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Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
We visit one of California’s longest-running tourist attractions: A giant stump that helped spark the movement to preserve the state’s natural places.
For more unusual stories, lists, and offbeat itineraries, check out the Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide to the National Parks.
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Jake Schumacher, director of the 2017 documentary App: The Human Story, sent me a note that Sebastiaan de With’s post this week, “Physicality: The New Age of UI” (my thoughts here), reminded him of a clip from the movie where Neven Mrgan compared Skeuomorphic design to classic cars from the 1940s and ’50s. So true. If you’ve got two and a half minutes to spare, watch this.
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Amenra does an acoustic guitar cover version of maybe my favourite Portishead song. So good! Love how the guitar is recorded and you hear all sorts of background sounds, as well as the player doing the percussion probably live while playing guitar.
Citation Needed
• Molly White
As Trump’s web of crypto projects gets tangled up in itself, a regulator warns of “regulatory Jenga” in the crypto sector that echoes the 2008 financial crisis
Solomon Hykes just presented the best definition of an AI agent I've seen yet, on stage at the AI Engineer World's Fair:
An AI agent is an LLM wrecking its environment in a loop.
I collect AI agent definitions and I really like this how this one combines the currently popular "tools in a loop" one (see Anthropic) with the classic academic definition that I think dates back to at least the 90s:
An agent is something that acts in an environment; it does something. Agents include worms, dogs, thermostats, airplanes, robots, humans, companies, and countries.
Tags: ai-agents, llms, ai, generative-ai
Cracking The Dave & Buster’s Anomaly
Guilherme Rambo reports on a weird iOS messages bug:The bug is that, if you try to send an audio message using the Messages app to someone who’s also using the Messages app, and that message happens to include the name “Dave and Buster’s”, the message will never be received.
Guilherme captured the logs from an affected device and spotted an XHTMLParseFailure error.
It turned out the iOS automatic transcription mechanism was recognizing the brand name and converting it to the official restaurant chain's preferred spelling "Dave & Buster’s"... which was then incorrectly escaped and triggered a parse error!
