3 tricky retirement decisions and how to tackle them

Many aspects of retirement planning are the subject of hot debate, even among experts. Here are three tricky decisions that confront people planning retirement today. Decision 1: How much to withdraw each year in retirement It’s impossible to say at the outset of...

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BornHack Radio 102.8 FM, Playing Radio At A Hacker Camp

Over the years I have been to many hacker camps and done a lot of very cool things, but BornHack 2026 brought me something entirely new: Radio. By which I don’t mean radio in terms of amateur radio, LoRa, or whatever, but Radio. Broadcast radio, because the camp had a...

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The Reading Crisis Facing America’s Classrooms

The Reading Crisis Facing America’s Classrooms

For decades, literacy rates in the United States remained relatively stable. While nearly all Americans can read and write at a basic level, recent assessments paint a more concerning picture: students’ reading proficiency has declined significantly, particularly in...

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Chunking Strategies for Structured Data in RAG Systems

While developing RAG pipelines across various enterprise use cases, a stakeholder asked me a question that stopped me mid conversation: "Can our database become a source for our knowledge base, just like our SharePoint documents? Can RAG give us answers by querying...

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PXE Boot From S3 Without a Traditional Boot Server

There’s a classic bootstrapping paradox in provisioning. To install an OS, you need something already running on that machine. Historically, it was an image on CD or USB, which scales badly already if you have more than two or three machines. Moreover, what if you...

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