Weeklog for Week 45: November 04 to November 10
Progress
Short work week, then short trip to the Netherlands. By train, of course!
Took the time on the train to work on side project #541.Or, well, I had planned to. At least I wrote two integration tests (passing).
Also, I helped out another person on preparing a strategically important presentation. Not directly relevant for myself, but good to do nonetheless.
Articles
- SpawELO
- Chess ratings - Elo versus the Rest of the World -- Kaggle
- The Hundred-Light-Year Diary - 1655241540695.pdf - a short story about information time travel
- Do Hard Things Carefully - by Patrick Maguire
- Building a Bootstrap styled form in vanilla Django. -- David Smith (via Jochens weeklog)
- Is Tor still safe to use? -- The Tor Project: Answer: yes.
- Android games - No-Bullshit Games
- What if they are all wrong? -- Igor Pak's blog about mathematical conjectures. And yes, what if they are all wrong?
- Tracker Beeper - Bert Hubert's writings I'll have to build one of these.
- 30 day map challenge
- Hacking 700 Million Electronic Arts Accounts -- Sean Kahler
- What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase? - The Old New Thing
- playcanvas/supersplat: 3D Gaussian Splat Editor: uperSplat is a free and open source tool for inspecting and editing 3D Gaussian Splats. It is built on web technologies and runs in the browser, so there's nothing to download or install. A live version of this tool is available at: https://playcanvas.com/supersplat/editor
- Brain waste-clearance system shown in people for first time -- National Institutes of Health (NIH) if you think, human anatomy is "done", here's an entirely new system, shown for the first time.
- Will Plants Grow on the Moon? – World Sensorium / Conservancy
- The Art of Finishing -- ByteDrum
- Algebraic Data Types in (typed) Python
- Advanced Python: Achieving High Performance with Code Generation -- by Yonatan Zunger -- Medium
- Introducing hertz-dev - Standard Intelligence: Introducing hertz-dev, the first open-source base model for conversational audio generation
- Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct -- News Center -- Stanford Medicine
- Full of Themselves: An analysis of title drops in movies
- URAvatar: Universal Relightable Gaussian Codec Avatars
- Microsoft tests AI-powered editing in Notepad - The Verge
- Meno - Wikipedia
- Solving the Siberian Crater Mystery: methane exploding from the ground, what fun climate change we live through.
- Turning the Crank: Design as a Mechanical Process - some words
- The Thing: an ingenious soviet spy microphone
- Home - Database of Databases
- Functional ultrasound through the skull
- Cops Suspect iOS 18 iPhones Are Communicating to Force Reboots, Making Unlocking Harder - MacRumors: hilarious, iphones reboot when stored together making it harder for law enforcement to breach them. From the article, I'm not clear on whether they think that's a good thing or a bad thing, but most will probably agree that making phones harder to crack is a good thing. Also, they stored them in faraday cages, so it's not immediately obvious how the phones do that trick, except of course it is.
- Making electronic calipers
- Mitochondria Are Alive - Asimov Press
- PI Chess Board
Libraries, programming, etc
- GitHub - lancedb/lancedb: Developer-friendly, serverless vector database for AI applications. Easily add long-term memory to your LLM apps!
- GitHub - bhavnicksm/chonkie: 🦛 CHONK your texts with Chonkie ✨ - The no-nonsense RAG chunking library
Games
- Jusant: very relaxing, had to play it straight through.
- Astroneer: with the crew. Also relaxing, but in a different way.
- Planet of Lana: beautiful, but also quite scary.
Board games
- Monopoly Deal
- Würfelklappspiel