The user has built various AI projects, but most are useless and difficult to maintain due to excessive use of AI tools. They believe AI promotes a "thermonuclear ADHD amplifier" effect, leading to wasted time and shallow work.
Cloudflare Turnstile is looping in WebKitGTK browsers due to WebGL fingerprinting for tracking. Temporarily allowing fingerprinting fixes the issue, but it's blocked in WebKit for privacy reasons.
Creatine supplementation has been found to raise phosphocreatine levels in neurons and provide an ATP buffer that helps cognitively demanding tasks run at full capacity. Studies have shown that creatine can slow cognitive decline in early Alzheimer's patients by 30%, improve cognitive function in healthy adults under stress, and even emerge as a potential adjunct for depression treatment.
PrismML released Bonsai Image 4B, a compact image-generation model for local hardware. It reduces memory footprint by 6.4x to 8.3x, enabling on-device image generation on devices like iPhones and Macs.
The dav2d project is a fast decoder for the new AV2 codec, developed by VideoLAN community members to provide a small, fast, portable, and correct decoder for real applications. It builds on the success of AV1 and aims to improve compression efficiency, with reported gains of up to 25% compared to AV1.
The author's workflow has shifted significantly with AI, allowing them to go from idea to prototype 4x faster. This increased velocity has expanded their work's surface area, enabling them to take on new projects and explore ideas previously deemed too time-consuming.
Restartable sequences or rseq for short is the best kept secret at the frontier of system programming. if you want to get rid of both the mutex and atomics, you can use restarted sequence calls instead. google and mozilla are the two companies you should thank most for helping enable me to do what i do. the kernel has a syscall that can be used to reschedule threads
Chibil is a C compiler rewritten in C# targeting .NET IL, generating COFF OBJ files compatible with MSVC. It can be linked with C++/CLI and has a minimal C runtime library for runnable main.
The website specification outlines essential features for decent websites, linking to source standards like WHATWG and WCAG. It's open for contributions and available as an MCP server and Agent Skill.
The writer visited several City roof terraces, finding some to be pointless or closed, but The Garden at 120 and The Lookout stood out. The Garden at 120 offers a 360° panorama with long-distance views, while The Lookout provides better views than Horizon 22.
A new pill called daraxonrasib has been found to double survival time in patients with pancreatic cancer, with fewer side effects compared to chemotherapy. The pill targets a protein called Kras that fuels nearly all pancreatic cancers, offering new hope for patients with this often deadly disease.
Agentic AI tools have changed software development by allowing non-experts to produce correct outputs without understanding the underlying code. The most valuable professionals now have both technical skills and deep domain knowledge to verify the correctness of generated code.
S.E.C.R.E.T. is a group of collectors creating a standardized security envelope pattern collection. They celebrate the craft of secrecy and the mystery of security envelope patterns.
We introduce FROST, a novel remote side-channel attack that uses SSD contention measurements from within the browser to fingerprint user activity on a system. FROST achieves an F1 score of 88.95% for top-50 closed-world website fingerprinting and 95.83% for application fingerprinting.
Shantell Sans is a variable font created by Shantell Martin and Stephen Nixon, inspired by her handwriting and Comic Sans. It offers a wide range of styles, from friendly to high-energy, and supports over 380 languages.
Roto is a statically typed, JIT-compiled scripting language for Rust applications, offering faster performance than other scripting languages. It has been updated with new features, bug fixes, and improved integration with Rust, making it more complete and user-friendly.
AV2 is a next-generation video coding specification from AOMedia offering superior compression efficiency and support for AR/VR, split-screen delivery, and wider visual quality range. It provides a comprehensive specification document and reference software for implementation.
CodeMirror 6 editor features inline live preview, WYSIWYG tables, and syntax highlighting. It includes interactive checkboxes and cursor-scoped link unfolding for a seamless editing experience.
The user upgraded their gaming PC with a secondhand datacenter GPU, a Tesla V100 SXM2 16GB, which they purchased for £150 and paired with an adapter for £50, achieving 32GB of VRAM and competitive local LLM performance. The setup, which cost £200, allows the user to run a 27 billion parameter model at 32 tokens per second, rivaling cloud models from Anthropic.
David Haber recently sat down with Apollo’s Marc Rowan on the a16z Podcast—check out their conversation here. - AD The question I keep getting from founders and prospective employees: is there any AI application layer left to build, or are OpenAI and Anthropic going to kill everything? There’s a particular flavor of AI psychosis behind the question. Some people have concluded the only durable ...
The document discusses lattice-based cryptography and the security of quantum-safe cryptographic schemes. It explains the theory of lattices, defines fundamental computational lattice problems, and describes the LLL and BKZ lattice basis reduction algorithms. The document also discusses the security of the Kyber key encapsulation mechanism and the Dilithium digital signature scheme, which are ...
A person found a rock resembling a seashell in the Alghat desert, Saudi Arabia, and attempted to identify the shell's shape using a dataset of 7894 species and 59244 images. They used Principal Component Analysis to reduce the shape's dimensions from 256 to 2.
Companies are using AI agents to have natural conversations with customers at scale, but building effective voice agents is a hard task. telli helps businesses build, deploy, and improve AI voice agents to drive real outcomes.
This is a terminal app for macOS that paces resonance breathing for vagal tone training. It uses a single file with no dependencies and enforces safety constraints to prevent adverse effects.
Researchers at Ink & Switch are developing PlayBook, a dynamic notebook with visualizable computation, and exploring new tools like Portemine and DrawDeck. They're also working on user input systems and gesture recognition for a natural writing experience.
By subscribing, you agree Substack's Terms of Use, and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy. This is a continuation of the discussion in How I’m thinking about the value of LLMs. I’m arguing elsewhere that LLMs will never be geniuses. This is not part 2 of The Ontology Argument. In How I’m thinking I said I wasn’t ready to take a stance on LLM value creation. ...
The article presents differential geometry pictorially for physics students, focusing on tools for understanding Maxwell's equations. It aims to represent Maxwell's equations as 3 pictures for intuitive understanding.