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Crystal Ball Challenge: Knowing the Future Isn't Enough to Guarantee Riches

2024-12-15
Crystal Ball Challenge: Knowing the Future Isn't Enough to Guarantee Riches

Elm Partners conducted an experiment called the "Crystal Ball Challenge," where 118 finance students traded stocks and bonds using the Wall Street Journal's front page from one day in the future (with price data blacked out) over 15 days. The results were surprising: despite having future information, most participants didn't profit, averaging a mere 3.2% gain. Experienced traders, however, performed exceptionally well, averaging a 130% gain. The experiment demonstrated that even with 'future' knowledge, successful investing requires sensible position sizing. This research highlights the importance of decision-making under uncertainty and position sizing, offering valuable lessons for financial education.

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(elmwealth.com)
Startup investment strategy risk management market prediction

Notion: Your All-in-One Workspace

2025-01-26
Notion: Your All-in-One Workspace

Notion is a powerful all-in-one workspace that integrates notes, task management, wikis, and databases into a single platform. Its flexible, modular design allows users to customize their workflows, making it suitable for personal note-taking, team collaboration, and knowledge base management. Its clean interface and powerful customization options make it ideal for boosting productivity and managing knowledge.

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A Faster Quantum Fourier Transform Algorithm

2025-01-27
A Faster Quantum Fourier Transform Algorithm

Ronit Shah presents an improved algorithm for the Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT). Traditionally, approximate QFT requires Θ(n log n) gates, and exact QFT requires Θ(n²) gates. The new algorithm, leveraging a novel recursive partitioning of qubits, reduces the cost of approximate QFT to Θ(n(log log n)²) gates and exact QFT to Θ(n(log n)²) gates. This breakthrough promises significant efficiency gains in quantum computation.

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(arxiv.org)
Tech quantum fourier transform algorithm optimization

Schrödinger's Cat and Heisenberg's Cut: Quantum Mechanics' Paradox and Interpretations

2024-12-15
Schrödinger's Cat and Heisenberg's Cut: Quantum Mechanics' Paradox and Interpretations

This article delves into Schrödinger's cat thought experiment and its impact on popular culture. Schrödinger proposed this experiment to highlight the absurdity of superposition in quantum mechanics, not to suggest a cat is simultaneously alive and dead. The article further explains Heisenberg's cut—the boundary between quantum mechanics and classical physics—and how different interpretations (like the Copenhagen interpretation) address this cut. The author ultimately argues that quantum mechanics is a powerful probabilistic calculation framework, but its applicability to the macroscopic world requires further investigation.

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(jimbaggott.substack.com)
AI quantum mechanics Schrödinger's cat Heisenberg's cut

Popeye, Tintin, and Literary Classics Enter the Public Domain

2024-12-16
Popeye, Tintin, and Literary Classics Enter the Public Domain

In 2025, iconic comic characters Popeye and Tintin, along with numerous novels by literary giants like Faulkner and Hemingway, will enter the US public domain. This means these works can be freely used and adapted without permission or payment to copyright holders. The list includes Faulkner's 'The Sound and the Fury' and Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms,' among others whose copyrights expired after 95 years. Early Mickey Mouse cartoons also join the public domain, including those where Mickey speaks for the first time. This expansion of public domain works offers creators a wealth of material and invigorates cultural preservation.

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(apnews.com)
Misc public domain cultural heritage

Camembert Cheese May Improve Cognitive Decline

2024-12-27
Camembert Cheese May Improve Cognitive Decline

A new study has found that fatty acid amides present in Camembert cheese can improve cognitive decline in mice. Researchers used the object recognition test and found that orally administered Camembert cheese improved cognitive decline induced by a high-fat diet. Further investigation revealed that myristamide (MA), a fatty acid amide produced during Camembert cheese fermentation, improved cognitive decline, while its non-amidated counterpart, myristic acid, did not. This suggests that fatty acid amidation may be crucial for this physiological activity. Furthermore, MA increased the expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the hippocampus.

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(www.sciencedirect.com)
AI Camembert cheese cognitive decline fatty acid amides

Browser UX/UI Redesign: What AI Agents Need

2025-01-18
Browser UX/UI Redesign: What AI Agents Need

The rise of AI agents demands a redesign of browser UX/UI. This article explores current limitations, including inadequate information architecture, limited accessibility, and insufficient APIs. A redesigned browser should prioritize data accessibility, automation, streamlined interfaces, and security. Key principles for AI-friendly design include context-aware interfaces, low-latency interaction, and modular, customizable designs. Case studies (Brave, Microsoft Edge, Opera) showcase successful AI integration, highlighting the need for a user-centric approach in creating browsers that seamlessly accommodate both human and AI users.

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(fromzero.ghost.io)
Development UX/UI Design

“Bread and Circuses”: Reframing the Narrative of Roman Decline

2024-12-20
“Bread and Circuses”: Reframing the Narrative of Roman Decline

This article delves into the origins and meaning of the proverb “bread and circuses.” Tracing it back to Juvenal's satire, the author argues it's not a positive assessment of the Roman populace but a critique of their abdication of political responsibility in favor of basic needs and entertainment. The author challenges the common notion that “bread and circuses” caused Rome's downfall, attributing the decline to prolonged civil wars and instability, with the populace prioritizing peace above all else. Ultimately, the article reveals the true meaning of “bread and circuses”: a lament for the loss of political liberty and the constrained dreams of the Roman people.

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(acoup.blog)
Misc Roman history bread and circuses political decline

The Right to Root: Why You Should Own Your Devices

2025-01-13

This article argues for a "right to root" – the consumer's right to install and modify software on any computing device they own outright, regardless of form factor. The author contends that manufacturers' restrictions, justified by security concerns, are anti-consumer, stifle competition, and lead to shorter device lifespans and limited repair options. Using Apple devices as a prime example (comparing the open nature of MacBooks to the closed nature of iPads), the article discusses potential legal solutions and emphasizes that manufacturers should bear the burden of proving the necessity of hardware locks, except in cases like critical medical devices.

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(medhir.com)
Tech right to root consumer rights

Your Phone is Killing Your Sex Appeal

2025-01-29
Your Phone is Killing Your Sex Appeal

This article argues that smartphones are killing our ability to feel sexy. The author contends that the convenience of our phones eliminates desire, risk, and genuine connection. From endless scrolling to instant gratification, phones detach us from our bodies and immerse us in a digital world, preventing us from experiencing life's fleeting sensual moments. The author calls for us to disconnect, embrace uncertainty, and reconnect with the physical and emotional experiences that make life exciting.

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(catherineshannon.substack.com)
Misc smartphone addiction sexuality

Hospital Workers' Dexterity Assessed: Surgeons Show Superior Skill, But Also More Swearing

2024-12-28
Hospital Workers' Dexterity Assessed: Surgeons Show Superior Skill, But Also More Swearing

A prospective study of 254 hospital staff members found that surgeons significantly outperformed other roles in a manual dexterity test using a 'buzz wire' game, achieving an 84% success rate. However, surgeons also displayed a higher rate of swearing during the task. Nurses and non-clinical staff showed lower success rates but expressed audible frustration more frequently. The findings highlight the diverse skill sets across hospital roles and suggest incorporating similar dexterity games into future training to improve both skill and stress management.

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(www.bmj.com)
Tech manual dexterity hospital staff surgeons

Axiom.ai: Contract Web Designer Wanted – Join a Profitable YC Startup

2025-01-07
Axiom.ai: Contract Web Designer Wanted – Join a Profitable YC Startup

Profitable Y Combinator-backed startup Axiom.ai, creators of a no-code browser automation tool, is seeking a contract web designer with 3+ years of experience in B2B SaaS website design. The role involves enhancing existing Figma wireframes with brand polish, working closely with the Head of Design and co-founders. The team is remote-first, flexible, and prioritizes work-life balance. Axiom.ai is a leader in the rapidly growing no-code browser automation market, offering a unique opportunity to shape the brand identity of a successful company.

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(www.ycombinator.com)
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Mashups.io: A Modern Yahoo Pipes Replacement

2025-01-06
Mashups.io: A Modern Yahoo Pipes Replacement

Mashups.io is a powerful online data integration tool that builds upon the legacy of Yahoo Pipes with significant improvements. Users can easily mix, filter, and transform RSS feeds, CSV files, and JSON data to create custom data sources. The platform offers an intuitive visual interface, requiring no programming experience to build complex data workflows. Mashups.io offers free and paid plans to cater to various needs, and its real-time updates ensure data always remains current.

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(www.mashups.io)
Development data integration data processing

Genesis Engine: A Universal Physics Engine Ushering in a New Era for Robotics and AI

2024-12-22

Genesis is a powerful, general-purpose physics engine and robotics simulation platform capable of simulating a wide range of materials and physical phenomena at unprecedented speeds. It can even generate physically accurate videos and robotic policies from natural language descriptions. For example, it can simulate Sun Wukong performing somersaults, a samurai practicing boxing, and various robots completing complex tasks, with Sim2Real policy transfer capabilities. Currently open-source, the engine will gradually release its generative framework in the future, promising to revolutionize data generation for robotics and AI.

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(genesis-embodied-ai.github.io)
AI AI data generation

GitHub Open Source Project yadm: Yet Another Dotfiles Manager

2024-12-19
GitHub Open Source Project yadm: Yet Another Dotfiles Manager

yadm is a dotfiles manager based on Git, supporting system-specific alternative files or templated files and encrypting private data using tools like GnuPG and OpenSSL. It offers customizable initialization and hooks for executing custom scripts before and after any operation. Features include adding, committing, encrypting, and decrypting files, and creating OS-specific configurations. Project address: https://github.com/yadm-dev/yadm

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Development dotfiles management encryption

Kentucky Cops Kill Innocent Man in Wrong Raid

2025-01-06
Kentucky Cops Kill Innocent Man in Wrong Raid

Kentucky police fatally shot 63-year-old Douglas Harless during a botched raid on the wrong house. Despite dispatchers providing the correct address at least five times, officers raided 511 Vanzant Rd. instead of the intended 489 Vanzant Rd., resulting in Harless' death. Police claim Harless brandished a weapon, but the incident raises serious questions about police procedure, lack of pre-raid surveillance, and echoes the Breonna Taylor case, sparking renewed concerns about police brutality.

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(atlantablackstar.com)
Misc police brutality wrongful death police misconduct

Bioterrorism: Reclaiming Your Health in a Controlled System

2024-12-29
Bioterrorism: Reclaiming Your Health in a Controlled System

This talk challenges the modern healthcare system's criminalization of self-managed health. Historically, personal health autonomy was the norm; however, today, it requires mediation by state-authorized institutions. The speaker delves into the possibilities of self-compounding medicine and navigating legal risks. The presentation encourages self-medication, offering information on numerous uncommercialized yet self-manufacturable medications, thus challenging the monopoly of the traditional healthcare system.

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(media.ccc.de)
Misc bioterrorism self-medication health autonomy

Ken Thompson's Sneaky C Compiler Backdoor: A Reflection on Trust

2025-02-16

In his paper "Reflections on Trusting Trust," Ken Thompson, co-creator of UNIX, recounts a chilling tale of a self-replicating backdoor he inserted into the C compiler. This backdoor would automatically inject itself into the login program during compilation, granting him unauthorized access. The insidious part? Even removing the backdoor from the source code wouldn't stop the compiler from re-inserting it during compilation. This story serves as a stark reminder of the limitations of trusting software and the inherent difficulty in ensuring complete security, even with source code review.

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(aeb.win.tue.nl)
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GPUs Are So Fast, Why Do We Still Need CPUs?

2025-01-08
GPUs Are So Fast, Why Do We Still Need CPUs?

A viral video uses a painting duel to illustrate the performance difference between CPUs and GPUs: a CPU painstakingly draws a smiley face, while a GPU instantly renders the Mona Lisa. But this overlooks a crucial point: program types. CPUs excel at sequential instructions, while GPUs thrive on parallel processing. Most applications blend sequential and parallel code; for example, a program might be 50% parallelizable. CPUs are like head chefs, adept at handling unexpected events; GPUs are like line cooks, mastering repetitive tasks. Chips like Apple's M3 integrate both, combining CPU flexibility with GPU computing power.

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(codingstuff.substack.com)
Tech parallel processing

Mastering the Kalman Filter: A Comprehensive Tutorial

2025-01-18
Mastering the Kalman Filter: A Comprehensive Tutorial

This tutorial provides a thorough guide to the Kalman filter, a powerful tool for estimating and predicting system states. Starting with basic univariate filters, it progressively covers multivariate filters, non-linear filters, and practical implementation aspects like sensor fusion and outlier handling. The tutorial features numerous numerical examples and illustrations, along with Python and MATLAB code. Even without a strong math background, you can learn to design, simulate, and evaluate Kalman filter performance.

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(www.kalmanfilter.net)
Development Kalman Filter State Estimation

F-Droid Secures Major Funding to Ensure Long-Term Sustainability

2025-02-05
F-Droid Secures Major Funding to Ensure Long-Term Sustainability

F-Droid, a platform providing free and open-source Android apps, has received a $396,044 grant from the Open Technology Fund. This funding will address critical challenges to F-Droid's long-term sustainability, including code refactoring, improving legal strategies for handling government takedown requests, streamlining localization workflows, strengthening donation infrastructure, and enhancing hosting and infrastructure. This ensures F-Droid can continue delivering privacy-focused, open-source apps to users worldwide, even in areas with limited internet access.

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(f-droid.org)
Development Funding

LiveYou: Revolutionizing Learning with Real-time Interaction

2025-01-04

LiveYou is a groundbreaking online learning platform offering real-time interaction between students and instructors across any subject. Breaking free from traditional learning constraints, LiveYou provides a flexible, personalized learning experience. Users can select instructors and courses tailored to their needs, receiving personalized feedback and guidance through real-time interaction. This platform hints at a potential revolution in online education, offering learning unbound by time and location.

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(tma.live)
Misc online education real-time learning personalized learning

Twice Promoted to Staff Engineer: Lessons Learned

2025-01-01

The author shares their experience of being promoted to Staff Software Engineer twice in two years. The key to promotion wasn't technical prowess, but delivering value to the company by successfully completing high-priority projects aligned with company goals. The author emphasizes the importance of understanding company priorities, working on impactful projects, and building strong relationships with management and team members. A supportive manager is crucial. Key takeaways include focusing on high-impact projects the company prioritizes, not overemphasizing mentoring, and having a manager willing and able to champion the promotion process.

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(www.seangoedecke.com)
Development career advancement software engineer

Implementing LLaMA3 in 100 Lines of Pure Jax

2025-02-19

This post demonstrates implementing LLaMA3 from scratch using only 100 lines of pure Jax code. The author chose Jax for its clean aesthetics and powerful features like XLA acceleration, JIT compilation, and vmap vectorization. The article details each component of the model, including weight initialization, BPE tokenization, dynamic embeddings, rotary positional encoding, grouped query attention, and the forward pass. Unique Jax features like PRNG key management and JIT compilation are also explained. Finally, the author shows how to train the model on a Shakespeare dataset, providing the training loop code.

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(saurabhalone.com)
Development

Ultralytics Suffers Supply Chain Attack: A PyPI Security Incident Analysis

2024-12-14
Ultralytics Suffers Supply Chain Attack: A PyPI Security Incident Analysis

The Python project Ultralytics recently suffered a supply chain attack. Attackers compromised the project's GitHub Actions workflows and stole a PyPI API token, resulting in tainted versions 8.3.41, 8.3.42, 8.3.45, and 8.3.46. The attack didn't exploit a PyPI vulnerability but targeted the GitHub Actions cache. PyPI, leveraging Trusted Publishing and Sigstore transparency logs, quickly identified and removed the malicious software. The incident highlighted shortcomings in API token and GitHub environment configurations. The article stresses securing software forges and build/publish workflows, providing developers with security recommendations: using Trusted Publishers, locking dependencies, avoiding insecure patterns, and enabling multi-factor authentication.

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(blog.pypi.org)
Development supply chain attack PyPI security software security

Preferring Throwaway Code Over Design Docs: A More Efficient Software Development Approach

2024-12-15
Preferring Throwaway Code Over Design Docs: A More Efficient Software Development Approach

In software development, the traditional design document and incremental development model isn't always efficient. Author Doug Turnbull proposes a "coding binge" approach: quickly implement a prototype using a temporary PR, get early team feedback, refine the design, and then gradually break it down into deployable PRs. This method encourages rapid iteration, early problem detection, and considers code itself as the best documentation. While design documents still have value in specific situations, the author advocates for "showing, not telling," using code prototypes for rapid validation and iteration to achieve more efficient software development.

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(softwaredoug.com)
Development code prototype

German Regulator Orders Sam Altman's Worldcoin to Delete Biometric Data

2024-12-22
German Regulator Orders Sam Altman's Worldcoin to Delete Biometric Data

Germany's Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision (BayLDA) has ordered World, a biometric identification project co-founded by Sam Altman, to delete user data. The BayLDA found World's data collection practices violated the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), citing significant data protection risks. World uses a device called an 'Orb' to scan irises and faces for identification. The company has appealed the decision, seeking clarification on whether its privacy-enhancing technologies meet the EU's definition of anonymization.

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(www.euronews.com)
Tech

Obsidian Goes Freemium: Commercial License No Longer Required for Work Use

2025-02-20
Obsidian Goes Freemium: Commercial License No Longer Required for Work Use

Note-taking app Obsidian has eliminated its commercial license, making it free for all workplace use! Over 10,000 organizations, including giants like Amazon and Google, already utilize Obsidian. This change simplifies pricing and aligns with Obsidian's manifesto: "everyone should have the tools to think clearly and organize ideas effectively." While no longer mandatory, organizations can still purchase commercial licenses to support development and gain showcase opportunities on the Obsidian Enterprise page.

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(obsidian.md)
Development Note-taking Freemium
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