How do you find near-duplicates in a massive collection of documents?
An exploration of the Jaccard similarity metric, and the MinHash hashing
trick used to efficiently approximate it at web scale.

Twilio has confirmed a data breach after hackers leaked 33 million phone numbers associated with the Authy app.

Electricity prices have been steadily rising in France for the past few years, with a particularly sharp increase since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This has led me to wonder about my own electricity consumption and how I could optimize…

The mechanical computer uses a complex structure of rigid, interconnected polymer cubes to store, retrieve and erase data without relying on electronic components.

The oldest example of cave art has been discovered on an Indonesian island and dated back 51,200 years.

Joel David Hamkins, “How the continuum hypothesis could have been a fundamental axiom,” Mathematics arXiv (2024), arxiv:2407.02463.

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Context WebGPU is not a native graphics API, as in no hardware vendor provides specific drivers for their GPUs targeting this API. Instead…

Objectives Muscle function and size decline with age, but long-term effects of resistance training in older adults are largely unknown. Here, we explored the long-lasting (3 years) effects of 1 year of supervised resistance training with heavy loads.Methods…

sc-im - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal - andmarti1424/sc-im

By structuring the comments on Hacker News using a predefined response_scheme for the LLM, I’ve tried to get a feeling for current job market and trends.

10 years on, some things have changed and some did not

How dirt cheap batteries will completely transform our electricity grid, paving the way for solar and wind and replacing grid reinforcements with grid buffers.

The 12-metre high machine has coke bottle eyes and a crude Wall-E-like head, as well as large arms that can be fitted with blades or paint brushes