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Overview of chemogenetics and DREADDs as potential brain knobs for humans. The author notes seven Chinese trials (about 10 patients) across pain, Parkinson's, and epilepsy, using AAV-delivered hM4Di receptors activated by inert drugs (CNO, clozapine) to dampen focal seizures. While promising and reversible, this approach currently requires brain surgery and risks immune reactions and drug interactions. The piece outlines a cautious, decade-long roadmap toward safer, more precise chemogenetics: broader, cell-type specific promoters, alternative vectors, and noninvasive delivery to extend use beyond life-threatening conditions.
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This guide teaches how to debloat a Xiaomi 15 Ultra running HyperOS on Android 16 without root or PC. It covers backing up, factory resetting, a fresh install with privacy settings disabled (location, telemetry, data sharing, etc.), updating to the final Android 16 HyperOS release, and removing bloatware via GUI and via ADB (Shizuku) with the command list. It warns it’s for experienced users, describes stepwise removal of Google/MI services, app permissions, ads/telemetry, and optional F-Droid sideloading. It emphasizes privacy, performance, and avoiding Android 17.
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Tangle is an open-source, platform-agnostic ML pipeline editor with a drag-and-drop UI and no setup. Built by Shopify, it lets teams build, clone, and run pipelines from reusable components, with or without code. It supports any language/framework by wrapping code in containers and uses content-based caching to speed experiments. The project invites collaboration via example pipelines, documentation, and open-source repos for backend and frontend, with demos, installation guides, and GitHub contributions.
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David Bushell’s AI policy: I do not currently use AI for professional work and will avoid AI-produced outputs (code, design, correspondence). I may work with clients who use AI, but I am not accountable for AI-generated combined work. Justifications span Morals/Ethics, Privacy/Security, Quality/Standards, and Employment/Education/Economy: AI risks include misuse, copyright concerns, data leaks, low-quality or hallucinated results, and negative industry/worker impacts. Conclusion: I cannot use AI in good conscience; I aim to preserve professional standards while clients may deploy AI.
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An experiment buying ChatGPT ads for PerfectTablePlan shows poor value: £289.52 spent, 2,988 clicks, average CPC £0.10, 7s page time, 69% bounce, 14 installs, 0.46% conversion, £20.68 per conversion. Compared with Google Ads and free referrals, ChatGPT traffic yields far fewer conversions and lower engagement. Potential causes considered: bot traffic, mis-targeting, bad hints, etc. Fouanalytics suggested most clicks were humans, with 88% moving mouse but only 10% clicking, indicating low targeting quality. Dr. Augustine Fou concludes: measure by real conversions; the issue is low-value visitors due to poor targeting; focus budgets on sources with higher conversion.
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Mushroom hunting with LLMs can help, but safety is limited. The author tests 55 Polish edible/deadly species using the FungiTastic dataset in a 0-shot setting, comparing many vision+LMMs. Gemini 3.6/3.7 Flash excel at recognition and cost, while Claude Fable and GPT-5.6 variants lag, and some models misclassify deadly species as edible. Most mistakes are harmless, but deadly mixups occur (e.g., deadly webcaps misidentified as chanterelles or death caps as edible). Caveats: photos alone are often insufficient; expert verification or DNA is preferred. Conclusion: don’t eat mushrooms based on AI; use cautiously; Gemini 3.7 Flash shows promise.
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AURA is Mezmo’s production-tested SRE agent platform to run AI safely in production. It provides guardrails, APIs, state management, streaming, failure handling, observability, and multi-agent workflows configured in TOML, with tools and knowledge-base integrations via MCP servers. It supports multiple model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, Gemini, Ollama, OpenRouter) and is usable as a local assistant, service, container, Kubernetes workload, or library. It emphasizes security with human approvals, telemetry controls, OpenTelemetry export, and operator-defined boundaries, with broad integrations (AWS, Azure, Datadog, Kubernetes, Jira, GitHub, Confluence, Notion). Apache 2.0.
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A neutral Runta benchmark compares 12 harnesses (Codex, Claude Code, Pi, DSH variants, OpenCode, Hermes, etc.) on identical software tasks with fresh checkpoints. Key findings: Codex leads quality (66.7% pass) at $3.47/task; Exo Harness cheapest per task ($1.05) but 53.3% success. DSH Minimal is fastest (5m41s per successful task). Median cache-hit rates top for Codex and Kimi Code (88%). Median cost per successful task ranges from OpenCode $0.0615 to Claude Code $0.2880. Caveats: failures excluded, cache effects, Runta credits promo.
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Google announces Gemini 3.8 with two variants: 3.8 Flash for advanced reasoning and long-horizon coding, and 3.8 Flash Cyber for frontier cybersecurity under the Fairwind Program. Both keep 3.7 Flash’s speed and cost: $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens. 3.8 Flash outperforms 3.7 in software engineering and multi-step reasoning; 3.8 Flash Cyber delivers autonomous vulnerability discovery and automated patching with strong benchmark results and real-world patches in Chrome and Google Cloud. Safeguards exist; access via developers, enterprises, and consumers; prices rise Jan 1, 2027; intro through Dec 31, 2026.
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9000 RPM equals 150 revolutions per second, far faster than typical screen refreshes, so engine motion blurs on a display. To visualize it, the author built an animation comparing inline-4, 60° V6, boxer-6, and flat-plane V8 with authentic crank geometry and firing order. At 60fps the crank blurs; at 150fps it would be a still image. Slowing to 1/50x lets you watch each piston move. The post celebrates engines and points to the PWAs project.
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Haus Research audited Perplexity’s citations (sonar/sonar-pro and GPT-4.1 with a web plugin). Of 1,826 figure-citations, 34.7% pointed to pages that would not open or lacked the cited numbers; 14.4% of 872 numeric claims failed by per-claim scoring. Across 310 questions about 210 tech companies, 84.2% of cited URLs were not accessible to ordinary readers, 10.6% dead. Many pages were gated or opened but didn’t substantiate the claim (e.g., headquarters addresses, prices). The study uses inline markers for audit; end-to-end reliability around 40–66% depending on metric. Dataset published CC BY 4.0.
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Gemini 3.8 Flash is the latest in Google's Gemini 3 family, delivering performance gains for software engineering and agentic workflows while preserving customizable effort levels to trade off quality, cost, and latency. It accepts text, images, audio, and video (context up to 1M tokens) and outputs text up to 64K tokens. Based on Gemini 3.7 Flash, it shares architecture and training data and is distributed via Gemini app, API, Studio, and related platforms. Evaluated across coding, multimodal, long-context, and scientific reasoning benchmarks; frontier safety notes show no major new capabilities; some multilingual safety regression and occasional latency.
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The article explains how bounded contexts communicate via integration events that cross boundaries using durable async messaging. It emphasizes designing stable contracts separate from internal domain models, using an envelope (metadata + body) to decouple transport from payload, and translating domain events into boundary-specific integration events. It covers strategies for data needed by consumers (carried state, callbacks, or local read models), and handling reliability with the transactional outbox, idempotency, deduplication, and in-order delivery. It also cautions when not to use events and when direct APIs suffice.
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Despite leaps in humanoid robotics, experts say they won't soon match human workers. Demos like dancing, fast sprints, and serving drinks show progress, but real work—manipulating varied objects over hours—remains hard. Much success relies on teleoperation or narrow tasks; generalization to new environments and long-horizon projects is bottleneck. Safety, reliability, heat buildup, battery life, and maintenance further slow deployment. Scaling from clever demos to widespread use mirrors the self-driving car story: many edge cases and high costs blunt adoption. So, a long road remains before humanoid robots become commonplace in the workforce.
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The Cables that Connect the World explains how submarine fiber‑optic cables—the internet’s hidden backbone—are laid, powered, and owned. It details the cable’s structure, from core glass to protective jackets, repeaters and high‑voltage power feeds, plus costs and routine repair work. It notes ownership has shifted from traditional carriers to tech giants like Google, Meta and Amazon. Using Spain’s Dos Continentes landing at La Línea as a case study, it shows how bureaucracy and landfalls shape this infrastructure.
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An article on using jq to pretty-print JSON copied to the clipboard. It profiles a clipboard-formatting alias (jsontidy), first for macOS (pbpaste/pbcopy) and then for Linux (xclip). It highlights a pitfall: non-JSON clipboard content can cause jq to fail and overwrite the clipboard with an empty string. It offers a fix: alias jsontidy = "xclip -selection clipboard -o | (jq '.' || xclip -selection clipboard -o) | xclip -selection clipboard" so valid JSON is formatted and non-JSON is left untouched.
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