Progress

I don't know. Nothing much happened.

Articles

• First is the Worst: Nintendo's Color TV Game 6 & 15
• The most powerful cosmic ray since the Oh-My-God particle puzzles scientists
• The History Behind Aspirin 81 – Clinical Correlations: Silly apothecaries resist the metric system, use barley grains instead.
• Age of Invention: Cash Cows
• Stable Fiddusion — Acko.net
• I can’t let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation” -- andersource: and here's the rebuttal.
• About that OpenAI “breakthrough” - by Gary Marcus
• LM Studio - Discover, download, and run local LLMs
• Noninvasive theta-burst stimulation of the human striatum enhances striatal activity and motor skill learning -- Nature Neuroscience
• Jason Lefkowitz: "I want to take a moment to tal…" - Mastodon: "I want to take a moment to talk about one of the greatest user interface disasters in history: the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 by the U.S. Navy missile cruiser USS Vincennes (CG-49) over the Persian Gulf on July 3, 1988."
• MeshGPT: Generating Triangle Meshes with Decoder-Only Transformers
• Popochiu - Godot point n' click engine by Carenalga
• Rust std fs slower than Python!? No, it's hardware!
• Kiwi Hellenist: The camel, the rope, and the needle's eye
• My $500M Mars Rover Mistake: A Failure Story — Chris Lewicki
• The birth & death of search engine optimization - Xe Iaso
• Ballerburg SDL
• Exploring Generative AI
• Extracting Training Data from ChatGPT
• POV Candle - mitxela.com: "I just happen to have a pick-and-place machine."
• jim-fx's -- Plantarium: render nice-looking plants in your browser
• Crypto, FIDO and Security Tokens - Google Tabellen:
• Unbelievable! Run 70B LLM Inference on a Single 4GB GPU with This NEW Technique -- by Gavin Li -- Nov, 2023 -- AI Advances: It's loading the layers one after each other into the GPU. I'd like to see whether this is actually faster than doing it on CPU.
• The Universe of Discourse : The Irish logarithm
• Reverse-engineering the "Irish logarithm" -- Blog
• The Universe of Discourse : The discrete logarithm
• The Universe of Discourse : The discrete logarithm, shorter and simpler: I don't know. I liked both explanations, but they lead to some pretty different conclusions.
• Titled Tuesday Cheating - Part 2 - Fantastic Cheaters and Where to Find Them - Personal Website of Dorian Quelle

Libraries, programming, etc

• awesome-assistants/build/assistants.csv at main · awesome-assistants/awesome-assistants · GitHub: prompt engineering á la carte

Books

• A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith: Every year, I'm finding The One Book. Read my review soon-ish about this one.

Games

• Grow Home: this game is so old and so simple, but I absolutely adore it.

Other media

• Dramatic Comic Lettering Theater - PART ONE - YouTube
• Wicked Game - Chris Isaak - Hildegard von Blingin' ft. Aaron Dolan (Bardcore -- Medieval Style Cover) - YouTube
• Walking In The Air - On Analog Synthesizers - YouTube
• Introduction to Slip Rings - YouTube
• media.ccc.de - Many Tamagotchis Were Harmed in the Making of this Presentation