Intelligence is unreliable.

My first blog post for MongoDB: Vector search with embeddings using EF Core against MongoDB. Super easy to get started, everything running free and locally for no hassle trying stuff out! #EFCore #MongoDB #dotnet dev.to/mongodb/mong...

MongoDB Vector Search With EF Core

This post was written by Arthur Vickers, Staff Engineer at MongoDB The 8.3.3 and 9.0.3 releases of...

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Today I really got into the zone, coding for hours. It was beautiful. #coding

Just joined 2.6% of players and completed Baldur's Gate III in Honour mode! #bg3

DBNull is so right it's wrong.

Current A.I. is like that really helpful friend...that you just can't trust. They will always answer your question whatever it is, and usually they give accurate information. But you can never really trust them, because when they don't know, they just make stuff up. 😆

In April, I sowed some woodland wildflower seeds in a dark corner of the garden. They have been doing really well, and are now starting to bloom. Ten pounds well spent! #garden

I'm proud to announce that today I start a new job at MongoDB as a staff engineer in the Database Experience team. Really excited to be working with a lot of great folks to make using MongoDB in your applications even better than it already is! #lifeatmongodb

Here's the party doing all the heavy lifting in my Baldur's Gate honour run. Magic? What's that? Pfft; we just sneak up and hit things really hard! And if that don't work, we blow them up! #bg3

Just starting Act 3 of Baldur's Gate III in honour mode with Piper: a deep gnome rogue4/monk6. Working really well. Str: 10 Dex: 23 Con: 14 Int: 17 Wis: 16 Cha: 12 AC: 21 Deception, persuasion, and intimidation all +9, so I don't fight unless I want to! #bg3

Sunrise over the fens, from last weekend. #Fenlands #Norfolk

#Mushrooms (with a touch of garlic.)

Spring has arrived in our garden! #Spring

We haven't been getting out enough, so yesterday we went to Cleethorpes. Lovely snowdrops in the Wolds, and then very cold on the seafront! Steels Corner House was the perfect cure for that. Then a drive by Franklin College and the Healing schools. Great mood booster! 💙

Signal unlock.

Good morning friends! Sending you all a big hug on this Friday morning. Today I will be trying to remember that even small acts of kindness and love matter—and to do a few.

Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours

Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours

MILWAUKEE—Growing more despondent as each turn brought them no closer to a conclusion, an exhausted group of friends was reportedly coming to the realization Friday that they had been playing the boar...

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Ann Patchett (author and bookstore owner at @parnassusbooks.bsky.social) recommends BEOWULF (translated by Seamus Heaney) as the book that will allow us to sleep at night and put the world into perspective. (This is from her “If You Haven’t Read It, It’s New to You” segment.) 📚💙

We have peacocks in the neighborhood. And now in the house too! #Lego #Peacocks

First time on a racing sim and already better than me! (Okay, that's a very low bar, but still...)

Willow. #dogs

I guess I'm not putting my laundry away until later... #cats

I also found a picture of my #Amiga 500, with GVP 52MB SCSI HD and 2MB fast RAM. There is also an AT-Once board in it, so I could boot into DOS and use WordPerfect! 🤣 🤣 (The ergonomics here suck, but it was the best I could do while renting a room as a neuroscience intern.)

I found photographs that my mother took when I was a kid of my #Amiga screen with generated #Mandelbrot images. (We didn't have a printer, and certainly not a color one!) The quality isn't great, but it _is_ great to have a record of these! #Fractals

Arthur Vickers@ajcvickers.bsky.social · 2y ago

Loving concurrency constructs in #golang. Simple to safely move a Mandelbrot generator to perform parallel calculations using goroutines. Generating a massive 20k by 20k image sequentially took 104 seconds, against 6.5 seconds in parallel using all cores! 🚀 (The generator itself is unoptimized.)

I'm excited to announce the first beta of our official #AzureSDK for #rustlang crates! This initial release includes Key Vault Secrets and Keys, Event Hubs including AMQP support, our core crates, and Identity. Cosmos is following soon. We have more planned including some usability improvements.

I know I'm weird, but I love the coloring of the fur around Toast's eyes. #dogs

The MySQL query plan visualizer is going to be 🔥

The incredibly detailed late 19th century pulpit at Peterborough Cathedral 🤩 (Wider view in comment below)…