Month: June 2025

In order to understand what’s wrong with governments relying too heavily on data and algorithms, let’s go back to the forests of 18th-century Prussia. As James Scott wrote in his book Seeing Like a State, governments in the former German state primarily viewed forests as a way to extract revenue. So when they did surveys … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background and Related work 2.1 Web Scale Information Retrieval 2.2 Existing Datasets 3 MS Marco Web Search Dataset and 3.1 Document Preparation 3.2 Query Selection and Labeling 3.3 Dataset Analysis 3.4 New Challenges Raised by MS MARCO Web Search 4 Benchmark Results and 4.1 Environment Setup 4.2 … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background and Related work 2.1 Web Scale Information Retrieval 2.2 Existing Datasets 3 MS Marco Web Search Dataset and 3.1 Document Preparation 3.2 Query Selection and Labeling 3.3 Dataset Analysis 3.4 New Challenges Raised by MS MARCO Web Search 4 Benchmark Results and 4.1 Environment Setup 4.2 … Read more

Modern enterprises often face common DevOps challenges—sprawling toolchains, flaky pipelines, manual bottlenecks, and blind spots—that slow delivery and frustrate engineers. A 2023 survey of 300 IT pros found that rapid tech changes, hidden IT blind spots, and complex systems make observability a major challenge. Without unified visibility, organizations can suffer frequent outages costing ~$13.7M annually. … Read more

This is a guest post from the gccrs project, at the invitation of the Rust Project, to clarify the relationship with the Rust Project and the opportunities for collaboration. gccrs is a work-in-progress alternative compiler for Rust being developed as part of the GCC project. GCC is a collection of compilers for various programming languages … Read more