Consider the Sister: an interview with Amy Wallace. “It was hard work being David Foster Wallace’s little sister. It still is. The job of preserving the memory of her brother as a complex, vibrant, often joyful person has fallen to her.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Researchers Publish Method to Surveil Web Page Visitors by Analyzing Their SSD Activity
Dan Goodin, reporting for Ars Technica:
The technique, laid out in a research paper, exploits a
side channel, a form of leak resulting from physical
manifestations such as electromagnetic emanations, data caches, or
the time required to complete a task. By measuring the
...
I, Sisyphus, Am Ninety-Five Percent of the Way There ....
I, Sisyphus, Am Ninety-Five Percent of the Way There. “Honestly, folks, we are so, so close. The summit is largely visible. It is nearly visible. There is a concept of visibility at play here that is impossible to ignore.”
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
A Leonora Carrington Biopic Traces the Surrealist Icon’s Life and Work
"Don't you think it's dangerous to blur the distinction between abstraction and reality?"
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article A Leonora Carrington Biopic Traces the Surrealist Icon’s Life and Work appeared first on Colossal.
Longreads
• Olivia Potts
The Grate Cheese Robbery
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
French Horns on Ice
Professional French horn player Kyra Sims tells us about a once-in-a-lifetime trip she took to Antarctica with a program called Polar STEAM, which pairs artists with scientists. She tells us about living on a research vessel, getting up close and personal with zooplankton, and where she found inspiration on the ice.
You can find Kyra Sims online at her website or on Instagram. And learn more about Polar STEAM here.
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sqlite AGENTS.md
sqlite AGENTS.md
SQLite gained an AGENTS.md file five days ago - but it's not intended for their own development, it's presumably aimed at people who are pointing agents at the SQLite codebase. It includes:
SQLite does not accept pull requests without prior agreement and/or...
Tigran Hamasyan demonstrates modes #piano #pianomusic #shorts 
Make Way for Beavers
A Tube station in West London used to have a flooding problem. Instead of opting for an expensive reworking of the landscape via reservoir & levee, local officials reintroduced a family of beavers into the area.
The beavers are part of an unlikely effort to bring bac...
Time Machine Conversation
American Wealth, Sliced Up
Using the Federal Reserve’s Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989 data, Ryan Thorpe imagines a pizza party with 100 guests and 100 slices of pizza as a stand-in for the United States:
We’re having a pizza party with 100 guests! Let’s divvy up the slices...
As part of the Ocean Census project, “scientists...
As part of the Ocean Census project, “scientists have discovered 1,121 marine species in a single year”. Discoveries include “a new species of deep-sea ghost shark, a symbiotic bristle worm…as well as corals, crabs, shrimps, sea urchins, and anemones”.
Features | The Verge
• Victoria Song
Roids were all the rage at the Enhanced Games
In Las Vegas, the blazing sun beats down on a makeshift Olympic-length pool. Cody Miller stands on the starting block of lane one. His arms are raised in victory. MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" thumps over the loudspeakers as he rips off his swimming cap, throwing it to the ground. Miller lets out a […]
How To Get A MASSIVE Drum Sound in 9 Minutes
In this episode Eric Valentine stops by the studio to demonstrate how he gets such a massive drum sound.
Gear List:
All drums recorded with H2 Audio Helios 0011 Mic Pres
Drum Kit:
14" x 22" Gretsch Broadkaster Bass Drum
6.5" x 14" Ludwig Black Beauty Snare
10" x 14" 3-Ply...
Caught In Joy: Music for Flow, Rest, and Reset
The moment I clicked through to the Caught In Joy YouTube channel, I knew I was going to love it. The description:
Over 80 albums designed to focus, flow and reset. Instrumental electronic music for you brain to wander.
And from the website:
Caught In Joy (Karol Pokojo...
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
‘BlowUp Jubilee’ Celebrates Inflatable Public Art in the Center of The Hague
Now in its sixth year, the open-air public art exhibition highlights 20 pieces from previous years.
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A recent study of 2.5M scientific papers found ~146,900...
A recent study of 2.5M scientific papers found ~146,900 fake citations, presumably hallucinated by AI. The fake citations “were not limited to a handful of bad apples but appeared across many papers, each containing a small number of fake references.”
To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant . “If a...
To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant. “If a for-profit AI company signs your paycheck, might that compromise your research? By playing Aristotle to AI Alexander, do you risk your work becoming an instrument for hype-building and myth-making?”
“Observe the moth in its monumental fight for life,...
“Observe the moth in its monumental fight for life, and do likewise. We gain life’s powers by knowing that eventually they will be taken away. There is beauty in this struggle. Murmurations of starlings occur only in the evening.”
I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by their staff. I think this is because OpenAI and Anthropic have both found product-mar...