Weeklog for Week 28: July 08 to July 14

Jul 14, 2024

Progress

More AI prototype work, this week: extracting text from PDFs. And what a joy that is!

I tried KDEConnect with my second phone and my second computer (on windows, even) and WOW this is great. It's so smooth and works right, without any fiddling or settings or anything. Just start the app, it has already found the other side, connect and done. Highly recommended!

Articles

Preliminary Notes on the Delvish Dialect, by Bruce Sterling -- by Bruce Sterling -- Jul, 2024 -- Medium
Rye: "Rye is a comprehensive project and package management solution for Python. Born from its creator's desire to establish a one-stop-shop for all Python users, Rye provides a unified experience to install and manages Python installations, pyproject.toml based projects, dependencies and virtualenvs seamlessly. It's designed to accommodate complex projects, monorepos and to facilitate global tool installations."
Geoff Greer's site: Making My Own Wedding Rings
The Race to Seal Helium HDDs: a Quest for the Impossible
Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor
Bytecode Breakdown: Unraveling Factorio's Lua Security Flaws
Guy with no experience flying planes simulates having to do an emergency landing : r/Damnthatsinteresting
VLMs are Blind
The economics of a Postgres free tier
Do Not Upgrade to Any Version of MySQL After 8.0.37
shortplav — LessWrong: Claude 3.5 Sonnet can reproduce the BIG-BENCH canary string if you ask for it.
Scientists Discover a Cause of Lupus and a Possible Way to Reverse It - News Center
Ubuntu Security Updates Are a Confusing Mess -- Grey Lumpy Dinosaur
Physicists Have Created The World's Most Fiendishly Difficult Maze : ScienceAlert
WALL·E -- Typeset In The Future
GitHub - ironman5366/ai-murder-mystery-hackathon: The game is afoot: Cute idea, but you can see that it was hackathon'd, it's not super stable, quite slow, and you can easily overpower the AI.
Using S3 as a container registry -- Adolfo Ochagavía
Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with! -- Labs
Alex R :heart_progress:: "[1/x] Because I'm an enormous …" - LGBTQIA+ and Tech
'A history of contact': Geneticists are rewriting the narrative of Neanderthals and other ancient humans -- ScienceDaily
Source Of Mysterious "Excalibur" Sword Found In Lake Revealed

Libraries, programming, etc

GitHub - eGenix/egenix-pyrun: eGenix PyRun - Your friendly, lean, open source Python runtime (via Jochens weeklog)

Books

Hieroglyphs: A very short introduction: I think I might have found The Book for this year!

Games

Walkabout Minigolf
Factorio
A Plague Tale: Innocence: I only had about half an hour to play this, and... uh... not much happens. It's not a very quick or nimble game, the girl feels like walking through honey and the story so far is... well... she loses her beloved dog? Ok?
FixFox

Backlog

A Plague Tale: Requiem (Humble Choice)
Sticky Business (Humble Choice)