Saturday, October 17, 2026

This Jacket Pulls Drinking Water From Thin Air #Wearable

“The textile incorporated into the jacket collects moisture and funnels it to detachable harvesting units.” Image Via UT News   Stillsuit anyone? Not quite, but engineers at the University of Texas have developed a jacket that collects water from the air. The advance fabric technology can harvest 3x-10x more water than current materials. Via UT…

Larger Context Windows Don’t Fix RAG — So I Built a System That Does

Increasing context size in RAG systems doesn’t improve accuracy for aggregation tasks—it makes errors harder to detect. In this article, I benchmark retrieval-based pipelines against a deterministic full-scan engine across 100,000 rows and show why computation queries must be routed away from RAG entirely. The post Larger Context Windows Don’t Fix RAG — So I…