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Matthew Garrahan, in the Financial Times: Sir Jony Ive remembers the day in 1997 when he first met Laurene Powell Jobs, outside the house she shared with her late husband, Steve. [...] “I was often at the house,” Ive says. “Certainly on the weekends,” says Powell Jobs, ...

New crypto trading and wallet application, created in partnership with Magic Eden, invites fans of President Trump to buy his memecoin

By making effort an optional factor in higher education rather than the whole point of it, LLMs risk producing a generation of students who have simply never experienced the feeling of focused intellectual work. Students who have never faced writer's block are also students who have never experienced the blissful flow state that comes when you break through writer's block. Students who have never searched fruitlessly in a library for hours are also students who, in a fundamental and distressing way, simply don't know what a library is even for.

— Benjamin Breen, AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder

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Shisa V2 405B: Japan’s Highest Performing LLM Leonard Lin and Adam Lensenmayer have been working on Shisa for a while. They describe their latest release as "Japan's Highest Performing LLM". Shisa V2 405B is the highest-performing LLM ever developed in Japan, and surpasses ...

A 50-square-mile patch of Yellowstone National Park in Idaho might just be the perfect place to commit a crime. For more unusual stories, lists, and offbeat itineraries, check out the Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide to the National Parks. 

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Benjamin Mayo, writing at 9to5Mac: Apple has appealed parts of the Digital Markets Act law citing user privacy concerns. Specifically, Apple is contesting the interoperability requirements that say data like notification content and WiFi networks should be made available...

Has anybody seen Richie? The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt need to find Richie before rewatching the 1991 action classic ‘Out for Justice,’ starring Steven Seagal and William Forsythe.

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My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts Thomas Ptacek's frustrated tone throughout this piece perfectly captures how it feels sometimes to be an experienced programmer trying to argue that "LLMs are actually really useful" in many corners of the internet. Some of the smartest pe...

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Mark Alldritt, Late Night Software: The day has finally come. After 30 years of continuous development, Script Debugger has been retired and will no longer be available for sale. Please see this post for more information. Over the last few months we have received a wond...

Directive prologues and JavaScript dark matter

Tom MacWright does some archaeology and describes the three different magic comment formats that can affect how JavaScript/TypeScript files are processed:

"a directive"; is a directive prologue, most commonly seen with "use strict";.

/** @aPragma */ is a pragma for a transpiler, often used for /** @jsx h */.

//# aMagicComment is usually used for source maps - //# sourceMappingURL=<url> - but also just got used by v8 for their new explicit compile hints feature.

Via Jim Nielsen

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It took me a few days to build the library [cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider] with AI. I estimate it would have taken a few weeks, maybe months to write by hand. That said, this is a pretty ideal use case: implementing a well-known standard on a well-known platform with a ...

claude-trace I've been thinking for a while it would be interesting to run some kind of HTTP proxy against the Claude Code CLI app and take a peek at how it works. Mario Zechner just published a really nice version of that. It works by monkey-patching global.fetch and the No...

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My constant struggle is how to convince them that getting an education in the humanities is not about regurgitating ideas/knowledge that already exist. It’s about generating new knowledge, striving for creative insights, and having thoughts that haven’t been had before. I don’t want you to learn facts. I want you to think. To notice. To question. To reconsider. To challenge. Students don’t yet get that ChatGPT only rearranges preexisting ideas, whether they are accurate or not.

And even if the information was guaranteed to be accurate, they’re not learning anything by plugging a prompt in and turning in the resulting paper. They’ve bypassed the entire process of learning.

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Tags: generative-ai, chatgpt, education, ai, llms, ai-ethics

In March of 2024, a park ranger and volunteer were taking their regular walk together around Big Bend National Park. They came across a teeny tiny fuzzy little plant with unusual ribbon-like flowers bursting out of the center – something neither of them had ever seen before. As it turned out, they had stumbled on a rare scientific discovery.

 

Learn more about the woolly devil, and check out iNaturalist.

 

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Astronomers discover strange new celestial object in our Milky Way galaxy. “It was the first time X-rays had been seen coming from a so-called long-period radio transient, a rare object that cycles through radio signals over tens of minutes.”

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