I Stopped Going to the Gym… Here’s What Happened
Is het mogelijk om niét verliefd te zijn op Patty? Ik dacht het niet.
Project NOMAD – Offline Knowledge & AI Server
Wikipedia, AI, maps, and education tools running on your own hardware — completely free. No internet required.
Origins of violence: evolutionary decoupling between mild and lethal conspecific aggression in primates | Evolution Letters | Oxford Academic
New research from the University of Lincoln, UK, is challenging a common assumption about the evolutionary origins of human violence, suggesting that everyday aggression does not inevitably lead to lethal conflict. The study, published in the journal Evolution Letters, finds that mild aggression and lethal violence appear to have evolved along different pathways, offering new insight into one of the most enduring debates about human nature.
The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon – Larst Of Us
RollerCoaster Tycoon and its sequel are often named as some of the best-optimized games out there, written almost completely in Assembly by their creator, Chris Sawyer. Somehow this game managed to simulate full theme parks with thousands of agents on the hardware of 1999 without breaking a sweat. An immensely impressive feat, considering that even nowadays a lot of similar building games struggle to hit a consistent framerate.
Cross-Model Semantic Void Convergence Under Embodiment Prompting: Deterministic Silence in GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.6
This preprint reports a reproducible cross-model behavioral convergence in which frontier language models selectively do not continue under embodiment prompts for ontologically null concepts. In repeated trials, GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.6 return deterministic empty output for core null prompts while responding normally to controls, showing a shared boundary where unlicensed continuation does not render. The paper demonstrates cross-model replication, token-budget independence, partial adversarial resistance, and boundary expansion under explicit silence permission, while separating semantic embodiment effects from ordinary instruction-following or refusal. The contribution is a public black-box artifact: convergent, inspectable evidence that some semantic conditions terminate continuation across independent frontier systems.
This picture broke my brain
Escher en wiskunde en 3Blue1Brown — ik zou het bijna spijtig vinden dat ik geen wiskunde gestudeerd heb.
Abusing Customizable Selects | CSS-Tricks
Web browsers ship new features all the time, but what fun is it if we can’t build silly and fun things with them? In this article, let’s go over a few demos that I’ve made by using the new customizable <select> feature, and walk through the main steps and techniques that I’ve used to implement them.
A light-entrained clock mechanism in a hydrozoan jellyfish synchronizes evening gamete release | PLOS Biology
Somewhere over the course of their evolution, the class of hydrozoans — which includes certain kinds of jellyfish, hydras, and colonial siphonophores such as the Portuguese man-of-war — lost the genes that operate circadian clocks in the rest of the animal kingdom. Yet a newly discovered hydrozoan jellyfish species has a mysterious circadian clock that regularly tracks 20-hour periods, suggesting that its mechanism evolved independently.
Under the Hood of Sharpie: Crafting a Fantasy Console from Scratch
It takes a certain kind of person who, after spending enough time with something like PICO-8, doesn’t just want to make games and enjoy it: they start wondering how it works, and eventually whether they could build something like it themselves. It’s about understanding the invisible layer beneath. The rules, the limitations, the logic that shapes how everything works. For some, that curiosity leads to modding, or emulation, or eventually building tools of their own. For others, it turns into something a little more ambitious: designing an entire system from scratch.