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I think it can be more efficient for two-step RAG so you can reuse the natural language query directly, but for agentic RAG it might indeed be overkill.

Exactly this, agree completely

I was just working on a RAG implementation for >500k news articles, completely local, using postgres as a vector database: https://github.com/r-follador/TeletextSignals

I'm positively surprised on how well it works, especially if you also connect it to an LLM.


Less ichy than cotton

Also, depending on the ingredient, it makes more sense to use cups as a measurement of volume, not mass, when converting to metric. E.g. liquids, yoghurt etc.

Another thing: although not strictly metric, but European recipes also use tablespoon and teaspoon as measurements for smaller volumes, so no need to convert this.

Just my two cents, other than that very nice work!!


Please, please try using weight whenever possible, aka for all amounts >= 2 grams.

1. People are bad at measuring volume. This has been tested. There is much more variance in amounts measured by volume than be weight. See "science and cooking" (ferran adria).

2. Using a scale means doing a lot fewer dishes! (measuring cups, spoons, etc.)

3. It's faster, try it!


"Also, depending on the ingredient, it makes more sense to use cups as a measurement of volume, not mass, when converting to metric."

Hmmm... What kind of cup? :-)

US "legal" cup (240ml)

US customary cup (246,6ml)

metric cup (250ml)

UK cup (170,5ml)

edit: fixed typo 150ml -> 250ml


Not sure where that 150ml came from - our metric country (New Zealand) 1 cup is 250 ml.


Thanks, I mistyped. I meant 250 ml.


Or UK Breakfast cup (227,3ml)


Thanks for the feedback. I've made a note.


so use cups and tablespoons but put in parenthesis the value in mL


Certainly. That would provide a good user experience. Thank you.


Depends: for hobby purposes, or what my daytime job forces on me?


22 years in the same Corp, targeting Linux systems since day one, and only in the first two years, and this year, have I been permitted a Linux desktop.

+2 years slugging in a vm.

Developing with out bash is just unnecessary work.

My productivity has more than doubled. easily. I manually type passwords half as much and when I do that is to access Microsoft services.

2fa wastes a huge amount of time.

Because nothing that needs 2fa is scriptable.


Extremely tight results and the majority of cantons voted against it.

I still believe it's the way forward.


Land doesn’t vote though. People do.


Not in this case, but “the decision to amend the constitution or join a supranational community requires a so-called double majority”.


and in Swirzerland a large percentage of the voters have a required by law machine gun or have kept the required machine gun, for the required time, so the "e-id" will presumably be just another part of generaly orderly and significantly bizarre, swissness very unlike whatever just got thrown out in merry old


> I still believe it's the way forward

Why? I mean this sincerely, are you not concerned about the dystopian social credit scoring potential of these systems


the general population are dumb, you are expecting too much from them to be honest.

the forward March toward dystopian tomorrow will never stop, we will lament the stupidity of the public who made this possible in our small corners on the internet.


I think it generally not wise to project the political conflicts and fault lines of one's own country on to other countries which exist in very different contexts.


we started to see this kind of disturbing dystopian legislations in Australia, European countries, uk and next is the United States. I don't think it's limited to one country.


I voted no in this, but I was on the fence. In my experience people are smarter than they get credit for and the decisions made in these votes are often quite good. There was more to consider than privacy, it's also about the fact that most countries will implement something like this as it is pushed by the UN. So it might become required for some things in the future. Then we currently don't have a whole lot of ways to distinguish AI from people anymore, which will only get worse. Propaganda bots are real and we don't know how that will evolve. It will make a lot of the processes easier as you can do them from home, which is especially useful for disabled people that can not easily appear physically. Plus, it's more or less optional to have one for now.

And yet, I am still kinda disappointed it passed. We will see how it evolves.


As a hobby project, I was looking into using LiDAR data to view archeological points of interest in Switzerland: https://github.com/r-follador/delta-relief

It would be interesting to overlay TESSERA data there, although the resolution is of course very different.


How do you use it with Jetbrains? Junie? Or just as a separate CLI session?



This argument is not limited to gene therapies, but would apply to pretty much every pharmaceutical product.

One issue is however that the actual costs are not so much in early R&D (what the publicly funded universities and hospitals are doing), but in the later stage (clinical trials) which needs deep pockets and appetite for risk, which only big pharma has, because they see a potential big payout.


Right. Because your average citizen has a few hundred thousand dollars for their rare congenital disease. My bet — just wild eyed speculation — is that most of this stuff is paid for by the govt through sone sort of insurance-like subsidy. That means the risk is really borne by the tax payer.

Let's just cut out the middle man.


Tangentially related: I'm trying to make LiDAR data in Switzerland more accessible, see https://github.com/r-follador/delta-relief

There's some interesting examples in the Readme.


Does LIDAR work underwater?

FWIU in Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan, there's a 9,000 year old stonehenge-like structure 40 feet underwater; that's 4000 thousand years older than Stonehenge and about 6000 years older than the Osireoin and the Pyramids.

/? Michigan underwater stonehenge: https://www.google.com/search?q=michigan+underwater+stonehen...

There's not even a name or a wikipedia page for the site? There are various presumed Clovis sites which are now underwater in TN, as well.


A lot of the pictures used in articles for this are pictures of something else (possible an old ship). Here's what it actually looks like: https://holleyarchaeology.com/index.php/the-truth-about-the-...

Calling it Stonehenge-like is a real stretch.


That's a better source than what I found;

> The site in Grand Traverse Bay is best described as a long line of stones which is over a mile in length.

> [...] may be a prehistoric drive line for herding caribou

Also speculation that the Sage Wall in Montana is simply a geologic formation.


Bathymetric lidar exists, but it's a lot more common for there to be enough particulates in water to mess it up than for air.


How is this related at all?


TFA literally says archaeologists discovered the crop(s) using LIDAR and GP links to a project using LIDAR to map lands.


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