Understand the different types of prompt injection attacks, and a few prevention strategies. | Continue reading
Learn how to integrate ChromaDB, an open-source vector store, with Spring AI. | Continue reading
Reacting to something Mani said the other day: if you shoot color film, and you have a favorite color film, then that film is the best color film, regardless of what somebody else thinks. Some materials just "mesh" well with... | Continue reading
The Online Photographer turns 19 this Thursday. There will be fireworks and a marching band, celebrity appearances, speeches, and of course I'll get a congratulatory telegram from President Roosevelt. Er, Biden. Well, no, none o' that. Although there could be... | Continue reading
Tutorial on the core features of the OpenTelemetry Collector. | Continue reading
Explore some approaches to running multiple jobs using Spring Batch. | Continue reading
Explore several techniques for checking for equality between boolean values and learn when each method is appropriate. | Continue reading
Learn two methods to quickly create a JAR file in Eclipse using a .jardesc file and an Ant Builder. | Continue reading
Tutorial on how to configure @MockBean components to test Spring Boot applications. | Continue reading
Learn to use Hibernate's Criteria API to perform group-by operations. | Continue reading
Learn how to integrate routes that use a Large Language Model to structure unstructued data. | Continue reading
Discover different flavours to create a Mono in Reactive programming. | Continue reading
Learn how to store both the OffsetDateTime and the ZoneOffset while persisting timestamps. | Continue reading
Analyses revealed that East Asians faced less prejudice than South Asians and were equally motivated by work and leadership as South Asians. However, East Asians were lower in assertiveness, which consistently mediated the leadership attainment gap between East Asians and South A … | Continue reading
1. More on Shostakovich’s Fifth (New Yorker). 2. On French music. 3. RFK Jr. may cut Medicare payments to doctors for surgeries. 4. Jason Furman on AI regulation (WSJ). 5. John Gray reviews Jordan Peterson. 6. All of Abbey Road, for piano. 7. Animal welfare advocates nominated to … | Continue reading
Huge week, with quite a lot of new releases, new functionality coming to the JDK and Black Friday on Baeldung. | Continue reading
Bryan Caplan and Daniel Klein both opine on Milei and populism, Dan being very enthusiastic, while Bryan praising Milei but more reserved in his praise of populism. I too am a big fan of Milei, and I think he is still on a good track. If his reforms do not succeed, likely it will … | Continue reading
There is a new paper on this topic, with multiple authors by led by Rebecca Ryan. Here is the abstract: Research in economics and psychology shows that individuals are sensitive to cues about economic conditions in ways that affect attitudes, beliefs, and behavior. We provide cau … | Continue reading
The Nathan Benn show at our local Rockwell Museum in Corning, New York, was a treat. I had only one complaint: there wasn't enough of it. It was well lit and impeccably presented in the classic manner, with a well-designed... | Continue reading
1. Why school vouchers failed in Kentucky. 2. Writing a book with ten autonomous AI agents. 3. Too many three-pointers in the NBA now. 4. NZ update (NYT). And the FT on Maori issues. 5. Macroeconomic monitor for Milei. 6. Generative AI simulations of 1,000 people. 7. Shruti Rajag … | Continue reading
Good advice from Cass Sunstein, who did improve government efficiency as head of OIRA: There is a major focus these days on the topic of government efficiency, spurred by the creation of what is being called a “Department of Government Efficiency.” I have had the good fortune of … | Continue reading
In the order I read them, more or less, noting that some very late 2023 titles start off the list. Usually there is my review behind the link, though occasionally just an Amazon connection. Here goes: Richard Whatmore, The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis. Anthony K … | Continue reading
With international reserves at about a tenth of their $15 billion peak in 2014, the government of President Luis Arce is safekeeping every dollar bill and gram of gold, depressing activity, sparking fuel shortages and stoking social unrest — all in the name of avoiding a devaluat … | Continue reading
1. How good are American roads? 2. Civil War death toll higher than had been thought (NYT). 3. The reason a minimum wage struggles to deliver efficiency gains is that with realistic firm productivity dispersion, a minimum wage that eliminates monopsony power at one firm causes se … | Continue reading
I'd like to also mention that early digital cameras, and "compacts" especially, were mostly pretty terrible cameras. I'm talking about the early-ish years, 20 and 25 years ago. Little pocket cameras with chips the size of pinkie fingernails, descendants of... Related Stories Jeff … | Continue reading
Nature: Keller Scholl got out of quarantine 13 days ago, and he’s still not feeling 100%. The itchiness — far and away the worst symptom, he says — is mostly gone, and now the graduate student just feels exhausted. “I’m trying to get enough sleep,” he says. Scholl’s symptoms migh … | Continue reading
In the last few days, Vivek has issued a series of tweets showing he understands how the regulatory process works. That is good, but in turn it means DOGE ambitions end up scaled down. Now there is a WSJ piece by Vivek and Elon. Here is what I take to be the critical passage: DOG … | Continue reading
The city [WDC] has built about 20 miles of bike lanes in the past five years, but despite that, the portion of D.C. residents who bike to work peaked in 2017 and has decreased each year since, falling from 5 percent to 3 percent. So who are these lanes for? And: Across town, on S … | Continue reading
Learn how to change the JVM version in IntelliJ Gradle projects. | Continue reading
Learn how to use the MariaDB4j library to integrate with the MySQL alternative MariaDB as an embedded or standalone ephemeral database. | Continue reading
Walk through the process of implementing a modal dialog in Thymeleaf and passing an object to it. | Continue reading
Learn different techniques for debugging Quarkus applications. | Continue reading
Discover various methods for checking if all values in a Java Map are the same. | Continue reading
President-elect Barack Obama is strongly considering Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Environmental Protection Agency, a Cabinet post, Democratic officials told Politico. Here is the Politico story from 2008. Via Glenn. The post That was then, this is now appeared first on Margi … | Continue reading
From the Antipodes: “To lift productivity and wages, ACT’s coalition agreement includes a commitment to pass a Regulatory Standards Act. “The Bill will codify principles of good regulatory practice for existing and future regulations,” says Mr Seymour. “It seeks to bring the same … | Continue reading
1. Can fiction improve you? 2. How people spent their time in the 1930s. 3. The delta in Russian nuclear doctrine ho hum. 4. 63 Chinese cuisines. 5. The world’s first AI street hawker. 6. Robot finishes a marathon in South Korea. 7. Reform coming to the NIH? 8. FT picks for best … | Continue reading
Stephen S. wrote, of Jeff Keller's article on DPReview: "I think one of the key points of the article is getting glossed over, and that's just how many compact cameras were actually made by Sanyo, and one thing the article... Related Stories iPhone Photo Canon Throws Out Baby Wit … | Continue reading
Introduction to Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL), a powerful open-source library that allows Java developers to interact with native APIs for 3D graphics, sound, and input handling. | Continue reading
Learn to do automation testing with tools like Selenium to deliver high-quality websites and web applications more quickly. | Continue reading
Explore the scenarios where you need to disable autowiring of beans. | Continue reading
Learn the differences between Mono.fromCallable and Mono.justOrEmpty. Both these methods serve their unique purpose, depending on how we want to handle nullability and lazy evaluation in our streams. In this tutorial, we'll | Continue reading
Learn how to remove non-alphabetic characters from strings in an array. | Continue reading
Tutorial on different approaches to finding the maximum difference between any two elements in an integer array in Java. | Continue reading
Learn about Spring AI Advisors and how this feature helps us develop AI-powered applications. | Continue reading
For the 35th Anniversary of DPReview (the name stands for Digital Photography Review), now owned by Amazon, Jeff Keller, formerly of DCResource (Digital Camera Resource), which ended in 2013, has written a brief but interesting post called "The rise and... Related Stories Leica B … | Continue reading
What follows is just me. I'm not telling you how to live. Mess of eggs: First, when I get home from shooting with a new card, I don't assume I've gotten something. For years, I believe I did think, as... Related Stories The Cardboard Paper Towel Roll Test Michelle's Big-House Job … | Continue reading
...By the way, "Film Fridays" are still on. I just didn't get the first one written in time for yesterday. Mike Related Stories Three Cylinders Answers Film Series (Blog Note) | Continue reading
The picture I showed you the other day, called "Car Wash," got picked for the "Explore" feature on Flickr. They're very good to me. I'd post it again here but it's better if you go to the link and look... | Continue reading