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I've been experimenting with using AI for two different tasks, letting it "manage" everything on its own . Personal Assistant — I configured Google Calendar, gave it a folder named Personal , and told the AI to manage the documents however it saw fit. Political Database — I provided Neo4j (graph database), Garage (S3-compatible storage), and a folder named Politics , then let the AI organize political news and relationships between politicians however it wanted. The idea w...

The page says chunking has degraded retrieval quality in the internal knowledge-base bot. What that actually means is explained by the trace: on call sees a plausible response, a successful vector query, and citations that point to the right handbook but the wrong passage. Nothing is down. The retrieval unit is wrong. TL;DR: chunking decides what a match can possibly be about. A chunk that mixes two topics matches both weakly; a chunk that splits an answer across a boundary may match neither ...

This is from MV2's open notebook on Kakeya-type problems ( https://github.com/munimtechnologies/kakeya-small-fields ). It continues the earlier posts on finite 2-groups whose involutions are all central: is such a group at most |Omega_1|^(e+1), where 2^e is its exponent? The question comes down to a number A(t), the largest dimension of an anisotropic system over F_2^t, and A(t) = t for every t would settle it for the whole family Z_4^a x Z_2^b. Earlier posts proved A(6) = 6, A(7) <= 9 and A(...

Most smart products already have a name. The hard part is making the device hear that name reliably without sending every conversation to the cloud. This is the product question behind a custom wake word: can a device recognize one short phrase locally, then start the next interaction? The product name and the wake word are different things A brand name is designed for people. A wake word is designed for a detector. The same phrase can be a good brand name and a poor wake word...

For my personal retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) study, I needed a local model to answer questions from documents. My laptop has an RTX 3060 Laptop GPU with 6 GiB of VRAM, so memory use mattered alongside speed. I compared qwen3:4b and qwen3:0.6b using Ollama. The smaller model generated tokens roughly three times faster. The larger model passed all six document checks, while the smaller one passed four. That gave me a practical starting point for the lab. Here is what I measured a...

It was a normal morning. I woke up, grabbed my coffee, and before I'd even properly sat down my phone was already lighting up — alerts, messages, the whole thing. The app was down. Users couldn't connect, services were throwing errors, and nobody had the faintest idea why. The confusing part? Nobody had touched anything. No deploy the night before, no config change, no code push. I'd left everything green and healthy when I logged off, and I woke up to a dead server. That's the kind of outage...

Every incremental tool I have written contains the same three lines: read a watermark, compare it to the thing you are watching, and if nothing is newer, report that nothing changed. It is one comparison. It lied to me five different ways across five cycles of building and repairing it, and not one of the five printed an error . The tool is a rotation probe. It answers exactly one question, before any other work happens: which of my registered projects' memory files moved since I last re...

Probabilistic Graph Neural Inference for sustainable aquaculture monitoring systems under real-time policy constraints Introduction: A Sensor Array That Taught Me to Think in Graphs About eight months ago, I started experimenting with a small network of IoT water-quality sensors deployed across a handful of fishponds in a cooperative near my city. The original plan was embarrassingly simple: collect dissolved oxygen (DO), temperature, pH, and ammonia readings, push them into a t...

This blog was originally published by Jason Taylor on the Raxis blog October 21, 2026 Two separate threats hit PHP websites this week, and each needs its own fix. On October 21, the PHP project released emergency patches for two remote code execution flaws in the PHP runtime, nicknamed PHP2Shell and tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. Both carry a CVSS v4.0 score of 9.2 and let an unauthenticated attacker run code on a web server. Because the bugs live in PHP itself, a site can b...

Tuần này HN lại nóng với tin một bản LiteLLM trên PyPI bị chèn mã độc: cài vào là nó đánh cắp credential và để lại backdoor. Đây không phải lần đầu, cũng chưa phải lần cuối. Nhiều team Việt Nam mình vẫn quen viết pip install -U litellm trong Dockerfile hoặc để requirements.txt không pin version. Làm vậy là đang cho bất kỳ ai chiếm được tài khoản của maintainer quyền chạy code trên laptop, CI runner và production server của mình. Bài này không bàn lý thuyết. Mình chia sẻ những gì team mình đa...

Social capabilities across human development | Part 11 Listening to the end of someone's statement matters, but receiving words does not establish shared meaning. Listening also includes checking understanding, responding in a correctable form, and reflecting corrections in action. The blue bowl, not the red one In a kitchen, someone asks, "Could you pass that bowl?" The other person reaches toward a red bowl but pauses to ask, "This one?" The requester points to a blue bowl. ...

Short answer: make event time a dependency, flush batches with an explicit watermark, and assert presence as a state transition rather than sleeping for an arbitrary number of milliseconds. That gives a stock-trading watchlist repeatable tests while still exercising the same batching rules used in production. A watchlist is a presence problem disguised as a delivery problem. The user cares whether AAPL is currently visible, whether a symbol disappeared after a disconnect, and whether the last...

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