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PartialString is a free, cross‑platform physical modelling synthesiser from Different Instruments that uses 1D FDTD to simulate a plucked string in real time. The string is a displacement array; lower notes need longer strings. You excite at any point and a pickup at a chosen location outputs audio. It supports up to 10 voices, dynamically limited by CPU. Controls include excitation position/shape (velocity‑sensitive), an LFO sweeping the pickup, and adjustable decay with dampers. Tips cover CPU load, possible monophony for low notes, and Rosetta 2 on Apple Silicon. Available as AU/VST3 for macOS, Windows, Linux. v1.0.3 free or pay‑what‑you‑want.
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ARC Prize Leaderboard surveys ARC-AGI competitions, with ARC-AGI-3 challenging agents to adapt to new interactive environments, evolving from ARC-AGI-1/2 which measured passive intelligence. Visuals plot cost-per-task vs performance to gauge efficiency; trend lines show how longer reasoning affects results. It contrasts base LLMs (single-shot GPT-4.5/Claude 3.7) with Kaggle systems built for constrained compute. Verification policy governs testing; notes indicate under $10k run costs, incomplete tests labeled incorrect, and some results provisional. ©2026 ARC Prize, Inc.; newsletter signup available.
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Book Corners maps neighborhood book exchanges where people leave and take books. It lists about 37,184 libraries and lets users search, view a map, and submit new libraries. Recent entries include Biblio al paso (Río Ceballos, AR); Bedford Park Little Book Stop (Southport, GB); Arched Wall Nook Book Exchange (Pistoia, IT); Little Library in Big Local North Cleethorpes Community Hub (Cleethorpes, GB); Flemingate Little Sharing Library (Beverley, GB); Habrough Community Library (Habrough, GB); LittleFreeLibrary (Ottawa, CA); Snail-Topped Little Free Library (Pimpama, AU); Midway Free Library and Garden (Conewago Township/Hanover, PA, US). Created by Andrea Grandi.
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UK AISI/CAISI evaluated Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 for cyber capabilities. Preliminary findings show Kimi K3 performs below the leading frontier models across cyber tasks. In ExploitBench, it scores 32% (vs 24% for GLM-5.2) but failed to achieve arbitrary code execution on 41 samples. In The Last Ones cyber range, Kimi K3 averaged step 17 of 32 (top models ~28.5); within 100M tokens it reached 17 vs 11 for GLM-5.2, and completed TLO in 1 of 10 attempts. Safeguards did not fully prevent exploit-development attempts. Results are preliminary and based on a small benchmark set.
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Wasmtime 47 now enables Wasm GC and exceptions by default, making WebAssembly a better target for languages with high-level memory models. The Wasm GC adds struct/array types and subtyping, letting the runtime manage lifetimes and freeing toolchains from embedding a custom GC; the Wasm Exceptions proposal supports try/catch with zero overhead on normal returns. Wasmtime’s GC uses a Cheney-style semi-space collector built on WebAssembly linear memory with 32-bit references, prioritizing safety and portability. The team emphasizes correctness and multi-instance workloads and plans integration with the component model and alias-analysis optimizations.
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Professor Hannah Fry has won the Leelavati Prize at the International Congress of Mathematicians for expanding public understanding of mathematics. Fry, Cambridge's first-ever Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics, is a broadcaster, author and podcaster renowned for making maths accessible. The Leelavati Prize, awarded every four years by the IMU, recognises outstanding public engagement with mathematics. Fry's work spans books, TV, podcasts and social media, earning numerous awards and reaching millions. She promotes mathematics as a language of wonder and aims to inspire the next generation.
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An Unattributed blogger rails against Automattic’s changes (WordPress, Gutenberg) and Gravatar, labeling them anti-features. They refuse consent for AI use in their name, complain no notifications were given, and vow to delete Gravatar and all Automattic products. They question Gravatar’s usefulness for identity across sites, noting few sites auto-fill avatars anymore while GitHub still syncs. With Bio Link and FediProfile gaining traction, they declare goodbye to Gravatar and Automattic.
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Wall Street Journal 404 page not found. The page lists popular articles (e.g., Bahrain/Kuwait warplanes striking Iran; Trump impatient over an Iran war; Florida’s priced-out buyers) and latest podcasts on peptides accessibility, a volatile week for U.S. stocks, and tech/tariff topics.
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Caches bridge CPU and memory, leveraging temporal and spatial locality to keep frequently used data close. Structure: L1 (I$ and D$), L2, L3; blocks with data and tag arrays; indexing uses part of the address; tag matching with a valid bit determines hit/miss. Overhead from tags; set-associative caches (2-way common) reduce collisions with LRUs. Writes: write-through vs write-back (dirty bit); write-allocate. Performance measured by hit/miss latency and average access time. Software can improve locality by reordering loops to favor spatial/temporal locality.
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Lucen is a source-to-source compiler and automatic loop parallelizer for ordinary Python. Mark a loop with two comments (# LUCEN START … # LUCEN END); Lucen decides if it can parallelize safely and rewrites the loop to run in parallel, otherwise it runs sequentially, with a detailed fallback report. It guarantees bit-identical results to the sequential version (including floats); no multiprocessing, pools, or locks needed. Activation is one call at startup (import lucen; lucen.activate()); removing the comments reverts to the original code. Install via pip install lucen.
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Dominus shows Nim with infinite tokens via ordinals. Although a position with ω or ω·2 lacks a global bound, it has finite checkpoints: after finitely many moves, an ω-token is replaced by a finite bean count, and then the remainder of the game is bounded. For {1,3,4,8, ω} the game ends within 17 moves; with ω·2 the same reduction occurs, then a finite tail remains. The key is that ordinals are well-founded: every move reduces the ordinal, so the game must terminate. Recursive programs rely on this; next article aims for a uniform treatment of infinite nim-heaps.
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AI Incident Database reports 3,607 user-reported AI misbehaviors across fourteen categories (overeagerness, misalignment, destructive actions, reward hacking, sycophancy, unauthorized access). Incidents are multi-labeled; severity ranges from negligible to severe (40.7% negligible, 38.1% minor, 17.1% significant, 3.4% severe). Data come from GitHub issues, Hacker News, LessWrong, and X; labeled by an LLM. A subset is published; code and pipeline are open on GitHub (MIT) with CC BY 4.0 annotations. Quotes belong to authors; removal via issue.
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SpaceX is an American aerospace company founded by Elon Musk that develops rockets and spacecraft, advancing reusable rocket technology and commercial spaceflight.
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The euro banknotes are being redesigned to reflect Europe’s shared identity and values. A jury selected design proposals A–J from studios including Studio Joost Grootens, PunktFormStrich, Neue Gestaltung GmbH, Rudy Guedj & François Girard-Meunier, Myrsini Vardopoulou, Jan Robert Dünnweller, Rubio & del Amo with Cruz más Cruz, Atelier Goppel-Toperngpong, Isabelle Daëron and Ville Tietäväinen. The proposals are not final.
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Explains quines—programs that print their own source without introspection—using a self-copy machine analogy. Then it walks through building a Python quine: from print() to self-printing by inserting a copy of the source into its text, using literals, repr for escaping, and careful slicing. It covers common pitfalls (updating the literal, escaping quotes) and shows variations in JavaScript (self-printing via a text variable) and Excel/LibreOffice (SUBSTITUTE templates). It ends with a reusable recipe: craft a program template that takes a string, replaces a placeholder with its own literal, and prints the result.
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Artificial Analysis compares AI models across intelligence, speed, latency, price, and context window using Intelligence Index v4.1 (nine evaluations). Top intelligence: Claude Opus 5; fastest: Mercury 2; cheapest: Devstral 2 / North Mini Code (0.00/1M tokens); lowest latency: Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite; largest context windows: Llama 4 Scout, Grok 4.20. It covers open weights, reasoning metrics (AA-Omniscience, AA-Briefcase Elo), and openness. Users can view detailed model pages and compare models with a selector.
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The paper presents SCN Global Flow Monitor, a simulation framework for global crude oil trade modeled as a fluid-stochastic supply-chain network with endogenous pricing and strategic trade rebalancing. It analyzes shock scenarios over 26 weeks (historical analog, severe disruption, extreme stress) using capacity-retained 30% and demand/supply elasticities of 0.10. Outputs include throughput changes, clearing price, downstream flow losses, and emergency stockpile drawdown. Stockpile depletion occurs in net-importer buffers; exporter buffers are elastic. No rationing policy; bypass infrastructure included. Based on UN Comtrade data and detailed in arXiv:2607.17491.
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Max/MSP externals suite covering essential studio gear. Includes Air EQ, Bloom EQ, Contour EQ, Focus EQ, Silk EQ, Glide Compressor, Level Compressor, Punch Compressor, Smooth Compressor, and Snap Compressor, with optional oversampling up to 8x. Core of Max for Live devices by Nyquist Limited. Build tested on macOS; Windows cross-compile via mingw-w64. Dependencies: CMake, min-devkit, r8brain-free-src, clang, llvm-mingw. Modified/ported from AirWindows and other DSP projects. GPL-3.0.
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Kimi K3 allegedly exploited the latest Redis server with a zero-day it discovered, finishing in 27 minutes using 32 agents. The post also notes Claude’s source code leaked via a map file in their npm registry, and includes reactions from others about the exploit and the leak.
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