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If you're using #LMDB and growing the mapsize dynamically when you get the MAP_FULL error, You're Doing It Wrong. If you're doing this *and* you've set a cap on how large you're willing to resize it to, You're Really Doing It Wrong. Just set the mapsize to your hard cap limit at the beginning, and …
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)"AI costs are growing. Here is how to take back control." Easy - quit using it.
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)Sites still reporting this bogus CVE in LMDB's mdb_load tool. "Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available" Yes, that's because it's a commandline tool that reads a plaintext file to load its contents into a DB *that you already have write access to*. If you feed it garbage text BFD, you could ha…
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)Friday night in the study with Simon and Hudson #CatsofMastodon
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)RE: https://techhub.social/@qcon/117452363611498402 So I guess everyone presenting at QCon these days is on drugs.
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)This russian fork of #LMDB claims "surpasses the legendary LMDB in reliability, capabilities, and performance." The first is obviously false, because you cannot surpass perfect reliability. The second may be true, it offers more features. The third is also false, you cannot add more features to LMD…
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)An Expert-Curated Benchmark for Frontier and Local LLMs Querying a Biomedical Knowledge Graph We combine GeneNetwork’s 1TB structured database with its metadata as an RDF graph and an associated literature corpus. We benchmark frontier and local LLMs querying it through four architectures: document…
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)Generative World Simulation with DAO and JING couples persistent shared world state with continuous first-person audiovisual generation. The framework integrates DAO, a computable world engine, and JING, an Egocentric Interactive Experience Model, to support sustained interaction for humans and age…
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)Boiled gyoza, ramen, and a beaten egg. Took probably 6 minutes from heating the water to first bite.
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)MassNet: billion-scale AI-ready mass spectral corpus empowering scalable deep learning in proteomics The corpus contains 1.5 billion tandem MS spectra from high-quality data-dependent acquisition (DDA) MS data across 35 species. We further present an AI-ready DDA data format called Mass Spectrometr…
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)"Postgres isn't slow, your storage is" - sorry HN but no. Postgres is slow.
View on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)Pro tip: if your cats wake you up in the middle of the night with the zoomies, tire them out with a laser pointer. You'll be able to get back to sleep sooner.
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