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Manticore Search 27.1.5 introduces built-in authentication/authorization, sharded tables, and conversational search (CREATE CHAT MODEL, CALL CHAT) over vector data, plus faster KNN with multithreaded HNSW and local ONNX embeddings. It also improves faceting and date_histogram with time zones, and adds stats like percentiles. Other gains: searchd --check, EXIT CLUSTER, dict=keywords_32k, Ukrainian lemmatizer, systemd Type=notify, JOIN prefixes, OpenSearch Dashboards support, and multi-query for manticore-load. Upgrade notes stress staged rollout due to auth changes; 26.x replication layout changes; MCL compatibility. 65 fixes, including a crash fix for columnar float_vector.
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Originating in Venice in 1496, the semicolon joined two complete thoughts without ending either. It spread quickly across Europe into English writing, with Herman Melville using thousands of them in Moby-Dick. In computing, it ended statements in languages like C, C++, and Java, shaping modern code. Today it underpins digital systems, appears on devices, and, as a tattoo, stands for choosing to continue when a sentence could have ended. If you need help, call or text 988.
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UTFS, the micro TAR File System, is an embedded storage solution from CLI Systems that decouples application data from its storage layout. It uses a flat address space with named blocks, inspired by TAR headers (24-byte header, 12-byte name). All data loads into RAM and is saved back with utfs_load() and utfs_save(), without an open/close interface. It supports changing data structures’ sizes without loss by writing the current RAM size and re-aligning data on save. A 16-bit signature enables versioning or checksums. Example shows per-subsystem files registered and separate data blocks. MIT-licensed on GitHub.
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Severin Bucher mounts a ballpoint pen on an Elegoo Neptune 4 Plus with a 3‑piece OpenSCAD PLA adapter to turn a 3D printer into a pen plotter for postcards. After initial tests, a Z-homing issue nearly damaged the bed, so he streams G-code via Moonraker’s WebSocket API to issue manual moves and avoid homing. He creates SVGs with Inkscape (Hershey Text), converts to G-code with svg2gcode, and uses a custom streamer to write. The method yields postcard-writing and SVG drawing from the printer.
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FCA launches the UK’s first real-time bond consolidated tape, operated by ETS Connect UK, giving investors a single view of prices and trading across UK bonds. Triggered by December 2025 transparency rules, real-time reporting has risen to ~75% for corporate and ~80% for government bonds, with 98% market coverage. The service covers post-trade data on bonds admitted to UK venues (ETNs/ETCs excluded) and runs under a 5-year FCA-supervised contract following a competitive tender. The launch, the first outside North America, aims to boost transparency, liquidity and competitiveness of UK fixed income markets.
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Luis Alvarez, a Berkeley experimental physicist, helped turn theory into the atomic bomb and then shaped postwar “Big Science.” He helped confirm fission, contributed to the Manhattan Project, and championed a militarized, well-funded physics program at Berkeley. He led War-era radar innovations and devised the large Bevatron bubble chamber—the core of “Luie’s army” that produced numerous particles and industrial-scale data handling. Frustrated by bureaucratic, team-based research, he later pursued smaller, hands-on work (cosmic rays, pyramids, dinosaurs) and remained a controversial Cold War adviser.
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Codex writes massive local feedback logs to SQLite (logs_2.sqlite, WAL, SHM), estimated ~640 TB/year on a 1 TB drive, risking drive wear. About 37 TB was written in 21 days. Most data comes from TRACE/logging via OpenTelemetry and related sources; TRACE accounts for ~70% of bytes. Proposed fixes: narrow defaults for the feedback sink (avoid global TRACE), stop persisting raw payloads, store summaries (event kind, duration, outcome, token usage, size), add size caps, and an optional disable switch. Similar unbounded growth issues are noted in other Codex components.
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David Ha and Jürgen Schmidhuber trace the roots of today’s AI boom to Munich in 1991, when Schmidhuber’s TU Munich lab published foundational advances that underlie modern LLMs: the first Transformer variant (ULTRA/unnormalized linear Transformer), unsupervised pre-training, neural network distillation, deep residual learning (leading to LSTM and ResNet), and the first GANs for world models. They argue these seeds, plus evolving world models, planning and meta-learning, shaped the field, even as commercial AI moved to the Pacific Rim. The piece includes a detailed 1991 timeline and reflections on historical context.
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GLM-5.2: open-weight, MIT-licensed, cheap, text-only. Opus 4.8: closed, faster, multimodal, can inspect visuals. In a head-to-head WebGL 3D platformer build, Opus finished faster with a cleaner game, while GLM-5.2 was cheaper but rougher (missing textures, no win condition, debug overlay). GLM-5.2 can’t read images, so it couldn’t verify frames; Opus verified via screenshot. Benchmarks place GLM-5.2 among open models, but Opus dominates coding. Verdict: use GLM-5.2 where cost/openness matter; use Opus for correctness/polish; keep both.
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lisp-in-types is a Rust project that implements Lisp using the Rust trait system. It provides recursive functions, global and lexical environments, and proper function application. Symbols must be declared with defkey!; numbers are limited to 0..8192 (adjustable in build.rs but may require higher RUST_MIN_STACK). No macros or eval. The README includes examples like factorial and a call/ec demo, and notes MIT license.
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deno desktop turns a Deno project into a self-contained desktop app by bundling code, the Deno runtime, and a web rendering engine into a single cross-platform binary. It offers small binaries with Node compatibility, optional Chromium for identical rendering, and in-process bindings (no IPC). It auto-detects frameworks (Next.js, Astro, Remix, Nuxt, SvelteKit, etc.) and runs production or dev servers with hot module replacement. Backends are downloaded on demand; includes binary-diff auto-update. Experimental in Deno 2.9; try canary via deno upgrade canary.
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Danish privacy activist and former police officer Lars Andersen recounts his arrest after posting provocative material about Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s social security and phone number and a screenshot about encryption. Armed, masked police broke down his door without warning, went straight for the circuit-breaker to cut power, and seized Google Nest cameras to erase video of the arrest. He says they refused to disclose the charges, notes that filming police is nominally legal in Denmark, and laments a Western drift away from transparency.
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Canadian government spent tens of millions on a secret Palantir contract.
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An indecisive photographer explains wigglegrams—looping image sequences that create a stereo-like effect. Having amassed years of wigglegrams by accident, they wrote a perceptual-hashing script (TinEye-style) to find similar images, extract pairs with a small Hamming-distance, and automatically stitch them into wigglegrams. Hundreds emerge, many accidental and more kinescopic than truly stereoscopic. Subjects range from cats and dogs to design work and sculptures. The script is on GitHub and works with Mac iCloud or any picture directory. Cheers.
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Fil-C enables memory-safe inline assembly in C/C++. A safety pass (FilPizlonator) inspects the inline asm string and constraints to ensure no memory accesses or control flow, and that clobbers reflect effects. If unsafe, runtime panics; if safe but CPU lacks support, illegal instruction traps. Memory-accessing inline assembly and system calls remain out of scope; fences are supported. The safe subset includes x86_64 instructions like sar, shr, and, shl, xor, mov, test, cmp, bsf, cmov, cpuid, and xgetbv. The project uses an agent loop (T800) to implement and test a comprehensive allowlist, claiming the first memory-safe x86_64 inline assembly.
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Sakana Fugu is a single OpenAI-compatible API that dynamically coordinates a diverse pool of expert models into one multi-agent system. Built on TRINITY and Conductor, it learns to assemble, route, and coordinate agents for tasks like coding, reasoning, and research. It offers two models: Fugu (balanced, low latency) and Fugu Ultra (higher reliability for complex tasks). You can opt out certain agents; pricing is subscription or pay-as-you-go with a single blended rate based on the top model in your pool. Not available in EU/EEA; GDPR compliance work in progress. Benchmarks show strong performance against frontier models.
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In this 1992 reflection, Dominus argues that compiler technology has improved so much that writing compilers is no longer the hard part. IBM’s costly FORTRAN H project shows this: the bottleneck is not the compiler but how we program. The real challenges are methods and languages—we don’t know how to program well, what we want to express, or how to think about programming. We lack good languages to capture intent, so programming remains a “black art” even though the field is less than fifty years old.
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