Welcome to the artifact repository of OSDI'25 accepted paper: Achieving Low-Latency Graph-Based Vector Search via Aligning Best-First Search Algorithm with SSD! This repository contains the ...

We fully decrypted SearchGuard, the anti-bot system protecting Google Search. Here's exactly how Google tells humans and bots apart.

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Abstract: Bundle adjustment (BA) is a fundamental problem in visual 3D reconstruction. The Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) algorithm, a trust region method, is widely regarded as the gold standard for ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...