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The Invisible Tsunami Kids: A Forgotten Tragedy

2025-01-02
The Invisible Tsunami Kids: A Forgotten Tragedy

The 2004 Sumatra-Andaman tsunami claimed nearly 230,000 lives, many of them children. This article details the plight of the surviving children: orphaned, suffering from PTSD, and at risk of trafficking. While international organizations worked to help, the future of many remains uncertain. The author calls for attention to the plight of these children and encourages readers to help through volunteering or donations.

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(robertvanwey.substack.com)
Misc tsunami disaster relief

Fortran vs. Python: An Unexpected Finding in Teaching Scientific Computing to Engineering Students

2025-09-24
Fortran vs. Python: An Unexpected Finding in Teaching Scientific Computing to Engineering Students

A professor who has taught an introductory scientific computing class for over 10 years using Python, questions whether Python is the optimal choice for beginners, especially in numerical linear algebra. He argues that a strongly-typed language like Fortran might offer a better learning experience. Python's flexibility, while convenient, leads to common student errors: confusion with the numpy library, indentation errors, and off-by-one errors stemming from 0-based indexing. In contrast, Fortran's strong typing and explicit loop structures help students better understand algorithms and reduce errors. The article uses the Jacobi method and QR decomposition as examples, comparing Python and Fortran implementations and arguing for Fortran's potential advantages in teaching, despite Python's broader ecosystem and versatility.

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(loiseaujc.github.io)
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Efficient Indexing in Deep Learning Frameworks: A Comparison of Torch, TensorFlow, and Einops

2025-09-24

This article compares different approaches to efficient array indexing in PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Einops. By contrasting `torch.gather`, `torch.take_along_dim`, `torch.index_select`, `torch.take`, `tf.gather`, `tf.gather_nd`, and Einops's `einx.get_at`, it showcases their flexibility and efficiency differences in handling different dimensions and batched indexing, providing developers with a reference for choosing the optimal solution.

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(einx.readthedocs.io)
Development array indexing

72-Year-Old Historian Seeks Reader Support for Independent Blog

2025-02-24

Robert Zimmerman, a 72-year-old historian, is launching a fundraising drive for his blog, Behind the Black. Known for his independent analysis, he accurately predicted the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Rejecting advertising and sponsorships, he relies solely on reader donations. Readers can contribute via Zelle, Patreon, PayPal, or check; larger donations receive signed copies of his books.

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(behindtheblack.com)
Misc independent blog

OpenAI's Nonprofit Status Under Fire: Balancing AGI Safety and Commercial Interests

2025-06-01
OpenAI's Nonprofit Status Under Fire: Balancing AGI Safety and Commercial Interests

OpenAI, a $300 billion AI company, is embroiled in controversy over the conflict between its nonprofit status and commercial ambitions. Initially dedicated to safe and beneficial AI research, the explosive success of ChatGPT transformed it into a commercial powerhouse, raising concerns about AI safety. OpenAI's plan to become a for-profit company to attract investment sparked widespread opposition from Elon Musk, Nobel laureates, and multiple state attorneys general, forcing a revised plan to retain nonprofit control. However, its commercial development continues, with collaborations with governments and corporations to expand AI applications. This event highlights the conflict between AI safety and commercial interests, and the urgent need for AI regulation.

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(www.theatlantic.com)
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The AI Backlash: A Necessary Correction for Practical Implementation

2024-12-24
The AI Backlash: A Necessary Correction for Practical Implementation

InfoWorld reports a growing developer frustration with the hype surrounding AI, emphasizing the need for practical and easily integrated tools. The article uses the RamaLama project as an example, showcasing how container technology simplifies AI model deployment and usage, and highlights the importance of smaller, more easily understood AI models. Developers want AI to seamlessly integrate into their workflows, not exist as a separate entity. This "AI backlash" presents an opportunity for effective AI implementation.

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(www.infoworld.com)
Development AI applications container technology model miniaturization

Amazing News Aggregator App: Highly Customizable & Personalized

2025-04-16
Amazing News Aggregator App: Highly Customizable & Personalized

This news aggregator app is exactly what I was looking for. With a great UI, endless feed customization options, concise summaries, and a political leaning scale, it delivers exactly what it promises. I spent about 20 minutes fine-tuning my preferences, exploring the hundreds (if not thousands) of options, and now my feed perfectly curates the latest news I care about. One suggestion for the developers: add an author/outlet following feature with a dedicated "Following" page, potentially integrated with an "Explore" section for discovering new sources. This could be easily implemented within the bottom navigation, allowing users to swipe between these two views. Otherwise, the app is incredible!

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(apps.apple.com)
Tech news aggregator

Pope Leo XIV Rejects AI Papal Avatar: Tech Development Needs Human Connection

2025-09-24
Pope Leo XIV Rejects AI Papal Avatar: Tech Development Needs Human Connection

Pope Leo XIV has rejected a proposal to create an AI-powered virtual version of himself, which would have allowed Catholics worldwide to have virtual audiences. The Pope expressed concerns that an AI representation would be inappropriate, and voiced worries about AI's potential to cause job displacement and exacerbate social inequality. He stressed that technological advancement must be balanced with faith and humanity, preventing technology from becoming a cold, empty shell that neglects human values. This decision echoes the concerns previously raised by Pope Francis, highlighting the importance of upholding ethics and social fairness in the face of technological progress.

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(www.theregister.com)
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The Subtle Art of Children's Non-Fiction Illustration: Balancing Detail and Delight

2025-09-24
The Subtle Art of Children's Non-Fiction Illustration: Balancing Detail and Delight

This article explores the artistry of illustration in children's non-fiction books. Using "Road Builders" as an example, the author praises illustrator Simms Taback's style, which features rich vehicle details without sacrificing childlike charm, avoiding overly realistic stiffness. This style perfectly caters to children's curiosity about machinery, making complex equipment approachable. The author argues that instead of using fictional cartoon characters to attract children, presenting realistic yet interesting details showcasing the charm of machinery is more respectful of children's intellectual level and more likely to spark their interest.

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(alyssarosenberg.substack.com)
Design children's books

Does TikTok Cause 'Brain Rot'? A Study's Controversial Findings and Limitations

2025-03-02
Does TikTok Cause 'Brain Rot'? A Study's Controversial Findings and Limitations

A recent study from Tianjin Normal University in China claims that excessive short-video consumption (like TikTok) alters brain structure, leading to so-called 'brain rot'. The research found increased gray matter in specific brain regions and enhanced brain activity synchronization among heavy users. However, the study has significant limitations: its cross-sectional design prevents establishing causality; its whole-brain search for differences increases the risk of false positives; and its interpretation of brain activity synchronization is controversial. Experts point out that 'short-video addiction' isn't a formal clinical diagnosis, and the findings can't be simply interpreted as TikTok causing brain damage. While excessive consumption of frivolous videos can be problematic, focusing on healthier media habits is more productive than worrying about brain changes.

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(www.sciencefocus.com)
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Pahole: A Powerful Tool for Inspecting C/C++ Data Structure Memory Layouts

2025-04-19

This blog post introduces pahole, a powerful tool for analyzing the memory layout of C/C++ data structures, including padding and alignment details. By reading the DWARF debugging information generated by the compiler, pahole visually displays how data structures are arranged in memory and points out "holes" inserted by the compiler to meet memory alignment requirements. This is crucial for optimizing code cache utilization and reducing cache line false sharing. The post also demonstrates how to install pahole and how to use its command-line options to analyze struct sizes, adjust member ordering to optimize memory layout, and explore memory layout differences under different cache line sizes.

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(pramodkumbhar.com)
Development memory layout

The Humble Safety Pin: A History From Homer to Punk Rock

2025-05-14

This article traces the evolution of the safety pin from antiquity to the modern day. From jeweled pins mentioned in Homer's Odyssey and the ancient Roman fibula, to Walter Hunt's 1849 invention of the modern safety pin – a design that has remained virtually unchanged for centuries. The safety pin's journey continues, becoming a punk rock symbol, a crucial tool in sports, and an everyday necessity worldwide. Its simple elegance and cultural significance make it more than just a utilitarian object; in some cultures, it's even believed to ward off evil or bring good luck.

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(museumofeverydaylife.org)
Misc safety pin

Elon Musk's Tesla FSD Claim: An Accident Waiting to Happen?

2025-04-28
Elon Musk's Tesla FSD Claim: An Accident Waiting to Happen?

Elon Musk boasts that Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) can go 10,000 miles without intervention, roughly once a year. However, this isn't positive; it suggests his robotaxis are unsafe. Average Tesla owners report needing intervention every 500 miles, far less than Musk's claim. Even accepting Musk's figures, his robotaxis would still have at least one accident annually! Human drivers average an accident every 100,000 miles, while Waymo boasts a rate of one accident per 2.3 MILLION miles. Furthermore, how is a passenger supposed to prevent a crash in a robotaxi?

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(substack.com)
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BYD Unveils 1000kW Supercharging Platform: 5-Minute Charge for 400km Range

2025-03-18
BYD Unveils 1000kW Supercharging Platform: 5-Minute Charge for 400km Range

BYD launched a new super-fast charging platform for electric vehicles (EVs), boasting charging speeds comparable to refueling gasoline cars. They also announced plans to build a nationwide charging network across China. The platform achieves peak charging speeds of 1000 kW, enabling a 5-minute charge to deliver a 400km range, significantly surpassing Tesla's 500kW superchargers. BYD aims to build over 4,000 ultra-fast charging stations to address range anxiety, marking the industry's first achievement of megawatt charging power. This new architecture will initially power the Han L sedan and Tang L SUV.

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(finance.yahoo.com)
Tech Fast Charging

Wasmer Edge: 6x Faster Python on WebAssembly at the Edge

2025-09-25
Wasmer Edge: 6x Faster Python on WebAssembly at the Edge

Wasmer Edge Beta now boasts full Python support, powered by WebAssembly and WASIX. This release is significantly faster than previous iterations, even surpassing the py2wasm project. Now you can run frameworks like FastAPI, Streamlit, Django, and LangChain directly on Wasmer and Wasmer Edge. This was achieved by adding dynamic linking, libffi support, improving sockets and threading, and releasing a custom Python Package Index with many popular native libraries. Compared to Cloudflare Workers and AWS Lambda, Wasmer Edge offers superior speed, compatibility, and affordability, making it ideal for AI workloads and APIs at the edge.

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(wasmer.io)
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DIY Nissan LEAF Battery Widget: A Clever Hack Using GitHub Actions and IFTTT

2025-04-14
DIY Nissan LEAF Battery Widget: A Clever Hack Using GitHub Actions and IFTTT

Frustrated by the lack of a battery status widget in Nissan's official app and the unavailability of third-party alternatives, the author devised a clever workaround. By ingeniously combining GitHub Actions, IFTTT, and Apple Shortcuts, they created a free solution. A scheduled GitHub Actions workflow retrieves data, sends an email, and IFTTT transforms the email content into an iPhone home screen widget displaying the LEAF's battery level. While not perfect, this successful hack avoids the cost of additional hardware or subscriptions, showcasing the author's creativity and technical prowess.

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(kevintechnology.com)
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Deep Dive into BSC Cryptocurrency Scams

2024-12-24

During the 2021 cryptocurrency bull market, the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) was flooded with various scams. The author analyzes multiple cases, exposing common tactics employed by scammers, including: creating smart contracts that make tokens unsaleable; manipulating approval functions to fail transactions or approve for minuscule amounts; setting adjustable transaction fees, eventually to 100%; falsely claiming ownership renunciation or liquidity locking; and using deceptive marketing. These scams preyed on the lack of knowledge among many new investors, successfully defrauding significant funds. The article concludes with a warning against seeking financial advice from social media platforms like Reddit.

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(nyuu.page)
Tech BSC scams smart contract vulnerabilities

Beyond Booleans: Improving Software Design

2025-08-28

This article argues against the overuse of booleans in software design. The author contends that many seemingly appropriate boolean values can be replaced with richer data types like datetimes and enums. Using booleans often leads to information loss and makes code harder to maintain. The author suggests carefully analyzing the underlying data meaning behind booleans and choosing more appropriate types, such as using datetimes to record event times and enums to represent statuses or types. Booleans are only justifiable as temporary variables for intermediate calculation results. This approach improves software design quality, prevents potential bugs, and enhances code maintainability and readability.

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(ntietz.com)
Development data types booleans

From Arc to Dia: The Browser Company's AI Pivot

2025-05-27
From Arc to Dia: The Browser Company's AI Pivot

The Browser Company announces its pivot from its browser project, Arc, to a new AI-powered browser, Dia. The article explains that despite Arc's loyal user base, it fell short of expectations due to growth limitations, hesitation in embracing AI, and communication issues. The author admits Dia isn't a simple iteration of Arc but rather a response to the future of browsers—AI will fundamentally reshape how we interact with computers, and traditional browsers will be replaced by AI browsers. Dia aims to address Arc's shortcomings, offering a simpler, faster, and more secure experience. The article also touches on Arc's future, stating it won't be open-sourced immediately but will continue to be maintained.

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(browsercompany.substack.com)
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Air Force Tests Subscale Blended-Wing Body Jet, Poised for 2027 Debut

2025-01-06
Air Force Tests Subscale Blended-Wing Body Jet, Poised for 2027 Debut

The US Air Force is flight-testing a subscale model of its Blended-Wing Body (BWB) demonstrator, using the data to refine the full-scale aircraft's control software and configuration. The subscale model, nicknamed "Pathfinder," boasts a 23-foot wingspan—one-eighth the size of the planned full-scale aircraft. The BWB design promises a 30 percent reduction in fuel burn and potential applications in future Air Force and commercial airlifters and cargo aircraft. The full-scale aircraft is slated for a September 2027 first flight, informing analysis for the Next-Generation Air Refueling System (NGAS) and other future mobility concepts.

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(www.airandspaceforces.com)
Tech Blended Wing Body Flight Test Fuel Efficiency

Barely Running Wi-Fi Station Mode on a Resource-Constrained MCU with Thingy:91 X

2025-02-21
Barely Running Wi-Fi Station Mode on a Resource-Constrained MCU with Thingy:91 X

This post details the author's experience running Wi-Fi station mode on the resource-constrained Nordic Semiconductor nRF9151 MCU using the Thingy:91 X. The nRF9151's limited 256KB of RAM presented a significant challenge due to the Wi-Fi driver's resource demands. By disabling nrf_modem_lib and cleverly using overlay files and devicetree configuration, Wi-Fi connection was achieved, albeit at a whopping 99.11% RAM utilization. The post meticulously analyzes encountered issues, including driver resource consumption, patch loading methods, and socket creation, providing solutions and valuable insights for embedded developers.

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(danielmangum.com)
Development

OnePlus Unveils AI-Powered Plus Key and Mind Space

2025-05-27
OnePlus Unveils AI-Powered Plus Key and Mind Space

OnePlus has announced its AI strategy, centered around the new Plus Key and AI Plus Mind. The Plus Key, replacing the Alert Slider, is a customizable physical button launching the camera, translator, or recorder, and importantly, activating AI Plus Mind. This feature captures and extracts information from on-screen text and images (schedules, event details, etc.), saving it to a searchable Mind Space. The Plus Key and AI Plus Mind debut on the OnePlus 13s in Asia, rolling out to other OnePlus 13 series devices via software update. Future OnePlus phones will include the Plus Key. Additionally, OnePlus is developing AI VoiceScribe, AI Translation, AI Search, and AI Best Face 2.0.

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(www.engadget.com)
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Octocode: AI-Powered Code Indexer and Knowledge Graph Builder

2025-06-07
Octocode: AI-Powered Code Indexer and Knowledge Graph Builder

Octocode is a powerful code indexer and semantic search engine that builds intelligent knowledge graphs of your codebase. It combines advanced AI capabilities with a local-first design, providing deep code understanding, relationship mapping, and intelligent assistance for developers. Supporting numerous programming languages, Octocode offers natural language queries, multi-modal search, intelligent ranking, and symbol expansion. A built-in memory system stores insights, decisions, and context, seamlessly integrating with AI assistants.

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(github.com)
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Einsum: Beyond Matrix Multiplication

2025-01-06

Einsum is more than just matrix multiplication; it's an efficient implementation of Einstein summation convention. It uses concise notation to represent complex tensor operations, avoiding nested loops and improving code readability and performance. This article delves into the mechanics of Einsum, demonstrating its advantages in handling high-dimensional tensor operations such as matrix multiplication, transposition, and trace calculations with illustrative examples. For developers needing high-performance tensor computations, Einsum is an invaluable tool.

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(einsum.joelburget.com)
Development Tensor operations High-performance computing

Improved Father Ted Tape Dispenser: Smaller, Better, Easier to Build

2025-06-01
Improved Father Ted Tape Dispenser: Smaller, Better, Easier to Build

The author has improved their Father Ted tape dispenser from a year ago. The new version is smaller, sounds better, and looks more professional. It uses a 3D-printed case, an IR sensor, and an ESP8266 microcontroller, costing less than €10 and is much easier to build. The author has shared the 3D printable models and instructions, encouraging others to build their own. They also suggest donating to a charity supporting trans people, in response to negative comments from the creator of Father Ted.

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(stephencoyle.net)
Hardware DIY electronics

Static Electricity: The Secret to Planet Formation?

2025-04-08
Static Electricity: The Secret to Planet Formation?

A new study published in Nature Astronomy suggests that static electricity plays a crucial role in planet formation. Researchers conducted experiments aboard a suborbital rocket, discovering that tiny dust particles in protoplanetary disks use static charges to clump together, forming larger 'pebbles' that eventually grow into planets through gravitational attraction. This research solves the long-standing 'bouncing barrier' problem—the size threshold dust particles must reach to bind gravitationally. The experiments showed that only charged dust particles can overcome this barrier, ultimately leading to planet formation.

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(nautil.us)
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API Churn vs. Security: The Perils of Client-Side Heavy Logic

2025-04-16
API Churn vs. Security: The Perils of Client-Side Heavy Logic

This article explores the problems stemming from the current trend of heavy client-side logic in web applications, namely API churn. While solutions like GraphQL offer more expressive APIs, mitigating the resulting security risks – where increased client-side power empowers malicious users – becomes incredibly complex. The author argues that moving logic back to the server side is the best approach to avoid this trade-off between API churn and security complexity.

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(intercoolerjs.org)
Development frontend security

Barbie Gets an AI Brain: Mattel Partners with OpenAI

2025-06-12
Barbie Gets an AI Brain: Mattel Partners with OpenAI

Mattel and OpenAI are teaming up to bring AI to toys, potentially giving Barbie (and other toys) the power of conversation via ChatGPT. This ambitious collaboration aims to create fun, safe, and age-appropriate AI-powered experiences, blurring the lines between physical and digital play. While details are scarce, the first product is expected later this year, promising a new era of interactive toys that adapt and react in real-time, rather than relying on pre-recorded lines. This move represents a significant evolution for Mattel and a potential game-changer for the toy industry.

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(nerds.xyz)
Game Toys Mattel

Bee: A $50 AI Wearable That's Both Helpful and Creepy

2025-03-16
Bee: A $50 AI Wearable That's Both Helpful and Creepy

Bee, a $50 AI wearable, promises to summarize your life, acting as an AI memory. It listens to conversations, integrates with your calendar and emails, and generates daily summaries and to-dos. However, a month-long test revealed accuracy and privacy concerns. It frequently misidentifies speakers, misinterprets context, and even fabricates facts. While developers assure privacy, the device's recording of private conversations and personal emotions is unsettling. Ultimately, the user resorted to manually muting the device to prevent excessive recording of private life.

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(www.theverge.com)
Tech AI wearable
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