From Swift to Mojo and high-performance AI Engineering with Chris Lattner youtu.be/Fxp3131i1yE?...
From Swift to Mojo and high-performance AI Engineering with Chris Lattner
YouTube video by The Pragmatic Engineer
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November 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
From Swift to Mojo and high-performance AI Engineering with Chris Lattner youtu.be/Fxp3131i1yE?...
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Spotify is a garbage company. They don’t pay artists enough, and their owner and CEO Daniel Ek has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Helsing, the maker of AI-controlled combat drones. Google “Spotify alternatives” to find better streaming services. I switched to Qobuz.
October 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Spotify is a garbage company. They don’t pay artists enough, and their owner and CEO Daniel Ek has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Helsing, the maker of AI-controlled combat drones. Google “Spotify alternatives” to find better streaming services. I switched to Qobuz.
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Emerging acts playing first-on and support slots get their early live crowd experience, develop stage craft and connection. They often help create the local buzz that enables promoters to sell national tours. They’re part of the pipeline from grassroots venues to arenas.
October 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Emerging acts playing first-on and support slots get their early live crowd experience, develop stage craft and connection. They often help create the local buzz that enables promoters to sell national tours. They’re part of the pipeline from grassroots venues to arenas.
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Books. No cookie preferences. No cookies. No GDPR. No pop ups. No bots. No floating videos. No AI. No ads. No trackers. No misinformation. No fascist techbros. No distracting animations. No paywalls. No influencers. How good are these things? Books are frickin awesome
October 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Books. No cookie preferences. No cookies. No GDPR. No pop ups. No bots. No floating videos. No AI. No ads. No trackers. No misinformation. No fascist techbros. No distracting animations. No paywalls. No influencers. How good are these things? Books are frickin awesome
Personally, I'm way more excited about quantum computing.
October 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Personally, I'm way more excited about quantum computing.
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The 20 teams at next year's men's T20 World Cup:
🇮🇳 India
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇦🇺 Australia
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
🏴 England
🇿🇦 South Africa
🇺🇸 USA
🏝️ West Indies
☘️ Ireland
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇨🇦 Canada
🇮🇹 Italy
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇳🇦 Namibia
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
🇳🇵 Nepal
🇴🇲 Oman
🇦🇪 UAE
🇮🇳 India
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇦🇺 Australia
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
🏴 England
🇿🇦 South Africa
🇺🇸 USA
🏝️ West Indies
☘️ Ireland
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇨🇦 Canada
🇮🇹 Italy
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇳🇦 Namibia
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
🇳🇵 Nepal
🇴🇲 Oman
🇦🇪 UAE
October 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The 20 teams at next year's men's T20 World Cup:
🇮🇳 India
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇦🇺 Australia
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
🏴 England
🇿🇦 South Africa
🇺🇸 USA
🏝️ West Indies
☘️ Ireland
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇨🇦 Canada
🇮🇹 Italy
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇳🇦 Namibia
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
🇳🇵 Nepal
🇴🇲 Oman
🇦🇪 UAE
🇮🇳 India
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇦🇺 Australia
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
🏴 England
🇿🇦 South Africa
🇺🇸 USA
🏝️ West Indies
☘️ Ireland
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇨🇦 Canada
🇮🇹 Italy
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇳🇦 Namibia
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
🇳🇵 Nepal
🇴🇲 Oman
🇦🇪 UAE
My Trusty RSS Reader Now Has AI "Intelligence"
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My Trusty RSS Reader Now Has AI "Intelligence"
And what the heck is RSS?
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October 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
My Trusty RSS Reader Now Has AI "Intelligence"
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Please support @democracydocket.com
I don’t usually write about my law firm, but I’m going to make an exception. With fewer than 60 lawyers, we are currently litigating 63 voting and election cases in 30 states — a number that will almost certainly rise in the weeks to come. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/why-...
Why My Law Firm is Litigating 63 Voting Rights Cases
Read here.
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October 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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My last post about digital ID today, but reading this Independent piece (in which I'm quoted) and what is this quote from Morgan Wild at Labour Together? Using the NHS app doesn't mean "your data is online". If this is the level of digital understanding of people writing digital policy, god help us
September 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
My last post about digital ID today, but reading this Independent piece (in which I'm quoted) and what is this quote from Morgan Wild at Labour Together? Using the NHS app doesn't mean "your data is online". If this is the level of digital understanding of people writing digital policy, god help us
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Wikimedia Foundation joins the fight for library digital rights! 🎉
@wikimediafoundation.org has signed onto the 4 Digital Rights of Memory Institutions, affirming memory institutions' rights to Collect, Preserve, Lend & Cooperate in the digital age.
➡️ www.internetarchive.eu/2025/09/26/w...
@wikimediafoundation.org has signed onto the 4 Digital Rights of Memory Institutions, affirming memory institutions' rights to Collect, Preserve, Lend & Cooperate in the digital age.
➡️ www.internetarchive.eu/2025/09/26/w...
Wikimedia Signs Statement Supporting Digital Rights of Memory Institutions - Internet Archive Europe
The global Our Future Memory campaign to secure digital rights for libraries, archives, and other memory institutions has gained another powerful ally. Wikimedia, one of the world’s leading champions ...
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September 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Wikimedia Foundation joins the fight for library digital rights! 🎉
@wikimediafoundation.org has signed onto the 4 Digital Rights of Memory Institutions, affirming memory institutions' rights to Collect, Preserve, Lend & Cooperate in the digital age.
➡️ www.internetarchive.eu/2025/09/26/w...
@wikimediafoundation.org has signed onto the 4 Digital Rights of Memory Institutions, affirming memory institutions' rights to Collect, Preserve, Lend & Cooperate in the digital age.
➡️ www.internetarchive.eu/2025/09/26/w...
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While Trump undermines and mocks the clean energy future, China is busy building it, racing past us while we stand still.
September 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
While Trump undermines and mocks the clean energy future, China is busy building it, racing past us while we stand still.
Compulsory Digital ID is a major change to our relationship with the state and I'm sorry but should be put to the people before any implementation.
September 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Compulsory Digital ID is a major change to our relationship with the state and I'm sorry but should be put to the people before any implementation.
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Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil
Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil
It's one small sip for man...
British boffins say they've discovered a way of taking one of the country's favorite pastimes – having a nice cup of tea – into outer space.…
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September 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil
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⚡ Trump administration moves to block Massachusetts offshore wind project 🌊
They have taken steps to revoke a permit for an offshore wind farm, in what critics call part of an “all-out assault” on the wind energy industry ❌
They have taken steps to revoke a permit for an offshore wind farm, in what critics call part of an “all-out assault” on the wind energy industry ❌
Trump administration moves to revoke permit for Massachusetts offshore wind project
The Trump administration has moved to block a Massachusetts offshore wind farm, its latest effort to hobble an industry and technology that President Donald Trump has attacked as “ugly” and unreliable...
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September 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
⚡ Trump administration moves to block Massachusetts offshore wind project 🌊
They have taken steps to revoke a permit for an offshore wind farm, in what critics call part of an “all-out assault” on the wind energy industry ❌
They have taken steps to revoke a permit for an offshore wind farm, in what critics call part of an “all-out assault” on the wind energy industry ❌
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British spreadsheet wizard will take mad skillz to Vegas after taking national Excel crown
British spreadsheet wizard will take mad skillz to Vegas after taking national Excel crown
Q: How many Excel users do you need to correctly set the number formatting of a cell? A: Monday, January 1st, 1900
The inaugural finals of the UK Excel Championship have come and gone, and there is now one spreadsheet wrangler to rule them all, at least in the United Kingdom.…
dlvr.it
September 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
British spreadsheet wizard will take mad skillz to Vegas after taking national Excel crown
Dress shop named among most inspiring businesses.
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Warwick clothing shop named among UK's most inspiring businesses
Shop owner Hannah Teale says she wants to
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September 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Dress shop named among most inspiring businesses.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Remember DeepSeek's R1 model that crashed the US stock market in Jan? DeepSeek has said it did not boost the model by training on OpenAI outputs. This and much more (eg $$ to train & technical details) revealed in the firm's peer reviewed paper out in Nature today 🧪🤖 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Secrets of DeepSeek AI model revealed in landmark paper
First peer reviewed study shows how a Chinese start-up firm made the market-shaking LLM for US$300,000.
www.nature.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Remember DeepSeek's R1 model that crashed the US stock market in Jan? DeepSeek has said it did not boost the model by training on OpenAI outputs. This and much more (eg $$ to train & technical details) revealed in the firm's peer reviewed paper out in Nature today 🧪🤖 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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A new AI tool can forecast a person’s risk of developing more than 1,000 diseases, in some cases providing a prediction decades in advance
go.nature.com/46uHSFS
go.nature.com/46uHSFS
Which diseases will you have in 20 years? This AI makes accurate predictions
A modified large language model called Delphi-2M analyses a person’s medical records and lifestyle to provide risk estimates for more than 1,000 diseases.
go.nature.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A new AI tool can forecast a person’s risk of developing more than 1,000 diseases, in some cases providing a prediction decades in advance
go.nature.com/46uHSFS
go.nature.com/46uHSFS
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One year after the Draghi Report: what has been achieved and what has changed
September 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
One year after the Draghi Report: what has been achieved and what has changed
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Last chance to book Solid World! Discover Datakluis, a personal data vault that can be used by individuals & organisations & PASS, an open-source digital wallet built on Solid Pods that empowers people experiencing homelessness to securely store and share vital records.
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September 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Last chance to book Solid World! Discover Datakluis, a personal data vault that can be used by individuals & organisations & PASS, an open-source digital wallet built on Solid Pods that empowers people experiencing homelessness to securely store and share vital records.
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The first complete activity map of a mammalian brain has revealed unprecedented insights into how decisions are made – and may even hint at the roots of intuition.
First map of mammal brain activity may have shown intuition in action
Scientists have mapped the activity that takes place across a mouse's entire brain as it decides how to complete a task - and the results could explain the origin of our gut feelings
www.newscientist.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
The first complete activity map of a mammalian brain has revealed unprecedented insights into how decisions are made – and may even hint at the roots of intuition.
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Bruce Springsteen - Blind Spot (Official Audio)
YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO
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September 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC is now Open Source opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09...
Microsoft Releases Historic 6502 BASIC - Microsoft Open Source Blog
Explore the original 6502 BASIC—now open source! Dive into retro code, history, and emulators. Fork it, run it, and relive computing's roots.
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September 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC is now Open Source opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09...