minimaxir

Optimize the Rust and Python bindings in this Rust crate to its maximum potential. Specifically, you MUST make a breakthrough from this current implementation that uses modern concepts and knowledge as of 2026 to further improve this crate without causing ANY significant regressions.

First, before making any library changes, run the Rust and Python benchmarks (and any competitor benchmarks if applicable) to establish a True Performance Baseline for both speed and metric performance. Return the absolute and relative results to the True Performance Baseline to the user as a Markdown table.

Then, optimize the Rust and Python library code such that these benchmarks are atleast 1.2x faster from the True Performance Baseline; ideally as fast as possible, without any significant regressions on quality and prediction error. NEVER hack the benchmarks to accomplish this speed increase, only iterate on the library code. Ensure all benchmark iterations are independent, e.g. NEVER reuse a cache built in

prologic

Learn Go in ~5mins

This is inspired by A half-hour to learn Rust and Zig in 30 minutes.

Basics

Your first Go program as a classical "Hello World" is pretty simple:

First we create a workspace for our project:

shagunsodhani

Key-Value Memory Networks for Directly Reading Documents

Introduction

• Knowledge Bases (KBs) are effective tools for Question Answering (QA) but are often too restrictive (due to fixed schema) and too sparse (due to limitations of Information Extraction (IE) systems).
• The paper proposes Key-Value Memory Networks, a neural network architecture based on Memory Networks that can leverage both KBs and raw data for QA.
• The paper also introduces MOVIEQA, a new QA dataset that can be answered by a perfect KB, by Wikipedia pages and by an imperfect KB obtained using IE techniques thereby allowing a comparison between systems using any of the three sources.
• Link to the paper.

Related Work

list27.txt

000(023Rb|001Rb)
001(017La|002Rb)
002(021La|003Rb)
003(021La|004La)
004(009Rb|005Lb)
005(004Ra|005La)
006(008La|007La)
007(009Rb|007La)
008(009Ra|008La)
009(010Ra|026Ra)

dschep

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import json
import time

import requests

from ntfy.backends.default import notify

USER = 'YOUR USERNAME'

qd3v

require 'bundler/gem_tasks'
require 'active_record'

# Temporary switch to blank rake app, extract required tasks and import them to
# current rake task. Skip seed loader here, as we do not need it for tests.
# More info on AR tasks import: @see https://gist.github.com/drogus/6087979

def import_active_record_tasks(default_rake_app)
  Rake.application = Rake::Application.new
  Rake.application.rake_require('active_record/railties/databases')

hsribei

Can NAT traversal be Tor's killer feature?

tl;dr: how about a virtual global flat LAN that maps static IPs to onion addresses?

[We all know the story][1]. Random feature gets unintentionally picked up as the main reason for buying/using a certain product, despite the creator's intention being different or more general. (PC: spreadsheets; Internet: porn; smartphones: messaging.)

jfrost

-- Completely unused indexes:
SELECT relid::regclass as table, indexrelid::regclass as index
     , pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size(indexrelid))
  FROM pg_stat_user_indexes
  JOIN pg_index
 USING (indexrelid)
 WHERE idx_scan = 0
   AND indisunique IS FALSE order by pg_relation_size(indexrelid);

willurd

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

tkf

;; Workaround the annoying warnings:
;;    Warning (mumamo-per-buffer-local-vars):
;;    Already 'permanent-local t: buffer-file-name
(when (and (equal emacs-major-version 24)
           (equal emacs-minor-version 2))
  (eval-after-load "mumamo"
    '(setq mumamo-per-buffer-local-vars
           (delq 'buffer-file-name mumamo-per-buffer-local-vars))))