1. WP21
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The article reflects on the 21st anniversary of WordPress. The author highlights the milestones and success of WordPress over the years. They also mention the importance of features like playground and the factors that contributed to WordPress’s early success. The article concludes with congratulatory messages from readers and their personal reflections on WordPress.
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The article criticizes WordPress for not adhering to development standards and possibly trying to undermine the freelancer and digital agency market. It specifically mentions the use of globals, spaghetti code, and the inclusion of JSON within HTML comments, which is seen as inefficient and error-prone. The writer also suggests that these practices may be intentional in order to promote WordPress’s WYSIWYG site builder on WP.com.
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The article discusses the issue of quick judgments and strong opinions within the community. The author praises the excellent isolation of code with blocks in WordPress, which allows for modular websites and development flows. The author recommends everyone to understand and learn WordPress properly, emphasizing that they have no relation or connection to WordPress.
2. Surveilling the masses with wi-fi-based positioning systems
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The article discusses arXivLabs, a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new features on the arXiv website. The framework is open to both individuals and organizations who align with arXiv’s values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. The article also mentions that arXiv only works with partners who adhere to these values. The article concludes by inviting readers to learn more about arXivLabs if they have project ideas that can benefit the arXiv community.
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Supernetworks is developing secure Wi-Fi routers that now have the capability to assign MACs to interfaces and also feature MAC randomization. The new release with these updates is available on the Supernetworks GitHub page. This feature allows users to easily randomize both the AP BSSID/MAC and WiFi client station interfaces when using the router as a travel router.
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The author contemplates a potential strategy to counter theft by broadcasting multiple local SSIDs in their warehouse. Their aim is to identify the SSID that thieves’ phones automatically connect to in order to determine where they are likely to gather. The author intends to use this information to either inform the police or handle the situation themselves.
3. Tantivy – full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene
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The article discusses Tantivy, a full-text search engine library written in Rust that is inspired by Apache Lucene. It explains that Tantivy is not a ready-to-use search engine server like Elasticsearch or Apache Solr, but rather a library that can be used to build such a search engine. The article mentions Quickwit as a distributed search engine built on top of Tantivy, and provides a benchmark breakdown of Tantivy’s performance for different types of queries/collections. It also mentions that Tantivy works on stable Rust and supports Linux, macOS, and Windows. The article concludes by mentioning ways to support the project, such as using the GitHub Pull Request workflow and updating the project’s changelog.
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The article discusses the author’s positive experience with a library called ProgScrape. The author praises the library’s speed and efficiency, particularly when indexing a large collection of stories. They mention re-building a website using ProgScrape and how it improved performance compared to an older codebase. The author also mentions hosting a service on a Raspberry Pi and conducting load tests, all of which ProgScrape handled well. They recommend ProgScrape over Lucene for modern projects and believe it scales effectively even on larger systems.
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The article discusses the use of Tantivy, a Postgres extension, as a replacement for Elastic for high-performance analytics and multilingual search projects. The author mentions their positive experience using Tantivy combined with Clickhouse for a multilingual search pet project. They also express frustration with the performance of to_tsvector in PostgreSQL for their use cases. The author hopes for the success of Tantivy and mentions their willingness to support posts mentioning Tantivy.
4. Gh-dash: A beautiful CLI dashboard for GitHub
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The article describes a CLI dashboard for GitHub called “gh-dash” that allows users to display pull requests and issues by filters they care about. It provides instructions on how to install the extension and set up configurations. Users can also customize keybindings and color schemes. The article ends with the author’s contact information.
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The article discusses a bash function that uses gh and fzf to check out PRs. The function lists PRs with specific attributes, displays them using a template, allows selection through fzf, and then checks out the selected PR using xargs. A screenshot of the function is provided in the article.
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The article discusses the author’s appreciation for the recent trend of well-designed text user interface (TUI) applications made possible by a platform called Charm.
5. Refurb Weekend: Canon Cat
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The article discusses the failed launch of the Canon Cat, a unique all-in-one computer system developed by Jef Raskin. Despite receiving praise and design awards, the Cat was discontinued after just six months and a limited number of sales due to alleged corporate issues and uncertainty within Canon. The Cat featured a bitmapped display, a Forth environment, and a single floppy drive for storage. It was intended to be an instantly usable system but faced limitations in its marketing and display capabilities. The article also briefly mentions Raskin’s previous work on the Swyft project, a similar computer system.
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The article discusses Jef Raskin’s book “Humane Interface” and how it influenced the author’s understanding of computer interfaces. The book emphasizes the importance of avoiding modes and ensuring that computers do not lose data. The author also mentions a project called Archy that implemented these principles by automatically saving work and protecting data in case of crashes. The author believes that current computer systems have made progress in preventing data loss, but there are still some issues like losing form input and limited undo options in certain systems.
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The Canon Cat, a piece of hardware, can be emulated through the Internet Archive. The writer purchased a book by Jeff Raskin, who had interesting ideas but they may have been unrealistic.
6. Grokked Transformers Are Implicit Reasoners
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The article discusses arXivLabs, a framework that enables collaboration and development of new features for the arXiv website. It emphasizes the importance of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy, and states that arXiv only works with partners who share these values. The article also mentions that individuals and organizations can propose projects that benefit the arXiv community, and provides information on how to receive status notifications via email or slack.
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The article suggests that understanding and improving the concept of “grokking” should be the focus of AI. Currently, AI is reliant on memorizing circuits that perform well in specific use cases, but this approach is not ideal for generalizing circuits. The paper mentioned in the article highlights the importance of the distribution of training data in influencing generalization behavior.
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The article discusses the concept of “grokking,” which is similar to the idea presented in the book “The Dip.” It explains that most people only invest effort in learning, training, or improving until they reach a point where their returns become flat or negative. However, those who excel at a particular task are the ones who have successfully navigated through the dip in the return curve per unit of effort.
7. Transformers Can Do Arithmetic with the Right Embeddings
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The article discusses arXivLabs, a framework that enables people to develop and share new features on the arXiv website. It emphasizes the importance of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv only partners with individuals and organizations that uphold these values. The article also invites readers to contribute their ideas for projects that benefit the arXiv community. Additionally, it mentions the availability of status notifications via email or Slack.
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The article discusses the potential benefits of adding tokens to encode column location and decimal spot triples in mathematical tasks. This simple fix is said to greatly improve performance and can be used for related tasks like sorting and list making. The author suggests that this addition should be made a standard part of tokenization. Additionally, the author expresses interest in finding other useful concepts for data embedding.
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The author is discussing the difference between understanding and curve fitting. They argue that simply fitting curves to data is not the same as true understanding. They point out that human intelligence can operate deterministically and non-deterministically, and understanding requires less data than brute forcing pattern recognition. The author uses the example of understanding multiplication and addition to illustrate how true understanding allows for computation without prior data. They emphasize the importance of differentiating between approximation and calculation. The author concludes by stating that current language models lack true understanding and only approximate it.
8. Last hours of an organ donor
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The article discusses the experience of a thoracic surgeon who is scheduled to perform an organ transplant on a deceased patient. The surgeon reflects on the classification system used to assess the risk of surgical procedures and the unique category for brain-dead patients who are eligible for organ donation. The surgeon expresses mixed feelings about the upcoming case, feeling both horrified by the concept of death but also relieved by the absence of malpractice risk. The surgeon examines the medical record of the patient, a young woman who died in a car accident, and reflects on the lack of information about her life and death. The surgeon discusses the emotional impact of preparing for the surgery and the realization that the patient, who had been dead for six hours, was now re-entering the world of the living. The surgeon affirms their role in supporting the patient’s vital signs and speculates on the possibility of her waking up.
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The article discusses the author’s mixed feelings when faced with a case involving a deceased patient. The author describes feeling horrified by the concept of death but also relieved that there was no risk of malpractice. The author criticizes the portrayal of doctors and nurses in the article, stating that they are more prepared and professional in real life situations. The author finds the piece to be embellished and overwrought.
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The article criticizes a piece of writing for attempting to be poetic and argues that it misrepresents the last hours of an organ donor. The author reflects on the lack of emotional suitability of the writer, likely a doctor, who suggests the possibility of the patient miraculously waking up. The author also disagrees with the statement that there is no risk of malpractice during organ donation, highlighting the potential harm to other patients waiting for organs.
9. Fractal Geometry
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The article recommends a MOOC called “Fractals and Scaling” from Santa Fe Institute as a great way to learn about fractals. The course is taught by David Feldman and is described as very accessible. The article includes a link to the course.
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In the 1990s, IFS (fractal) image compression was a competitor to JPEG and was even used by Microsoft Encarta on their CD-ROM. However, it was slow in compressing images and its fate beyond that is unknown.
10. TTE: Terminal Text Effects
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The article describes a list of built-in effects and their default configurations for manipulating text on a canvas. These effects include creating beams of light, decoding characters, creating a blackhole in a starfield, making characters fall like bouncy balls, forming bubbles, burning characters, displaying color gradients, crumbling characters into dust, decrypting text, swapping characters, expanding characters, launching characters like fireworks, expanding text in rows or columns, orbiting launchers, overflowing text, pouring characters back and forth, printing characters line by line, raining characters, printing characters randomly, dispersing characters into rings, scattering text across the canvas, sliding text into place, sliding characters into view, illuminating text with spotlights, spraying characters from a point, moving character swarms, creating a grid of characters, jumbling and reassembling characters, glitching lines of characters, leaving character waves, and performing wipes to reveal characters.
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The article suggests that while something may be amazing, it should never be used in a production setting.
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The article discusses integrating a video with the MOTD (Message of the Day) on ssh login. The video has a random effect each time it is displayed. The link to the video is provided in the article.