The tl;dr is that search got really good suddenly and really easy to build because of AI. For instance, this is the search experience I recently made for my side project website Braggoscope. Braggoscope is my unofficial directory of BBC … Read more
The idea of using PostgreSQL for Everything isn’t new, but it’s steadily gaining attention, especially as Postgres keeps increasing in popularity. As someone who’s spent most of their career deploying all sorts of databases, here’s what it means to me … Read more
May 15, 2024 | Kate Silverstein A good text embedding model is the lynchpin of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Given the computational cost of indexing large datasets in a vector store, we think llamafile is a great option for scaleable RAG … Read more
Today I learned about the subtleties of build arguments in Dockerfile definitions, specifically how the ARG instruction relates to – and is affected by – the FROM instruction. It’s not entirely like a constant or a variable, in the way … Read more
Like many companies, we had to change our database stack midway while scaling our core product Lago, an open-source usage-based billing platform. As we grew more popular, we began ingesting millions of events every minute. And our rudimentary Postgres-only stack … Read more
Enlarge this image The Apple Pay app on an iPhone in New York. Consumers tend to spend about 10% more when they adopt mobile contactless payment methods, a researcher says. Jenny Kane/AP Jenny Kane/AP These days, you don’t even have … Read more
LLMs seem surprisingly good at many things. So much so that not a week goes by without someone coming up with yet another use-case for this technology, often to solve tasks quickly that traditionally took a non-trivial amount of human … Read more
using a solar oven as a radiant refrigerator at night my first experiments were during a winter in 1997 in kalgoorlie, an inland location of western australia: the ambient nighttime minimum was getting down to 2-3 degrees above zero (celsius). … Read more
At the onset of the pandemic, we found ourselves at a pivotal crossroads that compelled us to reimagine how we work. This shift was as profound as it was inevitable, marking our turn towards a new direction in reshaping the … Read more
Recently Craig Venter (who decoded the human genome) created a synthetic bacterium. The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) took a bacterium’s DNA sequence as a computer file, modified it, made physical DNA from this sequence, and stuck this DNA into … Read more