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Noam Brown posted that an internal Astra version, OpenAI’s next major model family, reportedly solved 10 major open problems in mathematics, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science, and would be a major step for scientific reasoning. Related posts claim Astra produced 10 proofs on long-standing problems and even new circuit lower bounds for computing the permanent; users tout GPT-5.6 enabling exciting progress, with typical AI-chat reactions visible.
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Website Auditor's AI Visibility Index tracks how often small/mid-sized businesses are named in AI answers to buying-intent queries and how machine-readable their sites are. Using 531 audits across 458 domains (through 2026-08-02), it finds 94.8% never surface in AI answers; only 10 of 193 sites were named across 5,978 responses. Gemini led at 2.9%; ChatGPT ~1.7%, Claude ~1.6%, Perplexity ~1.6%. 8.9% block at least one AI crawler; 54.6% publish schema.org data; 19.3% publish LocalBusiness schema.
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Great Question (YC-backed AI customer-research platform) seeks a Senior Demand Generation Manager (remote US) to own SQLs via a scalable demand engine. Responsibilities: build multi-channel programs (organic/AI search, content, gated assets, referrals, directories, events, paid); translate assets into repeatable lead-gen systems; target researchers, designers and product managers; partner with Product Marketing, Growth Lead and GTM Engineer; measure funnel metrics (MQL→SQL→SQO, cost per qualified lead, ROI). Requirements: 5–8 years B2B SaaS demand gen; AI-native; strong channel judgment; lean environment. 70/30 OTE; inclusive, remote-friendly culture.
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Requests setting a user-agent and following the robots policy; cites https://w.wiki/4wJS and Phabricator task T400119.
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Meshdiff is a browser-based 3D model diff tool for STL, 3MF, and OBJ that runs in JavaScript.
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Maze Toys offers online mazes, 3D corn mazes, and puzzle games. It features Straight up Mazes (Mini to Mega) and Daily Mazes (Mini, Medium, Mighty, Mega). Immersive Corn Mazes (Mini/Medium/Mighty) and Circular Mazes (Mini/Medium/Mighty) let you navigate rings. Faultless mazes ban backtracking or wall hits; Faultless variants (Mini/Medium/Mighty) intensify the challenge. Race the Clock modes challenge you to solve as many mazes as possible within various time frames (from 1 minute up to 60 minutes across sizes).
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Anne Lawrence-Mathers examines the Ars Notoria, a medieval ritual text promising instant knowledge through diagrams, prayers, and angelic names. Its images function as paths to power, with eight recitations aligned to a lunar month and a sequence of 'triumphals' for the trivium—grammar, rhetoric, dialectic—followed by philosophy, medicine, music, geometry, mathematics, and theology. Although Thomas Aquinas condemned it as unlawful and futile, copies circulated in universities and monasteries, and abridged versions (the Art of Memory) persisted into the Renaissance. Accounts like John of Morigny warn of seductive, demonic temptation, but the work attracted ambitious readers seeking rapid learning.
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Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for today’s AI-driven growth? The piece argues not. Before the IR, 10× faster growth relative to the long-run UK average was common (roughly 40–46% of years; 17% of 20-year windows). In modern data, 10× growth is extremely rare: about 0.8% of country-years exceed 19% growth. Using a standard-deviation metric, IR-like acceleration would imply about 2.3–3.0% annual growth today, not a 18.9% leap. Thus the IR is a weak guide to today’s explosive growth; today’s regime would be qualitatively different. Data: Maddison Project 2023.
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IBM i is a unique, integrated OS with Db2 for i embedded in the kernel and Single Level Storage—treating memory and disks as one address space. It uses an object model with a flat library structure (QSYS, *LIBL, QTEMP) and supports native I/O or SQL. TIMI/SLIC provide hardware abstraction, enabling backward compatibility with PTFs and TRs. Key features include Journaling for transactions/recovery, Adopted Authority and QSECOFR for security, an Integrated File System with POSIX/PASE, BRMS backups, and HA options like MIMIX or PowerHA.
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OpenAI reportedly solved ten open mathematical problems with an unreleased model. The piece surveys how people will cope with AI-driven math advances and argues most coping stories fall apart as AI surpasses human intuition, can select and normalize results, and potentially remove humans from the loop. It warns of a demon-haunted world where we rely on frontiers built by machines we don’t understand. Mathematics is social; intrinsic motivation won’t sustain progress. The author concludes progress isn’t inevitable and warns AGI is a double-edged bargain; prediction is uncertain but plausible.
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Cyber is a fast, concurrent scripting language designed for embedding in applications, games, and engines. It combines dynamic and optional static typing, fibers for concurrency, memory safety, and a fast VM with JIT, plus cross-platform support and a C-ABI FFI for embedding. It ships a CLI and core library (libcyber) and bindings to libraries like Raylib and LLVM. Use cases include desktop/server scripting and embedding in hosts; benchmarks show strong performance, especially with JIT. The project invites contributions via GitHub/Discord and sponsorship.
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Police departments in the US are increasingly producing true-crime podcasts to aid investigations. Aurora PD’s podcast on Chelsea Yasser’s 2016 murder drew tips and aided DNA work; California and Illinois departments have done similar projects, including a controversial podcast about Peter Chadwick that preceded his 2019 capture. Elgin, IL, produced “Somebody Knows Something” for a missing 23-year-old, fueling leads and new seasons. Experts say podcasts can widen reach, solicit tips, and aid recruitment, but risks include misinformation and civil liability.
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Bor v0.8.0 adds policy types Thunderbird, Microsoft Edge for Business, and Firewalld zones, plus a full web UI overhaul, finer-grained per-action RBAC, and a security hardening pass. Thunderbird policies merge into policies.json with tamper protection; Edge for Business writes bor_managed.json in managed-policy dirs; Firewalld zones write zone XML, validate with firewall-cmd --check-config, and reload. Polkit gains variable conditions; per-action RBAC is more granular. The web UI adopts PatternFly 6 with routed editors, safety rails, server-side paging, and accessibility. Protobuf-driven policy catalogues; agent v0.8.0 required. Node.js 22+ for frontend; downloads available.
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Syncular is an offline-first SQL sync platform with two cores (TypeScript and Rust) kept in lockstep by a conformance suite. Clients maintain a local SQLite database (OPFS in the browser, native SQLite elsewhere) and write through an optimistic outbox; the server holds a single authoritative commit log. It uses WebSocket for sync, per-column end-to-end encryption, and CRDT-based merges. The project is modular (core, server, web client, testing, conformance), follows a spec-first approach, and is Apache-2.0 licensed. Docs at syncular.dev.
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A Mastodon post by Marcin Wichary notes that Google's time filter in Search broke a few days ago.
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Hoel argues nerd culture has become the dominant cultural force, aided by tech wealth and mimetic desire, yielding benefits like science fiction visibility and online discourse but harming high culture by crowding out intellectual formation. CGI blockbusters replace nuanced art, and many nerds never become genuine intellectuals. He calls for some nerds to metamorphose into intellectuals rather than remain midcult, consumption-driven tastemakers.
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Open Home Foundation reports EU DMA decision requiring Google to open 11 Android features to all assistants, including always-on wake word detection, ambient sensor access, and screen automation. The ruling mandates interoperable, equally effective implementations, with first-stage wake word detection in DSP, two-stage processing, tools and documentation, and concurrent access by multiple services. Timeline: Android 18 by Aug 1, 2027; Android 19 by Aug 1, 2028. The post recounts how Google gatekept wake word, why this matters for Home Assistant, and envisions battery-efficient wake words, dual-assistant setups, and broader sensor/app integrations, with ongoing oversight and community involvement.
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