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Diffusion vs. Autoregressive Language Models: A Text Embedding Perspective

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15045
17•doener•1d ago

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Klathmon•1d ago
> We propose adopting diffusion language models for text embeddings, motivated by their inherent bidirectional architecture and recent success in matching or surpassing LLMs especially on reasoning task.

I didn't realize diffusion language models were at this point yet. But what's the catch? why aren't diffusion models (or some kind of hybrid) taking over?

How to add custom fonts in Tailwind CSS v4 (and v3)

https://harrisonbroadbent.com/blog/tailwind-custom-fonts/
1•hbroadbent•30s ago•0 comments

Chinese paraglider survives accidental 8k-metre-high flight above the clouds

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/29/chinese-paraglider-peng-yujiang-survives-8000-metre-high-flight
1•divbzero•41s ago•0 comments

Business Insider Lays Off 21% of Staff, Citing 'Traffic Sensitivity'

https://www.adweek.com/media/business-insider-layoffs-traffic-sensitivity/
1•cebert•3m ago•1 comments

FBI to release Epstein video that proves how he died

https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/fbi-release-conspiracy-shattering-epstein-1178725
1•harambae•3m ago•0 comments

Someone told me to "touch grass," so I made this simulator

https://pirillo.com/arcade/touch-grass.html
1•ChrisPirillo•13m ago•0 comments

Decomplexification

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/05/29/decomplexification/
1•leephillips•13m ago•0 comments

Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/hugging-face-unveils-two-new-humanoid-robots/
2•ashutosh-mishra•13m ago•0 comments

The Zod Engine

https://zod.sourceforge.net/
2•petethomas•14m ago•0 comments

The ICE agents disappearing your neighbors would like a little privacy, please

https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/29/ice-arrests-blur-photos-agents-san-francisco-court/
9•arkadiyt•18m ago•0 comments

US says it will start revoking visas for Chinese students

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rubio-says-us-will-start-revoking-visas-chinese-students-2025-05-28/
2•derbOac•22m ago•0 comments

We built a tool to read and learn Spanish.

https://guavabook.web.app/
2•kikichiki•23m ago•0 comments

DeepSeek-R1-0528 Released

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250528
3•tvvocold•26m ago•0 comments

AI artwork that's more than a gimmick

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/arts/design/aaron-ai-whitney.html
1•RyanShook•29m ago•0 comments

A Scientist Says Humans Will Go Backwards in Time Within Just 4 Years

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a64906457/humans-going-backwards-in-time/
2•rmason•33m ago•0 comments

OpenBAO (Vault open-source fork) Namespaces

https://openbao.org/blog/namespaces-announcement/
1•gslin•37m ago•0 comments

Famous NYC skyscraper was almost toppled by winds

https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/us-news/nyc-citicorp-tower-skyscraper-was-almost-toppled-by-winds/
2•rmason•40m ago•1 comments

The Yasny Breach: Russia's Nuclear Secrets Laid Bare by a Procurement Leak

https://twitter.com/nigroeneveld/status/1927713106907496542
3•borski•41m ago•1 comments

Coinbase Returns to SF: A Tech Boomerang Story

https://sffrontier.com/technology/coinbase-returns-to-sf-a-tech-boomerang-story
1•randycupertino•41m ago•1 comments

Spacewar (DEC PDP-1 emulated in JavaScript)

https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/
2•felineflock•42m ago•0 comments

New Visa Policies Put America First, Not China

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/05/new-visa-policies-put-america-first-not-china/
4•BeetleB•42m ago•0 comments

History of the Electronic Self Playing Piano System

https://www.thepianoworld.com/history-of-the-electronic-self-playing-piano-system
1•brudgers•43m ago•0 comments

Delivering full-stack 4G/5G and converged BSS in a remote Caribbean island

https://www.cloud-net.ai/case-studies/communication-coverage
1•y2so•44m ago•0 comments

Oregon Bill to Block Private-Equity Medical Deals Heads to Governor's Desk

https://www.wsj.com/articles/oregon-bill-to-unwind-private-equity-medical-deals-heads-to-governors-desk-a9a7d252
6•petethomas•49m ago•0 comments

MariaDB Acquires Galera Cluster

https://mariadb.com/newsroom/press-releases/mariadb-acquires-galera-cluster/
1•hu3•53m ago•0 comments

Product of Additive Inverses

https://susam.net/product-of-additive-inverses.html
1•susam•54m ago•0 comments

Player Piano Rolls

https://omeka-s.library.illinois.edu/s/MPAL/page/player-piano-rolls-landing
15•brudgers•54m ago•4 comments

Google's Stitch nails prompt abstraction – I explored similar ideas in janicre

1•anicre•54m ago•0 comments

Quiero crear una nueva aplicación

https://blog.cloudflare.com/foundation-dns-launch/
1•awildagomez•55m ago•0 comments

White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say

https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2025/05/29/white-house-maha-report-may-have-garbled-science-by-using-ai-experts-say/
2•rolph•58m ago•0 comments

Prosody 13.0.2 released – An XMPP/Jabber server written in Lua

https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-13.0.2-released/
1•neustradamus•1h ago•0 comments