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Articles

• Memex is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed: Somehow, this touched a nerve in me. I'll have to think more about the Memex concept and how to make it better and more real.
• This Code Smells of Desperation -- OS/2 Museum
• Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors
• Water
• Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass
• Laniakea Books: Public domain books for everyone — nutcroft
• LCD, Please by dukope
• ChimeraOS: "ChimeraOS is an operating system that provides an out of the box couch gaming experience. After installation, boot directly into Steam Big Picture and start playing your favorite games. " -- but also does GOG, Epic, ...
• T-Watch S3 – LILYGO®: ESP32-based smartwatch
• Crowd-Sourced Traffic - General Magic
• Friendly Captcha - GDPR-Compliant Bot Protection: "Based on proof-of-work mechanisms and advanced risk signals, Friendly Captcha employs a fundamentally new approach to securely defend your websites and online services from spam and bots." (but commercial)
• Calculating Sunflower Oil Production: An example of an AI conversation gone wrong. What's fascinating about this is that the human seems to be completely convinced that the LLM has gained sentience, because it weirdly repeated some religious bullshit it quite obviously scraped from somewhere.
• QOA — The Quite OK Audio Format
• Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas -- New Zealand -- The Guardian: Another example of GenML gone wrong. They "fixed" it by adding a notice that the recipes are auto-generated and should not be taken without a grain of salt (heh!). Wouldn't this be easily fixable by asking another LLM whether the given recipe contains any non-food items?
• Main is usually a function. So then when is it not?
• The Tetris Effect
• Did A Grumman F11 Tiger Shoot Itself Down? - Plane & Pilot Magazine
• My Overkill Home Network - Complete Details 2023
• Fastest Branchless Binary Search -- mhdm.dev
• Home - KaiOS
• Feral desert donkeys are digging wells, giving water to parched wildlife
• I Fixed A Bug The Other Day -- Thoughts by Javier
• You're Not a Fearmonger. You Have Sentinel Intelligence.
• Wendelstein 7-X erreicht Meilenstein -- Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
• Zero Motorcycles steps up and makes its service manuals free - Hagerty Media
• Squeeze the hell out of the system you have – Dan Slimmon
• Beginner's guide to Llama models - AGI Sphere
• Carrot Problems
• I'm OK; The Bull Is Dead -- Computerworld: A different way to communicate about incidents: start with the current state ("the punchline") and then fill in the background.
• [2308.05660] Thermodynamic Linear Algebra
• VirGL — The Mesa 3D Graphics Library latest documentation
• Reading ancient scrolls – Casey Handmer's blog

Libraries, programming, etc

• Jupyter AI — Jupyter AI documentation
• GitHub - supabase/postgres_lsp: A Language Server for Postgres
• mCaptcha - mCaptcha: "mCaptcha is proof-of-work based captcha system that is privacy focused and fully automated."
• Friendly Captcha - GDPR-Compliant Bot Protection
• GitHub - microsoft/Llama-2-Onnx
• 🎏 pykoi: pykoi is an open-source python library for LLMs providing UI & code for data & feedback collection, finetuning (RLHF & RAG), and model comparisons.
• GitHub - denosaurs/deno_python: 🐍 Python interpreter bindings for Deno.: "This module provides a seamless integration between deno and python by integrating with the Python/C API. It acts as a bridge between the two languages, enabling you to pass data and execute python code from within your deno applications." Whaaaaat?

Books

• A Beautifully Foolish Endeavour by Hank Green
• The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly
• Der Hammermörder by Fred Breinersdörfer

Games

Backlog

• Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You (free from EGS)