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 […]
Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M
🙋♂️️About 📖 Writings Posted on 14 Jan 2025 by Claudio Santini Kokoro v0.19 is a recently published text-to-speech model with just 82M params and very high-quality output. It’s released under Apache licence and was trained on
Trapped in dark for 35 hours Red Sea dive-boat survivors tell terrifying escapes
BBC “By the end, I was just wondering how I would prefer to die.” Spending 35 hours trapped in a pitch-black air pocket in the upturned hull of a boat has taken its toll on Lucianna Galetta, her voice cracking as she recounts her ordeal. A video she managed to film briefly using the light […]
I failed moving my Google calendar to Proton
15 Jan, 2025 Basically, the title. I’ve been building up the courage to transition since I started de-googling my digital life about three years ago. At first, there was the browser. It was the easiest — Firefox instead of Chrome, obviously. Then there was mail. I learned about SimpleLogin and started using them by routing […]
Nobody cares
Nobody Cares Home N.B. I’m in a mood tonight, so this will be less of a well-considered essay and more of a rant, partially in the vein of Fuck Nuance. Don’t take anything here too seriously. Why does nobody care about anything? The world is full of stuff that could be excellent with just 1% […]
Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS
January 15, 2025 This week, I decided to rewrite my website using plain HTML and CSS. When I originally made it, I used SvelteKit for simplicity. It was a more interesting project than I was expecting when I started working so I wanted to share my thoughts on the experience. Why? There are a number […]
Lunase moon phase watch mechanism
Before there were clocks there were the heavens. The sun to mark the day and the moon to light the night- their shadows counting down the hours. Overhead, celestial bodies arced across the sky, charting a map to the seasons and subtly precessing across the centuries. With the advent of mechanical timepieces, these natural […]