#video by "UC Military News" about what #drones did for #Ukraine in October #toread
qntm abandoned screenplay ideas including “One Hour Fight Scene”
review of Lloyd Alexander’s series “Westmark”
Wikipedia is ready for your apology #humor
the most important decision you’ll ever make is where to direct your attention (so I am closing browser tabs) #toread
why the #AI 2027 people aren’t worried about self-fulfilling prophecies
Sam Kriss hates his own writing
reading Arthur Whitney’s C (in J) to “become smart”
#ICANN supports #free-software
different kinds of #quasirandom sequences for #Monte-Carlo methods and similar, proposing the new “R-sequence”
High-speed data acquisition over #HDMI #electronics #hardware #bootstrapping #DIY
discussion of #pioasm #bitbanging 100-megabit #Ethernet #electronics #hardware on the RP2350
Elektor on #pioasm #bitbanging 100-megabit #Ethernet #electronics #hardware on the RP2350
masks falling off #AI and revealing shoggoths four months ago
a response to the piece on masks falling off #AI and revealing shoggoths four months ago
#small-is-beautiful #GUI library #LVGL supports the #glTF file format for #3D-models. #file-format
#small-is-beautiful #GUI library #LVGL: “LittlevGL is a free and open-source graphics library providing everything you need to create embedded GUI with easy-to-use graphical elements, beautiful visual effects and low memory footprint”. By “low” they mean like 64KiB.
#p2p relays for #DERP #NAT traversal in #Tailscale
#p2p relays for #DERP #NAT traversal in #Tailscale: “Today we’re excited to announce public availability of Tailscale Peer Relays, a traffic relaying alternative to Tailscale’s managed DERP servers that can be enabled on any Tailscale node.”
state of embedded #Linux #electronics #hardware
"Talkie" is an #LPC #speech library for #Arduino #electronics #hardware
#speech on #CH32V003 #microcontrollers #electronics #hardware using #Talkie
#Chromium is going to ask for user permission to use unencrypted #HTTP for #security
people criticized #Mountain-Dew #advertising and gaming console practices
"IzzyDroid" is an alternative #F-Droid repository
the author of #Fil-C previously worked on memory-safe C for "iBoot", the bootloader for iOS and macOS, at #Apple for #security
discussion of the Fatima sun miracle and many similar everyday events. #history
#Jack-London #racism #history and boxer #Jack-Johnson
#history of boxer #Jack-Johnson
#history of boxer #Jack-Johnson
“The Difference in Prognostic Outcomes Between De Novo Stage IV and Recurrent Metastatic Patients with Hormone Receptor-positive, HER2-negative Breast #Cancer” from 02018 just after ribociclib was approved #ciclibs #medicine
“Recent progress of CDK4/6 inhibitors’ current practice in breast #cancer” from 02024. #ciclibs #medicine
#OECD #statistics on #infant-mortality. Argentina is 8.2 deaths per 1000 live births, Turkey is 9.8, Mexico is 13.4, Chile is 6.5, USA and Slovakia are 5.6 #medicine
#fraud in 02023 using fake #AI videos (#deepfakes) #crime
#deepfakes #fraud bags US$25M #crime
#history of #ribociclib getting approved in the #UK in only July of this year. #medicine #politics #cancer #ciclibs
ethics in #medicine and #human-experimentation
#history of #FDA #politics in #USA and #human-experimentation by the #DOE for #nuclear #weaponry
“Receptor tyrosine-protein kinase erbB-2” is “frequently referred to as HER2 (human epidermal growth factor receptor 2) or CD340 (cluster of differentiation 340).” #cancer #medicine
#history of #cancer #medicine: tyrosine kinase inhibitors were the first kinase inhibitors approved
#HDF #file-format book with Python
#PDF #paper #toread about F3 “future-proof” #file-format by Wes McKinney and a bunch of researchers from Tsinghua. It’s supposed to displace Parquet I guess?
discussion of F3 #file-format
#memory-LCD #displays #hardware being used in a bicycle computer: “The MIP display utilizes LTPS ( Low Temperature Poly Silicon ) technology to form memory circuits in each pixel. Each of these pixels is addressable, containing a 1-bit memory cell for storing information. (...) Because of this, TFT displays have power consumptions more than 40 times higher, requiring more electricity than a MIP display.”
“"Kripke" is the governance infrastructure for AGI. Fast. Provable. Auditable.” #AI startup: “Kripke empowers humanity, to specify, monitor, and guarantee what intelligent systems must (and must not) do. From winning through AI to ensuring compliance with regulatory frameworks, Kripke guarantees it with infrastructure designed to codify, enforce, and audit AI behavior to ensure aligned outcomes across any domain.” #logic #startups
Doppelganger #Harmonic is not logic but “The startup discovery engine. Find your fund returners. Our ever-growing database of 30M+ companies and 190M+ people ensures you’re never missing an opportunity.” It's a totally different company, though.
#Harmonic still says, “We are forging the world’s most advanced mathematical reasoning engine.” #logic #AI
review of #Anthropic #Claude Sonnet 4.5 #AI
#outsider-art museum
Kevin Buzzard’s #LEAN blog for the "Xena Project" to formalize mathematics in L∃∀N #logic, starting to take up #AI
Rohit’s and Dave Brossard’s blog post about IIW #identity
blog post from Qwen on Qwen3-Omni #AI (text, images, audio, and video)
"ShelfLily" is for making an easy inventory of your home
visiting #Amazon fulfillment centers for a tour so Amazon can show you they aren’t a horrific dystopia
The Astral Codex Ten #non-book-review contest entries, “volume 2 - J-S”
The Astral Codex Ten #non-book-review contest entries, “volume 1 - A-I”
winners of the Astral Codex Ten #non-book-review contest: Joan of Arc, Alpha School, and the #Ukraine war, which has been deleted
problems with using volumes in #Mediawiki in #Docker #toread
“To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 2003 Computing Research Association (CRA) Gordon-style Conferencea on Grand Challenges in Trustworthy Computing, the original attendees were invited to a virtual retrospective. This landmark conference, held November 16–19, 2003, at Airlie House in northern Virginia, brought together 50 technology and policy experts in #security, #privacy, and networking to identify transformative research challenges. The resulting report became a cornerstone for researchers and funding agencies at a pivotal moment in the evolution of cybersecurity (then called information and communication security).”
#security typosquatting “requetsts”
using volumes in #MediaWiki in #Docker #toread
“Being an active commenter felt like being an internet socialite, part of an elite society of people who put their voice out there instead of lurked. And my fellow internet socialites responded in turn. Some upvoted, responded, debated. Some liked what I said, some hated it. A few of my comments made it to the top and became a fountain of dopamine. A few comments made it to the very bottom too.”
#Charity is not a fan of no-deploy Fridays. “If you are a software company, shipping code is your heartbeat. Shipping code should be as reliable and sturdy and fast and unremarkable as possible, because this is the drumbeat by which value gets delivered to your org.
Every time your production pipeline stops, it is a heart attack. It should not be ok to go around nonchalantly telling people to halt the lifeblood of their systems based on something as pedestrian as the day of the week.”
using #zram vs. #zswap to get better UI #latency in #Linux. #Fedora eliminated disk-based swap by default. #toread
vectorizing RGB to grayscale conversion code to #SIMD in #GCC
#introduction to #Smalltalk. “Unlike Perl, I actually did use Smalltalk to build a few real applications that had real users. I miss it a lot.”
#Bel #metacircular #Lisp interpreter spec by #PG. #small-is-beautiful
apparently the Pied Piper of Hamelin led the 130 children out of Hamelin to disappear forever on June 26th, 01284.
discussion of #Hypothesis and property-based testing (#PBT)
#Vibe-Coding turns you into an #AI babysitter but it’s worth it? #toread
“#AI Unconference - Dave N’s talks - semiont - Sep 16 at 6:19 PM” with transcript #toread
discussion of my proposal of #Wikipedia #decentralization
“Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags” #Shirky
#EU #politics require batteries to be replaceable in most consumer electronics starting 02027-02-18!
#video on #Argentina: what happens to stablecoin #cryptocurrency adoption when hyperinflation goes away? Ends up surveying major cryptocurrency use cases in Argentina: tax evasion, cross-border payments, wealth preservation (3’49”), earning yield (13’57”), and everyday spending (14’36”). He interviewed a cuevero who says that actually the cuevas have more business than before #Milei. A thing I didn’t realize was that Macri’s blanqueo was abrogated by Fernández: “Cuando cambió el gobierno al Kirchnerismo, toda la gente que blanqueó tuvo que pagar alrededor de un 40% sobre todos los [activos?] blanqueados.” That’s a theft of about US$60 billion by Fernández. Lots of interview footage with #Belo founder Manuel Beudroit? Boudreau?
#video on comedian #Uncle-Roger who has been canceled (twice!) by #China, in January 02021 on Weibo and Bilibili for collaborating with Mike Chen because he was “anti-CCP” and also #Falun-Gong, but apologizing for that got him canceled on Twitter, and then two years later (02023?) he got canceled again for making a joke in Boston about how he had to say China was a very good country because they were listening through Huawei phones, so his social credit score would go up, and then joked that Taiwan was not a real country. This resulted in all four of his Chinese social media accounts getting banned. Also he got cancelled on Twitter for making a joke when Russia invaded #Ukraine, and in Singapore when he “talked shit” about the food. This is a “podcast for the canceled” called "triggernometry".
some kind of startup management wank about #AI agent “standards”
#humor #video about Chen Rui, #China’s #Trump from Chongqing
#Internet-Archive lawsuit #history
#security of robot vacuum cleaners
David Foster Wallace on #epistemology in "This is Water", his 02005 Kenyon College commencement speech
modeling reality with arithmetic, using #dimensional-analysis
#video on immersed-tube #construction of tunnels like the Fort McHenry tunnel in Baltimore and the #BART Transbay Tube in the #SFBA.
#video on contraptions from Jan Adkins’s book “Moving Heavy Things”, with series of stakes stuck into the ground and wired together and whatnot, so-called “deadman” things. He uses a hand ratchet thing with a chain to pull bulldozers and farm tractors by hand.
#video of grinding a 3.1° primary bevel knife blade and then a tiny 20° secondary "microbevel" tens of microns wide, producing truly astonishing sharpness. Still just on steel though. It gets ruined when he hits a staple.
#video of asking 100 people their biggest regret, ages 1-100