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Re:AI vs. Human Songwriter
on Monday October 05, 2026 @12:47PM (#49967267)
Superdark Software Factories
What do you want from AI
A Data Love Letter to the NYC Subway
Re:The Network Always Beats the Castle
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @11:51PM (#49638182)
"AI will enable a switch from what is essentially circuit switching today, in all kinds of organizations, to something that will look and feel a lot more like packet switching."
The Network Always Beats the Castle
Zitron: The Subprime Datacenter Crisis
Re:Collection of Digital Clock Designs
on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:49AM (#48930472)
Love this! Thanks for making and sharing.
Worth a mention: John Maeda “12 o’clocks” https://codingtrain.github.io/12oclocks/
https://ems.andrew.cmu.edu/2016-60212/lectures/lecture-09-09...
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/102219
His 1996 work made me appreciate how time is expressed graphically. The smooth motion ones made me disfavor stop second analog clocks so much so that I’ve replaced all the movements in the clocks in our home with sweep second hands.
Re:For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides
on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @03:08PM (#48751728)
Obligatory reference to Kuhn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift
Re:Robert Schiller: This Doommaxxing Has Got to Stop
on Thursday June 25, 2026 @02:22AM (#48669703)
Robert Schiller: This Doommaxxing Has Got to Stop
General-purpose large language models outperform specialized clinical AI tools
Re:Berkshire Hathaway invests extra $10B in Alphabet, deepening bet on AI
on Monday June 01, 2026 @07:47PM (#48364070)
Berkshire Hathaway invests extra $10B in Alphabet, deepening bet on AI
Florida AG files first-of-its-kind state lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman
Florida AG files lawsuit against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman for deceptive practices
Homebrew lead Mike McQuaid: Sandboxes and Worktrees - My Secure Agentic AI Setup
Re:Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @08:26PM (#48116362)
Beat me to it! Back in 1980. Here’s the official link https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/put-that-there-voice-...
And the paper https://dam-prod.media.mit.edu/uuid/8e6d934b-6c6f-48e4-b0a1-...
Re:China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus
on Monday April 27, 2026 @04:32PM (#47926942)
FIRST Robotics founder Dean Kamen resigns because of Epstein files
Re:First and Lego Education Partnership Update
on Sunday March 22, 2026 @08:21PM (#47483893)
Anthropic and The Pentagon
I used AI to make this song. The results, and its implications, startled me
Re:Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations
on Friday August 15, 2025 @04:53PM (#44917114)
Obligatory link to Suasn Calvin, robopsychologist from Asimov’s I, Robot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Calvin
As we take charge of bridging the gap, the machine claims the praise.
Postgres MCP (model context protocol) with Cursor
Re:What I Learned Writing an Album in Just Intonation
on Friday August 16, 2024 @12:21AM (#41263145)
“ This also has the reputation of being terribly impractical, which is always a selling point for me.”
That was truly LOL. Thank you.