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March 30, 2025

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Here’s why you should reinstall Windows 11 every two months – no, I’m not kidding

Look, I love Windows, I do, I really do. It’s one of those things that I just can’t live without at this point. I’ve tried MacOS, I’ve tried Linux, I’ve even dabbled in the world of Android and Chromebooks during my time, and yet, none of it compares to Windows; it just doesn’t. There’s a certain amount of familiarity, of indoctrination into that Microsoft cult that’s rife in me. I grew up using Windows 98, and onwards, it was what I gamed on, what I studied on, what I made lifelong friends on—you name it. 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7,

March 30, 2025

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PilotANN: A Hybrid CPU-GPU System For Graph-based ANNS

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a fundamental vector search technique that efficiently identifies similar items in high-dimensional vector spaces. Traditionally, ANNS has served as the backbone for retrieval engines and recommendation systems, however, it struggles to keep pace with modern Transformer architectures that employ higher-dimensional embeddings and larger datasets. Unlike deep learning systems that can be horizontally scaled due to their stateless nature, ANNS remains centralized, creating a severe single-machine throughput bottleneck. Empirical testing with 100-million scale datasets reveals that even state-of-the-art CPU implementations of the Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) algorithm can’t maintain adequate performance as vector dimensions

March 30, 2025

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spaCy and Explosion: past, present & future

What’s next? spaCy v3.0 Vision for spaCy • focus on data structures and pipeline • build support for new tasks even if we don’t have a model • make sure it’s easy to BYO model • keep shipping good defaults What’s out-of-scope? • anything generative: summarization, machine translation, etc. • multi-modal: audio, video, etc. • research assistance: plenty of good frameworks for developing novel techniques • morphological features • entity linking • non-entity span tagging • static analysis of processing pipeline and its components Source link

March 30, 2025

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Embedding Portrait Video on Desktop Site

I am trying to embed a portrait Vimeo video ***(Strength Training is Mediation Training)***onto my site, but I don’t want the video to be to big on the desktop version of the site (it looks pretty good on mobile, though!) I thought about making 2 versions of the video (one in portrait and one in landscape) but that I don’t want to do that much editing. My website is https://www.strengthtrainingnj.com Does anyone have any sizing/ coding recomendations? I adjusted height to 50%, but now I have a huge amount of padding at the bottom. I'm at a loss? Thanks in

March 30, 2025

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PilotANN: A Hybrid CPU-GPU System For Graph-based ANN

Researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence, and Theory Lab of Huawei Technologies have proposed PilotANN, a hybrid CPU-GPU system designed to overcome the limitations of existing ANNS implementations. PilotANN addresses the challenge: CPU-only implementations struggle with computational demands, while GPU-only solutions are constrained by limited memory capacity. It solves this issue by utilizing both the abundant RAM of CPUs and the parallel processing capabilities of GPUs. Moreover, it employs a three-stage graph traversal process, GPU-accelerated subgraph traversal using dimensionally-reduced vectors, CPU refinement, and precise search with complete vectors. PilotANN fundamentally reimagines the

March 30, 2025

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Llama 2 is here – get it on Hugging Face

Llama 2 is a family of state-of-the-art open-access large language models released by Meta today, and we’re excited to fully support the launch with comprehensive integration in Hugging Face. Llama 2 is being released with a very permissive community license and is available for commercial use. The code, pretrained models, and fine-tuned models are all being released today 🔥 We’ve collaborated with Meta to ensure smooth integration into the Hugging Face ecosystem. You can find the 12 open-access models (3 base models & 3 fine-tuned ones with the original Meta checkpoints, plus their corresponding transformers models) on the Hub. Among

March 30, 2025

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‘Invincible’ season 4 — get ready for the baddest villain ever

Prime Video’s hit superhero show “Invincible” just wrapped up its third season, and you won’t have to wait long to see what’s in store for Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) and his crime-fighting cohorts. “Invincible” creator Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment announced last week that “Invincible” season 4 will launch sometime next year. That’s not the only big news, though. The update revealed that all voice acting is complete, season 4 will feature a new storyline with Darkblood that’s not in the comics, and, most importantly, that the biggest villain Mark will ever face has been cast: Thragg, the ruler of the