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Software engineering under the spotlight
Software engineering under the spotlight
Think of a tech company as a giant, dimly-lit factory. Work goes on throughout the factory as components shuffle back and forth, and finished products get steadily carted away, but the coordination and efficiency of each section is fairly low. Some parts of t...
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The End of the Train-Test Split
You are a machine learning engineer at Facebook in Menlo Park. Your task: build the best butt classification model, which decides if there is an exposed butt in an image.
The content policy team in D.C. has written country-specific censorship rules based on cultural tolerance for gluteal cleft—or bu...
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Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail
A few months after launching Qwen3-VL, Alibaba has released a detailed technical report on the open multimodal model. The data shows the system excels at image-based math tasks and can analyze hours of video footage.
The system handles massive data loads, processing two-hour videos or hundreds of do...
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All about automotive lidar
All about automotive lidar
Here I'll provide a comprehensive overview of automotive lidar technology. Lidar is used for autonomous vehicles and robotics because it's a cool technology.
1 What lidar does
A lidar is a sensor which operates by bouncing light off surrounding surfaces. Lidars typically q...
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Python Data Science Handbook
Python Data Science Handbook
Jake VanderPlas
This website contains the full text of the Python Data Science Handbook by Jake VanderPlas; the content is available on GitHub in the form of Jupyter notebooks.
The text is released under the CC-BY-NC-ND license, and code is released under the MIT license...
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So you wanna build a local RAG?
When we launched Skald, we wanted it to not only be self-hostable, but also for one to be able to run it without sending any data to third-parties.
With LLMs getting better and better, privacy-sensitive organizations shouldn't have to choose between being left behind by not accessing frontier models...
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10 Smart Performance Hacks For Faster Python Code | The PyCharm Blog
10 Smart Performance Hacks For Faster Python Code
This is a guest post from Dido Grigorov, a deep learning engineer and Python programmer with 17 years of experience in the field.
In the rapidly evolving domain of software development, Python has established itself as a premier language, renowned fo...
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Scientists Reveal How The Maya Predicted Eclipses For Centuries
A medieval Maya text for predicting solar eclipses has confused Western readers for centuries, but a pair of researchers may have finally cracked how it's really meant to work.
Indigenous civilizations in Mexico and Guatemala kept calendars for more than two millennia before Europeans invaded the Am...
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The Surprising Benefits of Giving Up
You might’ve been told to “hang in there” throughout your childhood, as illustrated by a kitten dangling from a rope. But it turns out that quitting might often be your healthiest option.
Researchers have long sought to understand how persistence is linked to personal well-being and human evolution ...
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My six stages of learning to be a socially normal person
My six stages of learning to be a socially normal person
a slow progression
The other day, someone told me, “I can’t imagine you ever being awkward with people.” And I thought, oh God, yes, say it to me again, again, put it in my veins. Tell me I’m a natural performer. There are no sweeter words.
Be...
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Loss Prevention Strategies to Protect Your Store
This store is safe.
That’s the message operators want to send to their customers and employees—and an important reality they make sure to protect.
But how does safety seamlessly blend with customer experience and brand messaging? If some safety measures make a convenience store less convenient, at w...
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Building a Simple Search Engine That Actually Works
Why Build Your Own?
Look, I know what you're thinking. "Why not just use Elasticsearch?" or "What about Algolia?" Those are valid options, but they come with complexity. You need to learn their APIs, manage their infrastructure, and deal with their quirks.
Sometimes you just want something that:
- W...
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Running SmolVLM Locally in Your Browser with Transformers.js - PyImageSearch
Table of Contents
- Running SmolVLM Locally in Your Browser with Transformers.js
- Introduction
- SmolVLM: A Small But Capable Vision-Language Model
- Transformers.js: Hugging Face Runtime for the Web
- Why This Pair Is Powerful (and Practical Caveats)
- Configuring Your Development Environment
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Pr...
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Setting Up LLaVA/BakLLaVA with vLLM: Backend and API Integration - PyImageSearch
Table of Contents
- Setting Up LLaVA/BakLLaVA with vLLM: Backend and API Integration
- Why vLLM for Multimodal Inference
- Configuring Your Development Environment
- Project Structure
- Offline Python-Based Inference with vLLM
- Launching the vLLM OpenAI-Compatible API Server
- Testing Multimodal In...
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Building a Streamlit Python UI for LLaVA with OpenAI API Integration - PyImageSearch
Table of Contents
- Building a Streamlit Python UI for LLaVA with OpenAI API Integration
- Why Streamlit Python for Multimodal Apps?
- Configuring Your Development Environment
- Project Structure
- Building the Streamlit Python Frontend UI
- Demo: Multimodal Chat in Action with Streamlit Python
- Ho...
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What if you don't need MCP at all?
What if you don't need MCP at all?
2025-11-02
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After months of agentic coding frenzy, Twitter is still ablaze with discussions about MCP servers. I previously did some very light benchmarking to see if Bash tools or MCP servers are better suited for a specific task. The TL;DR: both ...
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Statistical Formulas For Programmers
Statistical Formulas For Programmers
By Evan Miller
May 19, 2013
Being able to apply statistics is like having a secret superpower.
Where most people see averages, you see confidence intervals.
When someone says “7 is greater than 5”, you declare that they’re really the same.
In a cacophony of noise...
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https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/11/12/minimum-variance/
Suppose you have $100 to invest in two independent assets, A and B, and you want to minimize volatility. Suppose A is more volatile than B. Then putting all your money on A would be the worst thing to do, but putting all your money on B would not be the best thing to do.
The optimal allocation would...
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Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back
Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back
Spec-Driven Development (SDD) revives the old idea of heavy documentation before coding — an echo of the Waterfall era. While it promises structure for AI-driven programming, it risks burying agility under layers of Markdown. This post explores why...
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2 Years of ML vs. 1 Month of Prompting
2 Years of ML vs. 1 Month of Prompting
November 7, 2025
Recalls at major automakers cost hundreds of millions of dollars a year. It’s a huge issue. To mitigate it, our company created an analytics department solely focused on categorizing warranty claims into actionable problems.
For decades, this t...
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