ALIEN was released 44 years ago today. One of the definitive science fiction/horror movies, its influence is still seen to this day. The behind-the-scenes story of how the film was made is a fascinating one...

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Doubts over Birmingham’s decision to replace SAP in plan once hailed an exemplar win by Larry Ellison

Sometimes you have a lot of data, and one approach to support quick searches is pre-processing it to build an index so a search can involve only looking at a small fraction of the total data. The threshold at which it's worth switching to indexing, though…

Truly, this is a pressing issue. I hope somebody at the helm is watching.

Links 'n' stuff:
The mentioned turn signal video
https://youtu.be/O1lZ9n2bxWA

My other vehicular-lighting related content:
On how we used to require all cars to have the same headlights…

The drug can target one of the three most dangerous bacterial superbugs, say researchers.

A curated list of resources we’ve relied on to get smarter about modern AI, including generative AI, LLMs, and transformer models.

Interviews with more than 75 witnesses and survivors of U.S. military attacks and an exclusive archive of documents show that Henry Kissinger is responsible for even more civilian deaths in Cambodia than was previously known.

Supabase recently contributed to the OpenAI Retrieval Plugin repo with a Postgres and a Supabase implementation to help developers build ChatGPT plugins using pgvector.

Lately, I've been playing around with LLMs to write code. I find that they're great at generating small self-contained snippets. Unfortunately, anything more than that requires a human to evaluate LLM output and come up with suitable follow-up prompts. Most…

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Hypothetical x86S architecture would boot straight into 64-bit mode

Reno, an Anatolian Shepherd. Introduction We operate a small scale (approximately 150 ewe) commercial sheep operation in the foothill...

Famous booklet by the ex high ranking Marine

Simple math can help explain the complexities of the newly discovered aperiodic monotile.

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Description On the latest stable release of AuroraStore and the 24/05/2023 nightly build I am unable to login with anonymous accounts....

Nvidia Corp.’s forecast for surging revenue surprised even the most bullish analysts on Wall Street, propelling the chipmaker to the cusp of a $1 trillion market capitalization and igniting a global jump in stocks linked to artificial intelligence.

A German news outlet sifted through over 23,000 of Tesla’s internal files and found a disturbing trend of brushing off customers complaining about dangerous Autopilot glitches while covering the company’s ass.