Month: April 2024

6 Critical Challenges of Productionizing Vector Search

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You’ve decided to use vector search in your application, product, or business. You’ve researched how and why embeddings and vector search make a problem solvable or can enable new features. You’ve dipped your toes into the hot, emerging area of approximate nearest-neighbor algorithms and vector databases. Almost immediately upon productionizing vector search applications, you will start to … Read more

Adobe claims its new image generation model is its best yet

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Firefly, Adobe’s family of generative AI models, doesn’t have the best reputation among creatives. The Firefly image generation model in particular has been derided as underwhelming and flawed compared to Midjourney, OpenAI’s DALL-E 3, and other rivals, with a tendency to distort limbs and landscapes and miss the nuances in prompts. But Adobe is trying … Read more

The 30-Day .NET Challenge – Day 30: XML vs JSON Serialization

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Learn to enhance your code with JSON Serialization in C#. Discover a better approach on Day 30 of our 30-Day .NET Challenge. Introduction Serialization involves a process of converting an object into an easily stored format. The article demonstrates the problem with old XML Serialization and how JSON serialization improves both efficiency and effectiveness. Learning … Read more

Deep Dive into Functional Programming in Javascript

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Functional programming (FP) has gained significant traction in the world of software development, and JavaScript developers are increasingly turning to this paradigm to solve problems more efficiently and with fewer bugs. At its core, functional programming emphasizes the use of pure functions, immutability, and advanced techniques like currying, memoization, and monads to create cleaner, more … Read more

Game of Threats: Winning Strategies for Proactive Cyber Defense

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The world of cybersecurity is akin to the fierce battles and political intrigues of George R. R. Martin’s epic fantasy series, “A Game of Thrones.” In the realm of cyber, organizations must navigate through treacherous landscapes, guarded by their vigilant watchdogs—the cybersecurity professionals. Threat hunting, a critical practice in this ongoing war, is akin to … Read more

Cut the Crap! 100 Complex Cryptocurrency Terminologies Explained in a Single Sentence

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Altcoin: Alternative digital currency to Bitcoin. Blockchain: Decentralized ledger for secure transactions. Mining: Solving complex math problems to validate transactions. Wallet: Digital storage for cryptocurrencies and private keys. Token: Digital asset representing value or utility on a blockchain. Exchange: Platform for buying, selling, and trading cryptocurrencies. Fiat currency: Government-issued currency used as a standard unit. … Read more

Cypherpunks Write Code: Phil Zimmerman and PGP

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Cryptography can be used to have not only decentralized and private money but also private communications. The activists known as cypherpunks knew this too well, and that’s why not only Bitcoin came out from that mailing list started in the ’90s. A bunch of free and useful cryptographic tools are the legacy of cypherpunks, including … Read more

Cryptography and the Golden Security Line

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Having spent the last 18 months focusing solely on self-research aimed toward the roots of mathematics, I can tell you that I miss a lot of technical knowledge when it comes to crypto, APIs, blockchains, and everything. So my focus is not to explain how these services work, but rather, what I believe they intend … Read more

Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet

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Illustration: The Verge Microsoft launched the next version of its lightweight AI model Phi-3 Mini, the first of three small models the company plans to release. Phi-3 Mini measures 3.8 billion parameters and is trained on a data set that is smaller relative to large language models like GPT-4. It is now available on Azure, … Read more