consider my mind blown!

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place

advait.org/files/lee_20...

in other news, water is wet /s

PlayStation Wrap-up 2024!

this is massive: ps3 emulation on macos!

rpcs3.net/download

that’s ingenious! tl;dr: someone used special characters in the branch name to escape the normal flow of github action steps and then injected a cryptominer in the published package.

as a kid, i fixed my parent's computer. as an adult I fix my kids's computer. pretty sure we are the only gen that knows how computers work

insane! this is one of the coolest demos i have seen in a while, would have loved if he booted it on stage too but impressive nonetheless.

#framework

youtu.be/l6khGznGeyY

atproto aha moments:

- you can host your data
- it's just json
- it's typed but any app dev can invent those types
- records have URIs
- records are signed so cacheable without trust
- relay aggregates everyone’s events into a global stream
- backends subscribe to relay and update local DBs

I remember reading this one of that series aphyr.com/posts/342-ty... and laughing too loudly at work. So fun and ridiculous.

Reminds me of MY favorite programming interview joke

aphyr.com/posts/341-he...

One of my favourite programming interview jokes: joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/f...

Releasing SmolVLM, a small 2 billion parameters Vision+Language Model (VLM) built for on-device/in-browser inference with images/videos.

Outperforms all models at similar GPU RAM usage and tokens throughputs

Blog post: huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm

Here's some secret bluesky-only info:

This is being filed with the USPTO TTAB tomorrow

Don't share!