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Building tiny AI tools for developer productivity

Tiny AI scripts won't make you the next tech billionaire, but they're unbeatable for rescuing hours from the drudgery of repetitive tasks. Whether it's wrangling those dreadedGitHub rollupsor automating the minutiae, these little miracles grant engineers the luxury to actually think...

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LLM Evaluation Metrics: The Ultimate LLM Evaluation Guide - Confident AI

Dump BLEU and ROUGE. Let LLM-as-a-judge tools like G-Eval propel you to pinpoint accuracy.The old scorers? They whiff on meaning, like a cat batting at a laser dot.DeepEval? It wrangles bleeding-edge metrics with five lines of neat code.Want a personal touch? G-Eval's got your back. DAG keeps benchm..

LLM Evaluation Metrics: The Ultimate LLM Evaluation Guide - Confident AI
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Building “Auto-Analyst” — A data analytics AI agentic system

DSPyfuels a modular AI machine, drivingagent chainsto weave tidy analysis scripts. But it’s not all sunshine and roses—hallucination errors like to throw reliability under the bus...

Building “Auto-Analyst” — A data analytics AI agentic system
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Massive study detects AI fingerprints in millions of scientific papers

Study finds 13.5% of 2024 PubMed papers bear LLM fingerprints, showcasing a shift to jazzy "stylistic" verbs over stodgy nouns.Upending stuffy academic norms!..

Massive study detects AI fingerprints in millions of scientific papers
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Grafana Tempo 2.8 release: memory improvements, new TraceQL features, and more

Grafana Tempo 2.8lands with a bang. Say hello toTraceQL query hints—they bump up results you care about and streamline span searches with parent span IDs. Meanwhile,compactor poolingrevamps slashes memory usage. Kiss those OOM errors goodbye. Important heads-up:serverless features are historyand the..

Grafana Tempo 2.8 release: memory improvements, new TraceQL features, and more
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Critical Linux “sudo” flaw allows any user to take over the system

Millions of Linux systems are vulnerable to a sudo flaw allowing unauthorized users to run commands as root. The bug affects Ubuntu and Fedora servers, escalates privileges to root, and requires installation of the latest sudo packages for mitigation. The flaw lies in the seldom-used sudo chroot fea..

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Linux 6.16 Performance Regression Tracked Down In New Futex Code

Linux 6.16takes a36% performance nosediveon AMD EPYC 9005 all thanks toFUTEXPRIVATEHASH. The quick fix? Yank it. Engineers scramble for a smarter solution...

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Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization

Cachingdoes more than rev up performance; it cuts through the chaos of software design, making it tidier and more modular. Sure,LRUandLFUsound like they should open for a prog rock band, but their trusty old formulas stand strong against those wild swings in data access...

Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization
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Building a Cloud Strategy That Delivers

Cloud strategy? It's not about fancy slideshows but shaking up how teams build and deploy. Master new skills. EmbraceSRE practiceslike it's your favorite hobby...

Building a Cloud Strategy That Delivers
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Insights from paper — Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data

Bigtableisn't just another footnote in Google's lineup. It dominates the data landscape, wrangling petabytes like a charm. Built for atomic row operations and sly tablet splits. Plus, it’s backed by Chubby’s fault-tolerance magic. Picture it as a NoSQL and relational database crossbreed with the fle..

Insights from paper — Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data

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