Hey there! In my latest blog post, I explore a variety of fascinating topics: from essential design patterns for data tables to predicting NBA playoff success with stats. I also share culinary delights like Chef Jeremy Ashby’s tomato chutney and hearty 30-gram protein meals. Plus, check out insights on AI in Alzheimer’s prediction, SpaceX’s mission to decommission the ISS, and securing your Gmail like Mark Cuban. Happy reading!
- Data Table Design Patterns: Data tables come in various sizes, contents, purposes, and complexities. The ability to query and manipulate data is a crucial requirement for most products that are being designed today. Enterprise…
- Playoff Prophecy: Which Regular Season Stats Spell Postseason Glory?: Can we find the statistic most strongly associated with playoff success in the NBA?
- Building search-based RAG using Claude, Datasette and Val Town: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a technique for adding extra “knowledge” to systems built on LLMs, allowing them to answer questions against custom information not included in their training data. …
- On Our Table: Chef Jeremy Ashby’s Fresh Tomato Chutney: With tomato season right around the corner, weâre turning to a recipe chef Jeremy Ashby has been using for 20 years as a way to use overripe tomatoes, ends, pieces or overall abundance when the season really hits. Try it as a beer cheese topping, che
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- 5 30-Gram Protein Meals You Can Make at Home: Find out five 30-gram protein meals you can easily prepare at home, including each meal’s complete recipe and nutritional value.
- Why Your Revision Shouldn’t Start on Page One: Just as you wouldn’t paint a house under construction, you need to revise with an eye on story structure before you dress up the writing.
- The Pinocchio protocol: The trick is simple: If it’s important, make it visible. If it happens over time, create a signal that brings the future into the present.
- Explaining generative language models to (almost) anyone: Here’s a simple, three-part framework that explains generative language models.
- 22 of the Best Pizza Places in the United States: From Southern California to the Mississippi Delta to the Pacific Northwest, the bounty of great pies has never been bigger.
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- What’s Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago: The legacy publisher is betting its business on advertising—and its brand.
- AI Model Predicts Alzheimer’s Using Speech Analysis: A new AI model can predict whether someone with mild cognitive impairment will develop Alzheimer’s disease with 78.5% accuracy by analyzing speech.
- 78 Certified Authentic Olive Oils You Can Trust: Concerned about olive oil authenticity? View this list of olive oils tested and certified by the North American Olive Oil Association. Updated for 2024.
- R2R: R2R is a prod-ready RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) engine with a RESTful API. R2R includes hybrid search, knowledge graphs, and more.
- SpaceX is building a NASA craft to intentionally destroy the International Space Station after retiring: NASA will have a spacecraft from Elon Musk’s SpaceX guide the International Space Station’s destruction after its retirement.
- Remove Polyfill.io code from your website immediately: Scripts turn malicious, infects webpages after mysterious CDN swallows domain
- Remoulade-style potato salad: Piquant with capers, Dijon mustard, garlic and lemon, this recipe by Harriet Mansell will convert even potato-salad doubters. It’s just the thing as a barbecue
- Mark Cuban’s Gmail was hacked by a threat actor posing as Google—here’s how to prevent it from happening to you: Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban said his Gmail account was hacked after a threat actor posing as a Google employee called him.