I could never remember the engineering levels that my tech friends seem to know by heart. But someone just told me at breakfast, “ok think of it like autonomous driving levels - in what context would you trust that engineer to operate by themselves?” I was like 🤯

Top level trolling

Carcinization 🦀 🦀 🦀 scientificamerican.com/article/why-do…

80 years later…

“ok we seem to be *too* efficient reading data and we’re killing the 50 GB/s NIC” #firstworldengineeringproblems 💀

🐼AI + ⁦LanceDB⁩ , feels like my career is coming full circle github.com/Sinaptik-AI/pa…

Indian origins for one of the most popular Chinese mythology figures. Now w/ a Texas-sized statue in Texas, unveiled just in time for Wukong the video game topping the charts. We definitely live in a simulation. deccanchronicle.com/world/americas…

Published a report on improving retrievers using LanceDB Hybrid search and Reranking. This explores techniques to optimize retrieval performance 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗿𝗲-𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 blog.lancedb.com/hybrid-search-…

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Prompt OpenAI for ideas until you find one or you run out of credits

“Mr Connery, that’s The Pen…is Mightier”

“after I crushed a nasty snake boss, the game’s heroic monkey protagonist triumphantly marched through the temple gates only to find... another boss” Omg this game is so mid it has multiple bosses. And if you enjoy this game you must be an commie or a misogynist 🙄

Just found out about Duckeys . I hope whoever is in charge of swag at DuckDB and MotherDuck has already ordered for the whole team

In the last few of weeks we've made many docs & feature improvements at LanceDB based on user feedback. Here are a few: 1. More flexible hybrid search API - Users love lancedb hybrid search with embedding API. Now, you can also use it without automatic vectorisation.

How many kids need to die before we say it’s enough cnn.com/2024/09/04/us/…

If you wanted a simple way to try out ColPali, this post is seriously cool

Wish this was out before I spent all that money at the car mechanic

This is going to make it so much easier to work on long haul flights

🙌Ready for next Tuesday’s geek out session with us? 📢 It’s time for us to review all the speaker lineups: changhiskhan - CEO Cofounder from LanceDB, Erik Bernhardsson - Founder CEO from Modal , and Kobie Crawford - Developer Advocate from Databricks for our 1st meetup in the

Wish I could go but if you’re in Europe, Alonso’s talk on RAG + Knowledge Graphs at Pydata Paris looks to be pretty interesting pretalx.com/pydata-paris-2…