Weeklog for Week 43: October 21 to October 27
Progress
The week before vacation is always more than necessary.
Articles
- Let’s build a fleet and change the world
- Church of Reality: Barbara McClintock on Scientific Mysticism and Plant Consciousness
- How to keep cakes moist and cause the greatest tragedies of the 20th century
- Science is a strong-link problem - by Adam Mastroianni
- Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly - by Adam Mastroianni
- Psychology might be a big stinkin’ load of hogwash and that’s just fine
- Scott And Scurvy (Idle Words)
- Reality is Very Weird and You Need to be Prepared for That – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
- A Chemical Hunger – Interlude G: Li+ – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
- Django TemplateYaks
- Building a game with the Real Engine
- A Small Step Towards Reproducing OpenAI o1: Progress Report on the Steiner Open Source Models -- by Yichao 'Peak' Ji -- Oct, 2024 -- Medium
- A Chemical Hunger – Part II: Current Theories of Obesity are Inadequate – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
- Ideas aren’t getting harder to find and anyone who tells you otherwise is a coward and I will fight them
- Tog's paradox
- A satellite made by Boeing just fell apart in space - The Verge
- Diabetes Breakthrough: New Treatment Eliminates Insulin for 86% of Patients
- Two examples of hover styles on images – alexwlchan
- ajxs / pbpJS
- GitHub - aartaka/pretty.c: Making C Look ✨Pretty✨and Lua/Lisp/Python-esque
- What Color is Your Function? – journal.stuffwithstuff.com
- GitHub - RamboRogers/rfhunter: RFHunter is a device to find hidden Cameras at AirBNBs
- Zero or sign extend -- The ryg blog
- The blockquote element: HeydonWorks (via Jochens weeklog)
- what is this called and where can i find more of it : r/geography
- AI Mathematical Olympiad - Progress Prize 2 -- Kaggle: looking forward to seeing the results of this (via Jochens weeklog)
- Battleship Solitaire: Mindless Podcast Companion
- Annotation scopes containing nested scopes · Issue #109118 · python/cpython · GitHub: yes very useful indeed
- Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think - Commoncog
- Vampire Number -- from Wolfram MathWorld
- Understanding Round Robin DNS - by Zsolt Ero
- Add support for atomic upserts - ORM - Django Forum
- Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill -- drew's dev blog
- The Ultimate Guide to Chocolate Chip Cookies: the number. of variables is okay, but they're all binary and I'm a bit underwhelmed with the results. I guess I'll have to do it myself...
- WebSockets vs Server-Sent-Events vs Long-Polling vs WebRTC vs WebTransport -- RxDB - JavaScript Database
Libraries, programming, etc
- GitHub - nh2/internal-contstrained-pki: Safely shareable TLS root CA for .internal networks using Name Constraints
- GitHub - maoserr/epublifier: Converts some webnovels to epub format: hmm, I think I did something similar once. :-)
- GitHub - truefoundry/cognita: RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) Framework for building modular, open source applications for production by TrueFoundry
Games
- Astroneer
- Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Recipes
- Kekse
- Lasagne
- Dinkelbrot