for guiding text generation and building robust interfaces with external systems. One unique feature is the ability to generate text that matches a regular expression or follows a JSON schema. […]

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AI Town is a virtual town where AI characters live and interact with each other. It is a project inspired by the research paper Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior and aims to provide a platform that can be easily customized and extended. The back-end engine supports shared global state, transactions, and event tracking, […]

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Svix invites individuals to join their team in order to empower companies and create a world-class webhooks experience. They have received significant funding from prestigious investors like Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and Aleph. Svix is seeking smart, high-energy individuals who enjoy working with developers and share their values. The chosen candidates will have the opportunity […]

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In this web content, the author reflects on their personal view of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and why they rarely think about it. They attribute the dominant cultural shift in programming to the JavaScript, Ruby, and Python communities, which they believe were responsible for building new structures and bringing coding to the masses. They […]

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Downloading videos from YouTube can be a complex task due to the platform’s restrictions designed to protect its revenue from ad views. In this article, the author explains the technical details of YouTube’s security measures and how they can be bypassed. The process involves finding the video’s URL using the YouTube API and then transforming […]

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Writing about what you learn is a powerful tool for deepening understanding and revealing gaps in knowledge. It enables a comprehensive exploration of a subject, leading to new insights and connections. Putting thoughts into words helps clarify understanding and identify areas of vagueness or incompleteness. Writing also allows for reflection, connecting new information with existing […]

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Epsilla is an open-source vector database that focuses on scalability, high performance, and cost-effectiveness in vector search. It serves as the Hippocampus for AI, bridging the gap between information retrieval and memory retention in Large Language Models. Noteworthy features include high performance and production-scale similarity search for embedding vectors, a database management system with familiar […]

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This web content provides a comprehensive guide to software engineering practices at Google. It covers various topics, including culture, knowledge sharing, leadership, measuring productivity, processes, testing, code review, documentation, tools, and more. The author emphasizes the importance of collaboration and teamwork, as well as the need for continuous learning and improvement. They also address issues […]

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In the tragic story of the Überlingen disaster, two planes collided in mid-air, ripping away the hopes and dreams of young Russian students. This catastrophe could have been avoided if not for a fundamental blind spot in the global air traffic control system. The accident was a reminder of the divergent impulses between the Russian […]

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