Adobe unveiled Project Turntable at MAX, a tool that lets users rotate 2D vector art in 3D while maintaining its original shape. The tool uses AI to fill in gaps and was created by Adobe research scientist Zhiqin Chen.

Connor Reinman and Jason Slater are top Crokinole players with high open 20 success rates of 66% and 75%. They made a rare double perfect round, securing eight consecutive open 20s each in the 2024 World Crokinole Championship semifinals.

Neuroscientist Evelina Fedorenko found that language and thought are distinct entities that the brain processes separately, contradicting the idea that language is essential for thinking. Her research used brain-imaging techniques and studies of people with aphasia to show that cognitive tasks can proceed without language, and that language is primarily used for communication and knowledge ...

The user discovered two vulnerabilities in the Chromium web browser, CVE-2024-6778 and CVE-2024-5836, which allowed for a sandbox escape from a browser extension and enabled running arbitrary shell commands on a PC. The user received a $20,000 reward from Google for reporting the vulnerabilities, which were fixed by adding checks to prevent the vulnerabilities from occurring.

Researchers trained a 270M parameter transformer model on 10 million chess games to achieve a Lichess blitz Elo of 2895 against humans. The model outperforms AlphaZero and GPT-3.5-turbo-instruct without explicit search algorithms.

Researchers tested 30 domestic cats to see if they use body awareness when approaching narrow openings, but found they didn't hesitate before entering tall but narrow openings. Cats showed hesitation when approaching and going through short but wide openings, indicating they rely on body size awareness in certain situations.

NotebookLM is a tool for understanding complex information, now with new features like guiding conversations and background listening. NotebookLM Business is coming soon with enhanced features for businesses and organizations, with early access available through a pilot program.

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JSON Patch is a standardized format for describing how to modify a JSON document, allowing for precise and efficient partial updates. It operates on a JSON document as a sequence of atomic operations, minimizing data transmission and latency.

The user used a video recording and AI tool to extract numbers from 12 emails without copying and pasting. This method is costless and free, unlike other methods like using the official API or browser automation.

A new treatment combining ReCET and semaglutide could eliminate insulin in type 2 diabetes, with 86% of participants no longer requiring insulin therapy. The treatment was safe and well-tolerated, with further trials planned to confirm results.

C++ should formally mandate that a byte is 8 bits, aligning with modern hardware and software platforms. This change would simplify the language and libraries, making them more compatible and easier to use.

This paper explains that tree ensembles are self-regularizing smoothers that improve predictions by reducing variance and bias. They show that ensembling can reduce variance, variability and bias by enriching the hypothesis space.

Kagi's AI Image Filter downranks websites with high AI-generated content and labels AI images with a badge. This feature helps users control search results and prioritize authentic imagery.

The 555 timer is a simple integrated circuit that can be used to make many different electronic circuits. With this information you will learn how how the 555 works and will have the experience to build some of the circuits below. The following are complete electronic circuits that you can build, they all utilize the 555 Timer circuit.

Postgres users often delay upgrades due to existing functionality and painful major version updates. Upgrading requires significant time and resources, but sticking with older versions can lead to missing performance improvements and compatibility issues.

Peter Roberts, an immigration attorney for YC and startups, answers questions on contract requalification, US work visas, and startup-related legal issues. He discusses various visa options, including O-1, H-1B, and EB1, and addresses concerns about international hiring, trademark applications, and AI model copyright concerns.

Automattic's CEO Matt Mullenweg is engaging in a public feud with WP Engine, using his control of WordPress.org to punish the company and its contributors. This has led to a destabilization of the WordPress plugin ecosystem and raised questions about the sustainability of open-source projects.

NASA will use SpaceX's Dragon for upcoming ISS crewed flights due to Boeing's Starliner issues. Boeing's next Starliner flight timing and configuration will be determined after NASA establishes a better understanding of Boeing's path to system certification.

JavaScript's setTimeout has a 24.9 day limit due to 32-bit integer representation. setBigTimeout bypasses this by chaining multiple shorter timeouts together.

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg offered employees a buyout deal after a divisive legal battle with WP Engine, but many stayed due to financial reasons. Mullenweg now threatens to fire employees who speak to the press or leak information, and has restricted access to Blind, an anonymous workplace discussion platform.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum's 66-foot blue whale skeleton, KOBO, is leaking oil due to its porous bones. The museum installed an oil catcher in 2010 to measure the oil drips, which are expected to stop within 30-40 years.

Dries Buytaert, a web development expert, shares his experiment on running a solar-powered website on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, aiming to make web hosting more environmentally friendly and local-first. He discusses the setup, challenges, and lessons learned, including energy consumption, cost savings, and the potential for more sustainable web hosting practices.

Unit tests explain code behavior, are always in sync with the code, and cover edge cases, making them a powerful tool for documenting codebase. To maximize effectiveness, follow best practices like descriptive test names, atomic tests, simple tests, and independent tests.

Contributions to this project require agreeing to a Contributor License Agreement and following Microsoft's Code of Conduct and Trademark Guidelines. A CLA bot will guide you through the process when submitting a pull request.

Bureaucratic systems create unnecessary complexity and inefficiency, stifling meaningful output. Effective systems must be aligned with desired outcomes, coupled with clear problem statements and target metrics, and constantly revised to ensure relevance.

⇦ Let's add some new syntax to Python! Making a small change is not so hard. Our aim is to make ternary statements default to None as they do in Ruby: Now lets's change the grammar so that if we don't have an else condition we default to None.

The author is upset with Matt Mullenweg and WordPress due to a dispute with WP Engine, a commercial website-hosting company, and claims Mullenweg is using his control of WordPress.org to extort money from WP Engine. The author believes Mullenweg's actions are motivated by a conflict of interest as the CEO of Automattic, a for-profit company.

Postgres extension pg_parquet allows reading and writing Parquet files from Postgres. It enables efficient data transfer and analytics with Parquet files on local disk or S3.

Qualcomm is pausing the Snapdragon Developer Kit for Windows and cancelling outstanding orders. Refunds will be issued within 10 business days for any charges made.

Healthcare spending is largely determined by income levels, with high-income countries spending more on healthcare. The US healthcare system is not uniquely expensive, with rising healthcare spending driven by increased density of healthcare workers and technological advancements.

The shortest distance between two points in space is a straight line, but in spacetime, it's not a straight line due to time's unique properties. The spacetime interval is an invariant quantity that remains the same for all observers, regardless of their motion.

A mathematician designed a 12-sided die with fewer pips to generate random numbers efficiently. He also created a 30-sided die with 48 pips to simulate a 15-sided die, but it's impractical for gaming due to viewing-angle limitations.

The OpenStreetMap data used by major mapping apps is incomplete and patchy for bike and pedestrian routing, leading to poor directions. A new web app visualizes these gaps, highlighting the need for better data to improve bike and pedestrian routing.

The Japanese Fifth Generation Project aimed to create a new computer technology with AI operating systems but failed to meet its goals despite spending $400 million. The project's failure highlights Japan's struggle to predict future technologies and its inability to adapt to rapid industry shifts.

The user discusses the importance of mental models and visualizations in programming, citing Richard Feynman's video on thinking and problem-solving. They share their own visualization techniques, such as using diagrams and tools like ER diagrams, trace, and treemap, and ask readers to share their own tools and diagrams that help them think more efficiently.

The pandemic led to increased use of video conferencing, causing "Zoom fatigue" due to distractions, multitasking, and emotional effort. This fatigue affects mental health, particularly women, and can be alleviated by reducing video use and incorporating breaks.

Sava OS is a personal, universal OS offering data unification, encryption, and anonymization for seamless access from any device. It enables real-time collaboration, shared access, and cloud storage management with a focus on user control and data integrity.

Ethereum's scaling strategy involves a rollup-centric roadmap where the L1 focuses on being a robust base layer and L2s take on scaling tasks, with a goal of reaching 58,000 TPS and eventually 16 MB per slot. To achieve this, the focus is on improving data availability sampling, implementing data compression, and developing hybrid plasma/rollup designs, while also addressing challenges such ...

We're concerned about physical security at Cloudflare's edge locations due to questionable facilities and lack of transparency. Cloudflare's Enterprise offerings don't address our concerns and limit our control over data processing.

The author criticizes Matt Mullenweg's leadership of the WordPress project, accusing him of prioritizing Automattic's interests over the community's and disregarding the GPL license. The author suggests that the project's future is at risk and recommends diversifying skills and considering a hard fork with a more open governance structure.

A Chinese hacking group accessed US telecom systems, exploiting a backdoor created for law enforcement access. This highlights the flaw in creating special access for "good guys" that can be compromised by malicious actors.

Scientists discovered life thriving in extremely hostile environments near underwater vents. New research shows these animals are raising their young in the vents' fractured rocks.

Dr Fukushi Masaichi preserved 2,000 human tattooed skins for medical research, documenting 3,000 photographs of the tattoos. His son Dr Fukushi Katsunari continued his father’s work, preserving the legacy of irezumi tattoos as a cultural archive.

Fungi can show signs of intelligence by releasing spores, sharing information through a network, and making decisions. This study shows that fungi can recognize patterns and change their growth direction based on the shape of their surroundings.

The AI Mathematical Olympiad (AIMO) Progress Prize 2 competition aims to advance AI models' mathematical reasoning skills with a $10mn fund and 110 math problems in algebra, combinatorics, geometry, and number theory.

Airbnb's CEO Brian Chesky introduced a new management approach called "founder mode" where the CEO makes all decisions, but it's not new and has been criticized for being poor management. The approach has been linked to Airbnb's decline and other companies managed similarly have also seen negative results.

The user discussed liveness properties in TLA+ and how to specify them using fairness properties to prevent the elevator from getting stuck between floors or cycling between floors without visiting every floor. They explained how to use weak and strong fairness to achieve the desired liveness properties and provided an example of a more realistic elevator model in TLA+.

Quicky is a CLI tool for Next.js project deployment and management on remote servers. It integrates with GitHub, automates domain and SSL setup, and allows for environment variable management.

PyPI will stop supporting PGP signatures due to low verification rates and maintenance costs. Only 36% of unique keys could be meaningfully verified, making signature uploads no longer defensible.

The article discusses using automated binary analysis techniques to locate functions, variables, and structure offsets within games, rather than relying on traditional AOB scanning methods. These techniques, such as emulation, symbolic execution, data flow analysis, and string reference analysis, can be used to create more robust code scanning techniques and are particularly useful for ...

Meta fired 24 staff in Los Angeles for abusing meal credits to buy non-food items. The company has been cracking down on employee perks after a restructuring plan and recent job cuts.

The user optimized a Raspberry Pi 3 to boot from power-up to Linux shell in 1.75 seconds and to a Qt QML application in 2.82 seconds by modifying the boot process and optimizing the application. The optimizations included changing the start.elf file, removing the Device Tree, and using static compilation, stripping, and QML lazy loading to improve the boot time.

The Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be Jesus' burial cloth, is actually a 14th-century relic created to represent the physical suffering of Christ, with its authenticity disputed by historians and scientists. Despite attempts to invalidate radiocarbon dating, the evidence suggests the Shroud is a medieval forgery, not a genuine relic from the 1st century.

The user created a TypeScript library called brzozowski_ts to validate strings at compile-time using regular expressions, inspired by a comment on a RegEx discussion. The library uses Brzozowski derivatives to check if a string matches a regular expression, with a proof-of-concept and plans for further development.

Windows 10 users have a year left until official support ends, making it crucial to upgrade to Windows 11 for security. Many users are hesitant due to issues like cache problems, upselling, and concerns over AI implementation.

MotherDuck introduces the prompt() function for integrating small language models into SQL, simplifying text generation and extraction. The function supports OpenAI's gpt-4o-mini and gpt-4o models and returns structured output, enabling use cases like text summarization and data extraction.

Marco, a Honduran migrant, attempted to cross the US-Mexico border to work in the US construction industry, where he could earn higher wages and send money to his family. The US economy relies heavily on undocumented workers, particularly in construction, due to a shortage of skilled laborers.

Architects are showcasing innovative designs for educational spaces that prioritize child-centric principles, creativity, and interaction. These designs aim to create welcoming, flexible, and immersive environments that foster holistic growth and well-being in students.

This post introduces hypothesis testing for evaluating ML models and explains how it can be used to compare results from different experiments. A marimo app provides a simple example of hypothesis testing through dice throwing, making it easy to understand and use.

The user is setting up a WireGuard network in a Docker container to isolate a network from the rest of the system and access remote sites through WireGuard. They are using Docker Compose to manage containers and setting up GUI applications such as Remmina and Firefox to access remote servers through the isolated WireGuard network.

FCC Proposes Fine Against ESPN for Improper Transmissions of Emergency Alert System Tones

Ubuntu 22 to 24 transition on GitHub actions caused issues with clang 18's new undefined behavior sanitizer. The sanitizer's strict checks led to build errors in libcurl due to discrepancies in function pointer prototypes.

The user successfully implemented a 90.07% accurate MNIST inference engine on a Padauk 8-bit microcontroller with 1024 13-bit memory and 64 bytes of RAM. The engine was optimized by reducing layers, using 2-bit weights, and implementing the inference code in assembly to fit into 1 kilowords of memory.

Arithmetic is a world-modeling technology that allows us to understand and analyze complex problems. By keeping units and doing arithmetic, we can quickly identify the specifics of what's necessary to solve a problem, such as the cost and feasibility of a study or the size and weight of a block needed to store energy.

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The EU has decided not to classify Elon Musk's X as a "gatekeeper" under its Digital Markets Act due to its relatively small size. This decision spares X from stricter regulations and potential fines, but may still face scrutiny over other policies.

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PhotoDNA is a proprietary image-identification technology developed by Microsoft Research and Hany Farid to identify known images and video files. It creates unique hashes to represent each image, which can be used to identify other instances of those images.

FUTO is committed to breaking the cycle of abusive business models in software companies by prioritizing user privacy and transparency. The company achieves this through straightforward privacy policies, minimal data collection, and source code transparency, ensuring users' data is not used for profiling or exploitation.

I've been a colleague and friend of Phil Zimbardo for nearly 20 years, co-developing time perspective therapy to help people with post-traumatic stress. We published three books together, including The Time Cure, Living & Loving Better, and Seeing Through the Grief.

Python 3.13 outperformed Python 3.12 in various benchmark tests, with notable improvements in async_tree_eager_io_tg, async_tree_eager_io, and async_tree_io_tg. However, it showed slower performance in some tests, including coverage and regex_v8.

Goldman Sachs predicts EV battery prices could drop by almost 50% by 2026, reaching $80/kWh, potentially achieving cost parity with ICE vehicles. This drop is due to technological advances and lower green metal prices, driving a strong comeback in EV demand in 2026.

The author realized that reading many books without applying the knowledge was a form of avoidance, not improvement. They now focus on mastering one topic at a time, studying and implementing the information before moving on.

Clojure 1.12.0 introduces method values, allowing for cleaner syntax and resolving type ambiguity, but it also requires manual specification of method parameters to avoid ambiguity. The feature uses metadata to attach type information to method calls, providing a balance between explicit and inferential resolution.

Mahle and Valeo are teaming up to create a more efficient inductive electric motor called iBEE, eliminating rare earths and promising powerful performance. The iBEE system aims to cut carbon emissions by over 40% compared to a permanent-magnet e-motor.

Taxing billionaires is a crucial issue due to their immense wealth, which could be taxed to bring in significant revenue. Implementing a one-time tax on their wealth increase could reduce public debt and fund additional spending.

Marissa Mayer, a former Google engineer and Yahoo CEO, founded Sunshine, a startup using AI to empower family and social life. She views AI as life-giving and endlessly giving, like sunshine.

Redbox filed for bankruptcy after racking up close to a billion dollars in debt, with its assets being sold off to the highest bidders. Former employees are selling Redbox DVDs on eBay, including 46 copies of Orlando Bloom's movie, while retailers are pushing to remove the kiosks due to unpaid bills and safety risks.

Successful software companies rely on nurturing creative programmers, but this environment is incompatible with management and marketing types. When management takes control, it disrupts the creative process, leading to a decline in product quality and ultimately the company's demise.

Class methods in Ruby can be error-prone and less readable than instance methods. Alternatives like instance methods or library conventions can lead to more maintainable code, making class methods an escape hatch to use sparingly.

Matt Collins visits Kew Herbarium, where he sees a solanum flower collected by Charles Darwin and learns about the herbarium's vast collection of 7 million specimens. The herbarium is a resource for answering fundamental questions about plant identity, diversity, and conservation.

We are living through an epistemological crisis where disinformation, misinformation, and conspiracy theories spread rapidly. This crisis is not new, as lies, propaganda, and false theories have existed throughout human history.

Researchers improved image representation learning by combining autoencoders with diffusion, yielding better results than GAN-based methods. This approach, called "Sample what you can't compress", combines the strengths of both methods.

The author focuses on the process, not the results, to make unpleasant tasks more manageable. They use tricks like pairing an enjoyable activity with an unpleasant one to make it more bearable.

The user uses DocsGPT-cli to interact with DocsGPT and access up-to-date information on kubectl, avoiding hallucinations. They upload kubectl documentation, create an API key, and use it to chat with DocsGPT-cli for kubectl terminal commands.

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