Progress

Spontaneously decided to get my appendix removed. Modern medicine is a miracle: went to the doctor with stomach ache at 8:00 in the morning, at 16:00 I was appendectomied. Now: restNoticeable in the number of links this week..

Articles

• Flowchart Fun — Fast, Free Online Flowchart Maker
• So sweet, no spike -- Nature Biotechnology
• Fantasy Meets Reality – cabel.com
• Button Pushes You (despens.systems)
• LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superconductor (Summary) – Eiri Sanada
• The Blue Flash: How a careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project - BBC Future
• Encyclopedia of Life
• A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments -- Science -- AAAS
• LLMs Unleashed: The Power of Fine-Tuning
• No One Wants To Talk To Your Chatbot -- by Lucas McGregor -- Jul, 2023 -- Medium: This is really very important: no one wants to talk to your chatbots. Chatbots in general are not super interesting if you don't own a chatbot platform.
• Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon
• Waiting in asyncio
• Your Mystery: Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD: A cautious "maybe?"
• Kepler: The Volume of a Wine Barrel - Introduction -- Mathematical Association of America
• SnapFusion: Text-to-Image Diffusion Model on Mobile Devices within Two Seconds
• LLMs are good at playing you - lcamtuf’s thing
• Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness Contest: Psychedelic Cryptography (Innovate)
• How I wrote my own Smart Home software ... using Lua and the incredibly lightweight Mako Server
• Lua: The Little Language That Could
• Running tasks concurrently in Django asynchronous views · Django Beats
• See the First Complete Map of an Insect's Brain -- Smart News-- Smithsonian Magazine
• Predicting the tide with an analog computer made from Lego - Wishful Coding
• The infamous coin toss – Ergodicity economics
• Network Protocols – Programmer's Compendium
• Unicorn A magical full-stack framework for Django
• Magic123: One Image to High-Quality 3D Object Generation Using Both 2D and 3D Diffusion Priors
• Making peer-to-peer multiplayer seamless with Godot · Rafael Epplée
• June Huh, High School Dropout, Wins the Fields Medal -- Quanta Magazine
• Ryugu samples reveal traces of rock from before the Sun existed -- Ars Technica
• Wiki - ElixirForCynicalCurmudgeons: I'll definitely need to look into Elixir/Phoenix more.
• Math exposition on YouTube – Short, Fat Matrices
• SoME3 begins! - by Grant Sanderson

Libraries, programming, etc

• lightonai/alfred-40b-0723 · Hugging Face: Alfred-40B-0723 is a finetuned version of Falcon-40B, obtained with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). Finetuning was performed in July 2023. It is the first of a series of RLHF models based on Falcon-40B that will be regularly released. It is made available under the Apache 2.0 License.
• GitHub - raghavan/PdfGptIndexer: An efficient tool for indexing and searching PDF text data using OpenAI API and FAISS (Facebook AI Similarity Search) index, designed for rapid information retrieval and superior search accuracy.
• Lets-Plot: open-source plotting library for statistical data
• Open Assistant
• GitHub - bluenviron/mediamtx: Ready-to-use SRT / WebRTC / RTSP / RTMP / LL-HLS media server and media proxy that allows to read, publish and proxy video and audio streams.
• Briefcase 0.3.15: Briefcase is a tool for converting a Python project into a standalone native application. It supports producing binaries for: macOS, as a standalone .app Windows, as an MSI installer Linux, as an AppImage iOS, as an Xcode project Android, as a Gradle project the Web, as a static web site using PyScript for client-side Python
• GitHub - ErwannMillon/Color-diffusion: A diffusion model to colorize black and white images

Movies

• Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets: Made by the same guy as The Fifth Element, it is like The Fifth Element but more. Just a light action comedy through space. Of course, they have fewer stars and the plot is quite obvious, and you can also feel the episodic nature of its comic background, and it's too long, but it's good entertainment and I'd definitely watch more of it. 8.5/10

Other media

• YKK: Japan’s Zipper King - YouTube
• Why isn’t Hiroshima a Nuclear Wasteland? - YouTube
• The Stickiest Non-Sticky Substance - YouTube
• Ego and Math (3Blue1Brown) -- Stanford Math Department Commencement Speech 2023 - YouTube
• Die schwerste Aufgabe im schwersten Test - YouTube
• The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of - YouTube
• Future Computers Will Be Radically Different (Analog Computing) - YouTube: no, I don't think they will.
• Rapid Motion Through Space: An Incomplete History of Speed [Full Feature Documentary Film] - YouTube