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Embedding Atlas: a scalable way to explore text embeddings with DuckDB

https://github.com/apple/embedding-atlas
3•riordan•5h ago

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riordan•5h ago
There have been several projects over the past few years to make text embeddings visually explorable (notably Nomic.ai's Nomic Atlas). However, Apple's just released a tool that makes this kind of analysis super accessible and insanely interactive.

Under the hood it's powered by Mosaic[0], a dataviz library built on top of DuckDB that's designed to handle coordinated interactive plots over huge datasets, the kind of thing where you interact with one plot and the rest all respond, which requires going back to the database to recalculate all the aggregations.

I've been fanboying Mosaic for the past year but finally have this to point to as an illustration of what's possible with it.

[0]: https://idl.uw.edu/mosaic

Hotline Webring

https://hotlinewebring.club/
1•ArinaS•6m ago•0 comments

Theory of the Café Central (1926)

https://depts.washington.edu/vienna/documents/Polgar/Polgar_Cafe.htm
2•keiferski•6m ago•0 comments

Real-time webcam demo with SmolVLM and llama.cpp server

https://github.com/ngxson/smolvlm-realtime-webcam
1•samdung•7m ago•0 comments

Speedrunning Is Not Such a Waste of Talent

https://gwern.net/speedrunning
1•OuterVale•9m ago•0 comments

The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren't Happy About It

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/technology/chatgpt-college-professors.html
1•ryzvonusef•12m ago•3 comments

Arduino Lab for MicroPython 0.20.0

https://github.com/arduino/lab-micropython-editor/releases/tag/0.20.0
1•manchoz•14m ago•0 comments

Toward Practical Quantum Cryptography

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/s53
1•the-mitr•16m ago•0 comments

Temporal Super Resolution via Multisampling

http://filmicworlds.com/blog/temporal-super-resolution-via-multisampling/
1•todsacerdoti•16m ago•0 comments

Distributing command line tools for macOS

https://ofek.dev/words/guides/2025-05-13-distributing-command-line-tools-for-macos/
1•thunderbong•19m ago•0 comments

Are developers falling out of love with Apple?

https://brucelawson.co.uk/2025/are-developers-falling-out-of-love-with-apple/
2•AshleysBrain•19m ago•0 comments

Why Have Birds Never Gotten as Big as T. Rex?

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1•rbanffy•22m ago•0 comments

Judge slams lawyers for 'bogus AI-generated research'

https://www.theverge.com/news/666443/judge-slams-lawyers-ai-bogus-research
1•rbanffy•23m ago•0 comments

Engineer's Guide to Freelance Work – By Gregor Ojstersek

https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/engineers-guide-to-freelance-work
1•rbanffy•24m ago•0 comments

Be myself? I'd rather die

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3•gregorvand•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Open-source simple Manus like Android Use Agent

https://github.com/bevren/aua
2•duxx•29m ago•0 comments

Online Isolation Forest

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09593
1•badmonster•34m ago•0 comments

Plugin to export from Blender to HTML [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwDTkbZSatA
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Apple paying $95M in Siri eavesdropping settlement. How to file a claim

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2•austinallegro•42m ago•0 comments

How Are Companies Using AI Agents? Here's a Look at Five Early Users of the Bots

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Roblox Grow a Garden WIKI

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2•BruceWok•46m ago•0 comments

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https://github.com/suwakei/go-zhconv
2•suwakei•48m ago•0 comments

Not by AI Badge

https://notbyai.fyi/
2•thinkingemote•52m ago•0 comments

The Consumer in Your Pocket

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Exploiting Copilot AI for SharePoint

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2•nabla9•1h ago•1 comments

Why has American pop culture stagnated?

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2•Michelangelo11•1h ago•0 comments

Microsoft Layoffs Hit Coders Hardest With AI Costs on the Rise

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2•walterbell•1h ago•0 comments

Apple Appeals Epic Anti-Steering Injunction

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/12/apple-appeals-epic-anti-steering-injunction/
2•mpweiher•1h ago•0 comments

EU ruling: tracking-based advertising [...] across Europe has no legal basis

https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/
49•mschuster91•1h ago•11 comments

Probably the Most Perfect Programming for Solving SQL Data Analysis Pain Points

https://github.com/SPLWare/esProc/wiki/This-Is-Probably-the-Most-Perfect-Programming-for-Solving-SQL-Data-Analysis-Pain-Points
3•ossdwa•1h ago•0 comments

What are the risks from Artificial Intelligence?

https://airisk.mit.edu/
3•doener•1h ago•0 comments