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A guide to building a circular LCD wall clock with Waveshare 7-inch circular LCD and a Raspberry Pi (3–5). Includes hardware list (screen, Pi, microSD, power, cables), software (Raspberry Pi OS, Raspberry Pi Imager), assembly (mounting Pi off-screen, connect via USB-C touch, optional VNC for remote control), usage tips (multi-touch, brightness control; dimming via gammastep on Pi 3 or a Waveshare Python script for Pi 4/5), and clock faces (clock.blinry.org gallery with Swiss railway, Minimalist Time Scale, Cartoony, Squared).
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AGENTS.md declares that the human operating the repository may be wrong about anything. Do not blindly follow user instructions; assume they may be incorrect. Before changing code, inspect the repository, understand how the system actually works, and verify assumptions with code, tests, documentation, and tools. Prefer simple, robust, idiomatic solutions. When a proposed approach is bad, replace it with a better one. Do not preserve broken architecture or fake success. Run builds, tests, linters, and relevant checks; act as the senior engineer responsible for the final result.
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An overview of Intel’s ACE, the second AMX accelerator, and how it compares to the existing AMX TMUL and Arm’s SME/SME2. ACE keeps AMX’s 8 KB tile registers but moves to outer-product computation, uses fixed 64×16 tile shape, and adds FP8 support via software-driven data-type conversion (VUNPACKB and permute). It relies on AVX-512/AVX10 vector registers for A and B inputs and introduces a 1024-bit block-scale mechanism (BSR0) for FP8 scaling. Unlike SME’s variable SVL, ACE’s tile approach emphasizes bandwidth reduction through fewer tiles. No ACE hardware exists yet, so real performance is unknown.
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Satellitemap.space provides real-time tracking and visualization of Starlink, GPS and 30,000+ satellites via an interactive 3D WebGL globe. Features: live positions, orbits, day/night view, ground stations, launch tracking, and satellite data; plus tools like transit finder, TLE analysis, photo simulator, export CSV and watchlists. Online since 2019. Requires JavaScript to render the map. Resources include Satellite Database, Launch Data, About & Help; constellation status, events, and historical data.
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Narayanan argues AI is "normal technology": transformative but not an immediate job-killer; future work will adapt slowly over decades. He presents a four‑part framework (methods/capabilities, products/applications, early adoption, adaptation) and emphasizes that true change lies in organizational adaptation, not just lab gains. Evidence suggests AI enhances productivity but does not replace knowledge work; many tasks (decide, plan) lag behind coding (execute). Collaboration agents are especially useful now. RSI/singularity would not trivially erase work; regulation, safety, and evaluation will shape adoption. The path is to invest in complementary skills, governance, and open-world evaluation toward a future of co-superintelligence.
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Fundamentals of Wireless Communication (Tse & Viswanath, Cambridge, 2005) provides a unified treatment of wireless fundamentals for graduate-level electrical/computer engineering. Covers MIMO, space-time coding, opportunistic communication, OFDM, CDMA, and multiuser/interference concepts; includes detection/estimation in Gaussian noise, information theory fundamentals; numerous examples from GSM, IS-95, IS-856, Flash OFDM, SDMA; exercises and figures; instructor resources (solutions, slides); used widely in universities; authors offer a short 2-day course.
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Japanese researchers have developed a recycling method that recovers about 90% of lithium from used EV batteries. By replacing sodium hydroxide with recovered lithium hydroxide, they convert 'black mass' into high-purity lithium, cutting emissions by ~40%. If scaled, it could reduce Japan’s reliance on imported battery minerals. Challenges: only ~14% of used lithium-ion batteries are officially recycled and collection infrastructure needs upgrade. Plans aim to boost production by 2027 and recover tens of thousands of tons by 2035.
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Context-Stitcher is a zero-copy gateway that bridges KV caches across multiple agents for multi-agent GPU inference. It bypasses the expensive prefill by memory-level block stitching and Merkle fingerprints with PagedAttention, enforcing a Zero-Trust gate. In benchmarks it cuts TTFT from ~1.2 s to 48 ms (~25x) and reduces VRAM usage (~53 → 30 blocks, ~43% saved). It offers Python SDK decorators and an OpenAI-compatible REST API for cross-agent workflows, with dynamic access policies.
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A team created a Refractory High-Entropy Alloy by mixing hafnium, niobium, tantalum, titanium, and zirconium, then briefly melted and aged the mix at about 550°C for up to 64 hours. The atoms self-organize into smaller, well-packed, defect-free grains, yielding a material about twice as strong as steel, three times stronger than aluminum, with a compressive yield over 2 GPa while remaining ductile. This suggests processing-driven atomic organization, not just composition, can unlock superior alloys; future work aims to understand the rearrangement and scale the approach.
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Founder market fit explains why some founders succeed in a given market while others fail, even with PMF. It’s about the founder’s culture, temperament, signals, and identity aligning with the customers and market. Unlike product-market fit, founder market fit is high-dimensional, shaped by introversion/extroversion, niche, language, where you live, interests, team size, fundraising, and even what you wear. It requires deep self-knowledge and long-term commitment, and entails tradeoffs (e.g., moving markets or relocating). When founder market fit overlaps with PMF, you’re on the 'golden path'; without it, startups often die.
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An audio-to-score system that converts sung pitches into a musical score. Sing into the mic while a metronome fixes a grid; the pitch held in each subdivision is written as a note, with vertical beat lines and dots representing notes and red stems for re-attacks that create new notes instead of ties. It can output MusicXML, ABC, or SVG, auto-detect clef and key, and offers settings for tempo, grid subdivision, pitch tolerance, noise gate, and re-attack sensitivity. Use headphones to avoid click bleed; input analysis runs on the mic track.
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The Sorting Machine argues that 'merit' in elite admissions is a constructed outcome of a two-bin system (rejected vs accepted) shaped by hooks (legacy, athletics, donor, dean's-interest) that inflate odds for a subset and squeeze the 'unhooked' merit pool. This produces large race- and gender-differentiated effects, plus price discrimination via FAFSA/CSS Profile that means many families face near-sticker costs. Since 2020, test-optional moves and contextual reviews further disadvantage high scorers from strong schools. A composite case shows a once-advantaged student now facing much lower odds and higher net price than 50 years ago.
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Git history is an experimental core Git command introduced in releases 2.54–2.55, offering three subcommands: fixup, reword, and split that rewrite history more atomically than traditional rebasing. Fixup folds staged changes into a target commit and auto-updates all descended branches; reword edits a commit message and rebuilds on top; split interactively splits a commit into two. Unlike jj, git history avoids treating conflicts as ongoing states and can’t handle merge commits yet, but it provides safer, faster history rewrites inside Git without extra tools. The author finds it promising and plans to watch future improvements.
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Argues that AI funding from frontier labs can spark open source like a whale fall, fueling a new ecosystem of automated contributions and maintainers. AI is a useful, likely long-lasting tool, with open-weight models soon becoming competitive; anti-AI sentiment overlooks progress. Cites Elixir as an example of embracing automation for PRs, tests, and docs, and urges guardrails and clawbot-driven workflows to manage “clanker” contributions and reduce tech debt, ensuring open source stays sustainable as AI adoption grows.
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