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Applying the Doorman's Fallacy to a brunch, the author argues that replacing humans with tech backfires. A table of six faced a single QR-code menu, multiple scan issues, and a confusing pay flow that left items unpaid and raised doubts about double charges. A parking-notice interruption added chaos. Though the venue saved money by cutting staff, the experience suffered and the group left with a sense of lost “magic,” possibly deterring future large outings.
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The essay argues that culinary precision can undermine intuition. It centers on a challah recipe that omits exact flour amounts, illustrating how bakers adjust flour by feel until dough is tacky, despite environmental variability. It traces how recipes shifted from terse, experience-based directions to exact measurements in the 19th–20th centuries, fueled by amateur cooking, industry, and science. While precision aided reproducibility, it also bred anxiety and "spreadsheets" of variables. The author advocates treating recipes as frameworks and trusting senses, intuition, and adaptability—the true artistry of cooking, reinforced by personal memory of his mother.
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An annotated guide to building a robust PyTorch training loop. It covers the full pipeline: data via Dataset/DataLoader, model/loss/optimizer, and a per-epoch loop with training and validation. It explains exact line order and common mistakes (e.g., placing scheduler.step() inside the batch loop, zero_grad timing, moving the model before the optimiser), forward/backward graph construction, gradient clipping, and logging with loss.item(). It also covers reproducibility, checkpointing, and GPU tips: device placement, mixed precision with GradScaler, DataLoader performance, cuDNN benchmarking, and optional compilation. A complete annotated script ties it together.
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OpenKnowledge is a local-first, AI-powered Markdown editor and LLM wiki with Claude, Codex, and Cursor integrations. It provides WYSIWYG editing, git-based sharing and collaboration, and can run as a macOS desktop app or as a local web app via CLI. Prereqs: Bun 1.3+, Node.js 24+, Git. Quick start: bun install; bun run dev for the app or docs; use bun run check and format for development. Licensed GPL-3.0-or-later. Contributions welcome via public PRs.
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ANES (Advanced Nintendo Entertainment System) documents modding an NES to use two PPUs for enhanced graphics (more colors, sprites, parallax). It provides schematics, KiCad files, and a materials list, plus a 5-step build guide: prepare two consoles, desolder RP2C02s and support ICs, relocate capacitors, solder headers, assemble the dual-PPU board, and install the demultiplexer. Includes related projects and demos linked from the repo; notes the README may be unevenly documented. GPL-3.0 license.
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Practical strategies for landing a startup’s first ten customers, including targeted outreach, validation, and leveraging early adopters.
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Advises setting a user-agent and complying with the site's robots policy; provides related links.
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Andros Fenollosa built a GPU backend for Emacs with a driver layer (gfxterm/gfxdrv.h): Metal on macOS and OpenGL on GNU/Linux, leaving xdisp.c untouched. He rasterized glyphs into a texture atlas and GPU-composited frames, achieving parity with Cocoa backend. Key hurdles included pixel-accurate rendering and an animated cursor stuck by CADisplayLink, fixed by moving timers to an Emacs Lisp pump. After adding an OpenGL Linux driver, he benchmarked: small text favors CPU; at 4K, GPU gains (image scroll 11.5x, typing 7.4x). The GPU backend won’t merge due to LLM policy; forked as --with-gpu for personal use. Lessons: architecture, conversation matter.
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The European Commission preliminarily designates Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as cloud gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act, potentially forcing interoperability and data-access remedies with fines up to 10% of worldwide turnover for non-compliance. Although they did not meet DMA’s quantitative thresholds, their market dominance and lock-in are cited as grounds for scrutiny. Both companies dispute the findings; Microsoft says it will engage with the Commission, while AWS argues there is ongoing choice for European customers. If confirmed, they would have six months to comply; the designation remains preliminary and open to responses.
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Deno 2.9 adds deno desktop for native desktop apps with a single binary, framework auto-detection, and two backends (WebView2 or Cef); it eases Node migrations by letting deno install read npm/pnpm/yarn/Bun lockfiles and seed a deno.lock. The release brings CSS module imports (unstable), faster startup and lower memory for Deno.serve, broader Node.js 26 compatibility, expanded Web Crypto (ML-KEM, ML-DSA, ChaCha20-Poly1305, SHA3), and OpenTelemetry controls. Security enhancements include min-release-age enabled by default (24h) and an opt-in no-downgrade trust policy. Numerous CLI enhancements (deno list, deno task, deno bundle/compile, watch) and improved workspace/node_modules handling.
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Trakkr assesses political bias in AI by posing the same charged questions to major models with web search off, and plotting each model's distribution on a left–right (economic) and libertarian–authoritarian (social) spectrum. June 2026 data from six models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek) show most lean left of center, with varying stability; some align closest to real-world figures (e.g., Greens, Labour, Macron). It emphasizes descriptive measurement over prescription, and shares open data, the question bank, and full methodology, including border tests that momentarily enable search.
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From Project Poltergeist in 1956 to today, physicists have built ever larger, deeper detectors to catch neutrinos, the nearly undetectable particles. Early solar-neutrino measurements (Homestake) found fewer neutrinos than predicted, spawning the solar-neutrino problem. Bigger experiments—Kamiokande, Super-Kamiokande, SNO, Borexino—confirmed oscillations between neutrino flavors, proving they have mass. The current era uses IceCube in Antarctic ice, KM3NET in the Mediterranean, JUNO, Hyper-Kamiokande, and DUNE to map neutrinos from the Sun, stars, and Earth, with detectors often buried deep underground or under ice. The recipe remains: think big, go deep, and be patient.
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OS9Map is a Mac OS 9 application that lets you browse OpenStreetMap on legacy Macs, with smooth panning and zooming, a built-in Nominatim search for landmarks and addresses, and bookmark support for quick access. Requirements: Mac OS 9, PowerPC processor, 16 MB RAM (32 MB+ recommended), and an internet connection via Open Transport TCP/IP. Version 1.0.0 (2026-06-21) marks the first public release, featuring map scrolling, zooming, and bookmarks, with a Donate/Buy Me a Coffee option.
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Besimple AI, a YC-backed startup building data/evaluation infrastructure for voice AI, seeks a Strategic Projects Lead — Audio Data (San Mateo, CA). Own end-to-end audio data collection and annotation projects: translate customer requirements into specs, design workflows, run pilots, manage contributors, QA, and delivery; identify platform gaps and write product requirements; partner with engineering/product; build repeatable playbooks. 3–7+ years in data/AI data operations or related roles; strong operator mindset, product sense, and communication. Nice-to-haves: audio/linguistic data, tooling, multilingual data, basic SQL/Python. Success: on-time, in-budget, high-quality datasets accepted by customers.
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IBM unveiled the world’s first sub-1 nm chip at 0.7 nm using a 3D nanostack transistor architecture, packing ~100 billion transistors on a fingernail-sized die—nearly double the density of its 2 nm chip. The nanostack offers up to 50% higher performance or 70% greater energy efficiency than 2 nm. It stacks transistors in 3D with layer-specific materials, with CMOS validation showing ~40% SRAM gains. Production could begin in ~5 years, with a decade of scaling anticipated. IBM collaborates with ASML, Lam Research, Tokyo Electron, and Screen, and plans Anderon quantum foundry.
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