Weeklog for Week 16: April 14 to April 20
Progress
Vacation week. Relaxed but also stressed. As always.
Articles
- Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg voices - Palo Alto Online
- Subsystem Survival Guide -- vgecrocketry
- How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look? · Caffeinspiration
- The Secret History of the Manicule, the Little Hand that’s Everywhere
- Please Don’t Sell Space In Your Homelab
- An ssh adventure; or, why l10n support is important(*) ($2149340) · Snippets · GitLab
- Stevens: a hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs
- Komplette Gartenhütte in Kleinwagen gepackt: Polizei kennt kein Pardon auf Autobahn
- Anpralldämpfer – Wikipedia
- Hessischer Handkäse -- Local Cheese From Hesse, Germany -- TasteAtlas: #1 worst rated German Cheese
- fi-le.net * The Whimsical Investor
- The Promise of American Higher Education - Harvard University President
- Erlang’s not about lightweight processes and message passing…
- 45-year mystery behind eerie photo from The Shining is believed to be solved
- BAN #447: Wait. HOW MANY supernova explode every year?
- [2410.03730] Teuken-7B-Base & Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs: "We present two multilingual LLMs designed to embrace Europe's linguistic diversity by supporting all 24 official languages of the European Union. Trained on a dataset comprising around 60% non-English data and utilizing a custom multilingual tokenizer, our models address the limitations of existing LLMs that predominantly focus on English or a few high-resource languages. We detail the models' development principles, i.e., data composition, tokenizer optimization, and training methodologies. The models demonstrate competitive performance across multilingual benchmarks, as evidenced by their performance on European versions of ARC, HellaSwag, MMLU, and TruthfulQA."
- GitHub - iot-ecology/rust-iot-platform: A high-performance IoT development platform built with Rust, designed for multi-protocol support and real-time data processing. This platform supports MQTT, WebSockets (WS), TCP, and CoAP protocols, making it highly
- How Nintendo Bled Atari Games to Death -- The MIT Press Reader
- Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization that the World Forgot (or: a Better Alternative to Integer Modulo) -- Probably Dance
- How to win an argument with a toddler -- Seth's Blog
- The Carbon Almanac -- Facts. Connection. Action.
- How to Use regexp_matches and regexp_match in PostgreSQL -- Caktus Group
- You're Probably Breaking the Llama Community License - Notes
- TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days -- DigiCert
- Eink Mode: Making Web Pages Easier to Read
- Hacking the Postgres wire protocol -- PgDog
- The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder • Buttondown
- Weltraumteleskop James Webb: Bislang klarster Hinweis auf außerirdisches Leben -- heise online
- Mastodon Exit Interview -- Rob’s Posts
- How we are migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD - Part 1 - System and jails setup - IT Notes
- James Shore: The Best Product Engineering Org in the World
- ExponenTile: I hate these games!
- Running Background Tasks from Django Admin with Celery -- TestDriven.io
- Sneak peek: A new ASN.1 API for Python - The Trail of Bits Blog
- This Ancient Egg Is 1,700 Years Old and Still Has Liquid Inside It - Gastro Obscura
- A Math Lesson From Hitler's Germany
- The world's most famous carbon dioxide absorber
- Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without all the Bullshit ---- Math ∩ Programming
- Electric Propulsion's Dirty Secret: Why Lithium Can't - Kumar Thangudu
- mceliece-529-20250417.pdf
- How to Force Your Kids to Do Math? -- Paul Fournel
- A Stunning Image of the Australian Desert Illuminates the Growing Problem of Satellite Pollution — Colossal
- Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues -- Tom's Hardware
- FramePack
- The Icelandic voting system - Smári McCarthy
- Botnet Part 2: The Web is Broken - Jan Wildeboer’s Blog
Libraries, programming, etc
- SQLite File Format Viewer
- GitHub - Brktrlw/django-admin-collaborator: Real-time collaborative editing for Django admin with WebSockets
- GitHub - django-commons/django-enum: Full and natural support for enumerations as Django model fields.
- Attune - Open Source Artifact Registry
Books
- Das fantastische Licht von Terry Pratchett: Ah, der zweite Teil, und hier geht die Discworld richtig los. Jetzt wird es schon so langsam die gewohnte Qualität und das gewohnte Tempo. Deutlich besser als vorher!
- Das Erbe des Zauberers von Terry Pratchett: Ich habe zwei sehr seltsame Ausgaben von Pratchett's Werken: eine mit Farben der Magie und Eric, und eine mit dem fantastischen Licht und Equal Rites. Komische Aufteilung, aber ok. Dieses hier ist super, und die ständige Frage nach „warum darf eine Frau das nicht” ist großartig und bleibt wenig überraschend ohne Antwort.