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Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto...
Why does it happen!???? D:
On a narrow island in eastern Canada battered by freezing winds, hundreds of gray seal pups lie dead every breeding season, bearing massive, oddly shaped wounds. The injuries start at their mouth and corkscrew down to their chest,...
Crime; ICE raids; AI hate; Oligarchy; AI math; Small businesses; Neoliberal Claude; Slacker AGI; The Technium
I wrote about my adventures on IPv6 before. Basically, it seemed like IPv6 solved address space limitation problem with a larger address space while IPv4 just used NAT, and that meant IPv6 didn't add much value because IPv4 practically...
Boots Riley's debut surprised me by never dulling its impact for the sake of being really funny
I’ve talked before about how improbable long-horizon autonomous agentic workflows are. Every step is a throw of a weighted dice, and with each additional step the probability of success goes down. On top of this, decisions have...
A colleague told me a near-miss horror story. As Google began deprecating Gemini 2.0, we moved to Gemini 2.5 Pro. But reasoning is enabled by default and cannot be turned off. For our specific problem statement, reasoning was not...
PDFify 5.0 brings Tesseract 5 OCR optimized for Apple Silicon, automatic language detection via Apple Vision, four new compression modes, and full French localization.
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The mathematician Paul Erdős posed many fascinating problems for his peers – and now OpenAI has solved an important one. CC-licensed photo by Erik on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll … Continue...