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This will probably explode AI/ML in ways I can barely understand. You can build any Boolean logic circuit (aka your whole computer) using nothing but NAND (or NOR) gates. We use them to evaluating formulas. But they came up with an “eml” that is analogous to the NAND gate. Except it’s a primitive that allows you to search the space for possible continuous functions instead.

Fibonacci spiral by the artist Anita Chowdry, based on medieval Iranian and Mughal illustrations, 2012.

Here is Jackie explaining how he stages a group fight. This dvd taught me so much about filmmaking I spliced together two cuts of Jackie Chan: My Stunts - the SD version that contains from the OG cut and the HD criterion re-edit with better video but fewer copyrighted clips.

Batman Beyond's spin-off movie is now widely called the darkest Batman story ever animated. Its creator never wanted to make any of it. In 1998, Warner Bros. ordered him to put Bruce Wayne in high school to sell action figures to teenagers. He thought he was dreaming. Bruce Timm had spent seven years running Batman: The Animated Series and its sequels, still considered the gold standard. The order from Warner Bros. would erase all of that. The new show was supposed to slot in next to teen-drama hits like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dawson's Creek, with a high-school-aged Bruce Wayne going to class and fighting crime. Timm called it "surreal, disappointing, shocking, dream-like." He found a way to give the network its teen Batman without burning seven years of work. His pitch: jump 40 years into the future. Bruce Wayne is now old and retired. A new kid named Terry McGinnis stumbles on the Batcave, takes the suit, and becomes Batman. Old Bruce mentors him over a radio earpiece. The team had only months to build the world from scratch, and they studied Blade Runner for the look of the future city. The street gangs came straight out of the Japanese animated film Akira. Terry's life was modeled on Spider-Man, where the hero juggles school, a girlfriend, and crime-fighting all at once. The pilot aired on January 10, 1999. Hasbro, the toy company that pushed for this show, missed the point. The figures they shipped were goofy variants like a Batman on a skateboard and one in neon camouflage. The actual villains and supporting cast, like the Joker and the elderly Bruce Wayne, almost never got made. Then came the movie. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker came out in 2000. Warner Bros. ordered huge chunks cut after the Columbine school shooting the year before. In the original ending, the Joker brainwashes young Robin into a mini-Joker and orders him to kill Batman. Robin turns the gun on the Joker instead. He pulls the trigger. A little flag pops out reading "BANG" and stabs the Joker through the chest. The Joker dies on screen. The censored version replaced it with the Joker getting shoved into electrical wires. The full uncut version came out on DVD in 2002 and holds a 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes. The show won two Daytime Emmys, two Annie Awards (the Oscars of animation), ran for 52 episodes, and set up Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, the cartoons that defined DC animation for the next five years. What started as an order to sell action figures turned into one of the most respected superhero stories ever put on screen.

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Ogham script kinda goes insane as a writing system tbh

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When your brain feels like it is running on empty and you force yourself to keep going anyway, something real is happening in there. Something measurable. And if it happens enough times, the damage shows up on brain scans. Your brain uses a chemical called glutamate to think. Your cells normally clean it up as fast as it gets made. But grind through hard mental work for hours and it piles up in the planning part of your brain faster than the cells can handle. That pile-up is mental fatigue. The tired feeling is your cells telling you they cannot keep up with the cleanup. A Paris neuroscience lab measured this in 2022. They scanned office workers after a full day of demanding mental work. The hard-work group had 8% more of this waste chemical in the planning part of their brain. They made 10% more impulsive choices. Their pupils went sluggish during decisions. The researchers said it plainly: that tired feeling is a real signal from the brain to back off before the tissue doing the thinking starts breaking down. Push through the warning for years and it gets worse. In Sweden, a Karolinska Institute team scanned the brains of 40 people who had worked 60 to 70 hour weeks for years. The panic-and-threat center was visibly bigger. The wires between it and the calm-down region had weakened, so every bad emotion hit harder and took longer to come back down from. Other long-term studies on job stress found the thinking part of the brain gets thinner. The memory hub shrinks. The reward circuits shrink too. Then there is the feedback loop. Your stress hormone, cortisol, is supposed to be shut off by the memory hub once a stressful moment passes. But chronic stress shrinks the memory hub. A smaller memory hub cannot shut the stress hormone off. So cortisol stays high, shrinks the memory hub more, and the whole cycle feeds itself. Your off-switch is getting worn down by what it is supposed to turn off. This is where a lot of workers are right now. In 2025, US worker burnout hit a seven-year high, with more than seven in ten reporting moderate to very high stress on the job. Chronic job stress is tied to about 120,000 American deaths a year, mostly heart attacks. Some of it can come back. People who get their cortisol lowered through medical treatment recover a lot of the lost brain volume. Mindfulness, exercise, and therapy help too. But "help" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. A lot of the damage takes months or years to undo. Some never fully does. Look at that face. The thinking part of her brain is clogged with a chemical it cannot clear. The panic part is firing louder. The motivation part is quieter. She is running on a stress hormone her brain can no longer switch off. That is what "zero energy but forced to keep going" looks like inside your skull.

Never forget what they took away from us. Ferrite bead cables were the norm in early 2000's, they stopped electromagnetic interference from running down the cables. Now they’re nowhere to be found. Disappeared in the name of minimalism and cost-cutting. Diabolical.

There was this one time at id Software when we were working on Quake 2 and everyone piled into Paul Steed's office to check out what Valve was doing was our tech. And there was a cinematic scene with characters moving around while a crane operating and multiple cameras panning around to convey some element of the narrative. Proper cinematic storytelling using the Quake engine! And I let out a breathless "WOW." The whole room turned around and scowled at me. Ha. That was the moment I knew, "OK, well. I want to tell stories with this tech. And these guys don't." That was why, on the day I was fired from id, I first cried... and then driving home with a box of my crap in the trunk of the car, I began smiling. Then laughing. And the first chance I was given to do something on my own with that tech? Well, I pushed it as hard as I could in relation to surreal visuals and cinematic storytelling. 26 years later and I can still say "Wow."

how it feels to study the magic system

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Ex-MIT researcher Isaak Freeman quits his PhD and drops the 50,000 H100 GPU roadmap to emulate a full human brain. He mapped the entire path from 302-neuron worm to 86-billion-neuron human with connectomics costs now at 100 dollars per neuron and data acquisition via advanced microscopes as the only blocker left - digital humans just got a realistic timeline. pdf.isaak.net/thesis

After FSSAI order, Kenvue rebranded ORSL to eRZL and marketed it as new version of ORSL in violation of FSSAI order and Delhi High Court order, I have filed a Trade Mark objection to this rebranding(minor tweaking with everything else remaining the same). I have raised awareness that eRZL was not ORS, and that Sucralose containing drinks should not be given on a daily basis to children as per WHO conditional recommendation of 2023 and also as per various academies of Paediatrics . I have reached out to IAP president Dr Neelam Mohan that eRZL can still mislead ignorant parents, to ask Kenvue to rebrand eRZL not to look like ORSL which misled millions, and to ask Kenvue to not promote them as daily hydration drinks for children. Kenvue issued a public statement that their 'scientific drinks' were validated at PEDICON. KENVUE AND JOHNSON&JOHNSON PTE LTD sent me a notice accusing me of spreading unscientific information for commercial interests and views, threatening to put a defamation case against me. I have once again asked the IAP leadership to 1. Ask Kenvue to rebrand eRZL to not look like ORSL 2. To ask Kenvue to not promote electrolyte drinks as daily hydration drinks for children 3. To condemn the notice issued to me by Kenvue and Johnson&Johnson Pte Ltd 4. To condemn the public notice issued by Kenvue that its scientific products were validated at PEDICON. A phase started where most paediatricians were supporting the cause, but the committee formed by Dr Neelam Mohan issued a position statement on ORS and electrolyte drinks in which extra emphasis was put on the safety of Sucralose without talking about the other artificial sweeteners and without alerting the parents about the dangers of the long term effects of Sucralose like the risk of diabetes and related complications, clearly showing a conflict of interest(most IAP programmes are sponsored by Kenvue). A phase started where paediatricians close to the leadership started spreading messages to malign my name. The biggest lie was that I had never reached out to the IAP before and that I am begging them for legal support now. I AM ABSOLUTELY NOT EXPECTING ANY LEGAL SUPPORT FROM THEM. I WAS MISQUOTED IN SOME NEWS THAT I RESIGNED BECAUSE I DIDN'T GET SUPPORT. I DID ASK THEM TO CONDEMN THE NOTICE SENT TO ME, BUT I RESIGNED BECAUSE COMPANY'S INTERESTS WERE BEING PRIORITIZED OVER CHILD SAFETY. I have each and every message and mail to all the leadership of state IAP, and to Dr Basvaraj(president 2024), Dr Vasant(president 2025), and Dr Neelam Mohan. BASICALLY ANYTHING TO PULL ME DOWN AND TO LET THE CHILDREN SUFFER BECAUSE OF THE MISLEADING BRANDING AND MARKETING OF eRZL AS ORSL. IAP LEADERSHIP CAN'T LET GO OF THE FUNDS FROM KENVUE AND THE EB MEETINGS AT HOTELS AND ON CRUISES! I will share with you the notice sent to me, the public notice issued by Kenvue, the IAP's position statement, and what Dr Neelam Mohan says whenever she is asked to ask Kenvue to rebrand eRZL so as not to look like ORSL, and whenever IAP leadership is requested to reach out to the Govt. to address the misbranding and misleading marketing. Please read it and tell me if I can survive this and make it work, with 1.Kenvue still wanting to continue with the misleading branding and marketing 2. With the FSSAI giving permission to eRZL without a blink and not taking action inspite of the misleading marketing (violating the FSSAI order and the Delhi High Court 's order). 3. With the IAP leadership's position statement to suit Kenvue (inspite of the conflict of interest). Will you continue to stand by me if KENVUE AND JOHNSON&JOHNSON PTE LTD PUT A CASE AGAINST ME? I STOOD UP FOR YOUR CHILDREN INSPITE OF THE CHARACTER ASSASSINATION, THREATS AND TROLLS! WILL YOU STAND UP FOR ME? WILL YOU ATLEAST SHARE HOW YOUR CHILDREN WERE AFFECTED BECAUSE OF ORSL, AND HOW eRZL HAS THE POTENTIAL TO WREAK THE SAME HAVOC, AND TAG @narendramodi @MoHFW_INDIA @JPNadda acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc… drive.google.com/file/d/1A_KZOk…

I have finally found the most beautiful computer. New old stock from 1980. Never been turned on.

Just found out Duluth, Minnesota randomly has the coolest 1980s era library on the planet

When my 8yo was about 4, she was laying on my stomach watching tv and said “There’s a baby in there,” with her hand on my stomach. I froze, mildly triggered because I had two miscarriages the year before. I asked if she knew if it was a boy or girl, and she said “girl.” I asked how she knew that, and she said “the people in the sky” (or “above her bed” it’s fuzzy to me now). I’m open-minded, so we went to Dollar General for a test. “Positive” it said. Gasped, I did. Now, we have a 3yo girl, and her sister knew before I did because people in the sky told her 😃