User created a ~/bin/ directory to store custom Unix commands and scripts, but faced collisions with system commands. They solved this by prefixing their custom commands with a comma, allowing for easy tab completion and avoiding future collisions.
Hoot is a Spritely project for running Scheme code on Wasm GC-capable web browsers, featuring a Scheme to Wasm compiler and a full-featured Wasm toolchain. Hoot is built on Guile and has no additional dependencies. The toolchain is self-contained and even features a Wasm interpreter for testing Hoot binaries without leaving the Guile REPL.
OpenCiv3 is an open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III with modern graphics and mod capabilities. It's currently in early pre-alpha state with a playable game but lacking many mechanics and late-game content.
Waymo introduces the Waymo World Model, a generative model for hyper-realistic autonomous driving simulation. It leverages Google DeepMind's Genie 3 to simulate rare events and enhance road safety.
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Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has become an important technical and storytelling tool to deploy the latest machine learning systems. In this book, we hope to give a gentle introduction to the core methods for people with some level of quantitative background. The book starts with the origins of RLHF -- both in recent literature and in a convergence of disparate fields of ...
Floe automatically rewrites spatial queries into set operations on H3 cells for dramatic speedup. This approach reduces complexity from quadratic to linear by using parallel hash joins on compact keys.
Jonathan from Datawrapper analyzed science fiction and fantasy novel titles over decades using the ISFDB database. Classic sci-fi keywords peaked in the 1950s-60s and declined, while fantasy keywords increased, especially after 2000, with Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings influencing the trend.
The author returns to their blog after 18 months, sharing previously unseen footage of Battlezone cabinets being built at Atari in 1980. The video showcases the production process, highlighting the engineering challenges and attention to detail that went into creating the iconic cabinet.
Satya Nadella's speech emphasizes delivering outsized success with allocated resources, being intellectually honest, and monitoring progress. Executives must manufacture success, not just manage decline, and provide clarity and energy to their teams.
Ruliology is a new science that studies the behavior of simple rules in the computational universe, exploring how they generate complexity and unexpected patterns. It's a fundamental science that provides raw material for making models, and its future is wide open for exploration and discovery.
User created BreezyBox, a mini-shell for ESP32-S3, with vterm, CWD tracking, and app installer. It's a lightweight alternative to full OS, ideal for hobby makers and those who love small, elegant tech.
Monty is a Python interpreter for safely running LLM generated code with fast startup times and runtime performance similar to CPython. It allows for type checking, resource tracking, and snapshotting of execution state.
Vecti is a collaborative UX design tool that allows teams to edit and review designs simultaneously with seamless asset sharing. It offers a free plan, pay-per-editor pricing, and features like high-performance rendering and intuitive interface.
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User created a tool to securely share files with friends using Shamir's Secret Sharing, allowing any 3 friends to recover the file together. The tool provides a simple, self-contained way for friends to collaborate in file recovery.
LiteBox is a sandboxing library OS that reduces attack surface by cutting down the interface to the host. It provides a flexible interface for various use-cases and platforms.
Heroku transitions to sustaining engineering model focusing on stability and security. Customers can continue using Heroku with no changes to pricing, billing, or functionality.
Vault Corporation developed Prolok, a copy-protection method that used damaged disk surfaces to prevent software piracy, but it was eventually bypassed by anti-Prolok utilities and led to a lawsuit that set a precedent in copyright case law. Vault's reputation was severely damaged after announcing Prolok Plus, a product that could potentially erase or infect users' computers, leading to the ...
Benoit Mandelbrot's work spanned various disciplines, unified by the concept of scaling. His contributions were structured by self-similarity, power laws, and fractals.
You are given a mathematical problem to solve in a dark alley at night by a hooded figure with a gun. The problem is to find the probability that the circumcircle of three points chosen independently and uniformly at random from the interior of a unit circle is entirely contained within the unit circle. You transform the problem into a new coordinate system and calculate the Jacobian ...
To work effectively with an AI system, document project requirements, specifications, and architecture in detail, including coding standards, best practices, and design patterns. Use standardized formats and visual aids to communicate complex structures and workflows, and develop efficient debug systems to simplify the process for the AI to identify and resolve code issues.
MirageOS uses Lwt for event-driven systems, but it has limitations such as requiring code adaptation and closure allocation, which can be addressed with the delimcc library implementing delimited continuations. Benchmarks show that delimcc is slower than Lwt for small callstacks, but its performance improves with larger callstacks, making code interoperability a more important consideration ...
Apple partnered with Taboola to serve ads in Apple News, but users are seeing scam ads that look like they were generated by AI. The ads are often from recently registered domains, raising concerns about Apple's and Taboola's ad vetting process.
Google announced the public preview of the Developer Knowledge API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for accessing official developer documentation. These tools provide a machine-readable gateway to Google's documentation, enabling AI assistants to stay current with the latest releases.
User is learning about neural networks from basics, focusing on visualization to understand how they work. They explain a simple use case of recognizing handwritten numbers using neural networks with input, processing, and output.