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Paul White
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Distinguished Engineer, Head of Innovation & AI at AvaSure
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Really epic image featured on @apod.shinyakato.dev today!

Captured by AJ Smadi from Washington (state), in daytime skies (11:57am) on April 5th — the image shows ISS and the crescent of Venus.

The planning this would have taken to get right — very nice work!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

(I annotated the rough distances)
April 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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You're welcome.

And yes, kid 3rd from the front in the red shirt that is too into it? That is exactly how I lived my marching band life.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSgj...
George Mason University...Killing In The Name
YouTube video by jfrela
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April 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Have a new JWST image to start your Wednesday, friends
March 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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OpenSearch 2.19 is here!
🚀Smarter search, AI-powered upgrades & major storage savings: 60% less storage for vectors, 90% lower memory use with Lucene binary vectors, & better hybrid search.
Read the blog to explore more!
🔗https://opensearch.org/blog/explore-OpenSearch-2-19/
February 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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NEW §

Today Bharani Subramaniam and I outline four limitations to the simple RAG from yesterday, and the pattern that addresses the first of these: Hybrid Retriever: tackling inefficiencies of embeddings-based search by combining it with other search techniques.

martinfowler.com/articles/gen...
Emerging Patterns in Building GenAI Products
Patterns from our colleagues
martinfowler.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Introducing GraphRAG Toolkit, an open source Python toolkit for automating the construction of a graph from unstructured data.

https://github.com/awslabs/graphrag-toolkit

#AWS #OpenSource #AI #GenAI #RAG #GraphRAG
GitHub - awslabs/graphrag-toolkit: Python toolkit for building GraphRAG applications
Python toolkit for building GraphRAG applications. Contribute to awslabs/graphrag-toolkit development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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The third edition of my textbook, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, was published today. You can preview the first 68 pages on Google Books, or take a look at the preface below to see what's new. The main new thing is a chapter on the Kuramoto model! Hope you enjoy it.
January 16, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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Having a great time seeing everyone at #AWSreInvent this afternoon! Be sure to add these informative #OpenSearch talks to your agenda: opensearch.org/events/2024-...
December 3, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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🎙️ From Fork to Foundation: The OpenSearch Journey 🚀
On @thenewstack.io podcast, Anandhi Bumstead from #AWS shares #OpenSearch's transformation, innovations in analytics, and more. Tune in for the full episode and insightful conversation: thenewstack.simplecast.com/episodes/ope...
#Opensource
OpenSearch: How the Project Went from Fork to Foundation | The New Stack Podcast
At All Things Open in October, Anandhi Bumstead, AWS’s director of software engineering, highlighted OpenSearch's journey and the advantages of the Linux Foundation's stewardship. OpenSearch, an open...
thenewstack.simplecast.com
November 27, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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