Progress

Not much news.

Took a look at my forest. It's nice.

Articles

• Infrared-Transparent Visible-Opaque Fabrics for Wearable Personal Thermal Management -- ACS Photonics
• John Romero on his book Doom Guy and developing games at a small scale – How To Market A Game
• Google assigns a CVE for libwebp and gives it a 10.0 score
• Kikkuli! - by Benjamin Breen - Res Obscura: "The rest of this post is my speculation about why we are so drawn to certain figures from antiquity — even as general interest in premodern history continues to dwindle. I will take three people as case studies: Enheduanna, the priestess of Ur and first recorded poet; the infamous Sumerian copper merchant Ea-nāṣir; and Kikkuli the horse trainer."
• The history of electronic paper. In 2007, Amazon released the first… -- by Supernote -- Medium
• HeyGen - AI Video Generator
• The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died -- WIRED
• These ancient whittled logs could be the earliest known wooden structure: "A technique called luminescence dating suggests that the large wooden objects are at least 476,000 years old, and some of the smaller tools are slightly younger."
• Like Humans, Monkeys Fall Into The 'Uncanny Valley' -- ScienceDaily: It is unclear to me how well this study actually shows this.
• Monkey visual behavior falls into the uncanny valley - PubMed
• I Gambled in MGM's Hacked Casinos
• Japan's Hometown Tax -- Kalzumeus Software
• The Calendar Rant: The Winter Solstice and month names. My position on calendars is well known.
• Box of donated artifacts turns out to be treasure trove of Neanderthal bones
• Introducing Radar Maps Platform -- Radar Blog
• 40 years and I'm still here: Warren Spector looks back on his life
• Wifi without internet on a Southwest flight - james vaughan
• The “Build Your Own Redis” Book is Completed -- Blog -- build-your-own.org
• Elixir for Humans Who Know Python · Joyyo
• I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location, Browsing Data, Photos, and Spams You with Ads
• RealFill: "Recent advances in generative imagery have brought forth outpainting and inpainting models that can produce high-quality, plausible image content in unknown regions, but the content these models hallucinate is necessarily inauthentic, since the models lack sufficient context about the true scene. In this work, we propose RealFill, a novel generative approach for image completion that fills in missing regions of an image with the content that should have been there. RealFill is a generative inpainting model that is personalized using only a few reference images of a scene. These reference images do not have to be aligned with the target image, and can be taken with drastically varying viewpoints, lighting conditions, camera apertures, or image styles. Once personalized, RealFill is able to complete a target image with visually compelling contents that are faithful to the original scene. We evaluate RealFill on a new image completion benchmark that covers a set of diverse and challenging scenarios, and find that it outperforms existing approaches by a large margin."
• Watching Movies Backwards
• PROJEKT: OVERFLOW: Board game about assembly programming and stack overflows
• Flexbox Froggy - Ein Spiel, um CSS flexbox zu lernen
• LK-99 Research Continues, Paper Says Superconductivity Could be Possible -- Tom's Hardware
• Value Investing Japan: The Tron Project: How Japan Almost Ruled IT

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - KenneyNL/Starter-Kit-City-Builder
• datalens-tech · GitHub: "DataLens is a modern business intelligence and data visualization system. It was developed and extensively used as a primary BI tool in Yandex and is also available as a part of Yandex Cloud platform."
• GitHub - jeena/fxsync-docker: This repository is holding a working docker-compose setup for documentation pourpuses because syncstorage-rs's documentation is not very good to explain how to self host the new rust syncserver. With help of it you can self host the new Firefox sync server, which is written in Rust and replaces the old python one, which is deprecated.
• GitHub - jackmpcollins/magentic: Seamlessly integrate LLMs as Python functions

Games

• Last Call BBS: still weird! And super hard.
• Sea of Thieves with the usual landlubbers.
• Otxo
• Trackmania

Backlog

• Model Builder (free from EGS)

Other media

• Electronic Paper - See What Happens - YouTube
• I Made My 3D Printer 10ft Tall - YouTube: I like the project, but the editing and the targeting of this video is very hard to digest.