Abstract: Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection (QbE-STD) retrieves relevant audio files corresponding to a spoken query, without relying on explicit word-level textual transcriptions. In ...

Prequel is a SQL query engine built in C#. The goal of this project is to demonstrate how query engines are built, and to bring a query engine to the .NET community. The project contains a ...

Nahda Nabiilah is a writer and editor from Indonesia. She has always loved writing and playing games, so one day she decided to combine the two. Most of the time, writing gaming guides is a blast for ...

A large part of Airbnb’s Q1 2026 earnings call was dedicated to talking about how the company is using AI tools for coding, customer support, and search. Notably, the company claimed that 60% of the ...

Power Query offers a wide range of features for data manipulation, but small adjustments can often make a significant difference in your workflow. Excel Off The Grid highlights practical ways to ...

A friend texted me last week, “Zak, they’re building another car wash in town—what gives?” It’s a fair question. There are already more than a dozen car washes in Flagstaff. How can yet another be an ...

Fortinet has released security updates to address a critical flaw impacting FortiClientEMS that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code on susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as ...

I’ve built RAG systems for internal docs, customer support, and compliance workflows. Most of them failed the first time. Some failed the second time, too. Three months ago, I built one for our policy ...

Anthropic's open source standard, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), released in late 2024, allows users to connect AI models and the agents atop them to external tools in a structured, reliable format ...

Google removes AI Overviews for query types where users don't click or find value. The system issues additional "under the hood" searches to find relevant content that might not match exact keywords.