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The Columbian Orator: The Textbook That Shaped Lincoln and Douglass

2025-04-10
The Columbian Orator: The Textbook That Shaped Lincoln and Douglass

Published in 1797, *The Columbian Orator* profoundly impacted two giants of American history: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Compiled by Caleb Bingham, this rhetoric textbook featured selections ranging from ancient Greece to the British Parliament, its random arrangement designed to captivate students. It aided Douglass's rise as a powerful orator after escaping slavery and shaped Lincoln's early speaking style, becoming a staple in early American education. Once blacklisted in the South for its radical views on equality, *The Columbian Orator* continues to influence generations, remaining a classic for scholars and orators alike.

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(www.neh.gov)
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Don't Believe the Hype: Archival Storage is an Economic, Not Technical Problem

2025-03-17
Don't Believe the Hype: Archival Storage is an Economic, Not Technical Problem

This talk challenges the conventional wisdom around 'immortal' storage media solving the archival data problem. The author uses their personal backup strategy as an example, highlighting that backup and archiving are distinct problems; backups focus on recovery time, not media lifespan. Inexpensive DVD-Rs suffice for their backups. For archiving, the author argues that 'immortal' media have a small market size, long technology maturation cycles, and are inaccessible to consumers. Large cloud providers dominate archival storage, and their pricing strategies reflect economies of scale and lock-in. Finally, the author stresses the importance of retrieval strategies and cites the LOCKSS project, emphasizing the importance of redundant backups over reliance on a single expensive, durable medium.

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(blog.dshr.org)
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The 20th Century Novel: An Explosion of Form in an Exploding World

2025-04-25
The 20th Century Novel: An Explosion of Form in an Exploding World

This review explores Edwin Frank's *Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel*, which examines the evolution of the novel in a turbulent world. Frank argues that 20th-century novels broadened their subject matter, encompassing homosexuality, alcoholism, anti-heroes, and magical realism, among other themes absent in 19th-century novels. However, the review also suggests that the depth of 20th-century novels fails to surpass the classics of the 19th century, such as works by Dickens and Tolstoy. The piece concludes with a concern about the future of the novel and its readership, lamenting the potential loss of a literary form that so deeply engages with human nature and emotion.

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(thelampmagazine.com)
Misc Novel History 20th Century Literature

Turkish Doctoral Student Released After Arrest for Criticizing Israel

2025-05-11
Turkish Doctoral Student Released After Arrest for Criticizing Israel

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, was released from ICE custody after being detained for over six weeks. Her arrest stemmed from an op-ed she wrote criticizing her university's response to the Israel-Hamas war. A judge ruled her arrest was retaliatory and a violation of her free speech, ordering her immediate release. While released, she still faces potential deportation, sparking debate on the government's power to arrest and deport non-citizens deemed threats to US foreign policy.

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(www.npr.org)
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Jane Jacobs: Rebellious Prophet of Urban Planning

2025-04-17

This article delves into the life and work of Jane Jacobs, a legendary figure whose book, *The Death and Life of Great American Cities*, revolutionized urban planning. Known for her insightful observations of traditional urban fabric and sharp critiques of modern urban renewal, Jacobs championed mixed-use zoning, short blocks, and other principles, successfully thwarting destructive projects in New York. However, the article also highlights limitations in Jacobs's thinking, such as an overemphasis on street layouts while neglecting socioeconomic factors. Ultimately, the piece argues that understanding the complexities of urban development requires considering diverse perspectives, including the contributions of Jacobs, Mumford, and even Moses.

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(salmagundi.skidmore.edu)
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arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaboration

2025-06-13
arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaboration

arXivLabs is a framework for collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Individuals and organizations working with arXivLabs embrace our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners who adhere to them. Have an idea to improve the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

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Running Windows NT on a GameCube/Wii: A Wild Ride

2025-03-04
Running Windows NT on a GameCube/Wii: A Wild Ride

An incredible project is underway to port Windows NT 3.51 and later to the GameCube and Wii! This involves significant hacking, including custom ARC firmware, drivers, and a toolchain. The project supports GameCube, Wii, and Wii U (vWii only), detailing the installation process, including partitioning, driver installation, and potential pitfalls. While a challenging undertaking, it showcases the potential of game console hardware and developer ingenuity.

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(github.com)
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evolved.lua: A Fast and Flexible ECS Library for Lua

2025-05-21
evolved.lua: A Fast and Flexible ECS Library for Lua

evolved.lua is a fast and flexible Entity-Component-System (ECS) library for Lua. It uses an archetype-based approach for storing entities and components, employing a Structure of Arrays (SoA) for efficient iteration and processing. The library supports queries, deferred operations, batch operations, and features like an entity builder for streamlined complex system creation. Install via luarocks or clone the repository; documentation includes an overview, examples, and a cheat sheet.

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(github.com)
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Airbnb Shows Total Price Upfront: No More Hidden Fees

2025-04-22
Airbnb Shows Total Price Upfront: No More Hidden Fees

Airbnb is globally rolling out an update to its search function, displaying the total price including cleaning fees upfront. This move aims to increase transparency and avoid surprises at checkout. The change follows scrutiny from the European Union regarding its fee display practices, initially implemented in some locations in 2019. Later, a toggle was introduced in the US and hundreds of other countries to show the total stay cost. Nearly 17 million people have used this toggle since its 2022 launch. Now, users won't need to enable it; a banner reading "Prices include all fees" will appear at the top of search results.

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(www.theverge.com)
Misc Booking Fees

Who Wants Impartial News? A Cross-National Study Reveals the Complexities of Preference

2025-04-09
Who Wants Impartial News? A Cross-National Study Reveals the Complexities of Preference

A new study investigates preferences for impartial news across 40 countries. While most people express a preference for impartiality, certain groups lean towards news aligning with their views: politically engaged individuals with strong ideologies, young people relying heavily on social media, women, and those with lower socioeconomic status. The study also finds higher support for non-impartial news in countries with diverse news sources and lower-quality democracies. This challenges traditional notions of journalistic impartiality, suggesting that perceptions of 'impartiality' are deeply contextual, shaped by political, social, and economic environments.

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(www.niemanlab.org)
Tech news preference media impartiality cross-national study

Elastic Cloud Serverless: Unstable Throughput and Packet Loss on Azure AKS

2025-06-10
Elastic Cloud Serverless: Unstable Throughput and Packet Loss on Azure AKS

Elastic's SRE team observed unstable throughput and packet loss in Elastic Cloud Serverless running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Investigation revealed RX ring buffer overflows and kernel input queue saturation on SR-IOV interfaces as the root cause. Increasing RX buffer sizes and adjusting the netdev backlog significantly improved network stability. The experience highlights that even with high-performance hardware, OS-level network parameter tuning is crucial for optimal performance.

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(www.elastic.co)
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An Infinitely High Stack of Blocks? Impossible!

2025-08-20

This paper explores a counter-intuitive physics problem: the stability of an infinitely extending stack of blocks. By analyzing torque and center of mass, the author demonstrates that finite-height stacks of blocks can remain stable even when their tops extend far beyond the edge of a table—a result that defies intuition. However, when attempting to extrapolate this to an infinitely high stack, the author finds that regardless of the limiting procedure used, the end result is either no stack at all or a stack that doesn't lean. This reveals the subtleties of limit operations when dealing with infinity and the limitations of intuition.

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(sites.pitt.edu)
Tech mechanics limits

Emulating a Ukrainian Retro Computer: Bringing Childhood Games Back to Life

2025-09-22

The author revisited their childhood memories of the Fahivets-85 computer from Ukraine and decided to emulate it. They built a WebAssembly-based emulator that currently runs a simple game called "Rain". The development involved implementing the CPU instruction set, simulating the IO controller, keyboard, and display. AI assistance was used to generate code, and the emulator's functionality was gradually refined until the game successfully ran. While some issues remain, this is an impressive accomplishment.

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(rmazur.io)
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GPT Cache Optimization: A Real-World Case Study

2025-04-20
GPT Cache Optimization: A Real-World Case Study

A South Korean user encountered persistent PDF generation failures, token overflow loops, and cache redundancy issues while running multi-session GPT simulations. Instead of giving up, they meticulously measured, analyzed, and implemented an optimization solution involving system behavior logs, trigger-response circuits, and quantifiable metrics. The optimization significantly reduced token usage, implemented a memory-like routine via custom trigger-circuit logic, and automated the deletion of failed system responses. This report, based on real user session data, was referenced in official correspondence with OpenAI.

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(github.com)
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Swift: One Language to Rule Them All, From Embedded Devices to the Cloud

2025-06-04
Swift: One Language to Rule Them All, From Embedded Devices to the Cloud

Swift's unique combination of approachability, speed, safety, and interoperability with C and C++ makes it the only language that scales from embedded devices and kernels to apps and cloud infrastructure. Its concise, readable syntax empowers developers of all levels, supporting object-oriented, functional, and generic programming paradigms. The language's progressive disclosure allows beginners to quickly learn the basics while experienced developers can leverage advanced features. A simple example demonstrates how a full command-line tool can be implemented in just a few lines of code.

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(swift.org)
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Claude Composer: A CLI Wrapper for Enhanced Claude Code Automation

2025-06-05
Claude Composer: A CLI Wrapper for Enhanced Claude Code Automation

Claude Composer is a command-line interface (CLI) wrapper designed to enhance Claude Code's user experience and automation capabilities. It automates permission dialogs, provides system notifications, and allows for custom rulesets and toolsets to fine-tune Claude Code's behavior. With flexible configuration, users can precisely control the level of automation, ranging from maximum security to maximum automation, supporting both project-specific and global configurations.

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(github.com)
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Global Address Database: Countries, Zip Codes, and More

2025-07-06
Global Address Database: Countries, Zip Codes, and More

This dataset encompasses a vast amount of global address information, including US states, Canadian provinces, and nearly every country in the world. It also lists zip codes, providing a granular breakdown for geographical location data. This comprehensive database has applications in address verification, geolocation, logistics tracking, and much more.

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(www.postregister.com)
Misc geographical data address database global location

Amazon's Secret Vega TV OS is Coming Soon

2025-04-18
Amazon's Secret Vega TV OS is Coming Soon

Amazon is secretly pushing forward with its new Vega TV operating system, planning to release its first non-Android streaming device this year. Vega, a Linux-based OS, may eventually replace Amazon's Fire OS. Despite previous delays to a Vega streaming stick and an update to its Android-based TV OS, leaks and sources confirm that the Vega project is progressing, with the first device imminent.

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(www.lowpass.cc)
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Universe's Demise Prediction Debunked: A Scientific Mishap Based on Crude Approximation

2025-05-17
Universe's Demise Prediction Debunked: A Scientific Mishap Based on Crude Approximation

A recent paper claimed that any massive object emits Hawking radiation, leading to the universe ending sooner than expected. This conclusion sparked widespread attention but was quickly challenged. Critics pointed out that the paper used a crude approximation, whose results are proven false even in simpler models. In fact, the physics community rigorously proved 50 years ago that the gravitational field of a static object does not create particle-antiparticle pairs. This incident highlights the importance of information verification in science communication and the need for critical thinking when interpreting scientific findings.

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(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
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Busy Beaver Number BB(6) Shockingly Surpasses All Expectations

2025-06-29
Busy Beaver Number BB(6) Shockingly Surpasses All Expectations

Recent breakthroughs in Busy Beaverology have drastically increased the lower bound of BB(6), the 6th Busy Beaver number. Initially estimated to be greater than a number with 15 levels of exponents of 10, it's now known to be far larger, exceeding even 2^^^^9 (2 tetrated to 2 tetrated to 2 tetrated to 9). This astonishing jump suggests that BB(n) may become independent of the ZFC axioms of set theory much sooner than previously thought, prompting a reevaluation of the function's growth and posing new challenges for computational theory.

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(scottaaronson.blog)
Misc

Keon: A Human-Readable Serialization Format Inspired by Rust

2025-01-15
Keon: A Human-Readable Serialization Format Inspired by Rust

Keon is a human-readable object notation (ORN) and serialization format syntactically similar to Rust and fully supporting Serde's data model. It boasts a cleaner syntax, allowing comments and trailing commas, and enabling a near-Rust-like writing experience. Keon distinguishes between tuples and lists, supports arbitrary types as dictionary keys, and offers Base64, Base32, and Base16 support. The goal is a more intuitive, readable, and writable serialization format.

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(github.com)
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Facebook's Autocracy: A Whistleblower's Tale

2025-03-17
Facebook's Autocracy: A Whistleblower's Tale

Sarah Wynn-Williams' new book, "Careless People," exposes the inner workings of Facebook, detailing its failures in Myanmar, its ethically dubious attempts to enter the Chinese market, and Mark Zuckerberg's unchecked power. Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook policy executive, describes a company hampered by weak content moderation, slow responses to hate speech, and a leadership that prioritizes business interests over social responsibility. She alleges that Zuckerberg deliberately misled Congress and portrays Facebook as a personal autocracy, raising concerns about its long-term impact on global information ecosystems.

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(web.archive.org)
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Gnosis Mystic: Empowering AI to Control Your Python Functions in Real-Time

2025-06-25
Gnosis Mystic: Empowering AI to Control Your Python Functions in Real-Time

Gnosis Mystic is a powerful tool that gives AI assistants direct access and control over your Python functions through runtime hijacking and intelligent analysis. With minimal decorators, Claude can inspect, optimize, and control your code in real-time. It solves the problem of AI assistants being blind to your running code, lacking access to runtime behavior and state, and enables real-time function monitoring, safe experimentation, runtime control, intelligent analysis, and live debugging, significantly boosting development efficiency and code security.

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(github.com)
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Microsoft's Aurora: AI Weather Forecasting Model Outperforms Traditional Methods

2025-05-24
Microsoft's Aurora: AI Weather Forecasting Model Outperforms Traditional Methods

Microsoft has unveiled Aurora, a new AI weather forecasting model trained on massive datasets from satellites, radar, and weather stations. Outperforming traditional methods in speed and accuracy, Aurora successfully predicted Typhoon Doksuri's landfall and the 2022 Iraq sandstorm, even beating the National Hurricane Center in predicting 2022-2023 tropical cyclone tracks. While training requires significant computing power, Aurora's runtime efficiency is remarkably high, generating forecasts within seconds. A simplified version powers hourly forecasts in Microsoft's MSN Weather app, and the source code and model weights are publicly available.

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(techcrunch.com)
AI AI weather forecasting extreme weather prediction

Marvel & DC Crossover: Deadpool vs. Batman

2025-05-27
Marvel & DC Crossover: Deadpool vs. Batman

After over two decades, Marvel and DC Comics are teaming up for an epic crossover event! This September and November, Deadpool and Batman will collide in separate one-shots. Marvel's *Deadpool/Batman*, written by Zeb Wells and illustrated by Greg Capullo, will see Deadpool take on a job in Gotham City, leading to a clash with the Dark Knight. DC's *Batman/Deadpool*, written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Dan Mora, promises another exciting chapter. This collaboration brings together top creative talent from both companies, promising a thrilling comic book experience. Even better, another crossover is planned for 2026!

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(ew.com)
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RMCP: Revolutionizing Statistical Analysis with Natural Language

2025-09-20
RMCP: Revolutionizing Statistical Analysis with Natural Language

RMCP is a powerful Model Context Protocol (MCP) server offering 40+ statistical analysis tools covering regression, time series analysis, machine learning, and more. Users interact via natural language with AI assistants to seamlessly perform complex statistical modeling and data science tasks. RMCP supports various data import/export formats, includes intelligent error recovery, and simplifies the analysis workflow significantly. Its built-in natural language formula builder converts natural language descriptions into R formulas, providing visualizations. From business analysts and economists to data scientists, RMCP drastically improves efficiency.

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(github.com)
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Tracing Firefox Memory Allocation with eBPF

2025-05-31

The author used eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) to trace memory allocation in SpiderMonkey, Firefox's JavaScript engine. The initial goal was to pinpoint the source locations of frequent Rooted object creations for memory management optimization. Using the bpftrace tool and user probes (uprobes), the author successfully traced the `registerWithRootLists` function and utilized the ustack function to get call stack information. Ultimately, the author generated reports and filed several bug reports, optimizing memory allocation and reducing tens of millions of calls to `registerWithRootLists`.

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(www.mgaudet.ca)
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AI Debugging Falls Short: Microsoft Study Reveals Limits of Code Generation Models

2025-04-11
AI Debugging Falls Short: Microsoft Study Reveals Limits of Code Generation Models

Microsoft research reveals that even models from top AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic struggle to debug software bugs as effectively as experienced developers. A study testing nine models showed that even with debugging tools, these models failed to successfully complete more than half of the debugging tasks in the SWE-bench Lite benchmark. The study points to data scarcity as a major factor; the models lack sufficient training data representing human debugging processes. While AI-assisted programming tools show promise, this research highlights the limitations of AI in coding, underscoring that humans remain essential.

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(techcrunch.com)
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Terminology 1.14.0 Released: New Translations, Improvements, and Fixes

2025-04-21

Terminology 1.14.0 is out! This release adds Hungarian and Slovak translations, improves translations for multiple languages, and fixes several bugs, including a translucent background on startup and wheel event issues. It also adds the ability to report or set selections via escape codes, and configuration for double-width emoji support. Internal code improvements and a new colorscheme are also included.

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(www.enlightenment.org)
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