Progress

Finishing up all the stuff for year-end is a lot of work.

Articles

• One Tiny Mod Makes A Cheap Mic Sound A Lot Like A Neumann - Aftermath: of course there are microphone modders (and now I really want to try it out myself).
• A simple way to scale pixel art games
• Task-Specific LLM Evals that Do & Don't Work
• Quantitative Fire Risk Assessment of Battery Home Storage Systems in Comparison to General House Fires in Germany and Other Battery Related Fires by Florian Hölting, Aniket Kapse, Fabian Breer, Jan Figgener, Mark Junker, Dirk Uwe Sauer :: SSRN
• TRELLIS: Structured 3D Latents for Scalable and Versatile 3D Generation
• 1€ filter: a simple speed-based low-pass filter for noisy input in interactive systems - 2207676.2208639.pdf: it is named for being similar to the 1$ filter, which was named for being so cheap and easy.
• Noise Filtering Using 1€ Filter -- Jaan Tollander de Balsch
• Comball by Eray Zesen: billiard plus 2048
• LG: Wer ein Selfie mit Greta macht, muss dazu stehen
• 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person -- Cracked.com: I am so sad for the write of this article. If even in your personal connections, your output is the only thing that counts, he must live a very sad life.
• This is how we make slides at Apple. -- by PJ Camillieri -- Adventures in Consumer Technology -- Medium
• Project MUSE - Drug Development Failure: How GLP-1 Development Was Abandoned in 1990: Hilarious! They found the wonder drug in the 80s and then didn't develop it further because... uh... well... just because! Now it's worth more than a good handful of countries.
• New dog, old tricks: DaMAgeCard attack targets memory directly thru SD card reader – PT SWARM
• The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident -- Hidden History: whoops, I think the bomb just fell out of the plane by accident.
• A new home for python-build-standalone: This is just an announcement, but I didn't know about python-build-standalone before, and it looks awesome.
• Advent of Papers (2024)
• Advent of Papers: Elephant 2000
• What I Learned Covering Computer Science in 2024
• Alec Stapp auf X: „Still laughing about the time a computer scientist who had his bike stolen tried to explain binary search to a cop https://t.co/wqYmlZQmSN“ / X
• Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph -- Quanta Magazine
• Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 WINNERS
• Underrated ways to change the world - by Adam Mastroianni: just do it!
• Beans and Noses — Archive of UIE/Brainsparks: “No matter how much you try, you can’t stop people from sticking beans up their nose.“
• Making memcpy(NULL, NULL, 0) well-defined -- Red Hat Developer
• Django and Postgres for the Busy Rails Developer -- Andrew Atkinson - Software Engineer, Author, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails
• A letter to open-source maintainers: I had thought the worst when I read the title, but it's really just a long and compassionate “take it easy!“
• Comedy Wildlife Photography 2024 Competition Winner :: Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards - Conservation through Competition
• Imposter Attack -- Ian Langworth's Things of Variable Interest: using ESPs to build a lasertag game for halloween
• Fixing the Loading in Myst IV: Revelation -- by Anthony Kleine -- Dec, 2024 -- Medium: now that is some serious hacking!
• Fixing the Loading in Myst IV: Revelation (Part 2) -- by Anthony Kleine -- Dec, 2024 -- Medium
• Skurril: KI erkennt Bierkonsum am Knie - Experiment enthüllt "Shortcut-Problem" der künstlichen Intelligenz bei medizinischen Diagnosen - scinexx.de: manche Menschen werden das so lesen, dass man den Bierkonsum am Knie messen kann und dass AI so genial ist, dass sie das bemerkt hat. Diese Menschen nennen wir Schwurbler!
• Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines - WSJ.com
• 8 Wochen (kein) Fleisch essen - das passiert: weight loss, health gain.
• allrite: "The word "excellent" is deriv…" - Mastodon: The word "excellent" is derived from the Christian practice of giving up the use of Microsoft Excel for 40 days to commemorate Christ's sacrifice. It is a period of great productivity. The date of lent is calculated by using an obscure Excel macro on a field that didn't originally have anything to do with dates, but Excel converted it to one anyway.

Libraries, programming, etc

• Cog — cog 3.4.1 documentation: Cog is a file generation tool. It lets you use pieces of Python code as generators in your source files to generate whatever text you need.
• GitHub - mherrmann/helium: Lighter web automation with Python
• GitHub - mkomon/uota: Update firmware written in MicroPython over the air.
• markitdown/ at main · microsoft/markitdown · GitHub: this basically pulls in all the dependencies and makes them available in a unified form, which is nice!

Books

• Jennifer Government: I've read this many years ago and it's still as good of a novel than it was back then.
• 88 Names

Games

• Walkabout Minigolf
• Astroneer

Backlog

• The Invincible (Humble Monthly)
• Widget Inc

Other media

• Accelerating Gallium Ions to 0.056% light speed - YouTube
• Food That Time Forgot: Ships Biscuits - YouTube
• The Poor Sailor's Feast - YouTube
• Would You Watch A Public Execution? - YouTube: No, I would absolutely not.
• Source to Sea down the River Thames WITHOUT Leaving it - YouTube
• This Video is AI Generated! SORA Review - YouTube
• One Incredible Detail At The (Very) End of Titanfall 2 - YouTube: It's nice that he's so into it, but it's not that big of a deal!
• Archive Formats on the Xbox: Why and How with BLiNX 2 - YouTube
• The "Impossible Torpedo" was real - YouTube
• Modulex: LEGO’s Most Successful Failure - YouTube
• Making a LEGO Car Cross Broken Bridges... - YouTube
• What if English had German grammar? : r/funny