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My biased search expert perspective on where new AI teams run into expensive and unfortunate mistakes
Earlier today, I migrated my self-hosted UniFi controller from Network Manager to UniFi OS Server. One of the annoyances of the new setup is that it does not allow automated local backups - just automated backups to Ubiquiti’s cloud....
Hi, welcome to this write-up for the 78. Royal Company challenge from Bellingcat. Here you can see my thought processes and what steps I took to get to the answer, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same results....
All our lives, we try to figure out the best possible way to live. We are constantly caught in the conundrum of whether to betray a friend to rise to the top or to remain true to our ethics. We struggle to answer whether being ethical...
Evolutionary biology has come a long way since Darwin published On the Origin of the Species in 1859, so much so that we may have to start calling it evolutionary chemistry. Joking aside, this fascinating glimpse into Darwin’s thoughts...
My dad is dying. He's been dying for a long time—many years. As long as I've known my husband, and longer. We've had so many years of "who knows if this is his last Christmas," except, those years all seem kind of silly now. We know this...
Hand Holds On Bench PlanesI wonder if we truly understand the hold we have on bench planes, the subtle grips, the slips and slides left and right and then the difference between skews and slides and a combination of both in a sliding...
Reviving an old cast iron pan and baking cinnamon buns.
New word for me from today’s Apple crossword: “pluot.” Well, and “aprium.” You’d think they were plum/apricot hybrids, and they are, but it’s more complex than that. Simple hybrids are calls plumcots and apriplums; these are “later...
📷 214/365 - Pond reflection.
My enthusiasm for gadgets has steadily declined over the past few years. At least aside of music-making, because let's be honest: you can never have too many music-making gadgets!There's one gadget I've been having an eye on for a long...
* Hooded figure on the beach by Engin Akyurt via Pexels ** Introduction Last week was one of the sadder weeks on the celebrity front with the passing of both Dolly Parton and Tim Curry within a day of each other. Both of them were people...
Typeclasses are an overloading mechanism that allows compile time or runtime polymorphism. A typeclass method call like m a b ... (or a.m(b, ...) in Rust) resolves to a concrete method based on the type arguments passed to the method....
Many AI products right now follow the same recipe: take one bounded capability, wrap a model and a chat loop around it, and call it an agent with a hip .ai domain. Truth is, it is still just a tool, only now with a probabilistic...
Hello, loves! Buzz is supposed to take the flower. Make it so. Tout le monde déteste l’IA. Blurb says it all. Let’s look at Buzz’s code when he encounters Dot while she has the yellow flower. class QuestGiverDenizen: def __init__(self,...