If you’ve ever tried to build a agentic RAG system that actually works well, you know the pain. You feed it some documents, cross your fingers, and hope it doesn’t hallucinate when someone asks it a ...

A LITTLE BIT. ALL RIGHT DAVID THANK YOU. WELL, A WOMAN SAYS IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE, BUT A YELLOW AND WHITE PYTHON WAS HANGING OUT IN HER BACKYARD. SHE SAYS SHE SAW IT LAST WEEK, BUT HAS NOT SEEN THE ...

How do you count rooted planar n n-ary trees with some number of leaves? For n = 2 n = 2 this puzzle leads to the Catalan numbers. These are so fascinating that the combinatorist Richard Stanley wrote ...

Abstract: For increasingly complex real-world optimization problems, a large number of researches have shown that differential evolution (DE) is an effective problem-solving algorithm. Despite its ...

Now that we’re getting into more complex data structures, having more complex operations, it’s helpful to have a tool for visualization. Here’s a tool developed by David Galles, formerly of University ...

You may know that computers use binary code to represent, well … everything. Everything stored on your computer’s disk or solid-state drive is stored in binary form, a sequence of zeros and ones. All ...

When one of the hunters tried to grab the invasive snake, it came out of the tree at him, video shows. Video screengrab It’s increasingly common to find Burmese pythons in high grass in South Florida, ...

It’s increasingly common to find Burmese pythons in high grass in South Florida, but the invasive snakes are apparently comfortable hiding in trees, too. Video of one such encounter was shared ...