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Re:From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures on Thursday March 26, 2026 @12:08PM (#47532248)
If you didn't already see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44878151 (Building a web search engine from scratch in two months with 3 billion neural embeddings), then you might enjoy it, even if it's way overkill for your use case.
Re:Neural network training makes beautiful fractals on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @03:42AM (#39355783)
In the notebook you can see it set to Spectral.

https://github.com/Sohl-Dickstein/fractal/blob/main/the_boun...

Focusing on speeding up find_close_polygons instead of realizing that you're matching many points against the same set of polygons is also unfortunate, since that function being slow is a red herring. You can create a scipy.spatial.KDTree for example and just query all the points against that.
Re:My Personal Note Taking Journey on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @09:58AM (#29809730)
It could be worth looking at Wiki.js (https://js.wiki/). It's not perfect, but I started using a self hosted instance recently and it has worked out ok so far. With markdown and git sync it doesn't feel like I'm stuck if I want to move on to something else in the future, or if I want to do some automation/scripting with the contents.
Re:Running Tips on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @02:44PM (#21924037)
Just an FYI, for those of use in Europe that page just displays a message that they don't deal with the European Economic Area. It doesn't show the product.
Re:Running Tips on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @02:41PM (#21924003)
Put on enough layers everywhere with an outer layer to block the wind (with a buff or something else for your face) and wear shoes with studs. I use a pair from Icebug and can run when it's icy and be completely relaxed, zero slippage.
Re:AMD's 8-core cpu for desktops arrives on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @03:40PM (#3104213)
Not a Linux test, but Anandtech built Chromium with VS which should ballpark it. It performed worse than the Phenom II X6 at that.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4955/the-bulldozer-review-amd-...