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Ctenophores, or comb jellies, are ancient marine predators whose biology illuminates core questions in evolution. They may be the earliest animal lineage, possibly before sponges. Their nervous system is a continuous nerve net with no synapses, suggesting nervous systems could have evolved more than once. Genomes show compact, loop-rich regulation and thousands of cell types—the aboral organ hosts a complex network of sensors. They also inform bioluminescence, membrane lipids like plasmalogens, and remarkable developmental plasticity, including staged reversal, offering deep insights into early life and neural origins.
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This article describes Objgit, a Git-on-object-storage approach that remakes packfiles for efficiency. Traditional Git packfiles assume local mmap and random access, which doesn’t map well to object stores. The author proposes a new, object-storage–native format: a 128 MiB binary packfile (.bin) plus a separate binary-encoded cue sheet (.cue) that lists each object’s hash, type, compression, offsets, sizes, and delta base. This enables precise HTTP Range requests to fetch single objects while the rest downloads in the background, stores deltas separately, and uses zstd. Benchmarks show huge reductions in S3 calls and faster pushes/clones; still experimental.
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Private, transferable contracts for the future delivery of yellow onions. Sold to individuals up to 6 months out, priced $3–$12 per onion; payments via Stripe. Delivery in San Francisco, Toronto, Seattle, and Chicago (via For Our Futures); a representative coordinates delivery in the first week of each contract month, with third-party delivery possible. Prices recalculated daily by a proprietary algorithm. Each contract has a re-issuable key; owners can resell or transfer, with updated keys voiding old ones. No refunds or cash settlement. Contact [email protected]; owner Sophia Vysparov (a11ce.com).
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typesafe-computer-use is a macOS automation project that OCRs the screen and chooses the next action with a small, deterministic classifier called TypeSafe, avoiding big-model prompts. It aims to reach a user’s plain-English goal at about $0.0002 per step. The loop reads the display, selects among up to 255 options with calibrated confidence, and performs a single action (click_item, use_browser, type_text, etc.). The project uses a modular pipeline (perception, dates, decide, writer), runs via uv, and logs full run artifacts.
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Goroutine leaks occur when goroutines block indefinitely on channels, locks, or other primitives, wasting memory and CPU. Traditional tests with goleak and synctest help but can miss production leaks. Go 1.27 adds a goroutine leak profiler (runtime/pprof) that detects leaks in running programs (including prod) by identifying blocked goroutines and marking leaks, focusing on leaks caused by channels and sync primitives. It’s precise but may miss other leaks and incurs some overhead. Use /debug/pprof/goroutineleak or curl to collect a profile, then go tool pprof to diagnose patterns (e.g., unbuffered channels, early returns, missing close/unlock).
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SDCC (Small Device C Compiler) is a retargetable, optimizing ANSI C compiler suite for microcontrollers, including Intel MCS-51, DS80C390, HC08, Z80/Z180, Padauk, STM8, MOS 6502/65C02, Rabbit 4000–6000, TLCS-90, eZ80, and PIC (ports). It comprises sdas/sdld (assembler/linker), sdcpp, ucsim, sdcdb, sdbinutils, runtime libraries, and more, released under GPL-family licenses. Features include MCU-specific optimizations, global register allocator, inline assembler, C99/C11/C23 support, and regression testing. PIC ports are unmaintained. Latest releases: 4.5.0 (2025-10-15) and 4.6.0 (2026-06-22 RC; final). Download from SourceForge; SVN/Git; works on Linux, Windows, macOS (amd64; others via ports).
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The author argues that modern science is synonymous with open‑source software because code encodes predictive models, enables reproducibility, and underpins results. Scientific knowledge must be executable, testable, and adaptable; without transparent methods, a paper cannot be trusted or extended. Open source provides modifiability, reliability, and community maintenance, allowing rapid improvement and audit. The piece envisions a future where every result is instantly reproducible through runnable code and reproducible environments, with models collaboratively evolved like Wikipedia. Practical steps: share and document code from day one; use stable, reproducible environments (NixOS); value software contributions in academia.
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The post argues that building a Rust LSP is hard because you must deliver useful results from partial information. It contrasts two approaches: rust-analyzer’s incremental, salsa-based analysis with cache priming, which lazily computes only what queries require; and Rust Glancer’s eager workspace engines that index aggressively and store state on disk for restarts. Core challenges include starting up without indexing, maintaining a VFS with source generations, canceling queries in flight, and implementing analyses for definitions, bodies, macros, and type inference for features like inlay hints, hover, references, and completions. It also covers activation and protocol quirks (UTF-16, line endings).
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Alibaba's Damo Academy has open-sourced Damo Radar, a vision-language AI that reads contrast-enhanced CT scans to identify nearly 150 abdominal conditions, including cancers. Trained on CTs paired with clinical reports and evaluated on roughly 40,000 real-world exams, it achieved an average AUC of 0.913 across 146 findings. The model analyzes scans across 18 abdominal organs and could extend to other imaging types, touted as the world's first expert-level generalist medical imaging model.
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LispBM is a concurrent Lisp for microcontrollers, with documentation and getting-started resources, a WebAssembly demo, and community links (GitHub, Discord).
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A platform offering live webcam feeds from around the world.
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Column offers an end-to-end card-issuing platform that bundles a bank, an issuer processor, and capital into a single API with direct Visa/Mastercard connections. In three API calls you can originate a revolving credit line, bind it to a card account, and issue a card (plastic, metal, or other). It supports every program type—credit, debit, prepaid, and stablecoin-backed—and lets you bring your own processor and capital. Features include real-time authorizations, wallet provisioning, 3DS, disputes, tokenization, and global issuance with stablecoin settlement.
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An April 1542 Farnese letter to Poggio (Vatican Segr. Stato Spagna 1A) is deciphered by recovering a key mapping digits to letters. After earlier work suggested multiple keys, the author uses a fixed monoalphabetic design and a beam-search language model to decode pages 70r–73v, treating dotted/null digits carefully. The resulting Italian reading, though still a candidate, places Montepulciano’s departure, Farnese’s push to arm against the Turks, the Hungarian subsidy, and Speyer’s 1542 diet within the papal–imperial diplomacy. The author notes partial verification by GPT readers and that external confirmation remains pending.
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Bloomberg flags unusual activity from the user’s network and prompts a robot-verification step. To proceed, the user must confirm they’re not a bot (via CAPTCHA) and ensure JavaScript and cookies are enabled. The page links to Terms of Service and Cookie Policy, offers support with a reference ID, and pitches a Bloomberg subscription.
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OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, an AI accelerator chip delivering up to 13.4 petaflops (4-bit) and 232 GB memory at 15.4 TB/s, with latency up to 3.6× faster than Nvidia GB300 and lower power. Design time: concept to silicon under 20 months; RTL to tape-out in 9 months. A <100-person OpenAI team handled end-to-end system design; Broadcom did physical design from gates onward under a partnership. Front-end AI work used Accelerated Hardware Synthesis (XLS) to translate DSLX/C++ to Verilog. Astra-era models may run Verilog natively; back-end remains with Broadcom. Full automation unlikely, but AI accelerates development.
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Go 1.27 adds size-specialized memory allocation for up to 80-byte allocations, speeding up allocation-heavy workloads by 20–30% for those sizes and potentially 1% overall. The runtime uses size and span classes to generate specialized mallocgc variants (e.g., mallocgcSmallNoScanSC3). Benefits come mainly from faster small clears and reduced overhead, balanced against larger code size and icache usage. The sweet spot is 16–24 byte allocations. To disable, set GOEXPERIMENT=nosizespecializedmalloc. More details in the Garbage Collector Optimization Guide.
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Britain faces a push to prepare for possible war, with civilians urged to stockpile basics and bolster civic resilience as the government drafts an updated 'war book'. Experts warn Russia’s threat is real and could come as cyber or indirect warfare as well as conventional invasion. The piece contrasts today’s 'crisis of disbelief' with 1914 optimism and argues Western Europe has reduced military readiness. It highlights Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic states’ emphasis on conscription, civil defense, and citizen engagement as potential UK models.
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