Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage https://maalvika.substack.com/p/being-too-ambitious-is-a-clever-form
Substack
being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage
on starting, doing, being, and becoming.
Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched https://www.eumetsat.int/europes-first-geostationary-sounder-satellite-launched
EUMETSAT
Europe’s first geostationary sounder satellite is launched
Meteosat Third Generation Sounder 1 is successfully launched.
Get the location of the ISS using DNS https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/get-the-location-of-the-iss-using-dns/
Terence Eden’s Blog
Get the location of the ISS using DNS
I love DNS esoterica. Weird little things that you can shove in the global directory to be distributed around the world instantly(ish). Domain names, like www.example.com usually resolve to servers. As much as we think of "the cloud" as being some intangible…
Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics https://alpha.lisagui.com/
LisaGUI
A Lisa-themed Graphical User Interface
A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs http://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-non-anthropomorphized-view-of-llms.html
Blogspot
A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs
In many discussions where questions of "alignment" or "AI safety" crop up, I am baffled by seriously intelligent people imbuing almost magic...
Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/neanderthals-operated-fat-factory-125000-years-ago/
Archaeology News Online Magazine
Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” 125,000 years ago on German lakeshore
Neanderthals used heat and water to extract fat from bones 125,000 years ago, revealing advanced food processing skills.
François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QcCeSsNRks
YouTube
François Chollet: How We Get To AGI
François Chollet on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.
François Chollet is a leading voice in AI. He's the creator of the Keras library, author of Deep Learning with Python, and the founder of the ARC Prize, a global competition aimed at…
François Chollet is a leading voice in AI. He's the creator of the Keras library, author of Deep Learning with Python, and the founder of the ARC Prize, a global competition aimed at…
Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17298
arXiv.org
Mercury: Ultra-Fast Language Models Based on Diffusion
We present Mercury, a new generation of commercial-scale large language models (LLMs) based on diffusion. These models are parameterized via the Transformer architecture and trained to predict...
I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links https://noperator.dev/posts/o3-pocket-profile/
noperator.dev
I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links
Welp, Pocket shuts down tomorrow despite our pleas for it to stay. While migrating1 all of my saved articles, I noticed that I’ve got almost 900 saved articles spanning nearly 7 years. That’s a goldmine of stuff-I-like data! Some quick analysis using xsv2:…
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/
New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-sphere-packing-record-stems-from-an-unexpected-source-20250707/
Quanta Magazine
New Sphere-Packing Record Stems From an Unexpected Source | Quanta Magazine
After just a few months of work, a complete newcomer to the world of sphere packing has solved one of its biggest open problems.
The Miyawaki Method of micro-forestry https://www.futureecologies.net/listen/fe-6-5-the-method
Future Ecologies Podcast
FE6.5 - The Method — Future Ecologies Podcast
The Miyawaki Method of micro-forestry is a viral sensation: sprouting tiny, dense, native tree cover in neighbourhoods all around the world. With the promise of afforestation at a revolutionary speed, this planting technique has become the darling of green…
LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping https://studios.disneyresearch.com/2025/06/09/lookingglass-generative-anamorphoses-via-laplacian-pyramid-warping/