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The 1st Fat Marmot Week winner is a 'special boy who likes to eat rocks'

Dawn, fuzzy fat father who likes the taste of rocks, is officially the most popular yellow-bellied marmot in Gothic, Colo. The Fat Marmot Week contest is the brainchild of the Marmot Project, a long-term research initiative whose future hangs in the balance amid U.S. funding cuts.

The 1st Fat Marmot Week winner is a 'special boy who likes to eat rocks'

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What a Linux container really is (it's not a VM)

Right now, on your machine, a process is being lied to . It thinks it's alone on the computer. It thinks it owns the whole filesystem. It thinks its process ID is 1 . None of that is true.

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Six tests that passed for the wrong reason

My backup script told me the restore was verified. It restored ten tables with zero rows in every one, checked the schema, and printed VERIFIED.

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Why your RAG returns garbage (and it's not the model)

Your RAG bot just gave a confident, detailed answer. And it's completely wrong . Here's the part that'll annoy you: the model did nothing wrong. It answered perfectly — using the text you handed it.

  • Chunking: Incorrect fixed-length cuts split sentences or questions from their answers
  • Embedding: Retrieval model may not produce similar vectors for related information
  • Ranking: Re-ranker can prioritize most relevant chunks for accurate answers

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