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“If a human did this, it would be an instant Fields...

“If a human did this, it would be an instant Fields Medal, no questions asked.” OpenAI recently released 350+ proofs of mathematical theorems, all in one go. “I imagine many mathematicians, like me, felt like they got punched in the stomach yesterday,”

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The first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The...

The first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew. I love Gerwig and I know this will be good, but I’m cautiously optimistic that it will be great. (I still forever have “Chronicwhatcles of Narnia” stuck in my head tho…)

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Girls is coming back to HBO for a 5-episode run. Lena...

Girls is coming back to HBO for a 5-episode run. Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, and Andrew Rannells are all returning. I loved this show and will tune in for sure.

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221 Camera Obscuras Fill Pneuhaus’ Immersive, Inflatable, Image-Capturing Installation

221 Camera Obscuras Fill Pneuhaus’ Immersive, Inflatable, Image-Capturing InstallationIn "Compound Camera 3," viewers step inside a luminous viewing room.

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Redesigning source control at Anthropic

Redesigning source control at Anthropic Interesting piece from Anthropic describing why and how they built their own custom alternative to Git, based on the dramatic increase in rate of changes to their code after the past six months. In May 2026, Anthropic averaged around ...

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llm-gemini 0.35

Release: llm-gemini 0.35 I added support to llm-gemini for the new Gemini 4 Argon model, made available today via the Gemini API and for customers of their $100/month subscription plan. Here are the low, medium and high pelicans. As expected, they are all excellent: ...

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web-edit 0.1a1

Release: web-edit 0.1a1

Includes performance optimizations written by Claude Opus 5.5 after I fed it this Python 3.15 profiling report generated by GPT-6 Astra.

Tags: profiling, projects

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llm-meta-ai 0.2

Release: llm-meta-ai 0.2

Meta AI release Muse Wonder (and Muse Wonder Full), their new "most capable models". These look like they may be Meta's first Fable class models - Artificial Analysis scores Muse Wonder (Max) as equivalent to GPT-6.1 Sol.

I updated my llm-meta-ai plugin for the new model. Here are pelicans for Muse Wonder for the six reasoning levels: minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh, max. This is the max one:

Blue cycling helmet, bicycle is missing one bar but otherwise an OK shape, has mudguards, nice background, OK beak.

For comparison, here are pelicans for Muse 1.3 (released September 2nd) and Muse 1.2 (released August 5th). Meta AI are putting out a new model a month, and the improvements between each model (at least in terms of drawing pelicans) are material.

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Profiling web-edit with Python 3.15: flame graphs and source heatmaps

Research: Profiling web-edit with Python 3.15: flame graphs and source heatmaps

I put the new Python 3.15 profiler through its paces by having GPT-6 Astra Extra High in Codex run it against my new web-edit app:

I need a Python 3.15 flame graph and heatmap demo of the "web-edit" app from PyPI - research first then make me those demos

Here's the resulting example flame graph and heatmap.

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Taylor Momsen on singing with Soundgarden #grunge #soundgarden

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Apple Homeview Impressions: Not Convinced!

New Smart home display from Apple. With plenty of quirks and features.

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The Taylor Momsen Interview

In this interview, The Pretty Reckless frontwoman Taylor Momsen stops by the studio. We talk about her songwriting process, her broad influences, and her experiences playing with rock legends like Soundgarden and AC/DC. We also go in depth on our shared love of The Beatles, ...

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So Many Different Mes

Japanese photographer and artist Tomoko Sawada works primarily in self-portraiture. For her first project, she visited ID photo booths to take hundreds of photos of herself, dressed, posed, and presented differently. Eugenie Shin of Tokyo Weekender calls that 1998 project, ID 400, “a dizzying grid of strangers who are all actually the same woman”. For subsequent projects, Sawada says she’s continued to “examine the relationship between outer appearance and inner self through different concepts”. (via tokyo weekender) Tags: art · photography · Tomoko Sawada

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ArtCraft is building open source versions of what looks...

ArtCraft is building open source versions of what looks like most of Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps. Oh, and a word processor and a spreadsheet app because why not?

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Reelizer: A Trove of Movie Art

Reelizer is a personal project by Roger Erik Tinch that is a collection of movie art: prints, posters, illustrations, albums, books, covers, etc. Careful, you can lose hours here…Tinch has a great eye. A few of my favorites: Tags: art · movie posters · movies · posters · Roger Erik Tinch

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Thing I am going to make time for in the next few days:...

Thing I am going to make time for in the next few days: Harry Styles and Thom Yorke in conversation. “My laptop has been dead for about 6 years. I don’t know where my charger is.” There’s an accompanying Rolling Stone cover story.

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‘Arcana Borealis’ Summons the Power of Spirituality and Artist Communities

‘Arcana Borealis’ Summons the Power of Spirituality and Artist Communities'Arcana Borealis—Northern Women and Esotericism' delves into a new perspective on modern art the Atenium Art Museum in Helsinki.

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The People Holding Up the Internet. Amazing to see how...

The People Holding Up the Internet. Amazing to see how much of the modern internet still depends on the volunteer work of individual people. 4 billion phones rely on the time zone database, a text file edited by just two people in their spare time.

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(comic) Compensation

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Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net...

Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive. “Every death on my corner is offset, with a third of a toddler left over, and I’d like that number in the conversation the next time somebody calls me a murderer…”