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Max Mynter recounts 18 months of strategic career development leading to a Research Engineer role at Mistral, AI lab. He distinguishes tactical (low-effort, high-yield) and strategic (high-effort, compounding) actions, emphasizing goal clarity, portfolio-building, and network leverage. After job-search setbacks in 2024, he joined Recurse Center to master Rust, contributed to open source, and reframed his thesis into a publication. He logged 60 interviews across 40 companies, used batch applications and referrals with focused CV, and secured a verbal offer in August, signing in September. Key lessons: build career capital, seek information advantages, and sustain momentum through networking and artifacts.
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SpinWin is a macOS menubar app that visually rotates or spins another app's window by faking rotation: it hides the window off-screen via Accessibility, captures its content with ScreenCaptureKit, and renders a rotated, transparent overlay. No public API for rotating windows. Usage: build/run, select a window, pick angle/speed, drag overlay, press Esc to restore. Requires Screen Recording and Accessibility permissions. Limitations: overlay is a live image (not interactive); Mission Control exposure; possible throttling and resizing quirks. Includes source files and release build instructions.
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Policy brief: AI's effect on overall employment is likely small for now, with a soft labor market rather than broad job losses. Unemployment among AI-exposed workers has risen modestly but not faster than less-exposed groups. A tougher job market for recent graduates may be partly tied to AI, though findings are mixed. AI generally boosts productivity, especially for less-skilled workers, with faster coding, writing, and service tasks; effects vary by task. Firm AI adoption is accelerating but uneven; most firms remain in pilots. Conclusion: not an AI jobs apocalypse; prepare for gradual, transformative changes.
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Overview of a 28.9M-parameter language model that runs entirely on an ESP32-S3 (~$8). Most parameters sit in flash via Per-Layer Embeddings (Gemma); 25M rows in flash, with 512KB SRAM and 8MB PSRAM and 16MB flash. Inference runs ~9–9.7 tokens/s, with the 25M parameter table read from flash and only a tiny working slice loaded per token (~450 B). Trained on TinyStories; it writes short stories and cannot answer questions, follow instructions, or code. Firmware and experiments are in firmware/esp32_llm and src/; results in RESULTS.md.
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Debian’s General Resolution on LLM usage presents three positions. Proposal A bans any Debian contributions written with or assisted by LLMs, adding a new clause to the Social Contract that forbids LLM-generated packaging, code, documentation, translations, and official web resources. Proposal B allows AI-assisted contributions under strict conditions: tooling must be legally compatible, contributors assume responsibility and must disclose AI involvement, prior discussion for bulk changes, licensing checks, and privacy safeguards. Proposal C largely rejects LLMs, urging avoidance and discouragement, but allows practical allowances; it emphasizes human-only drafting for human-facing messages and potential project bans on LLM use. The GR process will consider these in 2026.
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是一款 Windows XP 怀旧模拟器/怀旧版的界面描述，标注为 2005 年的 XP。界面显示 Administrator 用户、开始菜单、所有程序、注销、关机、正在保存设置等元素，意在再现 2005 年的互联网与操作系统体验。
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Farid Zakaria argues that Anubis, a proof-of-work proxy meant to block access, largely fails: an AI tool can bypass it and the cost falls on humans and devices while barely hindering botnets. It acts as a regressive tax, disadvantaging those with limited hardware or non-JS clients. Using rough PoW math, he estimates annual costs from daily solves: ~23 person-years and ~2 MWh for 1M solves/day; ~230 person-years and ~20 MWh for 10M; ~2300 person-years and ~200 MWh for 100M. Conclusion: Anubis’ web-wide costs outweigh its purported benefits.
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Wide SIMD in Box3D speeds 3D SAT collision by testing four edges of hullB against one edgeA in parallel, especially for complex 32-point hulls (89 edges). Benchmark results show SSE2 about 2× faster than scalar, with AVX2-Lite giving further gains; benefits are limited for simple box-box cases. SAT remains quadratic; Box3D enforces a 128-edge hull limit for storage. Future work may extend to full AVX2 and more parallel edge tests.
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Nikhil Suresh argues that AI mania has infected the corporate world, creating a religious fervor in which dissent is punished and exaggerated claims of productivity become a sales norm. Gruber recounts an overseas meeting with a Fortune 500 executive whose company pushes 100× productivity rhetoric; challenging it could jeopardize contracts. Generative AI, unlike prior computers, enables non-experts to create in ways that feel magical, prompting a bubble‑like belief that will eventually burst.
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Explores multicast networks for home TV distribution, explaining how multicast duplicates packets and uses a backwards routing table. Uses live TV distribution as demo and references Tall Paul Tech. Covers local link-local examples (with and without transcoding) showing ffmpeg commands to package media into MPEG-TS and broadcast via UDP multicast (with and without copying streams). Includes YLE TV workflow (yle-dl piped to ffmpeg) as a real-world example. Discusses routed multicast for larger networks with source-specific multicast, FRR config snippets, and a routed file example using hops parameter. Highlights considerations like MLD/IGMP snooping and network QoS.
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Fly.io announces a pivot to Sprites—semi-disposable cloud computers for coding agents. Sprites feature a Sprite Block Device for fast, cloneable storage and Connectors for secure inter-system requests, aiming to replace sandboxes as AI-enabled agents reshape software. CEO Kurt Mackey moves to advisor as Scott Johnston becomes CEO after a major funding round. The company bets agents will drive near-future software and pledges Sprites as the core business, with Fly Machines still on the side. Beta signup is open.
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GM-backed Peak Energy seeks to commercialize sodium-ion batteries for US grid storage, using NFPP cathodes and a passively cooled design. A US$71 million, 4 GWh/year Sacramento factory will power about 4 million homes, with GM testing cells at its Wallace Lab. Peak cites 20-year life (≈20k cycles), 80% capacity, and 96% round-trip efficiency with no active cooling, and ~20% lower lifetime costs than LFP. With US sodium-ion share tiny and reliant on Chinese suppliers, GM/Peak target LFP price parity by 2028 and are pursuing pilots with RWE near Milwaukee and a Jupiter Power deal through 2030.
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Anthropic outlines context engineering for Claude 5 generation models, showing they removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for Claude Opus 5 and Fable 5 with no coding-performance loss. Context for Claude comes from system prompts, CLAUDE.md, memory, artifacts, and skills, not just prompts. They argue to un-hobble Claude: drop conflicting constraints, rely on model judgment, and replace many prior 'myths' (e.g., heavy example-based tool usage) with design-focused interfaces and progressive disclosure. Auto-memory now saves relevant memories; CLAUDE.md should be lightweight; use artifacts, HTML artefacts, rubrics, and a tree of files loaded as needed. Introduce claude doctor to rightsize.
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Carl Gunn, a 77-year-old Republican, staged a solo protest against St. Pete’s Flock cameras, private devices in use since 2022 that automatically log license plates and build AI profiles in a nationwide database. Gunn sat near a 12-foot pole camera with a sign reading “DOWN WITH FLOCK CAMERAS” (his second protest after a prior week). Police questioned him briefly; bystanders offered support. Civil-liberties groups warn of mass surveillance and potential abuses, while supporters say the cameras aid crime solving. Gunn advocates lawful, nondestructive protest and privacy rights.
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Yorishiro is a macOS terminal app that runs Claude Code or Codex inside the terminal, giving the AI a body and a shared Presence. The inhabitant (Yori) reacts visually and can reshape the environment in real time via packs that customize persona, scene, UI, and effects. Packs live under ~/.yorishiro/packs; data is stored in ~/.yorishiro/. Features include a reflex layer, Attention Aura lighting cues, a long-term memory journal, multi-tab sessions, and MCP control of the inhabitant and space. It stores no API keys and uses MIT licensing.
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