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What Are AI Embeddings? A Plain-English Guide A beginner-friendly explanation of AI embeddings - the technique that turns text into numbers so machines can understand meaning, power search, and enable RAG.

LLM + embeddings = Ability to reason and learn. awesomeagents.ai/guides/what-...

10.03.2026 01:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly During the last decade, the rate at which Earth warmed increased substantially After removing the influence of known natural variability factors, the increase of the warming rate is statistically...

Again, we probably have passed the point of no return. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

07.03.2026 07:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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MicroGPT explained interactively Walk through Karpathy's 200-line GPT from scratch. Tokenize names into integers, watch softmax convert scores to probabilities, step through backpropagation on a computation graph, explore attention h...

MicroGPT explained interactively. growingswe.com/blog/microgpt

01.03.2026 22:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
microgpt Musings of a Computer Scientist.

An article to reach you how to create a GPT model. karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/m...

01.03.2026 02:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
cheat.sh/:firstpage

Awesome site of cheat sheet for well-known tools. cheat.sh

28.02.2026 22:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The MAGA folks didn't know the orange face president they elected is actually Barack Obama. x.com/realDonaldTr...

28.02.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Stop Putting Secrets in .env Files Your .env files are a liability. Two simple patterns for injecting secrets from 1Password or macOS Keychain so credentials never touch disk as plaintext.

Do not use .env ... use a password manager or keychain manager. jonmagic.com/posts/stop-p...

28.02.2026 05:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We Will Not Be Divided Employees of Google and OpenAI stand together to refuse the Department of War's demands to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.

There is hope when employees of all the major AI companies understand the risks of no railguards. notdivided.org

28.02.2026 05:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Museum of Plugs and Sockets: Overview World map with links to photos and detailed descriptions of various types of domestic plugs and sockets.

There is this thing called an online plugs and sockets museum. plugsocketmuseum.nl/Overview.html

26.02.2026 23:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - sandgardenhq/sgai: Sandgarden AI Software Factory Sandgarden AI Software Factory. Contribute to sandgardenhq/sgai development by creating an account on GitHub.

sgai is an interesting concept. Will try this one day. github.com/sandgardenhq...

25.02.2026 20:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs We measure the capabilities of LLMs to deanonymize users online.

Dictionary of algorithms and data structures. simonlermen.substack.com/p/large-scal...

25.02.2026 20:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations β€œscrewed up” giving students access to so much technology: β€œI genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

Gadgets and modern devices do not improve learning ... it makes it worse. fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

24.02.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - GreatScott/enveil: ENVeil: Hide .env secrets from prAIng eyes: secrets live in local encrypted stores (per project) and are injected directly into apps at runtime, never touching disk as plai... ENVeil: Hide .env secrets from prAIng eyes: secrets live in local encrypted stores (per project) and are injected directly into apps at runtime, never touching disk as plaintext. - GreatScott/enveil

enveil looks to be a great local key vault for storing sensitive environmental values. github.com/GreatScott/e...

24.02.2026 10:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Firefox 148 has been released. Get it from the usual repository.

24.02.2026 01:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why is AI so bad at reading PDFs? One of the most ubiquitous file formats is stumping the major models

PDF ... a document that stores text. LLMs that is all about languages still get stumped interpreting it. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

23.02.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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PayPal Attracts Takeover Interest After Stock Slump PayPal Holdings Inc., the digital payments pioneer, is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after a stock slide wiped out almost half of its value, according to people familiar with the ...

Can't say I am sorry for PayPal. They were arrogant in the past, and user experience is horrible. No wonder their stocks are dropping. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

23.02.2026 21:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI Timeline β€” Complete History of 169+ Large Language Models Track every major LLM from 2017 to 2026. From Transformers β†’ GPT β†’ ChatGPT β†’ Claude β†’ Gemini β†’ DeepSeek and beyond.

LLM timeline. llm-timeline.com

23.02.2026 11:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Welcome The largest collection of free stuff on the internet!

freemediaheckyeah - The largest collection of free stuff on the internet! fmhy.net

23.02.2026 11:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Evidence - NASA Science Earth's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 800,000 years, there have been eight cycles of ice ages and warmer periods, with the end of

Interesting that NASA under the current administration is putting out the truth. Praise to those inside there to not listen to their overlord. science.nasa.gov/climate-chan...

18.02.2026 23:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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China once stole foreign ideas. Now it wants to protect its own The country’s courts are inundated with intellectual-property cases

The copycats are being copied. www.economist.com/business/202...

17.02.2026 22:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Slackware Linux Project: Slackware Release Announcement

Oldest Linux distribution has released a new version. www.slackware.com/announce/15....

16.02.2026 01:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Waymo is asking DoorDash drivers to shut the doors of its self-driving cars | TechCrunch If a passenger accidentally leaves a Waymo door open, the vehicle can get stuck in place.

Maybe Waymo should learn something from Japan cabs where doors can be opened/closed with a flick of the switch. techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/w...

13.02.2026 22:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Point of no return: a hellish β€˜hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

And yet most governments and companies are not doing anything about it ... because money matters more than deaths. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

13.02.2026 01:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Fallen Apple β€” Matt Gemmell I barely recognise the company I used to have such admiration for.

Tim Cook is 1% of what Steve Jobs is, and that is why Apple is in this mess today. mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-a...

09.02.2026 10:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Text Is (Still) King Why the written word will never die.

Reading social network feeds do not make you happy ... reading books do. www.persuasion.community/p/reading-is...

08.02.2026 11:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'

Republicans don't make America great ... they only make the rich great. You voted for the devil, you get eaten in the end. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

07.02.2026 22:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Column | Good news: We saved the bees. Bad news: We saved the wrong ones. Honeybees have never been in danger of extinction. But scientists are finding that they can accelerate the demise of native bee populations.

We have been saving the wrong bees, and harming the native ones along the way. :( www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

07.02.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bitcoin gets a zero price target in wake of Burry warning (BTC-USD:Cryptocurrency) Bitcoin outlook turns bearish as Pivotus’ Richard Farr targets BTC at $0 and Michael Burry warns of a β€œdeath spiral.” Get the risks and key levels now.

Told you so. Have zero pity to those who lost money on Bitcoin. seekingalpha.com/news/4547997...

06.02.2026 03:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Backseat Software – Mike Swanson's Blog

Every UX course must include all the recommendations raised here. blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-sof...

30.01.2026 23:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Is It Worth It? - Griffin How long can you spend trying to make a routine task more efficient before you hit a point of diminishing returns?

Up to a certain point, optimisation is no longer efficient. griffin.com/blog/is-it-w...

29.01.2026 23:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0