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Astronomer Dr. Tony Phillips argues that SpaceX’s Starlink constellation can serve as a planetary barometer. By mining publicly available two-line-element (TLE) data, he tracks drag on roughly 1,000 Starlinks plus hundreds of satellites from Planet Labs, Amazon Kuiper, and Eutelsat OneWeb to gauge upper-atmosphere density. As the thermosphere heats from solar ultraviolet radiation and geomagnetic storms, air expands, increasing orbital drag; the B* parameter in TLEs grows to keep models aligned. No instrument was launched; the swarm itself is the sensor, via a daily index from three constellations, with a ~2-day lag.
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Hamilton - Health Dashboard is a private, read-only Android app that aggregates health data from Android Health Connect across Garmin, Withings, Fitbit, Samsung Health, Oura, Whoop, Google Fit, Strava, and more. It shows steps, distance, calories, weight and body composition, heart rate/HRV, sleep stages, SpO2, breathing rate, skin temperature, hydration, nutrition, mindfulness, and floors. It stitches histories when you switch devices to avoid double counting. It never uses the internet or Cloud—no account, no analytics, data stays on-device. One-time purchase; Health Connect required.
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Typst is a Rust-based typesetting system for PDFs, SVGs, PNGs, with experimental HTML. Typst 0.15 (June) adds variable fonts, MathML HTML export, multiple bibliographies, and a bundle feature to produce interlinked HTML/PDF from one source. It also improves handling of multiple PDF standards for archival and accessibility (PDF/A, UA-1), with warnings for incompatible combos. The article covers practical examples: variable-font axes, code mode, and a bundle demo. Typst has a growing ecosystem (~1500 packages) and aims toward a LaTeX-like replacement, though journal adoption remains limited.
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Zelensky said Russia has widened its strikes to hit Ukraine’s data centres and internet providers to disrupt civilian life. The attacks have caused internet outages and damaged data centres, killing four people in a Kyiv business centre and a separate attack killing a 14-year-old boy (an Israeli citizen). Russia confirmed targeting data centres used by Ukrainian military intelligence. Ukraine warns rapid alerts and life-saving information could be affected, though the decentralised network should keep internet access. A Starlink station arson in Poland is being probed as possible Russian sabotage.
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An author digs into Meta's Muse filesystem and finds a lone session using a model labeled azure/muse-special, with signs suggesting it’s an OpenAI/ Azure OpenAI backend. The broader Muse catalogue includes Avocado (Meta), Claude variants, GPT-5.x through OpenAI/Azure, and others. There's an Anthropic client and a proxy kill-switch, implying multiple provider routing for experimentation, distillation, or RL. The article argues Muse's server-side routing, not weights copying, determines responses; muse-special’s raw reasoning is encrypted, while Avocado transcripts reveal thinking text. Privacy notes: Avocado conversations may be used to train Meta unless opted out.
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The Supreme Court ruled that states may use the federal SAVE database to verify voters’ citizenship, reversing lower courts that warned the system was inaccurate and could disenfranchise eligible voters. The majority said the federal government should assist state election officials in administering elections, staying enforcement to aid midterms. SAVE, created to assess immigration benefits, has been repurposed to screen citizenship; critics argue it is outdated and risky for voter rolls. Adoption remains uneven; privacy concerns and procedural flaws were highlighted in dissents.
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Manuel Blum's talk, Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student, distills the four R's: Reading, Studying, Thinking, Writing. Reading: treat books as non-linear; skim, annotate, and write while reading to learn hard material. Studying/Thinking: writing extends reasoning; seek clever shortcuts, learn from others' published work and from contradictions; consider P vs NP. PhD path: start, go deep, focus narrowly, navigate advisor dynamics, persist after rejection, and look for nonstandard solutions. Writing: get feedback, revise, be a mensch, and end with a personal, meaningful goal—being unique.
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Access to the YouTube page is blocked by Google’s anti-automation check due to unusual traffic from the user’s network. To continue, enable JavaScript and solve a CAPTCHA. It warns the traffic may come from malware, a browser plug-in, or automated scripts, and could involve others sharing the same IP. The block ends once requests slow or stop; the page shows the user’s IP and timestamp.
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Adam Siegel describes applying a CIA-style, AI-assisted forecasting framework—Continuous Probabilistic Foresight (CPF)—to analyze the University of Illinois football season. He builds a structured model with nine drivers, defines scenarios, and translates uncertainties into forecast questions, updating probabilities as new evidence arrives. After a home loss to Duke, some indicators worsened (CFP odds) while others improved (sack rate, Houser's accuracy), illustrating how evidence shifts parts of the model differently. The approach provides a running, explicit view of likely futures, with potential use for teams, journalists, and other analysts, beyond sports.
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Doom or Bloom is an interactive piece about how AI will reshape society, inviting you to map your own worldview on civilizational change. It lists a roster of prominent AI researchers and tech leaders (Yudkowsky, Soares, Hinton, Bengio, LeCun, Russell, Tegmark, Hassabis, Fei-Fei Li, Musk, Gates, Obama, Trump, Zuckerberg, among others). The piece features "Explore all simulated users" and "Where do you land?" prompts and emphasizes privacy and 𝕏.
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Matt von Hippel challenged AI firms to solve a frontier problem in scattering amplitudes—compute the nine-loop hexagon amplitude in planar N=4 SYM within a modest budget. Anthropic's Claude Science harness tackled it, using bootstrap and an indirect form-factor route, costing roughly $100–$2,000. Claude completed the computation; the majority of the result was then obtained or checked by human teams (Lance Dixon; Song He) and GPT-6 assisted groups. The episode shows current LLMs can perform substantial frontier physics using known methods and reasonable compute, but rarely invent new principles; it hints at future possibilities and remaining bottlenecks.
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Ollaya provides private, open‑source decision models that run locally on your hardware (CPU/GPU) with a TypeSafe, single‑forward API. Includes models like laya, gliclass, nli, decider, plus a router; supports 100+ languages. Weights are from HuggingFace and not rehosted; Apache-2.0. Runs on macOS, Windows, Linux and Docker; no per‑token fees or metering; data stays on your machine. Latency ranges from a few ms to hundreds of ms depending on hardware (e.g., five‑question laya on RTX 4090 ~8–10 ms). Example shows refund intent classification.
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Quanta explains the holographic principle: gravity encodes a region’s interior on its boundary, making area encode volume. It reviews black hole entropy, Bekenstein–Hawking, and the AdS/CFT correspondence, which equates gravity in anti-de Sitter space with a boundary quantum theory. The piece discusses competing pictures—surface real (it from qubit), interior volume real, or neither—and notes applying AdS/CFT to our de Sitter universe remains unsettled. The author leans toward holography as a plausible, though not settled, view of reality.
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jevmem is an automatic memory tool for Claude Code (also works with Cursor and Codex). It captures decisions, constraints, bugs and todos from Claude Code chats into JEVMEM.md, marks superseded lines, and appends relevant lines to Claude's context. Install via npm and run jevmem init to create config and hooks; supports claude, codex, cursor, and claude-desktop. Memory is managed via MCP with rules; lines are limited to ~200 chars and secrets scrubbed. Commands: init, hook, daemon/watch, mcp, audit, search, list, add, why, right, wrong, missed, fit, stats, log. Benchmarks show fast, cheap, high accuracy.
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Access to the YouTube page is blocked due to unusual traffic from the user’s network. Google prompts a CAPTCHA to verify the user isn’t a bot. The message notes automated requests may come from malware, a browser plugin, or a script, and a shared IP could trigger the block. If others share the IP, the network administrator should help. The block should lift once traffic subsides, with references to the IP address and timestamp.
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Bloomberg shows a bot-detection page: it notes unusual activity, asks the user to verify they’re not a robot (enable JavaScript and cookies), provides a support contact with a block/reference ID, and promotes subscribing for market news.
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Friday Facts #447 chronicles Factorio’s foray into physical models via 3D printing with Prusa. After a Space Age DLC playtest (FFF-427), the team built 15 model sets (65 models, 247 STL files) including belts, inserters, a biter spawner, chests, and the player, with two print variants for precision and clearance. They discuss challenges from isometric perspective and support-free printing, splitting parts and orienting shells to minimize visible seams. All models are downloadable from Prusa Printables. Special thanks to the team and Štěpán Feik.
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The piece argues that first-principles thinking helps senior engineers escape stagnation and build momentum by asking why and mapping code to user impact. Great engineers connect outcomes to real needs, start with the smallest feasible step, and keep things simple. In the shift to agentic development, one must box past experience, reassess problems, and explore what AI can do rather than rely on old constraints. Starting from the goal yields faster learning loops and a new flow state centered on understanding and momentum.
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