From the blog
Even GenAI uses Wikipedia as a source
Ryan is joined by Philippe Saade, the AI project lead at Wikimedia Deutschland, to dive into the Wikidata Embedding Project and how their team vectorized 30 million of Wikidata’s 119 million entries for semantic search.
Why Stack Overflow and Cloudflare launched a pay-per-crawl model
Inside the pay-per-crawl model colaunched by Stack Overflow and Cloudflare.
Mind the gap: Closing the AI trust gap for developers
Developer trust is synonymous with a willingness to deploy AI-generated code to production systems with minimal human review, as well as assurance that AI tools aren’t introducing unacceptable risks and technical debt that will burden you down the line.
Data is the new oil, and your database is the only way to extract it
Ryan sits down with Shireesh Thota, CVP of Azure Databases at Microsoft, to discuss the evolution of databases at Microsoft; Azure’s comprehensive portfolio that includes SQL Server, CosmosDB, and Postgres; and the challenges that come with database architecture, from the importance of cost governance and multi-cloud strategies to the future of databases when it comes to AI.
Interesting questions
Was "cope" as a single-word response commonly used to mean "deal with it" pre-internet?
The irony is that asking this question is, as the kids say, "cope."
Why would an extraterrestrial ecosystem without predators have evolved?
They're the quokkas of space.
What do philosophers consider to be natural?
You must consider both Plato's Cave and Chester Cheetos' Cave to answer this one.
How do we incentivize breadth in mathematics? Should we?
Even advanced mathematics must uphold this universal truth: Sometimes, you have to pick a lane.
Links from around the web
AI makes interfaces disposable
Maybe the UI was really the agentic friends we made along the way.
Semantle solver
Ask yourself—is it more work to create a Wordle solver than to just solve the Wordle?
What every experimenter must know about randomization
Your randomization is not so random after all.
Learning Lean: Part 1
The sequel of the beloved "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" is called "If You Give a Mathematician an IDE.”
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