The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
Deep in the Phoenix Gold Mine in Idaho Springs, Colorado, a strange noise inspires a legend.
Every Thursday this month, writer Colin Dickey joins us to talk about the cultural history behind some of our favorite spooky legends and creatures.
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• Molly White
Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.
As they labor to fight off the slop bots, Wikipedia maintains a fairly extensive list of signs & tells that text was written by AI. “This list is descriptive, not prescriptive; it consists of observations, not rules.”
Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It?
Miguel Grinberg uses some basic benchmarks (like
fib(40)) to test the new Python 3.14 on Linux and macOS and finds some substantial speedups over Python 3.13 - around 27% faster.
The optional JIT didn't make a meaningful difference to his benchmarks. On a threaded benchmark he got 3.09x speedup with 4 threads using the free threading build - for Python 3.13 the free threading build only provided a 2.2x improvement.
Via lobste.rs
Tags: gil, performance, python
Katie Notopoulos, on Threads:
Me looking at Vibes feed: this is screensaver. So boring. Why would anyone want it?
Me looking at videos I made of my own face in Sora 2: heheh I love this it’s funny it’s ME.
My feelings exactly.
I even like staring at screensavers sometimes. But the screensavers I like watching are Apple’s aerial (and occasionally, underwater) screensavers on Apple TV. They’re slow, peaceful, and real. Vibes is chaotic, fast, and phony.
