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Analysis: from 2019 to 2025, gains in pretraining compute efficiency came mostly from data improvements rather than model improvements (Dwarkesh Podcast)

Breaking down 6 years of pretraining progress into data vs model improvements — How much of the rapid progress in AI that we've seen over the last few years 1 …

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How to Search Cursor Chat History Across Workspaces

Originally published on Extracurricular AI . You remember fixing the authentication bug. You cannot remember which project contained the conversation.

  • Install cursor-history CLI globally with npm install -g cursor-history.
  • View all workspaces and sessions with cursor-history list --all.
  • Search within a workspace using cursor-history --workspace /path/search "phrase".

Let's build a custom React hook for cross-tab state synchronization

Contents The Problem Architecture Overview The Types & Interface Tab Identity & State Ref The BroadcastChannel Listener The Synchronized Mutation Function Lock Coordination & Broadcasting Graceful…

  • Custom React hook for cross-tab state synchronization
  • Utilizes BroadcastChannel API and navigator.locks API
  • Prevents echo loops with unique tab identifiers

Alibaba Cloud Partners with Datadog Close Go's Last Observability Gap

This article introduces OpenTelemetry Go Compile-Time Instrumentation v1, enabling zero-code, build-time observability for Go applications.

  • Alibaba Cloud and Datadog collaborate on OpenTelemetry Go Compile-Time Instrumentation v1.
  • Feature enables zero-code observability for Go applications without modifying business code.
  • Supports net/http, Database/SQL, and gRPC libraries with standardized spans and metrics.

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