⚡ Biscuit: A High-Performance PostgreSQL Index for Pattern Matching
If development continues, Biscuit could become a go-to solution for data-intensive systems requiring rapid text or log pattern searches.
Biscuit introduces a specialized PostgreSQL index access method designed for ultra-fast LIKE queries and multi-column searches. By eliminating recheck overhead, it delivers significant speed improvements over traditional trigram indexes, especially for workloads with heavy wildcard usage.
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🧠 Tool Safety: The Ethics Behind Beautiful Soup
A thoughtful reflection on the ethics of coding—especially timely as automation and scraping continue to shape the web’s landscape.
Leonard Richardson’s zine explores the ethical challenges of building and maintaining open-source tools like Beautiful Soup. It reflects on how such software can both empower and harm, urging developers to take moral responsibility for the impact of their creations.
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🧩 40% of fMRI Signals May Misrepresent Brain Activity
This finding could redefine how neuroscientists use and interpret fMRI data in both research and clinical settings.
A Nature Neuroscience study led by Samira M. Epp and colleagues finds that roughly 40% of MRI BOLD signals do not accurately reflect neural activity. The research shows that MRI signal variations can contradict oxygen metabolism patterns, suggesting widespread misinterpretations in neuroimaging studies.
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🌲 Bonsai: A Custom Voxel Engine Built from Scratch
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🧮 In Defense of MATLAB Code: Why Engineers Still Need It
An insightful reflection on the balance between tradition and innovation in engineering software — showing how readable, expressive code can remain relevant in the age of cloud-native workflows.
This essay argues that MATLAB’s syntax remains uniquely powerful in engineering because it mirrors mathematical notation, simplifying the verification and maintenance of complex models. It contrasts MATLAB’s expressiveness and clarity with its shortcomings in licensing and cloud integration. The piece introduces RunMat, a GPU-ready runtime that retains MATLAB-like syntax while enhancing performance, openness, and portability.
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