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Rivulet: A Flowing Strand Programming Language

2025-03-27
Rivulet: A Flowing Strand Programming Language

Rivulet is a novel programming language that uses semigraphic characters representing 'strands' to write code. Programs consist of tightly packed code blocks called glyphs, each containing several types of strands that execute together. Rivulet avoids traditional control flow mechanisms, instead using a rollback mechanism to implement conditional branching and loops. Data is organized as lists, and commands operate on single cells or entire lists. While its syntax may seem complex at first glance, it's actually quite easy to learn.

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Bhutan's Talking Stamps: A Surprising Investment Opportunity

2025-05-21
Bhutan's Talking Stamps: A Surprising Investment Opportunity

Issued in 1972, Bhutan's miniature vinyl record stamps, playable on a standard turntable, were initially dismissed as novelties. These seven stamps, featuring Bhutanese folk songs and history, have recently surged in value due to their rediscovery by vinyl collectors. The stamps' creator, American adventurer Burt Todd, revolutionized Bhutan's philatelic program with innovative designs, transforming what were once cheap trinkets into a highly sought-after collector's item.

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(thevinylfactory.com)
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POSH is Hiring an Energy Analysis & Modeling Engineer

2025-02-21
POSH is Hiring an Energy Analysis & Modeling Engineer

POSH, a company revolutionizing the battery energy storage industry with innovative solutions for commercial and industrial applications, is seeking an Energy Analysis & Modeling Engineer. This role involves developing, analyzing, and optimizing energy storage models to improve system performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. Ideal candidates will possess a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Energy Systems, or a related field, along with 2+ years of experience in energy modeling or battery storage system analysis. Proficiency in Python and other simulation software is essential. Responsibilities include developing energy models for battery storage and hybrid systems, performing technical and economic analysis, collaborating with hardware and software teams, and working with sales to generate proposals. POSH offers a competitive salary, benefits, and equity participation.

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(www.ycombinator.com)
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Goodbye Tedious Workflows: My tmux-Powered Dev Setup

2025-06-23

This post details a highly efficient development workflow built around tmux. The author uses clever tmux configuration and scripting to directly open files on a remote server, seamlessly jump between panes, and switch effortlessly between files—all without local clones. The post walks through the configuration, including regular expressions and scripts, and compares alternatives. The motivation stemmed from frustrations with VSCode's lag and keybinding conflicts. While complex to set up, the author argues the efficiency gains outweigh the cost.

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Overreliance on AI May Hinder Student Learning: A University of Tartu Study

2025-09-07
Overreliance on AI May Hinder Student Learning: A University of Tartu Study

A University of Tartu study reveals that excessive use of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, may negatively impact student academic performance. Researchers surveyed 231 computer science students, finding a correlation between frequent AI tool use for solving programming problems and lower grades. The study emphasizes that AI should be a learning aid, not a replacement for learning itself. Students need guidance to use AI tools effectively, preventing overreliance that could hinder the development of critical skills.

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MindsDB Hiring Office Manager in San Francisco

2025-02-01

Fast-growing AI startup MindsDB is hiring an Office Manager for its San Francisco office. The ideal candidate will have experience in office management, event coordination, and creating a safe and efficient workspace. Responsibilities include facilities management, vendor relations, event planning, and security. The company offers competitive compensation and benefits, including flexible hours, health insurance, and unlimited PTO.

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OpenAI's Study Mode: A Sugar-Coated Approach to AI Education?

2025-08-02
OpenAI's Study Mode: A Sugar-Coated Approach to AI Education?

OpenAI's newly released "Study Mode" aims to assist learning by guiding users through interactive questioning and positive feedback, rather than providing direct answers. The author questions the effectiveness of this approach, arguing it may excessively cater to students, leading to reliance on AI instead of independent thought. Through experiments with various AI models, the author demonstrates that "Study Mode" encourages excessive praise and user-pleasing behavior, potentially negatively impacting learning and posing risks to vulnerable students. While acknowledging some benefits, the author emphasizes the potential of AI as a research tool over its over-reliance as an educational tool.

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Silicon Valley's New Legislators: How Tech Oligarchs Reshape the Public Sphere

2025-04-09
Silicon Valley's New Legislators: How Tech Oligarchs Reshape the Public Sphere

This article explores how Silicon Valley's tech elite have transformed from mere technologists into powerful forces shaping political and social change. Leveraging immense wealth, technological authority, and media platforms, they translate personal ideologies into policy, reshaping the public sphere. The article argues that these 'oligarch-intellectuals' not only interpret technological trends but also dictate policy, pushing their political agendas through investment and propaganda. Their actions challenge traditional elite models and expose their internal contradictions and potential risks.

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(www.theideasletter.org)
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Apple's iPhone 17 Air Goes Global eSIM-Only: The Future is Here

2025-09-11
Apple's iPhone 17 Air Goes Global eSIM-Only: The Future is Here

Apple's announcement that the iPhone 17 Air will be globally available without physical SIM cards marks a significant step towards the widespread adoption of eSIM technology. This digital alternative offers greater convenience, security, and environmental friendliness, simplifying network switching and reducing plastic waste. While initial setup requires internet access, the remote activation and flexible switching capabilities of eSIMs will benefit users, especially travelers. This move is likely to encourage other manufacturers to follow suit, positioning eSIMs as the dominant technology in the coming decade, transforming both user experience and the industry.

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Why Adult Friendships Are Harder Than Ever

2024-12-24

This article explores the challenges of forming genuine friendships as an adult. As we age, our lives become busier, filled with work and family responsibilities, leaving less time and energy for nurturing deep connections. Changing social dynamics and the complexities of adult relationships further complicate the search for like-minded companions. The article suggests that proactively investing time and effort, and actively engaging in social activities, are key to overcoming these obstacles and building lasting adult friendships.

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(www.theestablished.com)
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US Hit by Worst Flu Season in 15 Years

2025-02-10
US Hit by Worst Flu Season in 15 Years

The US is experiencing its most intense winter virus season in 15 years, with a surge in flu activity leading to school closures and hospital overcrowding. CDC data reveals that the percentage of doctor visits for flu-like illnesses surpasses any peak since 2009-2010. While COVID-19 and RSV appear to be declining, the flu has already caused an estimated 24 million illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations, and 13,000 deaths, including at least 57 children. 43 states report high or very high flu activity, with the South, Southwest, and West particularly hard hit. Despite recommendations for flu vaccination, adult coverage is only 44%, and even lower for children at 45%. The government hasn't yet released effectiveness data for this season's flu vaccine.

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depthviz: Turn Your Dive Logs into Stunning Depth Overlay Videos

2025-02-06
depthviz: Turn Your Dive Logs into Stunning Depth Overlay Videos

depthviz is an open-source tool that transforms your dive logs (supporting Apnealizer, Garmin, Suunto, and more) into smooth, real-time depth display videos. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and offers extensive customization options like fonts, colors, and decimal places. Easily integrate the generated videos with CapCut, Premiere Pro, and other editors. depthviz intelligently smooths depth data, creating a natural display even with missing log entries. Whether analyzing dive technique or sharing your underwater adventures, depthviz is a powerful tool.

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(github.com)
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The AI Hype in Science: A Physicist's Disillusionment

2025-05-20
The AI Hype in Science: A Physicist's Disillusionment

Nick McGreivy, a Princeton PhD physicist, shares his experience applying AI to physics research. Initially optimistic about AI's potential to accelerate research, he found AI methods significantly underperformed their advertised capabilities. Many papers exaggerated AI's advantages, with issues like data leakage prevalent. He argues that the rapid rise of AI in science stems more from benefits to scientists (higher salaries, prestige) than genuine improvements to research efficiency. He calls for more rigorous AI evaluation and cautions against optimistic biases in AI research.

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(www.understandingai.org)
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Shifting Self-Identity: From Nerd to Fitness Enthusiast

2025-09-12
Shifting Self-Identity: From Nerd to Fitness Enthusiast

This article recounts a personal journey of belief transformation, from youthful disdain for fitness to the eventual adoption of a consistent workout routine. The author argues that self-identity dictates everything, but it's not set in stone. Through persistent action, even small wins, self-perception can gradually change, ultimately leading to self-transformation. The piece cites quotes from Seth Godin and James Clear, emphasizing the importance of action: "People like us do things like this" and "Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become."

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(www.fredrivett.com)
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Constant-Time Sliding Window Aggregation: A Refined FIFO

2025-08-20

This post presents a refined FIFO data structure enabling constant-time sliding window aggregation. Traditional approaches using dual-stack structures prove inefficient. The author introduces a novel method, cleverly managing 'ingestion' and 'excretion' lists with their running and suffix products, to achieve aggregation over arbitrary monoids with worst-case constant-time complexity. This avoids the extensive copying and redundancy of prior methods, offering significant practical advantages. Python code is included for implementation.

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(pvk.ca)
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Chicago's Lead Pipe Crisis: A Story of Environmental Racism

2025-09-03
Chicago's Lead Pipe Crisis: A Story of Environmental Racism

Chicago's lead water pipe problem disproportionately affects Black and Latino communities, with 89-92% of service lines in these neighborhoods requiring replacement, far exceeding other areas. This crisis, highlighted by a new interactive map, reveals the devastating impact of environmental racism and decades of disinvestment. Residents face not only lead contamination but also air and soil pollution. While the city plans to replace the pipes, the timeline stretches to 2076, highlighting a critical need for accelerated action and equitable solutions.

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AI Writes Code, AI Reviews It? Is That Silly?

2025-05-01
AI Writes Code, AI Reviews It? Is That Silly?

Daksh, co-founder of Greptile, discovered that an AI code generation tool, Devin, was submitting more pull requests than any human engineer. This raises the intriguing question: should AI-generated code be reviewed by AI itself? While LLMs are stateless, each call is independent, this doesn't mean AI perfectly reviews its own code. AI-generated code, while boosting efficiency, may introduce bugs humans struggle to find. Research shows AI is more effective than humans at finding certain types of bugs, although its accuracy still needs improvement. Ultimately, the article argues that while not perfect, AI code review is more effective than humans at finding specific bug types introduced by AI itself.

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(www.greptile.com)
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LastPass Breach Fuels Massive Crypto Heists: FBI Confirms Link

2025-03-08

A 2022 LastPass breach, where hackers stole user master passwords, has led to a string of six- and seven-figure cryptocurrency heists. The FBI and Secret Service have confirmed a connection, stating that stolen passwords were used to access victims' crypto wallets. A $150 million theft from Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen resulted in $24 million being recovered. Security researchers found that victims were often older LastPass users with weak master passwords and had stored their crypto seed phrases in LastPass's "Secure Notes". LastPass denies direct responsibility, but experts criticize the company's response and urge users to improve password security practices.

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(krebsonsecurity.com)
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PalmPad: Typing on Your Hand with a Single RGB Camera

2025-05-22
PalmPad: Typing on Your Hand with a Single RGB Camera

A team from Tsinghua University has developed Palmpad, a novel mixed reality interaction technology. Using only an RGB camera and an Arduino, Palmpad projects a virtual keyboard onto the user's palm. The user types by tapping virtual keys with their index finger from the opposite hand. The system overcomes previous limitations of unreliable fingertip tracking and poor touch detection through sophisticated video processing and a CNN for accurate fingertip positioning. An Arduino UNO detects finger-palm contact using impedance changes, achieving 97% touch recognition accuracy. Palmpad offers a convenient and innovative approach to mixed reality interaction.

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(blog.arduino.cc)
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AI Coding: The Coming Flood of Cheap, Low-Quality Software

2025-08-01

The author argues that AI's impact on programming will mirror fast fashion's effect on the clothing industry: a flood of cheap, low-quality products and excessive waste. While acknowledging AI's usefulness in prototyping and debugging, the author highlights the inherent flaws in LLM-generated code, including lack of optimization, security vulnerabilities, and inability to handle complexity. This will lead to a market saturated with low-quality software, comparable to the environmental problems caused by fast fashion. The author calls for standardized code quality metrics and professional certifications to mitigate the potential disaster, emphasizing that despite AI assistance, developers remain ultimately accountable.

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(pdelboca.me)
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NASA Astronauts Debunk 'Abandoned' Claims: We Were Prepared, Never Felt Stranded

2025-02-15
NASA Astronauts Debunk 'Abandoned' Claims: We Were Prepared, Never Felt Stranded

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore refuted claims by Trump and Musk that they were abandoned at the International Space Station. They emphasized that the mission was a test flight, they were always prepared for potential delays, and never felt stranded or abandoned. Despite propulsion issues and leaks on the Starliner spacecraft delaying their return, NASA had already planned to return them via SpaceX's Crew-9 mission. Their return is now expected around March 12th, slightly ahead of schedule.

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(www.cnn.com)
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OpenAI's Stargate: AI Enters the Industrial Age

2025-05-23
OpenAI's Stargate: AI Enters the Industrial Age

OpenAI's Stargate project isn't just software; it's a $500 billion initiative building the infrastructure for an AI industrial revolution. The first site in Abilene, Texas, spans 900 acres, consumes 1.2 gigawatts of power, and cost $12 billion to construct, aiming to produce, distribute, and monopolize AI compute at a planetary scale. This involves controlling the entire AI supply chain from energy production and chip acquisition to model design, distribution, and monetization. This marks a shift from cloud computing to an energy-intensive industrial model, potentially reshaping capital markets, labor structures, and national security policy.

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(davefriedman.substack.com)
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Nvidia Unveils Cosmos WFMs: Physics-Aware Open World Models

2025-01-09
Nvidia Unveils Cosmos WFMs: Physics-Aware Open World Models

At CES 2025, Nvidia launched Cosmos World Foundation Models (Cosmos WFMs), a family of AI world models capable of predicting and generating physics-aware videos. These models, categorized as Nano, Super, and Ultra based on size and performance (4 to 14 billion parameters), are designed for robotics, autonomous driving, and more. While Nvidia calls them 'open,' they aren't fully open-source, and their training data, reportedly including unauthorized YouTube videos, is controversial. Despite this, several companies have already adopted Cosmos WFMs for various applications.

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(techcrunch.com)
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Revolutionizing Kernel Programming with eBPF: A Hands-on Tutorial

2025-08-31
Revolutionizing Kernel Programming with eBPF: A Hands-on Tutorial

eBPF is a revolutionary technology that lets you run sandboxed programs within the Linux kernel without modifying the kernel source code. This tutorial uses a simple firewall example to demonstrate how to monitor and block traffic from a specific IP address using eBPF. The guide includes Python and C code examples, showing how to leverage eBPF's efficiency and capabilities for network monitoring and security. Learn how to build a packet counter and firewall using eBPF today!

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(journal.hexmos.com)
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Beyond Docker: Deploying a Python Project to GCP with Wheel Files

2025-06-11
Beyond Docker: Deploying a Python Project to GCP with Wheel Files

To access machine hardware and GPU drivers directly, the author eschewed Docker in favor of building runnable Python wheel files and deploying them to GCP. The article details the process of building wheel files with Poetry, creating a GCP Artifact Registry, configuring Poetry to publish to the registry, and downloading and running the wheel file on a VM instance. Challenges like version control and dependency management are addressed. This offers a Docker-less deployment solution for Python projects, particularly useful when direct hardware access is required.

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(sergiolema.dev)
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A Deep Dive into Static Single Assignment (SSA) Compiler Optimizations

2025-02-11
A Deep Dive into Static Single Assignment (SSA) Compiler Optimizations

This article chronicles the decades-long evolution of Static Single Assignment (SSA) compiler optimization techniques. From the early papers on code motion and global value numbering, through Cytron's seminal work on minimizing phi instructions, to Brandis and Mössenböck's single-pass generation approach, and Click and Paleczny's Sea of Nodes IR, the article traces several key papers and discusses their strengths and weaknesses. It also touches upon Appel's work on the relationship between functional programming and SSA, Aycock and Horspool's iterative phi node removal, and more recent approaches based on abstract interpretation. The article concludes with a list of further papers and resources, providing a more comprehensive perspective for readers interested in learning more about SSA.

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(bernsteinbear.com)
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Bash Has Hashmaps?!

2025-01-11

This blog post reveals a hidden gem in bash scripting: built-in support for hashmaps (associative arrays)! The author, while working on a project involving GPU instance management, discovered this feature and shares how to use it. The post details how to declare, assign values to, read, iterate over, and delete key-value pairs within a bash hashmap, showcasing two declaration methods: dynamic addition and pre-defined key-value pairs. This is a valuable technique for efficiently handling key-value data within bash scripts.

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(xeiaso.net)
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FCC Employees Targeted in Robocall Scam

2025-02-05
FCC Employees Targeted in Robocall Scam

On February 6-7, 2024, over a dozen FCC staff and their families received robocalls from scammers posing as FCC employees. The calls used a synthesized voice claiming to be from an FCC “Fraud Prevention Team,” demanding $1,000 in Google gift cards to avoid jail time. The FCC clarified it has no such team and is unsure how the scammers obtained employee contact information. The FCC proposed a $4,492,500 fine against Telnyx, the voice service provider, for allegedly violating KYC rules. Telnyx denies the allegations and plans to contest the fine.

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(arstechnica.com)
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SDCC 2025: A Bonanza of Movie, TV, and Game Reveals

2025-07-27
SDCC 2025: A Bonanza of Movie, TV, and Game Reveals

San Diego Comic-Con 2025, while lacking a Marvel presence, was still a massive spectacle! Sneak peeks at films like *Tron: Ares* and *Predator: Badlands*, along with bustling toy booths, set the stage. But the real excitement lay in the plethora of TV show, movie, and game announcements. Highlights included first looks at *Avatar: The Last Airbender*'s sequel *Avatar: Seven Havens*, a *Peacemaker* season 2 trailer featuring interdimensional portals and a vengeful Rick Flagg Sr., and release dates for *Star Trek: Starfleet Academy*, *Coyote vs. Acme*, *Five Nights at Freddy's 2*, *Percy Jackson and the Olympians* season 2, *Twisted Metal* season 2, and more. Gamers were also treated to trailers for *Invincible VS*. The Con proved a haven for fans of all things sci-fi, fantasy, and action.

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(www.cnet.com)
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