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@coursera Medical science like anatomy, pathology etc.

What’s one thing you’ve been meaning to learn but keep postponing?

A simple proof that sin 10° is irrational

Prof. Donald Knuth opened his new paper with "Shock! Shock!" Claude Opus 4.6 had just solved an open problem he'd been working on for weeks — a graph decomposition conjecture from The Art of Computer Programming. He named the paper "Claude's Cycles." 31 explorations. ~1 hour. Knuth read the output, wrote the formal proof, and closed with: "It seems I'll have to revise my opinions about generative AI one of these days." The man who wrote the bible of computer science just said that. In a paper named after an AI. Paper: cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/…

@harisibrahimkv @_swanand Satellite internet constellation - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite…

@_swanand Gosh, that can't be real right? No wonder I am seeing "moving stars" every day night / early morning when I keep looking up for a while.

The next apocalypse movie should feature the antagonist using a coordinated hack to gain control of the satellites and the protagonist using LLMs to save the day.

@mitchellh @xlcizor Would opening a discussion thread via email for OSS contribution work?

@xlcizor I’m really not sure right now

I've been doing open source since I was a teenager (over 20yrs). And for the first time ever, I'm considering closing external PRs to my OSS projects completely. This will throw the baby out with the bathwater and I hate that, but we close auto-opened slop PRs every single day.

AirTag V2 Quickie-Teardown - nRF52840 upgrade & Bigger 🧲 We just picked up a 4-pack of Apple's second-gen AirTag. That means we have a spare to tear down and check out the build of this new improved device. Even just taking it apart we've learned a lot on how Apple has improved on the assembly process. The original AirTag used a lot of glue to keep it together and weatherproofed. This version uses just a couple small dabs to adhere the PCB to the outside, otherwise it's just sandwiched layers of battery holder + PCB + magnet buzzer + NFC antenna (adafruit.com/product/365) + buzzer coil. Inside, we see a move from the nRF52832 (adafruit.com/product/3406) to the newer nRF52840 (adafruit.com/product/4062) which has more flash and RAM. There's still the Apple-silicon ultra-wideband chip with two tiny antennas on the PCB. The NFC antenna fits neatly at one end. The speaker assembly is larger thanks to a bigger magnet and coil - it must use the case as a resonating cavity. We love the high-density, all-black goth design of Apple hardware. We don't expect to be able to make something like this in house at Adafruit any time soon but there's always neat techniques to learn when seeing how the best-of-the-best do it. Note, we mentioned that the nRF52840 adds Angle-of-Arrival (blog.adafruit.com/2021/08/19/eye…) sensing that should help determine what direction and distance a target object is at, but that’s actually in the nRF5340

Drug-Drug Interactions kill thousands yearly. Can we train AI to catch them? DDI-Corpus-Processed: 7K+ expert-annotated examples The model must classify: - Mechanism (how drugs interact) - Effect (clinical outcomes) - Advisory warnings - No interaction huggingface.co/datasets/OpenM…

EYE FLOATERS - a sign your body is quietly suffering. This is how they form, what that tells you about your underlying health, and how to prevent/eliminate them. (🧵1/8)

Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined @Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. It required us to not just remove customers, but also censor our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver meaning it risked blacking out any site on the Internet. And it required us not just to censor the content in Italy but globally. In other words, Italy insists a shadowy, European media cabal should be able to dictate what is and is not allowed online. That, of course, is DISGUSTING and even before yesterday’s fine we had multiple legal challenges pending against the underlying scheme. We, of course, will now fight the unjust fine. Not just because it’s wrong for us but because it is wrong for democratic values. In addition, we are considering the following actions: 1) discontinuing the millions of dollars in pro bono cyber security services we are providing the upcoming Milano-Cortina Olympics; 2) discontinuing Cloudflare’s Free cyber security services for any Italy-based users; 3) removing all servers from Italian cities; and 4) terminating all plans to build an Italian Cloudflare office or make any investments in the country. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. While there are things I would handle differently than the current U.S. administration, I appreciate @JDVance taking a leadership role in recognizing this type of regulation is a fundamental unfair trade issue that also threatens democratic values. And in this case @ElonMusk is right: #FreeSpeech is critical and under attack from an out-of-touch cabal of very disturbed European policy makers. I will be in DC first thing next week to discuss this with U.S. administration officials and I’ll be meeting with the IOC in Lausanne shortly after to outline the risk to the Olympic Games if @Cloudflare withdraws our cyber security protection. In the meantime, we remain happy to discuss this with Italian government officials who, so far, have been unwilling to engage beyond issuing fines. We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right to regulate the content on networks inside its borders. But they must do so following the Rule of Law and principles of Due Process. And Italy certainly has no right to regulate what is and is not allowed on the Internet in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Brazil, India or anywhere outside its borders. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FIGHT AND WE WILL WIN!!!

Go 1.26 brings the long-awaited vectorized operations (SIMD) in the simd/archsimd package. Since it's hard to create a portable high-level API, the Go team decided to start with a low-level, architecture-specific one and support only amd64 for now. I think it's a great idea to let developers try things out and give feedback before designing a high-level interface. But there's one thing I don't quite understand. Why is the package called simd/archsimd? Since it's amd64-specific, shouldn't it be simd/amd64 or maybe simd/avx? What happens when Go adds support for SIMD on arm64? Wouldn't simd/archsimd become a messy bag of types, some supported only on amd64 and others only on arm64?

holy fucking shit

Meta's segmentation models are insanely underhyped. The latest release - SAM Audio - allows you to search for ANY sound across a video, isolate it, and apply effects. Watch me take a travel vlogger's noisy clip and remove the background audio so he's way easier to hear 👇

The goroutine leak profile in the upcoming Go 1.26 is a big deal. But the synctest package, available since 1.24, can also catch leaks just fine. I don't know why no one talks about this. Anyway, it's time to cover both of them! antonz.org/detecting-goro…

@abhitwt rm -rf /

@abhitwt rm

i am a Vibe Coder, scare me with one word

@Outdoctrination Doesn't iron also compete with calcium? In the morning, usually it's milk intake which would cause issues with iron rich food.

WHEN to take your supplements: ✱ Magnesium - at night, away from calcium rich foods ✱ Vitamin D - with K2 (in the morning) ✱ Vitamins A, E, D, K - with your fattiest meal of the day ✱ Vitamin C - morning, with iron rich foods if iron deficient ✱ B-complex / B vitamins – morning or early afternoon (can be stimulating) ✱ Zinc - away from copper rich foods ✱ Glycine - with carbs (lowers blood sugar spike) ✱ CoQ10, ALA - away from exercise

@captn3m0 Good luck nemo! Hope you find what you look for in Berlin. I am looking forward to seeing your post on Berlin experience!

I'm moving to Berlin. captnemo.in/blog/2025/12/1…

@blackroomsec LMAO!

Can you imagine if AI ever evolves into trying to kill us and the thing that saves us is one of Cloudflare's outages? 🤣

In today's episode of programming horror... In the Python docs of random.seed() def, we're told "If a is an int, it is used directly." [1] But if you seed with 3 or -3, you actually get the exact same rng object, producing the same streams. (TIL). In nanochat I was using the sign as a (what I thought was) clever way to get different rng sequences for train/test splits. Hence gnarly bug because now train=test. I found the CPython code responsible in cpython/Modules/_randommodule.c [2], where on line 321 we see in a comment: "This algorithm relies on the number being unsigned. So: if the arg is a PyLong, use its absolute value." followed by n = PyNumber_Absolute(arg); which explicitly calls abs() on your seed to make it positive, discarding the sign bit. But this comment is actually wrong/misleading too. Under the hood, Python calls the Mersenne Twister MT19937 algorithm, which in the general case has 19937 (non-zero) bits state. Python takes your int (or other objects) and "spreads out" that information across these bits. In principle, the sign bit could have been used to augment the state bits. There is nothing about the algorithm that "relies on the number being unsigned". A decision was made to not incorporate the sign bit (which imo was a mistake). One trivial example could have been to map n -> 2*abs(n) + int(n < 0). Finally this leads us to the contract of Python's random, which is also not fully spelled out in the docs. The contract that is mentioned is that: same seed => same sequence. But no guarantee is made that different seeds produce different sequences. So in principle, Python makes no promises that e.g. seed(5) and seed(6) are different rng streams. (Though this quite commonly implicitly assumed in many applications.) Indeed, we see that seed(5) and seed(-5) are identical streams. And you should probably not use them to separate your train/test behaviors in machine learning. One of the more amusing programming horror footguns I've encountered recently. We'll see you in the next episode. [1] docs.python.org/3/library/rand… [2] #L321C13-L321C30" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/python/cpython…

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