Weeklog for Week 36: September 04 to September 10

Sep 10, 2023

Progress

An almost regular week. As if that would exist.

Did a lot of the garden work I should have done a long time ago, and now I'm paying for not doing it earlier with my sweat and muscles.

I finally bought the ice cream maker I had thought about for so long, and it works fantastically well. Makes ice cream in less than an hour, so of course I had to try several different recipes. And more are on the list. 🍨

Articles

COVID-19-Pandemie und erhöhte Sterblichkeit in Deutschland: Neue Studie bestätigt Fakten - DIE MITTELLÄNDISCHE ZEITUNG - FÜR MEHR DURCHBLICK:
Stupid people: oh, it doubled, but it's still at a very low level, so no need to worry. Educated people: Yep, exponential growth!
PET Scan: Coffee evolution from the Moka Express to the AeroPress and Fellow Stagg EKG Ket
A GPT-4 Capability Forecasting Challenge - Final Score: Go try out your score now!
The B Lane Swimmer – Holly Witteman
[2308.15022] Recursively Summarizing Enables Long-Term Dialogue Memory in Large Language Models
Hardware Random Bit Generator
WORDWARD DRAW by Daniel Linssen: so hard!
(PDF) Colloidal inorganic nano- and microparticles for passive daytime radiative cooling
Sub-Ambient Radiative Cooling Realized Using CaCO3 Microparticle-Based Single Layer Without Metal Reector for Entire Day
Czech scientists confirm the existence of the π-hole in molecules, proving a decades-old theory - Akademie věd České republiky, heh, pi hole!
A Portrait of Tenochtitlan • 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec empire.
Tidal Energy - Not Renewable
Introducing Refact Code LLM: 1.6B State-of-the-Art LLM for Code that Reaches 32% HumanEval - Refact.ai
The Worst Programmer I Know - Dan North & Associates Ltd
RFC 3339 vs ISO 8601
plastic money: the history of Geldkarten and other stored-value payment systems
Fine-tuning GPT-3.5-Turbo for Natural Language to SQL -- by Mo Pourreza -- Dataherald -- Aug, 2023 -- Medium: "However it is not a silver bullet as few organizations have NL-to-SQL training datasets readily available." Understatement of the year.
Secure Coding and Deployment Hardening Guidelines -- EEF Security WG
Nougat: Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents: "Scientific knowledge is predominantly stored in books and scientific journals, often in the form of PDFs. However, the PDF format leads to a loss of semantic information, particularly for mathematical expressions. We propose Nougat (Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents), a Visual Transformer model that performs an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) task for processing scientific documents into a markup language, and demonstrate the effectiveness of our model on a new dataset of scientific documents. The proposed approach offers a promising solution to enhance the accessibility of scientific knowledge in the digital age, by bridging the gap between human- readable documents and machine-readable text. We release the models and code to accelerate future work on scientific text recognition. "
The Garden of Computational Delights
Auditory response to pulsed radiofrequency energy - Elder - 2003 - Bioelectromagnetics - Wiley Online Library
If you can use open source, you can build hardware - Redeem Tomorrow
Evidence for Large Planetary Climate Altering Thermonuclear Explosions on Mars in the Past
Perplexity: interactive LLM visualization: Shows for each word how "surprised" the LLM is to see it. Fantastic visualization! I wonder whether you could use that for guiding someone's writing.
Users, advertisers – we are all trapped in the ‘enshittification’ of the internet -- John Naughton -- The Guardian
Spread Your Wings: Falcon 180B is here
mathematics - Is this duplo train track under too much tension? - Puzzling Stack Exchange
Could two celestial bodies with extreme magnetic fields affect each other's motion via magnetism? - Astronomy Stack Exchange
the moon - Why can't lunar rovers survive long duration nights? - Space Exploration Stack Exchange
pcb design - How Can Non-Parasitic Capacitance Be Excessive When Smoothing Voltage? - Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange
Wikipedia search-by-vibes through millions of pages offline -- Little Short Bulletins (via Jochens weeklog)
Async Rust Is A Bad Language
Delightfully strange: Mystery 'golden egg' found on ocean floor

Libraries, programming, etc

GitHub - jzhang38/TinyLlama
GitHub - cabralpinto/modular-diffusion: Python library for designing and training your own Diffusion Models with PyTorch.
GitHub - hydradatabase/hydra: Hydra: Column-oriented Postgres. Add scalable analytics to your project in minutes.
GitHub - YavorGIvanov/sam.cpp: SegmentAnything by Meta in a .cpp variant for everyone

Games

NFS: Heat
Lighthouse Keeper: I don't know, I don't know. It feels almost like the game isn't finished, but it is? But there are so many half-~~assed~~baked parts of the game. Stuff sticking, unclear mechanics, unreadable items and GUIs. I don't know? 6/10
Trackmania: something soft to quiet down

Backlog

NFS: Heat (to play with friends)
Need For Speed Hot Pursuit (for nostalgia's sake)

Recipes

chocolate ice cream (2x)
honey-pear frozen joghurt: not as good as expected, the pear just doesn't contribute enough
lime sorbet
chocolate cake (2x)
lemon cake