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Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026, announced by the Swedish Academy. The academy praised her inventive oeuvre that dialogues with the classical tradition to create new forms for contemporary literature. Born in 1950 in Toronto, she works across poetry, prose and translation, drawing on ancient Greek myth. Notable works include Eros the Bittersweet (1986), Autobiography of Red (1998), and Men in the Off Hours, Decreation and Nox (2010). She won the 2001 TS Eliot Prize as its first female winner; Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships accompany her. Ceremony in Stockholm in December.
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Piotr Migdał experiments with AI-assisted visualization of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities using one prompt and six hours across GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5, and Claude Fable 5.1. GPT-6 Astra produced an end-to-end interactive visualization quickly (about 53 minutes, ~$10). Claude Opus 5.5 delivered a polished interactive design in 1h25m with six subagents (~$74) but showed some slop; Claude Fable 5.1 offered solid data work but needed polish. The piece marvels at the potential of AI for interactive media and reflects on the creator’s evolving role.
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Dan Cohen traces the slow, collaborative birth of Zotero, the open-source research tool launched in 2006 and now used by millions. Born from RRCHNM’s experiments with web apps (Web Scrapbook, Scribe) and Mozilla’s Firefox ecosystem (SmartFox, Firefox Scholar), Zotero emerged through years of cross-disciplinary work, not AI-driven rapid prototyping. Key players—Dan Stillman, Sean Takats, Kari Kraus, Trevor Owens, Simon Kornblith, David Norton, Roy Rosenzweig, and Cohen himself—refined the idea from 2003 to 2006, even choosing the Albanian name zotero. It later received Mellon/Sloan funding and evolved beyond Firefox, proving durable through communal effort.
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GitHub math/history.md reports withdrawals of three manuscripts due to a sign error in stabilization-trace cancellation; those are Algebraicity of Weil classes on split abelian eightfolds, Algebraicity of Kuga–Satake Correspondences for K3 Surfaces, The rational Hodge conjecture for products of K3 surfaces. It notes updated manuscripts and proof repairs across several works: Lipschitz heights and Ashkin–Teller currents (4), Kähler minimal model programs and abundance (6), Taming and hypersymplectic deformation (2), Incompressible Box Transport and Finite Computation (1), plus removal of an obsolete citation in Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer work; 13 manuscripts updated. Added 6 formalizations and 5 other additions; ~42% of results formalized.
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Access is blocked by Cloudflare’s security; the page explains the block may result from suspicious activity and advises emailing the site owner with details of what you were doing and the Cloudflare Ray ID to resolve it, noting the IP and Ray ID.
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Edmund Gordon charts William Golding’s path from unpublished author to Lord of the Flies, stressing how editor Charles Monteith at Faber rescued the novel after multiple rejections and reshaped its structure, tone, and allegory. The piece contrasts the Coral Island with Golding’s critique of postwar boyhood, tracks Golding’s subsequent works (The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, The Spire) and their mixed reception, and shows how Monteith’s editorial stance shifted over time. Gordon then covers Golding’s late-career triumphs—Darkness Visible, Rites of Passage, the Nobel Prize and knighthood—and his enduring legacy.
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Dan Roberts announced on X that the GitHub math repo gained 6 new Lean formalizations, 19 modifications, and 3 withdrawals, with ~42% of top-line results formalized. The project will continue adding formalizations and addressing errata. Separately, three manuscripts were withdrawn: Algebraicity of Weil classes on split abelian eightfolds; Algebraicity of Kuga–Satake Correspondences for K3 Surfaces; The rational Hodge conjecture for products of K3 surfaces.
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GitHub adds two PR access settings: 1) Disable pull requests entirely — hides the PR tab and blocks viewing/creating PRs (useful for mirrors or read-only codebases). 2) Restrict pull requests to collaborators — PR tab stays visible; all PRs can be viewed and commented on, but only collaborators with write access can create new ones; manage collaborators in Settings. Availability: live now for public and private repos under Settings > General > Features. Mobile app: UI changes coming; disabled PRs still show the tab but cannot create PRs.
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Welcome to demoscene-recomp, a site that replays classic PC demoscene productions in the browser by recompiling instruction-for-instruction: an x86 emulator records executed code, converts it to C, and WebAssembly runs with modeled hardware (timer, VGA, Sound Blaster). Demos run with original loaders and music players; timing matches emulated CPU. Runs at 70 Hz VGA; best on 70/140 Hz displays. Featured demos: Unreal Future Crew (1992), Second Reality (1993), Crystal Dream II (1993), Stars: Wonders of the World (1995). Credits: Future Crew, Triton, NoooN; freeware; files served unmodified; anonymous visits; GitHub.
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An online device workbench simulator called The Analog Thing. It features an editable patch panel for dragging wires between outputs and inputs, with inspect/delete, undo/redo, and patch saving/loading. A virtual oscilloscope displays traces, and patch validity is pending. Users can choose presets, adjust runtime settings (OP duration, REP/REPF cycles, solver timing), and run or halt simulations. The interface offers quality options (Quick, Balanced, Fine, Ultra) and export traces. Currently no design has been saved or run; trace summary is empty.
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Data Drop maps the handful of people who maintain the internet’s essential open-source software. The time zone database, largely kept up by Paul Eggert since 2012, sets clocks on billions of phones and servers. Across 23 projects, a few contributors do most of the work; for tzdb, 251 changes in the last year, with 218 by Eggert and 28 by Tim Parenti. The piece traces funding and security pressures—Heartbleed, a 2024 xz backdoor, and shifting sponsorship—showing how fragile, volunteer‑driven maintenance keeps the web running.
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Shahid Hussain chronicles a years-long, detective-like quest to identify Salvage, the stadium indie rock duo behind 2006 singles Electric and Searchlights, whose release eluded search engines and collectors. Using AI-assisted data gathering, label and chart records, Wayback captures, and interviews, the author uncovers that Salvage were produced by Greg Haver and that the band later became OK Tokyo, with members Sam and Jon Tattersall and Matt Salvage. The piece includes a full interview with Sam and Greg about production and industry hurdles, and notes the members’ later projects Glacier and Summit. The discovery is tied to accessible tracks on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music.
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Terence Tao is quoted saying that “Math 1.0” placed a premium on being first to something, per Mathstodon. The text also includes a Mastodon prompt instructing users to enable JavaScript or use a native app.
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zerobrew is an experimental, up to 100x faster Homebrew client. It relies on Homebrew bottles and metadata but installs via a content-addressed store with in-process relocation, so downloads are reused and linking is fast. It does not compile or maintain formulae; it’s a performance-focused frontend designed to run alongside Homebrew. Install with curl | bash or via Homebrew, and switch from the old zerobrew tap if needed. It provides zb commands (install, upgrade, bundle, uninstall, etc.) and reports large cold/warm speedups across packages. Licenses: Apache-2.0 or MIT.
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Hundred Rabbits' 2026 diary details monthly progress on their experimental projects: Donsol's new release with animated sprites and browser play; Rabbit Waves expanding with One-Time Pads encryption and new comic pages; Catjam 2026 contributions like Lepore Express Line; and ongoing work across Uxn, Oquonie for Playdate, and related tools. They explore language and cryptography, reviving POP-2 and presenting Rejoice in Latino Sine Flexione. The entry also covers sailing life aboard Pino, boat maintenance, solar cooking, and a batch of book-club readings. They preview No Bears None, a Victoria-to-Sitka logbook, and upcoming talks at Oredev.
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Calls for setting a user-agent and complying with the site’s robots policy; see https://w.wiki/4wJS and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400119 for details.
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Antonin’s post documents building a minimal, bare-metal kernel in Swift using Embedded Swift and running it in QEMU's aarch64 bare-metal target. It uses a tiny assembly start that calls a Swift kernel_main, links without a standard library, and relies on a custom linker script and toolset. Since there's no C runtime, he exposes a C-compatible entry with @c and implements small runtime helpers in Swift (putchar, memmove) to print via QEMU’s UART. The build prints Hello, Embedded Swift 😊 and then echoes input via polling UART. Code is in a private repo; next steps include interrupts and drivers.
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ts-rust is an experimental Rust port of Microsoft's TypeScript 7 compiler (tsc) by pingdotgg. It aims to reproduce tsc with the same CLI, language server, and API, usable as a drop-in replacement for many apps. Install via npm install -D tsc-rs; run with npx tsc-rs -p tsconfig.json. The port is pinned to an upstream revision and ships native binaries for Linux x64 and macOS arm64 (Windows/Linux arm64 not yet). It includes Effect diagnostics and benchmarks showing speedups over tsc 6/7; real-world apps show substantial improvements, with some known issues.
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