- The bird
flu outbreak has taken an ominous turn | Ars Technica
It’s moved to mammals; now the poultry industry needs new measures to stop its spread. - NASA designed new spaceship parts with generative AI
McClelland holds up a tangle of metal. “So, for instance, I didn’t design any of this,” he says, moving his hands over the intricate arms and curves. “I gave it these interfaces, which are just simple blocks , and said there’s a mass of five kilograms hanging off here, and it’s going toexperience an acceleration of 60G.” - Levi Walter Yaggy’s Geographical Maps and Charts (1887/93) – The Public Domain Review
Levi Walter Yaggy’s Geographical Study (1887) unpacks like a matryoshka doll. The experience begins with a heavy wood box, outfitted with leather straps and brass clasps, inside of which is a sheaf of complex maps and charts, and a learning guide on how they should be used in the classroom. The maps are each the size of a small rug (ranging between two and four feet) — large enough to lay on the floor and have pupils gather around — and all save one are printed expensively, on thick paper with c… - How The Postis replacing Mapbox with open source solutions – Kevin Schaul
For some projects, I’m sure we’ll continueusing Mapbox. But for most of our use cases, we don’t need the latest and greatest. And Mapbox has gotten expensive. - NetHack 3.6.7: Release Notes
“NetHack 3.6.7 is the official release of NetHack that follows NetHack 3.6.6” — en daarmee is er een nieuwe versie uit. Ik speel al jaren DCSS, maar het blijft mij iets doen als er een nieuwe versie van Nethack uitkomt. - The maze is in the mouse. What
ails Google. And how it can turn things around
Google has four core cultural problems. They are all the natural consequences of having a money-printing machine called “Ads” that has kept growing relentlessly every year, hiding all other sins.
(1) no mission, (2) no urgency, (3) delusions of exceptionalism, (4) mismanagement. - Yes, Elon Musk created a
special system for showing you all his tweets first
Heerlijk. “After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm” - The Witch Trials of J.K.
Rowling
‘You could not have misunderstood me more profoundly.’ A new audio series featuring extensive interviews with the world’s most successful author. - Darwinian Gastronomy: Why
We Use Spices | BioScience | Oxford Academic
In this article, we summarize the results of our inquiries.We found that spice use is decidedly nonrandom and that spices have several beneficial effects, the most important of which may be reducing foodborne illnesses and food poisoning. - A Black Professor
Trapped in Anti-Racist Hell | Compact Mag
In a recent book, John McWhorter asserts that anti-racism is anew religion. It was an idea I quickly dismissed. Last summer, I found anti-racism to be a perversion of religion: I found a cult. - Full article: Wikipedia’s
Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust
In the last decade, a group of committed Wikipedia editors have been promoting a skewed version of history on Wikipedia, one touted by right-wing Polish nationalists, which whitewashes the role of Polish society in the Holocaust and bolsters stereotypes about Jews. Due to this group’s zealous handiwork, Wikipedia’s articles on the Holocaust in Poland minimize Polish antisemitism, exaggeratethe Poles’ role in saving Jews, insinuate that most Jews supported Communism and conspired with Communists… - Anatomy of a Book Cancellation |
Compact Mag
Onvermijdelijk — on. ver. mij. de. lijk. — komt dit soort zaken binnenkort ook bij ons voor. Als het nu al niet het geval is. - Stable Attribution
These human-made source images are in the training set used by AI……to generate this image. - Something Strange Is Happening on the Sun, and We’ve Never Seen It Before
This past week, a part of the sun’s surface broke off and started circling the sun’s north pole almost as if it were a giant polar vortex––and scientists don’t know why. - The Biggest Penguin That
Ever Existed Was a ‘Monster Bird’ – The New York Times
Fossils found in New Zealand highlight an era after the dinosaurs when giant flightless birds prowled the seas for prey. - MotherDuck: Big Data is Dead
This post will make the case that the era of Big Data is over. It had a good run, but now we can stop worrying about data size and focus on how we’re going to use it to make better decisions. I’ll show a number of graphs; these are all hand-drawn based on memory. If I did have access to the exact numbers, I wouldn’t be able to share them. But the important part is the shape, rather than the exact values. - Wake up, Corporate America: You can’t bribe, threaten, or feed people to get them back in the office – The Boston Globe
In-person work is valuable, but many companies have forgotten what motivates people to do it.
Tales of Drudgery & Boredom.