Weeklog for Week 8: February 20 to February 26
Progress
Vacation week. Was ill. 2/10 would not recommend.
Articles
- Why a Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled - The New York Times: The chat bot flirted with the reporter and tried to make him leave his wife. Hilarious!
- Folding Paper Can Smooth Out Problems - WSJ
- Flying Planes with Python and JavaScript -- are-we-flying
- CheatGPT
- Testing JavaScript without a (third-party) framework – alexwlchan
- Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain- Princeton Engineering
- Quantum Soccer — Greg Egan
- In praise of Alpine and apk · Hugo Barrera's site
- 5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV - ABC News
- what is the randomart image for?
- Inside Ikea’s small-format store strategy
- 2023-02-YouGov-US-Mobile-Gaming-Report.pdf
- It's TCP vs. RPC All Over Again - by Larry Peterson
- Let's build a Chrome extension that steals everything
- Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s The Evidence.
- We employed ChatGPT as an ML Engineer for a day - this is what we learned -- Encord
- Eduard: Swiss-style Shading with Machine Learning — Dilpreet Singh
- A tale of Phobos - how we almost cracked a ransomware using CUDA -- CERT Polska
- Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI -- Ars Technica
- A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does not evoke bacterial resistance - eBioMedicine
- Things I Won't Work With: Thioacetone -- Science -- AAAS
- Biohazard: Iconic Symbol Designed to be “Memorable but Meaningless” - 99% Invisible
- Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone -- Nokia -- The Guardian
- SymPy makes math fun again
- Krickelkrackel -- I had nothing in mind while painting this.: I feel like this feeds very well into my well-known opinion on art.
Libraries, programming, etc
- Email explained from first principles
- GitHub - yobulkdev/yobulkdev: 🔥 🔥 🔥Open Source CSV importer powered by GPT3 - Free flatfile.com alternative: The future has arrived: a csv importer with GPT3 integration!
- GitHub - mjl-/mox: modern full-featured open source secure mail server for low-maintenance self-hosted email
- GitHub - FMInference/FlexGen: Running large language models like OPT-175B/GPT-3 on a single GPU. Up to 100x faster than other offloading systems.
- GitHub - tonybaloney/Pyjion: Pyjion - A JIT for Python based upon CoreCLR
Games
Backlog
- Duskers (free from EGS)
- Twelve Minutes
Other media
- Lego Cake Factory - Stop Motion Cooking - YouTube
- Nuclear Train Flask Collision Test "Operation Smash Hit" in 1984 - YouTube: Driving a train into a nuclear flask. With bonus eighties synth music
- Testing Shoes That Make You Walk 250% Faster -- WIRED - YouTube: What a hilarious concept: powered flat under-shoe roller-skates. For 1400 $.
- Turning a Sphere Outside In - YouTube
- The Turntable Paradox - YouTube: The weirdest thing about this is the ad for the Länd at the end.
- A Train Blew up in Ohio, Why did that Happen? - YouTube
- [1505] MojoBox SLAPPED Open!!! - YouTube
- [1487] Unusual Feature in UltraLoq Smart Lock - YouTube
- [1145] SPINNING MAGNETS Open Fingerprint Padlock! - YouTube