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Ultramarine 1 Flash is Paper Instruments’ Fable-class model for professional knowledge-work (finance, law, consulting, operations). It claims 60x cheaper than Fable and 6.5% fewer output tokens than GLM-5.3 Flash, on six PI Knowledge Work benchmarks. It outperforms many rivals on cost per task (about $0.13/task) and targets clean, presentation-ready Excel/PowerPoint/Word outputs in live systems. API weights are coming soon; technical report details benchmarking and professional-data evaluations.
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A blog post titled 'A week on the farm with Dylan Araps' on Adam Schaefers Projects Blog. It introduces Adam Schaefers (Devops, Full stack dev, Gamedev, Founder) and links to contact info and profiles (email, GitHub a-schaefers, Twitch @enchantdev). It promotes a free Emacs course to avoid RSI/'emacs pinky' and notes a 5:04 video. The page lists Latest Work: @LandOfEnchantment and site links (Sitemap, Privacy, Terms).
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RealWorld, the Medium clone, was implemented entirely in Lean 4 (server, Postgres, and frontend via Datastar-lean). It passes API and website test suites; backend ~1,033 lines; uses Lean's HTTP server, lean-routing, leanpostgres, lean-html, lean-markdown, and libraries. Production viability is limited by Lean’s HTTP performance and toolchain fragility; the author suggests a pinned toolchain and modest traffic. Correctness by construction is not achieved: the OpenAPI spec is formal about types but not behavior, and while some properties are proven (e.g., route-type alignment, slug validity, escaping), the app is not derivable from a formal spec. Running instructions are in the repo.
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Flexport builds an AI-powered operating system for global trade that unifies shipments, orders, and inventory on a single platform, delivering real-time visibility, faster bookings, and automated customs. Its AI aims to spot and fix problems before they occur, optimizing freight, customs, and fulfillment. The company promotes a founder-led, growth-focused culture with extensive internal development and a 45+ office global network. It offers broad services—from ocean/air freight and warehousing to trade finance and insurance—and Flexport.org for social impact, plus wide career opportunities worldwide.
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Olympus is a Forty-Four Esolangs project that reconfigures coding as devotional speech to mythic gods. In Olympus, programs are composed by praying to deities—Zeus governs function creation, Ariadne handles branching, Mnemosyne memory, Hades garbage collection—and the interpreter treats the prayers as the code. The language uses a PEG-based grammar (Peggy.JS) so prayer-like requests are formal, precise instructions, echoing natural language. The text notes that natural-language prompts become the code itself, foreshadowing LLM-era programming. Introduced at Con 2024 in Santa Cruz; source lives on GitHub.
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Linda Heaphy’s blog post catalogs bawdy graffiti from Pompeii and Herculaneum, translating numerous wall inscriptions that run from explicit sexual jokes to scatological quips, insults, rewards, and personal notes. The compilation portrays daily life and humor in ancient Rome, illustrating that Romans shared many preoccupations with modern people. The piece cites scholarly sources (e.g., Mary Beard) and invites readers to contribute more examples, ending with references and author bio.
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Explains MySQL's PGO approach: a two-pass build using -fprofile-generate to collect per-edge execution counts from a training workload, then a second pass using that profile to reshape the binary. The compiler uses fine-grained profile data to guide inlining, branch layout, hot/cold function splitting, and whole-binary reordering, including indirect-call promotion and optimized register use. Result: denser, faster hot paths and better ICach e/ITLB locality. Profile data reflects control-flow shape, not data values; MTR coverage helps across paths even if workloads differ from production.
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Neuralwatt shows harnesses affect energy use by prompt caching: most tokens come from a cache, but edits by the harness can break the cache and roughly double energy per request, with deeper sessions costing more. Cache rates vary from about 92% to 97% across clients. Breaks arise from plan reminders, tool-list or date changes, compaction, and eviction. Builders should: keep the initial prompt prefix stable, append new content at the end, avoid changing system prompts or dates, keep tools stable, and use a stable session ID; compact late. Neuralwatt plans upstream fixes and prefix-aware routing to improve hit rates.
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An issue complains that Home Assistant scans secrets without explicit opt-in and may send data to Have I Been Pwned. The thread debates privacy, with proponents citing k-anonymity and that passwords are not sent; a suggestion to make the feature opt-in. The issue is ultimately closed as won't fix, with some users threatening to fork.
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Boolean scans in APL can be made fast by exploiting symmetries among primitive boolean functions. By applying pre/post-processing transformations (with negation and reversals) to truth tables, many binary booleans are interrelated; the relations form an equivalence class where ∧, <, and ≠ cover all cases. Implement fast versions of these core ops and derive the rest via symmetries, reducing implementation effort and code size without hurting performance. The piece details efficient word-level scans (XOR, AND, Less-than) with aggressive carry handling and notes related work in K/CBQN; performance reaches up to ~10.5 bits per cycle.
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Access to hub.jhu.edu is blocked by Cloudflare’s security. The page notes you must enable cookies and that certain actions can trigger the block (e.g., specific words, SQL commands, or malformed data). To resolve, email the site owner with details of what you were doing and include the Cloudflare Ray ID shown on the page.
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Alex Wang recasts transformers as memory stores that map keys to values. Recall is affected by interference among memories; capacity is the memory count M the store can recall before interference drowns signal. The basic outer-product memory has capacity ~ d_k. The optimal linear memory stores memories to double capacity (~2 d_k). Introducing nonlinearities (MLPs) suppresses interference and boosts capacity to ~2 d_k^2/3 (Squared ReLU) or ~2 d_k^3/15 (Cubed ReLU). Self-attention is a non-parametric memory; with beta ~ sqrt(d_k) capacity near 10^6 for d_k=64. Scaling beta with log M yields essentially unbounded memory, clarifying how transformers memorize vast facts.
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FLUX 3 Image Klein is a 5.6B open-weights model for text-to-image generation, image editing, and multi-reference generation (up to 10 refs). It offers native 4K, pixel-perfect edits, and bounding-box–controlled placement. Released as a base model for fine-tuning and a step-distilled, low-latency variant, with FP8, INT8, and NVFP4 builds under the FLUX Kommunity License. Optimized for consumer GPUs—INT8 runs on 8GB VRAM; ~4s for 1MP on RTX 5090 and <9s on RTX 4070. It ranks top among open weights in T2I, editing and multi-reference tasks, and supports LoRA/NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel; safety audits by Cinder.
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Monte Carlo simulations use randomness and the law of large numbers to solve problems difficult analytically. Originating with Ulam and von Neumann, they’re useful for numerical integration and high-dimensional problems. Examples include estimating pi by random darts in a unit square, and estimating combinatorial questions like the probability of no set in a 12-card SET hand. They’re also used for retirement projections by simulating many scenarios with distributions for returns and inflation. Code for the examples is on GitHub.
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Claude Code's review aims to minimize human time without raising reverts or incidents. Most code is written by Claude, with AI review on every PR and six layers of automated checks (lint, types, tests, build, security, etc.) plus a rollback-capable merge process. Human review is risk-based: low-risk changes may pass with one or zero humans; high-risk require two. The lifecycle spans pre-PR verifications, post-PR bug hunts, security review, and a merge queue with gradual rollout. They measure human time against incident guardrails, share context, and own outcomes.
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Stoke Money automates cash-flow forecasting by linking accounts, detecting recurring transactions, and projecting a day-by-day balance and bills. It updates forecasts as you spend, guiding you from signup to a live forecast in three steps: connect or enter accounts, auto-detect recurring activity, and view daily projections. It supports manual entry and Plaid sync; Pro adds MCP AI (Claude/ChatGPT). Plans: Free, Plus ($5/mo billed yearly or $7/mo), Pro ($8/mo billed yearly or $12/mo); 30-day free trial. Security: read-only access, AES-256-GCM, TLS; data not sold; deletion permanent.
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C++26 standardizes debugging with <debugging> and three functions: std::breakpoint(), std::is_debugger_present(), and std::breakpoint_if_debugging(). Freestanding, noexcept and non-constexpr, they address runtime debugging needs. std::breakpoint() halts under a debugger or follows platform-defined behavior otherwise. std::is_debugger_present() reports debugger attachment at call time and is replaceable for non-OS environments. std::breakpoint_if_debugging() composes the two. The API enables broader uses like extra diagnostics, disabling timeouts during stepping, and debuggable allocators, reducing ad-hoc tooling.
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