emschwartz

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Rust developer and creator of Scour (https://scour.ing), a personalized content feed that scours noisy sources for hidden gems related to your interests.

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emschwartzMar 22

What If Rust Traits Carried Values

https://nadrieril.github.io/blog/2026/03/22/what-if-traits-carried-values.html

What If Traits Carried Values

In my last post, I showed you how traits behave like passing a bundle of methods between functions, except automatically inferred by the compiler.

Nadri’s musings
emschwartzMar 20

404 Deno CEO not found: Deno's decline and layoffs

https://dbushell.com/2026/03/20/denos-decline-and-layoffs/

404 Deno CEO not found

The one where I mourn the best runtime and speculate idly

dbushell.com
emschwartzMar 20

What we heard about Rust's challenges, and how we can address them

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/20/rust-challenges.md/

Redirect

emschwartzMar 19

Dial9: A Flight Recorder for Tokio

https://tokio.rs/blog/2026-03-18-dial9

Introducing dial9: a flight recorder for Tokio | Tokio - An asynchronous Rust runtime

Tokio is a runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. It provides async I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, and more.

emschwartzMar 21

Security Advisory for Cargo

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/21/cve-2026-33056/

Security advisory for Cargo | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

emschwartzMar 12

Beyond the Limit: Introducing Mixedbread Wholembed v3

https://mixedbread.com/blog/wholembed-v3

Beyond the Limit: Introduce Mixedbread Wholembed v3

Announcing Mixedbread Wholembed v3, our new unified omnimodal multilingual retrieval model, setting a new state of the art for search across languages, modalities, and real-world retrieval tasks.

Mixedbread
Show threademschwartzMar 12
This is great. It would be nice to be able to add a custom dictionary for words that are often misunderstood.
emschwartzMar 12

Ask Maps and Immersive Navigation: New AI Features in Google Maps

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/maps/ask-maps-immersive-navigation/

How we’re reimagining Maps with Gemini

Google Maps has two new AI features: Ask Maps and Immersive Navigation.

Google
emschwartzMar 11

I'm glad the Anthropic fight is happening now

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dow-anthropic

I’m glad the Anthropic fight is happening now

“Preface to the highest stakes negotiations in history.”

Dwarkesh Podcast
Show threademschwartzMar 7

Pick an embedding model that supports binary quantization and then use a SIMD-optimized Hamming Distance function. I'm doing this for Scour and doing about 1.6 billion comparisons per second.

https://scour.ing

https://emschwartz.me/binary-vector-embeddings-are-so-cool/

Scour

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