Build a Database in Four Months with Rust and 647 Open-Source Dependencies
The Database and its Open-Source Dependencies Involve and Contribute Back to the Upstreams Inside Out: The Database’s Open-Source Components An Open-Source Twin and the Commercial Open-Source Paradigm Future Works The Database and its Open-Source Dependencies Building a database from scratch is often considered daunting. However, the Rust programming language and its open-source community have made […]
Modern JavaScript for Django Developers
Working with Django in the modern JavaScript ecosystem without giving up the things that make it great Last Updated: October 2022 JavaScript is the lifeblood of the modern web application. You need it to do anything remotely complex on the web. And these days, if you want a modern, responsive, interactive application—and who doesn’t?—your front-end […]
Modern JavaScript for Django Developers
Working with Django in the modern JavaScript ecosystem without giving up the things that make it great Last Updated: October 2022 JavaScript is the lifeblood of the modern web application. You need it to do anything remotely complex on the web. And these days, if you want a modern, responsive, interactive application—and who doesn’t?—your front-end […]
Playful Drawings That Charles Darwin’s Children Left on His Manuscripts
Charles Darwin’s work on heredity was partly driven by tragic losses in his own family. Darwin had married his first cousin, Emma, and “wondered if his close genetic relation to his wife had had an ill impact on his children’s health, three (of 10) of whom died before the age of 11,” Katherine Harmon writes […]
Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free – but raising the price of Workspace
/ The B2B AI wars are heating up, and Google’s trying to make sure everyone gets a taste of Gemini. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: The Verge If you wanted to use all of Google’s AI features inside Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Meet, and the rest of the Workspace suite, you previously needed to […]
Tcl’s bet on screens that look like paper
15/1/2025 Since 2021, TCL has been investing in an intriguing screen technology called NXTPAPER: an LCD panel that attempts to simulate paper to be less harsh on human eyes. As someone who spends more time than recommended looking at screens, this greatly interests me. The Chinese manufacturer announced a new version at CES 2025, called […]
antirez – Fixing a real world bug in Redis vector sets with LLMs [video]
Sky-scanning complete for Gaia
ESA’s Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than three trillion observations of about two billion stars and other objects over the last decade to revolutionise our view of our home galaxy and cosmic neighbourhood. Launched on 19 December 2013, Gaia’s fuel tank is now approaching empty – […]
Beating cuBLAS in Single-Precision General Matrix Multiplication
This project is inspired by the outstanding works of Andrej Karpathy, George Hotz, Scott Gray, Horace He, Philippe Tillet, Jeremy Howard, Lei Mao and the best CUDA hackers from the GPU MODE community (Discord server). A special thanks to Mark Saroufim and Andreas Köpf for running GPU MODE and all you’ve done for the community. […]
Rust: Investigating an Out of Memory Error
At Qovery, we have a fairly small service called engine-gateway that handles connections and data transmission with our clients’ deployers. This service has a relatively low memory footprint, as its responsibilities are mainly authentication/authorization and streaming bytes forward into a data store for processing. This engine-gateway has been running fine for months in production without […]