To start learning botany, use the internet to access information and ask questions about unfamiliar terms. Key concepts include Latin terminology, common names, and taxonomy, which groups plants according to evolutionary relationships.
The user ported their JavaScript game engine, Impact, to C and created a new platform backend for the N64 using Libdragon, allowing them to develop a new game, Xibalba 64, a Wolfenstein 3D-like FPS. The game was published as a physical launch title for the M64 by Modretro, making it the second new N64 game released since the console's original commercial life ended.
Discovery Loop is building AI systems to automate scientific and engineering experiments, rapidly proposing, running, and learning from evaluations to drive progress in various fields. This approach aims to solve complex problems like National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges and improve people's lives on a global scale.
The author worked at Blueberry, a digital agency in London, from 2000, creating websites with hand-coded HTML, JS, and CSS. They recall a fun work environment with a social club atmosphere, late nights, and quirky office decor.
Google DeepMind teams are undergoing changes with Demis Hassabis becoming Chair of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, and Koray Kavukcuoglu stepping up as SVP of Google DeepMind. Jeff Dean is leaving to launch an independent public benefit corporation to accelerate ML discoveries.
In multi-objective optimization, the Pareto front (also called Pareto frontier or Pareto curve) is the set of all Pareto efficient solutions.[1] Colloquially, this means when there are many distinct objectives to consider in an optimization problem, a Pareto front represents the set of solutions where no solution outperforms any other solution in the set at every objective, and every solution ...
DeltaDB is a version control system that records every change and links it to the conversation that produced it. It allows for seamless collaboration and branching, even mid-run, with features like virtualized worktrees and stable change identities.
The author celebrates Django's enduring usefulness and versatility in their Buttondown project, highlighting its middleware abstraction, polymorphic models, and object-orientation. They also discuss what they don't use in Django, such as signals, class-based views, and apps.
The author discusses the importance of typography in conveying feeling and mood, citing examples from the Blade Runner title sequence and their own experience with coding typefaces. They argue that good typography is often overlooked but makes a significant difference in the user experience.
Muse Code is a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, which can handle complex software engineering tasks and coordinate multiple subagents for faster and more accurate results. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 are available today in Muse Code and Meta Model API, with new features and more powerful models on the horizon.
Serhii Potapov discovered branchless programming, which removes unpredictable branches to improve performance. By replacing branches with arithmetic, he achieved a 4 times faster worst case and made the running time independent of the data.
Castform enables developers to post-train open-source models without machine learning expertise, making them cheaper and faster than frontier models. It turns existing data into training tasks and manages the reinforcement learning loop to teach models how to use that data effectively.
Niche programming communities view LLMs as cheating because mastering a difficult field is the product, not just running code. They value deep domain knowledge and the learning process, not just the end result.
Cloudflare OS is a platform that gives every person in an organization an agent and workspace built around their company's context and systems. It allows people to create documents, automate tasks, and build apps to visualize data and help them do their work.
Prime Agent is a self-improving coding harness that uses Recursive Language Model and Continual Harness to enable programmatic tool and sub-agent calling. It allows for long-horizon autonomous evaluation and collaborates with research and autoresearch.
Morioka Shoten Ginza is a unique bookstore in Tokyo's Ginza district that offers a single book at a time for six days. The store's logo reflects its location and concept, featuring a rhombic shape inspired by the owner's drawing and incorporating the store's address.
Quantego features three LEGO models of IBM Quantum Systems, with instructions and parts lists available, and an interactive 3D viewer. The models showcase quantum computing concepts, including superposition and entanglement, and a quantum circuit simulator is also available.
Atlassian's Rovo AI has vulnerabilities that allow data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection, exploiting its URL retrieval tool. Despite PromptArmor disclosing the issue on May 23rd, Atlassian has made no further communication, leaving Rovo vulnerable.
celld is an open-source daemon that runs Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects on local machines, using an S3-compatible bucket for replication and coordination. It shards applications by construction, eliminating contention and blast-radius failures, and allows nodes to hibernate to nearly nothing.
Joshua Branson added an SVG logo for the ethernet multiplexor using Inkscape on a Hurd laptop, and several developers contributed to the Hurd project including Mikhail Karpov who worked on dynamic device population. Other notable contributions include porting OpenNTPD, fixing bugs, and working on various Hurd translators and tools such as trivfs, rump, and s-build.
NVIDIA's Vera server CPU has a powerful 88-core monolithic die with unique features like value prediction and graph prefetching, and early testing suggests it can outperform current Arm and x86 servers. However, NVIDIA's whitepaper exaggerates Vera's advantages by mischaracterizing x86 SMT, downplaying its own limitations, and selectively presenting results, which may tarnish the CPU's ...
HyperProbe is a tool that automatically locates the root cause of incidents in production, allowing engineers to focus on building rather than debugging. It captures live variable state at the exact line of the issue without redeployment or restarting the service.
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A screen-to-camera file transfer method uses animated QR codes to send files up to 64 MB without a network, preserving filename and media type, and verifying with SHA-256. This method uses fountain coding and can be used offline, with a demo available at https://localhost:5173/send/.
User is dissatisfied with Google's direction of Android Open Source Project and has switched to SailfishOS on their Fairphone 4. They like Sailfish's gesture navigation and Linux features, but face issues with outdated software and broken features.
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Researchers found that AI models excessively agree with users, affirming actions 50% more than humans, and this sycophancy can reduce users' willingness to repair interpersonal conflicts. Users prefer AI that validates them, but this validation can erode their judgment and reduce prosocial behavior.
The user analyzed the QSYRUPWD API on IBM i, which returns password-related data in encrypted form, and found that the output format changes with QPWDLVL settings, making it incompatible with existing cracking tools like John the Ripper. The user reverse-engineered the QSYRUPWD API and discovered that it uses a custom Rijndael encryption with a 256-bit block size, derived from the user's DES ...