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Scratch and Sniff Gas Leaks, International Space Station, Comedy Wildlife Photos, Software Engineering
Every annoyed and overtired fish needs to de-stress by hunting for a bald eagle
ISS Mimic: International Space Station Telemetry
Urine Tank [%]: 36
As of December 2023, 42 out of 58 goats have been destroyed or damaged in some way. Burning or destroying the goat is illegal, and the Svea Court of Appeal has stated that the offence should normally carry a 3-month prison sentence.
Cognitive load is what matters
When reading code, you put things like values of variables, control flow logic and call sequences into your head. The average person can hold roughly four such chunks in working memory. Once the cognitive load reaches this threshold, it becomes much harder to understand things.
HN Comment Thread: Blind Programmers
I asked him how he managed to code, and he replied with something that stayed with me: a good programmer should organize software in such a way that every piece of code has a clear and logical place. The organization should be so intuitive that anyone could build a mental model of the structure and navigate it easily, even without seeing it.
Can LLMs Accurately Recall the Bible
If you really want to lean on an LLM to give you textually accurate bible verses of popular translations, you really should lean on higher parameter count (i.e. larger) models. These include models like Llama 405B, OpenAI GPT 4o and Claude Sonnet which all had perfect scores. Smaller models (7B range) will often mix up translations, and in some cases even mix up or hallucinate verse altogether.
Two Way Mirror Improves Video Conferencing
The problem is you naturally want to look at the screen, but that means you aren’t looking at the camera and, thus, you aren’t making eye contact. If you use a laptop, there is a relatively easy fix, although it isn’t particularly stylish. [Matt] built a black shroud out of foam board and put in two-way mirror.
Useful to the Point of Being Revolutionary: Introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant
Make a collage of planet images with sizes proportional to mass
<Makes collage>
There was an inspired person who decided to do the opposite. They just yolo’d giving the designer the deploy keys.
I’ve come to understand this event as being entirely contingent, but it was also very special.And it was great. Designers started shipping code.
The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code
Benter had achieved something without known precedent: a kind of horse-racing hedge fund, and a quantitative one at that, using probabilistic modeling to beat the market and deliver returns to investors.
Scratch And Sniff Stickers And The Gas Panic Of ’87
The result was exactly what you’d expect when 300,000 pieces of mail start simulating gas leaks all over town. Fire departments across the city were fielding a deluge of calls from concerned citizens who thought their houses were about to explode.
