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Decoding the Myriad of AI Job Titles: A Cheat Sheet

2025-08-22

Decoding the Myriad of AI Job Titles: A Cheat Sheet

Navigating the ever-evolving landscape of AI job titles can be challenging. This cheat sheet provides a framework for understanding the often-confusing terminology. By breaking down titles like "Applied AI Engineer" and "AI Forward Deployed Engineer," the author reveals common components and explains the meaning of modifiers (e.g., "Applied," "Forward Deployed") and domains (e.g., "ML," "Gen AI"). The ambiguity surrounding the "Researcher" title, differing between academia and industry, is highlighted, suggesting clearer job descriptions are needed. This guide helps decipher AI roles and offers valuable insights for career exploration.

(www.dbreunig.com)

Development AI jobs AI terminology career guidance

Budapest's Hidden Wonder: A Massive Geothermal Cave System

2025-08-22

Budapest's Hidden Wonder: A Massive Geothermal Cave System

Beneath the bustling streets of Budapest, Hungary, lies a hidden marvel: a vast underwater cave system heated by geothermal springs. The Molnár János Cave, stretching for over 3.6 miles and plunging nearly 300 feet below the surface, is one of the world's largest active thermal water caves, accessible only to certified cave divers. Hidden behind an unassuming entrance, the cave reveals a breathtaking world of spacious chambers, gentle currents, and stunning mineral formations. Divers navigate through crystal-clear water, encountering remnants of the ancient Pannonian Sea and contributing to ongoing scientific research exploring the cave's secrets and its still-growing network of passages.

(www.cnn.com)

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OCaml Editor Gets a Major Boost: Powerful Refactoring Capabilities

2025-08-20

OCaml Editor Gets a Major Boost: Powerful Refactoring Capabilities

During my internship, I added powerful refactoring capabilities to OCaml's Merlin compiler, starting with an "extract toplevel expression" feature. This feature extracts selected expressions into new `let` bindings, supporting constants and expressions (including those using variables), and cleverly handling OCaml's purity issues. Implemented via the Language Server Protocol (LSP) with both code action and custom request interaction methods, the feature is in PRs and nearing merge. This marks a significant step towards an IntelliJ-like editor experience for OCaml, with plans for more refactoring tools in the future.

(tarides.com)

Development

Building the Simplest Semantic Layer with YAML and Python

2025-08-20

Building the Simplest Semantic Layer with YAML and Python

This article demonstrates building a minimal semantic layer using a YAML file and a Python script, querying 20 million NYC taxi records to illustrate its value. It clarifies when a semantic layer is truly beneficial and when it's overkill. The piece contrasts semantic layers with traditional databases, highlighting advantages in data governance, caching, secure access control, and LLM integration.

(motherduck.com)

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Zedless: A Privacy-Friendly, Local-First Fork of Zed

2025-08-21

Zedless: A Privacy-Friendly, Local-First Fork of Zed

Zedless is a work-in-progress fork of Zed designed to prioritize privacy and local-first principles. It removes reliance on proprietary cloud services, telemetry, and automatic crash reporting. It emphasizes bring-your-own-infrastructure, allowing users to configure providers for network services (with no defaults and disabled by default). Importantly, it avoids contributor license agreements and ensures proper licensing for all third-party dependencies.

(github.com)

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Running Common Lisp in the Browser: Progress on the Web Embeddable Common Lisp Project

2025-08-21

The Web Embeddable Common Lisp (WECL) project aims to bring the Common Lisp runtime environment into web browsers. The project currently allows running Common Lisp code via `` tags and provides JS-FFI for low-level interaction between Common Lisp and JavaScript. Furthermore, LIME/SLUG enables interaction with WECL from Emacs. However, the project is still in its early stages, with limitations such as insufficient threading support and room for performance optimization. Future plans include porting to WASI to address these issues.

(turtleware.eu)

Development

AI Revolutionizes Chip Design: Experts Weigh In

2025-08-20

AI Revolutionizes Chip Design: Experts Weigh In

Semiconductor engineering experts discussed how AI can be applied to chip design to maximize its value and impact the design process. They envision AI shifting chip design from broadly domain-specific to a more granular approach with domains and sub-domains, catering to the unique needs of different verticals (e.g., automotive or mission-critical applications). AI tools promise to automate processes, improve debug analysis, and ultimately lead to fully autonomous workflows (Level 5), potentially reducing reliance on junior engineers. However, challenges remain in ensuring AI reliability and making its decision-making process transparent and understandable to engineers, guaranteeing design quality and efficiency.

(semiengineering.com)

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Anime Catgirls and the Linux Kernel: A Cost Analysis of an Anti-Crawler Mechanism

2025-08-21

Recently, more websites are using Anubis, an anti-crawler system that uses a mining-like process to verify visitor identity, requiring users to perform SHA-256 operations to gain access. The author questions the effectiveness of Anubis because it's trivial for AI crawlers with powerful computing capabilities but inconvenient for ordinary users. Through calculations, the author finds that even with tens of thousands of websites deploying Anubis, the cost of cracking its verification mechanism is virtually zero. The author finally provides a simple C program to bypass Anubis's restrictions and points out a vulnerability in the Anubis system.

(lock.cmpxchg8b.com)

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Online Edition of Cyberpunk Anthology 'Mirrorshades' Launches

2025-08-20

A free online edition of Bruce Sterling's seminal cyberpunk anthology, *Mirrorshades*, has been released. The website, converted and posted by Rudy Rucker in September 2022 and updated in November 2023, features stories by prominent cyberpunk authors such as William Gibson, Tom Maddox, and Pat Cadigan. It showcases the early cyberpunk movement, highlighting its themes of high tech, low life, body invasion, mind invasion, and its unique reflection of 1980s culture and technological advancements.

(www.rudyrucker.com)

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Meta Accused of Inflating Ecommerce Ad Performance Metrics

2025-08-21

Meta Accused of Inflating Ecommerce Ad Performance Metrics

A whistleblower complaint alleges that Meta artificially inflated the return on ad spend (ROAS) for its Shops ads product by including shipping fees as revenue, subsidizing bids, and applying undisclosed discounts. The former employee, Samujjal Purkayastha, claims this was done to counteract the impact of Apple's 2021 privacy changes and boost adoption of the fledgling ecommerce ad product. Internal reviews allegedly revealed a 17-19% ROAS inflation due to the inclusion of shipping fees and taxes, a practice not followed by Meta's other ad products or competitors like Google. Purkayastha, who was subsequently terminated, brought these concerns to senior leadership. Meta denies the allegations and is actively defending the lawsuit.

(www.adweek.com)

Tech Ad Fraud

Ship Faster, Better: Parallel AI-Assisted Development with Claude Code

2025-08-20

Ship Faster, Better: Parallel AI-Assisted Development with Claude Code

Claude Code PM revolutionizes software development by combining spec-driven development, GitHub Issues, Git worktrees, and multiple parallel AI agents. It tackles common team collaboration woes: context switching, merge conflicts, requirements drift, and invisible progress. The system transforms PRDs into epics, epics into GitHub issues, and issues into production code with full traceability. Multiple Claude instances work concurrently, enabling true team collaboration and seamless human-AI handoffs. The result? Increased speed, fewer bugs, and a dramatically improved workflow.

(github.com)

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Google's Tiny Gemma 3 AI Model Runs on Your Phone

2025-08-15

Google's Tiny Gemma 3 AI Model Runs on Your Phone

Google announced a tiny version of its Gemma open-source model, Gemma 3 270M, boasting only 270 million parameters yet capable of running on smartphones and even web browsers. This contrasts sharply with larger models containing billions of parameters. Despite its small size, Gemma 3 270M demonstrates strong instruction-following capabilities and exceptional efficiency, consuming only 0.75% of a Pixel 9 Pro's battery after 25 conversations. This opens new possibilities for privacy-focused and low-latency local AI applications.

(arstechnica.com)

AI

The Fundamental Flaw of Programming Languages: The Data vs. Object Debate

2025-08-21

The Fundamental Flaw of Programming Languages: The Data vs. Object Debate

The author argues that existing programming languages have a fundamental flaw in how they handle data and objects. They point out that languages need to distinguish between data (e.g., the integer 1) and objects (entities with identity and mutability). Many languages fail to clearly differentiate between the two, leading to code bloat and design challenges. The author believes ideal languages should allow developers to explicitly choose data or object representations and provide appropriate support. The article uses Java and Haskell as examples to contrast object-oriented and functional languages' approaches to data and objects, analyzing Erlang's advantages in this regard. The conclusion advocates for clearer distinctions between data and objects in programming language design to improve efficiency and code quality.

(www.tedinski.com)

Development objects

The Delight of Visual Rhyme: How Patterns in Art Create Pleasure

2025-08-21

The Delight of Visual Rhyme: How Patterns in Art Create Pleasure

This article explores how the interplay of repetition and variation in art creates aesthetic pleasure. Using Gustave Caillebotte's "Paris Street; Rainy Day" as a prime example, the author analyzes the repetition and subtle variations of geometric shapes like triangles and rectangles, and how these patterns trigger visual satisfaction in the brain. The article further examines Lee Friedlander's photograph "Albuquerque, New Mexico," and works by Roni Horn and Ormond Gigli, arguing that the "same-but-different" repetition patterns in various art forms generate visual rhyme, leading to aesthetic enjoyment for the viewer.

(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

Design

C-Tubes: Revolutionizing 3D Design with Flat Materials

2025-08-22

C-Tubes: Revolutionizing 3D Design with Flat Materials

Researchers at EPFL's Geometric Computing Laboratory have developed C-Tubes, a groundbreaking method for creating strong, lightweight curved structures from flat strips of material. Their algorithm precisely bends and connects these strips, avoiding stretching or wrinkling, resulting in surprisingly stiff and durable tubes. This sustainable approach minimizes waste and opens possibilities in furniture, lighting, architecture, and beyond. C-Tubes promises to revolutionize design and construction, offering a more efficient and environmentally friendly approach to 3D object creation.

(actu.epfl.ch)

Design

LinkedIn's Toxic Mediocrity: A Content Quality Lament

2025-08-22

The author decries LinkedIn's rampant 'toxic mediocrity': inauthentic personal branding, overproduced empty posts, and meaningless advice disguised as stories. The author argues that LinkedIn's algorithm incentivizes this behavior, yet it ultimately provides no career benefit. Instead of chasing likes and comments, the author advocates for high-quality content creation, such as building a personal blog to share meaningful insights, as a more effective path to career advancement.

(www.elliotcsmith.com)

Misc

BusyBee: Blazing-Fast Background Job Processing for .NET

2025-08-20

BusyBee: Blazing-Fast Background Job Processing for .NET

BusyBee is a high-performance .NET background job processing library built on native channels. It offers a simple, configurable, and observable solution for handling background tasks, boasting built-in OpenTelemetry support and flexible queue management. Features include unbounded or bounded queues with various overflow strategies, configurable timeouts, parallel processing, comprehensive logging, and rich job context information. OpenTelemetry integration allows for robust monitoring and analysis. Error and timeout handling is also supported via custom handlers.

(github.com)

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Generating Pixel Art Space Invaders with Algorithms

2025-08-20

Generating Pixel Art Space Invaders with Algorithms

This interactive article details the creation of a Space Invader generator using JavaScript and vector graphics. The author walks through the process, from hand-drawn pixel art to vector polygons and finally pixelated images, explaining the algorithms and techniques involved. This includes using the OKLCH color space for color generation and Anime.js for animation. The article is highly interactive, allowing readers to generate their own Space Invaders.

(muffinman.io)

Development Vector Graphics

SVG `<path>` Demystified: Mastering the Art of Curve Drawing

2025-08-22

SVG `<path>` Demystified: Mastering the Art of Curve Drawing

This blog post provides a comprehensive guide to the SVG `` element, a powerful tool for creating intricate curved shapes. It breaks down the commands – M, L, Q, C, and the notoriously tricky A (arc) – explaining their parameters and functionalities with clear examples and insightful analogies. The author tackles the complexities of the arc command, clarifying its often-confusing aspects. The post also covers the Z command, relative commands, and practical tips like smoothing chained Bézier curves. A must-read for web developers of all levels.

(www.joshwcomeau.com)

Development curve drawing

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks: A More Scientific Neural Network?

2025-08-22

This blog post explores the philosophical differences between Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) and Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). While acknowledging their equal expressive power, the author argues that differences emerge in optimization, generalization, and interpretability. KANs align more with reductionism, while MLPs lean towards holism. The author suggests that KANs might be better suited for modeling scientific phenomena, given science's reliance on reductionist approaches, citing the example of compiling symbolic formulas. However, the importance of empirical experiments is stressed, acknowledging potential weaknesses of KANs in non-scientific tasks.

(kindxiaoming.github.io)

AI reductionism

FTC Sues LA Fitness Over Impossible-to-Cancel Memberships

2025-08-20

FTC Sues LA Fitness Over Impossible-to-Cancel Memberships

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing LA Fitness and other gym chains for allegedly making it nearly impossible for consumers to cancel memberships. The FTC's complaint highlights numerous obstacles, including restricted cancellation hours, requiring in-person cancellation with specific employees, and unclear instructions for mail cancellations. The FTC seeks a court order to stop these practices and provide refunds to affected consumers. This action underscores the FTC's commitment to protecting consumers from unfair business practices.

(www.ftc.gov)

Misc

Safely Using snprintf: Avoid Buffer Overflows

2025-08-19

This article highlights a lesser-known feature of the `snprintf` function: its ability to determine the required buffer size before formatting, thus preventing buffer overflows. By calling `snprintf` twice – once with `NULL` and 0 to get the size, and again with a properly allocated buffer – the need for manual buffer size calculations is eliminated. The author also recommends a lightweight header-only library for easier usage.

(bernsteinbear.com)

Development buffer overflow

SimpleIDE: Bringing Professional VB.NET Development to Linux

2025-08-21

SimpleIDE: Bringing Professional VB.NET Development to Linux

SimpleIDE is a lightweight, professional VB.NET IDE built with GTK# 3 on Linux using .NET 8.0. It provides a modern development environment for VB.NET projects, featuring multi-file tabbed editing, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, an integrated build system, debugging capabilities, and Claude AI assistance. SimpleIDE also boasts Git integration, customizable themes, and extensive keyboard shortcuts. This open-source project welcomes contributions.

(github.com)

Development

Handwriting: More Important Than You Think

2025-08-20

Handwriting: More Important Than You Think

In the digital age, handwriting seems to be fading into obsolescence. But new research suggests that handwriting is crucial for children's cognitive development and literacy. While technology has made typing mainstream, practicing handwriting enhances fine motor skills and helps students better understand and retain information. Although not all experts agree on the necessity of learning cursive, there's a general consensus that handwriting skills significantly benefit cognitive development; it's not just nostalgia, but about children's learning and development.

(www.wired.com)

Education cognitive development

The Fatal Flaw of "The Art of Multiprocessor Programming": Ignoring the futex

2025-08-19

This article critiques "The Art of Multiprocessor Programming," a well-regarded textbook, for its omission of the futex, a crucial modern concurrency technique. The author argues that the book's lack of coverage renders its content outdated and impractical. Futexes, enabling efficient mutex implementations, significantly improve concurrency performance and are widely used in operating systems like Linux, Windows, and macOS. The article details futex functionality and provides code examples demonstrating high-performance mutex construction using futexes, including spinlocks, non-recursive mutexes, and recursive mutexes. The author concludes that the book's failure to cover essential technologies like futexes makes it insufficient for modern concurrency programming needs.

(h4x0r.org)

Development concurrency programming multiprocessor programming

Daemonless Docker Compose Builds with Podman, BuildKit, and a Pinch of Bakah

2025-08-21

Due to Docker's incompatibility with nftables and a preference for a rootless, daemonless approach, the author uses Podman to build a Docker Compose project. The article explores the shortcomings of using both the official Docker Compose CLI and podman-compose, ultimately achieving builds under Podman using the Docker Compose CLI and BuildKit by enabling the Podman socket, creating a Docker context. To avoid a BuildKit daemon, the author developed Bakah, a tool that converts Compose projects into Bake JSON files and uses Buildah for building, resulting in a completely daemonless build process.

(emersion.fr)

Development

Graphene Capacitors Achieve Rapid, High-Depth Modulation of Terahertz Waves

2025-08-20

Graphene Capacitors Achieve Rapid, High-Depth Modulation of Terahertz Waves

Researchers at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory have developed a terahertz wave modulator using graphene as a tunable capacitor, achieving unprecedented dynamic range and speed. By embedding nanoscale graphene patches within metamaterial resonators, the device effectively controls terahertz waves, boasting a modulation depth exceeding 99.99% and a speed of 30 MHz. This breakthrough promises to advance technologies in terahertz communication, imaging, and sensing, paving the way for next-generation communication systems beyond 5G and 6G.

(phys.org)

Tech terahertz modulation

Non-Destructive Unrolling of Ancient Scroll via AI-Assisted X-ray Tomography

2025-08-19

Non-Destructive Unrolling of Ancient Scroll via AI-Assisted X-ray Tomography

German scientists used 3D X-ray tomography and AI to virtually 'unroll' a delicate antique Buddhist scroll crafted by Mongolian nomads, preserving its fragile state. The centuries-old scroll, tightly wound within silk pouches, revealed its contents—a Tibetan Buddhist mantra written in Sanskrit script—without physical manipulation. The analysis also unexpectedly uncovered metal particles in the ink. While labor-intensive, this technique offers invaluable opportunities for studying otherwise inaccessible artifacts.

(www.popsci.com)

Tech X-ray tomography

Elegant Dependency Injection in OCaml: An Object-Oriented Approach

2025-08-21

This article explores different approaches to dependency injection in OCaml and proposes a novel object-oriented solution. The author contrasts the shortcomings of existing methods using user-defined effects and modules as first-class values, arguing they are overly verbose and prone to errors in real-world applications. The new approach leverages OCaml's powerful object model, utilizing features like structural object types and row variables to achieve type-safe dependency injection with easy composition and extension. The article demonstrates the elegance and maintainability of this method through simple and more complex examples, comparing it to other approaches and ultimately recommending the object-oriented method for straightforward dependency injection scenarios.

(gr-im.github.io)

Development Object Model

JWST Discovers Tiny New Moon Orbiting Uranus

2025-08-22

JWST Discovers Tiny New Moon Orbiting Uranus

A team led by Dr. Maryame El Moutamid at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has discovered a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The tiny moon, designated S/2025 U 1, is approximately 6 miles (10 km) in diameter and located between the orbits of Ophelia and Bianca. This brings the total known Uranian moons to 29. The discovery highlights JWST's capabilities in detecting even small, previously unseen celestial bodies in our solar system.

(www.sciencedaily.com)

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