Progress

Regular work week.

I started work on a (prototype) AI project. First step is, as always, data ingestion. Not too hard, but a chore, as always.

Articles

• Volkssternwarte Zweibrücken – Wikipedia
• personal-data-pollution/ai at main - alicewatson/personal-data-pollution - Codeberg.org
• Cities need more trees -- ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog
• How We Got Our Sweat Glands
• Quantum is unimportant to post-quantum -- Trail of Bits Blog
• Alex Strick van Linschoten - My finetuned models beat OpenAI’s GPT-4
• Bruce Sterling @bruces: "*ChatGPT's favorite "flowery" …" - Mastodon
• PIKIMOV ☆ Free web-based motion design and video editor
• Why Is Chile So Long? - by Tomas Pueyo
• Dorfener Bierkrieg – Wikipedia: "Nach der Verabschiedung des Malzzuschlagsgesetzes, welches eine erhöhte Besteuerung von Bier vorsah, sahen sich die Bierbrauer gezwungen, den Preis einer Maß Bier von 24 auf 26 Pfennig zu erhöhen." [...] "Am 5. Juni 1910 wurden die Freiwillige Feuerwehr in Dorfen und zahlreiche andere Wehren der Umgebung aufgrund von Bränden in Dorfen alarmiert. In Flammen standen unter anderem die Waitl-Brauerei Soafa und der Jakobmayer."
• Amateur Mathematicians Find Fifth ‘Busy Beaver’ Turing Machine -- Quanta Magazine
• The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever
• Sonatino - ESP32-based Audio Dev Board
• Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Branch Predictor
• Beating NumPy's matrix multiplication in 150 lines of C code
• KDE Connect -- KDE Connect: A project that enables all your devices to communicate with each other.: This is fantastic!
• long term curl versions -- daniel.haxx.se
• Google Researchers Publish Paper About How AI Is Ruining the Internet
• Unlocking a Gary TL-15 Round-Door Safe -- Locksmith Ledger
• Pwning a Brother labelmaker, for fun and interop!
• Customizable DIY RFID Business Card and Badge Holder with Victorinox Swiss Army Knife Tools -- MCU on Eclipse
• The asymmetry of nudges - lcamtuf’s thing
• University of Glasgow - University news - Gravitational wave researchers cast new light on Antikythera mechanism mystery
• The Tomb of Nefertari, Valley of the Queens -- Mused
• The Math of Card Shuffling
• Coloring - an educational game: An educational game about 4-coloring and NP-hardness
• Optimizing Large-Scale OpenStreetMap Data with SQLite
• GitHub - geofabrik/OpenRailRouting: routing on railway tracks using OpenStreetMap data and the GraphHopper routing engine
• The search for tiles: adventures in mapmaking with Stamen Toner, OSM and the German Federal Agency for Cartography
• FerretDB: A MongoDB alternative that implements the MongoDB wire protocol, but actually uses PostgreSQL under the hood. Speed improvements, better data safety and better tooling, all in one.
• shittier - npm: "Shittier is a code formatting tool that aims to make your code look as terrible as possible. It is the exact opposite of popular tools like Prettier, which focus on improving code formatting and readability. Shittier embraces chaos, messiness, and confusion, making your code look shittier than ever before."

Libraries, programming, etc

• Summary of Major Changes Between Python Versions
• Streamlit • A faster way to build and share data apps: I don't know, looks nice, but also very vendor-lock-in-y.
• Stream processing purely in Python – bytewax
• GitHub - Gollum999/perlin-wang: Perlin noise Wang tile generator - Seamless, non-periodically tileable noise textures
• Cookbook — Dramatiq 1.17.0 documentation

Books

• The Bridge Kingdom by Danielle L. Jensen: I don't know which bargain bin I pulled this one out of, but it must be a good one. The world, the story, the characters are all very cliché, and (just like the awesomely handsome yet amazingly humane) love interest, we are supposed to be enthralled by the occasional glimpses of adult interaction. The plot is very easily predicted, and all the problems in the book are of the category "could have been solved by communication". Unfortunately, I made the mistake of stopping in the middle, right at the (very predictable) moment of "OH NO, EVERYTHING IS ABOUT TO GO SO WRONG" and I'm not sure whether I can stomach starting again to finish reading it.

Games

• Walkabout Minigolf
• Factorio

Board games

• Jaipur with an old friend. So nice!

Other media

• Digging A Hole Through The Earth - Pixel Animation - YouTube
• How backspin ACTUALLY works - in super slow motion - YouTube
• This bizarre density toy just got an upgrade - YouTube
• The moment we stopped understanding AI [AlexNet] - YouTube
• [1001] The ITL Robotic Safe Cracker! (ITL-2000) - YouTube
• [1337] My New & Improved Robotic Safe-Cracker… - YouTube
• 90 yr old Sushi Chef tries American Sushi for the First Time - YouTube
• Light sucking flames look like magic - YouTube
• We should use this amazing mechanism that's inside a grasshopper leg - YouTube