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"MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs. Think of MCP like a USB-C port for AI applications. Just as USB-C provides a standardized way to connect your devices to various peripherals and accessories, MCP provides a standardized way to connect AI models to different data sources and tools."
― Anthropic

BAML is a domain-specific language to generate structured outputs from LLMs — with the best developer experience.

Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior. You can try it in your web browser

the editor of this book - Dr T K Puttaswamy was the first president of Indianpaolis Kannada Koota (1988-89) https://indymalligekannadakoota.org/presidents-history/

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look at victorialogs as an alternative to #elasticsearch

VictoriaLogs, a high performance log database. It’s not your average generic indexer like ElasticSearch and its ilk, nor is it anything like a traditional relational database. It shows some resemblance to document stores, but only on the surface. It is specifically built for logs. Structured data is indexed and tokenized. Due to tokenization, the on-disk (and thus, in-memory) data is a lot smaller, and many queries are considerably cheaper, even if performing a full scan: rather than comparing arbitrary long strings, it will compare much smaller, bounded integer tokens in most cases.

Over the years, the format used in writing apps started to change from proprietary .docx to .pages and .pdf to the innocuous syntax called Markdown. Outside the tech field, few are familiar with its name, and yet more and more people use it unknowingly.9

Today, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, Google Chat, Teams, and Trello, among others, use Markdown syntax, at least partially. Seeing weird characters when you copy-paste from AI? That’s because ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others use Markdown to format their responses. GitHub, Reddit, and similar tech-oriented sites have been using their own Markdown flavors for years now.

A Lightweight Framework for Studying Learning Dynamics
Pico demystifies how language models learn. Lightweight and efficient, it's your go-to toolkit for training and analyzing models across different scales.

Built around two core libraries: pico-train for model training and pico-analyze for in-depth analysis—designed from the ground up to work seamlessly together.

Heard it first time via Valeriy Manokhin on X. His feed often posts on well regarded mathematical learning materials on archive.org. Introduction How statisticians got prediction wrong by Manokhin on X. Predicting with confidence: the best…

the articles in the list focus on the following areas: general programming knowledge, software engineering, backend development, technical writing, Python, Go.

My advice about using AI is simple: use AI as an assistant, not an expert, and use it judiciously. Some people will object, “but AI can be wrong!” Yes, and so can the internet in general, but no one now recommends avoiding online resources because they can be wrong. They recommend taking it all with a grain of salt and being careful. That’s what you should do with AI help as well.

Pocket ID is a simple OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.

The goal of Pocket ID is to be a simple and easy-to-use. There are other self-hosted OIDC providers like Keycloak or ORY Hydra but they are often too complex for simple use cases.

Additionally, what makes Pocket ID special is that it only supports passkey authentication, which means you don’t need a password. Some people might not like this idea at first, but I believe passkeys are the future, and once you try them, you’ll love them. For example, you can now use a physical Yubikey to sign in to all your self-hosted services easily and securely.

Chip Huyen's 8,000 word practical guide to building useful LLM-driven workflows that take advantage of tools.

This article is adapted from "AI Engineering" book, which I bought in Feb'25.

• Managers are paid to drive results with some support. They have experience in the function, can take responsibility, but are still learning the job and will have questions and need support.  They can execute the tactical plan for a project but typically can’t make it.
• Directors are paid to drive results with little or no supervision (“set and forget”). Directors know how to do the job.  They can make a project’s tactical plan in their sleep.  They can work across the organization to get it done.  I love strong directors.  They get shit done.
• VPs are paid to make the plan. Say you run marketing.  Your job is to understand the company’s business situation, make a plan to address it, build consensus to get approval of that plan, and then go execute it.

migra: Like diff but for Postgres schemas

• compare schemas
• autogenerate migration scripts
• autosync your development database from your application models
• make your schema changes testable, robust, and (mostly) automatic

migra is a schema diff tool for PostgreSQL, written in Python. Use it in your python scripts, or from the command line like this:

$ migra postgresql:///a postgresql:///b
alter table "public"."products" add column newcolumn text;
alter table "public"."products" add constraint "x" CHECK ((price > (0)::numeric));

migra magically figures out all the statements required to get from A to B.

how to recognize passive voice, where it is harmful, and how to remedy it. This page is a free chapter from Refactoring English by Michael Lynch, the creator of TinyPilot KVM.

1. rebuilding itself results in small improvements
2. Rebuild with clang and better flags
3. Rebuild with mimalloc, an allocator from [[microsoft]]. "me-malloc" is a general purpose allocator with excellent performance characteristics. Initially developed by Daan Leijen for the runtime systems of the Koka and Lean languages.

I discovered that putting a man-in-the-middle proxy between my Apple TV and the world lets me decrypt HTTPS traffic. From there, I can read the Protocol Buffer data Google uses to populate YouTube with ads. It is too CPU-intensive to decode Protobuf on the fly, so instead, I found a flaw in the Protobuf format which allows me to reliably change one byte to obliterate ads.

What follows is a reference guide for setting up a bare-metal network router to block malicious ads, obnoxious ads, tracking, clickbait, crypto-jackers, scam popups, Windows spying on you, etc. using blocklists to protect all networked devices.

My friend told me that (with respect to this phenomenon) people can be roughly divided into two categories that she called perfection-oriented and performance-oriented.

The people in the category perfection-oriented have a natural intellectual curiosity. They are constantly searching for better ways of doing things, new methods, new tools. They search for perfection, but they take pleasure in the search itself, knowing perfectly well that perfection can not be accomplished. To the people in this category, failure is a normal part of the strive for perfection. In fact, failure gives a deeper understanding of why a particular path was unsuccessful, making it possible to avoid similar paths in the future.

The people in the category performance-oriented on the contrary, do not at all strive for perfection. Instead they have a need to achieve performance immediately. Such performance leaves no time for intellectual curiosity. Instead, techniques already known to them must be applied to solve problems. To these people, failure is a disaster whose sole feature is to harm instant performance. Similarly, learning represents the possibility of failure and must thus be avoided if possible. To the people in this category, knowledge in other people also represents a threat. As long as everybody around them use tools, techniques, and methods that they themselves know, they can count on outperforming these other people. But when the people around them start learning different, perhaps better, ways, they must defend themselves. Other people having other knowledge might require learning to keep up with performance, and learning, as we pointed out, increases the risk of failure. One possibility for these people is to discredit other people's knowledge. If done well, it would eliminate the need for the extra effort to learn, which would fit very well with their objectives.

I purchased a license for unraid on 2025-02-12 to build my homelab using an existing Lenovo i7 PC from around 2017 or so. opdroid1234 had some recommendations to upgrade the storage: get some HDDs from serverpartdeals and two memory sticks…

Asimov's reading order (suggested by Asimov himself) | MORE Libraries | BiblioCommons

Book outline:

• The components of a RAG system
• How to create a RAG knowledge base
• The indexing and generation pipeline
• Evaluating a RAG system
• Advanced RAG strategies
• RAG tools, technologies, and frameworks

Bought this book from manning today. However, instead of paying $25.99 for this book alone, I decided to purchase a monthly subscription at $24.99 that would allow me to read all their books online. I also get to keep the PDF and epub of this book. I think this is a good deal.

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UV is a python package and project manager, written in rust. See how to Switching from pyenv to uv; via HN. ---- Using uv to run arbitary stuff. .. inspect a data file using pandas and apache-arrow.