Chrome 148+ uses OS-specific math libraries for functions like Math.tanh, creating OS fingerprints. Scrapfly replicates exact OS math behaviors (e.g., libsystem_m on macOS) to spoof browsers indistinguishably, matching host libm, CSS trig, and Web Audio down to bit-level precision.
A curated list of cyberpunk works (1975–2016) spans Western comics, manga, and graphic novels, featuring *Akira*, *Blade Runner*, and *Ghost in the Shell*, exploring dystopia, tech, and societal critique. Themes include virtual reality, AI, and post-apocalyptic settings, with entries like *The Long Tomorrow* and *Transmetropolitan* highlighting genre evolution and speculative futures.
The user designed and assembled a custom BME280 sensor PCB using KiCad, successfully replicating its I2C interface and achieving plug-and-play functionality after soldering. This hands-on experience with PCB design, assembly, and testing boosted their confidence to tackle more complex hardware projects like integrating an ESP32, LCD, and sensors on a single board.
A self-study physics guide created to help non-traditional learners has aided over 600,000 people, offering a structured curriculum from undergraduate to graduate levels. It emphasizes problem-solving, accessible resources, and addresses gaps in formal education, inspiring self-directed exploration of physics through comprehensive textbooks and practical advice.
Working on iOS app improvements and multiplatform C projects with X11/wasm. LLM coding diminished coding's joy, sparking thoughts of a new hobby.
This blog is mostly expression of my ideas on different things in programming and IT culture
A mathematician successfully migrated 1999 Java applets to JavaScript via AI, reviving tools like honeycomb and Besicovitch set visualizers with minimal bugs. They also created new interactive visualizations for special relativity and the Gilbreath conjecture using AI, finding the process efficient and low-risk for supplementary educational tools.
The Jim Henson's Creature Shop in NYC offers public tours showcasing puppetry techniques, from hand-rod puppets like Bob the bear to foam props, while tracing its 60-year history from 1963 to its current Long Island City workshop. The shop, known for creating Muppets, Sesame Street characters, and Hollywood films, blends collaborative creativity with Henson's legacy of whimsical, expressive ...
Ploy upgraded to GPT-5.6 Sol, outperforming Claude Opus with 2.2× faster builds, 27% lower costs, and cleaner code, but required fixing tool-call handling, caching, and reasoning replay to address model-specific behaviors and ensure fair evaluation.
Claude Code incurs ~33,000-token overhead per request (vs OpenCode’s ~7,000) due to extensive system prompts, tools, and mid-session rewrites, while OpenCode’s stable, cached prefixes minimize costs. Subagent workflows amplify Claude Code’s token usage 54x vs OpenCode’s lean design, with configuration files and MCP servers further inflating baseline costs.
Kode Dot is a handheld, all-in-one platform with dual ESP32-P4/C5 MCUs, AMOLED touchscreen, sensors, wireless, and 16 programmable pins for instant prototyping. It supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, and community-developed apps, born from a 16,000-backer Kickstarter success.
Google's study shows rerouting 2% of trips via navigation apps in 10 US cities improved traffic speeds by 2% and reduced emissions, demonstrating scalable, low-cost congestion relief. The experiment establishes a framework for network-level traffic optimization using connected systems.
The paper addresses the lack of consensus on architecture description languages (ADLs) by defining and classifying them. It compares existing ADLs, highlighting their strengths and deficiencies to guide future research.
LARP is a satirical platform mocking legal circular revenue deals where companies mutualize revenue without cash movement, critiquing financial reporting's focus on numbers over real economic value. It highlights how accounting rules allow such practices, blurring lines between legitimate growth and illusion.
Sam Kahn traces his declining reading habit due to social media, work, and shifting cultural values, battling digital addiction and societal pressures. He revives reading through disciplined strategies, stressing its role in sustaining deep thought and cultural continuity amid modern distractions.
Building a software factory requires agents for automation and humans to maintain architectural integrity through active code engagement. Writing code fosters ownership, precision, and system resilience, preventing fragility amplified by over-reliance on AI-generated solutions.
The book "Abundance" argues regulatory bottlenecks ("chosen scarcity") hinder progress in housing and energy, but the user's analysis of cities like Austin and San Francisco shows mixed results. Vienna's success with public housing reveals alternative solutions, emphasizing the need to verify claims with data and consider multiple approaches.
The essay warns that AI's mathematical advancements paired with U.S. declining math education risk strategic failure by eroding critical infrastructure. It proposes treating math capacity as a strategic asset and requiring formal, auditable AI reasoning.
The Deir el-Medina strikes (c. 1158 BC) were Egypt's earliest recorded labor protests, driven by unpaid grain rations under Ramesses III, with artisans demanding supplies from the vizier. The skilled, literate workforce, organized into roles like scribes and deputies, leveraged their royal tomb-building role to negotiate, but ongoing grain shortages linked to Sea Peoples' invasions and ...
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Vint Cerf, co-creator of TCP/IP and retiring Google VP, emphasized standardized protocols for AI agent interoperability at a conference, while panelists discussed open-source sustainability and challenges in AI centralization. His legacy includes pioneering internet protocols and advocating for structured communication over natural language ambiguity.
The author is enthusiastic about AI progress, including LLMs and coding agents, but criticizes fear-mongering narratives of AI dominance. They argue that value creation, driven by Moore's law, isn't captured by closed labs, advocating for open-source solutions.
The author introduces the first open-source training kernels for Minimax Sparse Attention (MSA) in CuTeDSL, optimizing block-based selection with max-pooling, GQA groups, and efficient caching for Hopper/Blackwell GPUs. Key innovations include fused backward passes, reduced register usage, and scalable CP strategies, though challenges like low occupancy and tensor-pipe bottlenecks remain.
The essay explores how foundational, often "useless" research fuels future innovations, exemplified by Folk Computer, an open-source physical computing system. It calls for independent thinkers and patrons to support paradigm-shifting work, bridging the gap between institutional legacy and grassroots creativity.
The one-step trap assumes AI can accurately predict long-term outcomes by iterating one-step models, but errors compound and computational complexity grows exponentially, making it unreliable. Temporally abstract models like options and GVFs offer a better solution for long-term predictions.
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A Billion Dollar PDF is a document — a memo, a deck, a whitepaper, a thread — that crystallized a narrative at exactly the right moment and moved billions of dollars of capital around the field. The term is Jeremy Giffon’s. This is an open index of the ones people keep citing — browse it below, expand any entry for the story, and follow the link to read the original.
A Monte Carlo model estimates MacKenzie Scott's $26.3B philanthropy's health impact (QALYs) by allocating grants across 13 intervention archetypes, adjusting for inflation, evidence credibility (skeptical vs. credulous), and gift size elasticity. Skeptical assumptions yield ~70,000 QALYs (effects weighted by causal study quality), while credulous estimates reach ~200,000, with global health ...
Mar 2017 The A* pathfinding algorithm is a powerful method for quickly generating optimal paths. Typically, people demonstrate A* navigating grid-based maps, but A* isn’t just a grid algorithm! It can work on any graph. We can use A* to find a path through this world of round obstacles. How does the same algorithm solve both problems? Let’s start with a review of how A* works. The A* ...