Digest — 2024-12-22:

excerpts from pieces i never published

When Someone Takes Credit for Your Work

AI skeptic Gary Marcus on AI’s moral and technical shortcomings

Not all forms of carbon removal are created equal

A Whole of Parts: Philosopher R.L. Nettleship on Love, Death, and the Paradox of Personality

Review: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy

What o3 Becomes by 2028

Checking in on Scott's composition image bet with imagen 3

A breakdown of AI capability levels focused on AI R&D labor acceleration

When AI 10x's AI R&D, What Do We Do?

Orienting to 3 year AGI timelines

Minimilistic Log Moniitoring System

Deliver the Bare Minimum

Hacking Life into My Little Counter

Unnecessary Optimization in Rust: Hamming Distances, SIMD, and Auto-Vectorization

On Long Term Software Development

How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster

Synchronous Reading with Friends

UIs Should Be Versioned, Just Like We Version APIs

Let's Build Snake with Rust (2020)

sqlite.directory

Four limitations of Rust’s borrow checker

Do Not Fix Bugs Reported in Your Open Source Projects

darktable 5.0.0 released

The funniest looking Christmas party I ever saw

Reads Causing Writes in Postgres

Cognitive load is what matters

Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas

Unforgeable Quantum Tokens Delivered over Fiber Network

When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it

Bit Vectors and my first steps into assembly

Minutes of a Meeting Held at Gear Ratio on Tuesday 13 June 78 [pdf]

i sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS 24

Show HN: Npflared serveless private NPM registry that you can host for free

Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app

2solitude – Honeywell TPE 331-12 refitted Antonov AN-2 camper

The death of Glitch, the birth of Slack

AI Decodes the Calls of the Wild

RAG Logger: An Open-Source Alternative to LangSmith

Infinigen: Infinite Photorealistic Worlds Using Procedural Generation

Telling Stories in Athenian Law [pdf] (2002)

ChatGPT O3 Preview Announcement

Whither Dashboard Design?

CodeMic: A new way to talk about code

JRuby with JBang

Finley (YC W21) Is Hiring a Growth Associate (Ex-Finance)

Fighting spam with Haskell at Meta (2015)

Tokenisation Is NP-Complete

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)

MI300X vs. H100 vs. H200 Benchmark Part 1: Training – CUDA Moat Still Alive

GPT-5 is behind schedule

One way to fight loneliness: The Germans call it a Stammtisch

How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster

Classified fighter jet specs leaked on War Thunder forums – again

Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'

Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers

Show HN: GitHub-assistant – Natural language questions from your GitHub data

One Surprising Psychosis Treatment That Works: Learning to Live with the Voices

Rosetta 2 creator leaves Apple to work on Lean full-time

Turning Ethereum into a Community Project

Slow deployment causes meetings (2015)

The essays of Michel de Montaigne online

We use our own hardware at Fastmail

Show HN: NoSQL, but it's SQLite

The thought that counts

[library] The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

[notes] Mental State and Perceived Exertion

Tamil Nadu crosses 10,000 DPIIT-registered startup millstone, credits StartupTN mission

Top Christmas destinations in India; Dating trends in 2025

Historic Rs 1.6 lakh Cr raised via IPOs in 2024, bigger boom expected in 2025

Health, platforms, education: Test your business creativity with Edition 167 of our weekly quiz!

22 venues, 200 projects: This festival in Goa delights art lovers across the spectrum

GST Council introduces 'Track and Trace' system to curb tax evasion

Epigamia co-founder Rohan Mirchandani passes away due to cardiac arrest

Navigating market volatility: Lessons from recent cryptocurrency trends

2024 startup rewind: Key insights on AI, fintech, and quick commerce from Prime Venture Partners

노오븐! 노반죽! 집에서 쉽게 만드는 진한 풍미의 흑백 초콜릿 케이크!!

Smart Percents and TemplateBox Dispatching

Introduction to Electric Circuits Course

Proving Theorems with Mathematica: Pólya's Conjecture and Beyond

Front End Overview

Mathematica Assistance in Developing a New Theory for Tubesheet Design

Updates to Presenter Tools

What's New in Chemical Education?

What's New in PDE Modeling

Asset Management

Graph Tools for Causal Inference

What's New in Geometry

Effective Use of Wolfram Language and Notebooks for User Interface Design

Explore Modeling with the Constructive Solid Geometry Library

What's New in Visualization

Wolfram Language Repositories, Including the New WL Example Repo and the Demonstrations Project

What US Insurance Companies Aren’t Telling You | Informer

Amul’s Protein strategy 🔥🔥

Amul’s Genius Marketing Strategy

Equality for farmers?

232 million metric tons of milk!

Selling Packet Milk is Hardest?

'Bharat can never permit others to have a veto on its choices,' says EAM S Jaishankar

South Korea’s attempted coup shows even democracies can be brought down by authoritarian rulers

‘You Cannot Miss This’:An art exhibition curated by Raihan Vadra that’s'redefining everyday moments'

Diet in diabetes & nutrition requirements for elderly

'Scuffle' outside Parliament, Ambedkar's legacy, 'One Nation, One Election' & Delhi assembly polls

A town engaged in memory-making. 1976, 1978, 1992 & the history of violence in Sambhal

LIVE: Ceremonial welcome and Guard of Honour for PM Modi in Kuwait

Scientists warn of unprecedented, dangerous mirror life research

A warped, tragic reincarnation of Hinduism calls itself nationalism: Rajmohan Gandhi

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses 55th meeting of GST Council in Jaisalmer

Behind US missile sanctions on Pakistan, unresolved questions about secret nuclear black market

PM Modi conferred with Kuwait's highest civilian award, ' The Order of Mubarak the Great'

From debates to disruptions to rare humour: Parliament highs and lows in 2024

DEVIN MAKES SOMETHING

What is rock bottom for you?

Your Favourite Christmas Moments | The Graham Norton Show

Foster Pittie's Christmas Wish Is A Family | The Dodo

Terrified Beagle Who'd Never Been Inside Before Finally Opens Up | The Dodo

Terrified Beagle Who'd Never Been Inside Before Finally Opens Up | The Dodo

Foster Pittie's Christmas Wish Is A Family | The Dodo

Watch These Baby Skunks Grow Up! 🦨 | The Dodo

Dog Only Wants To Watch "Elf" During Christmas Season | The Dodo

Maybe it's the dark, black part of his soul, maybe it's Maybelline! #desilydic #jdvance #dailyshow

Since Jason Segel plays a therapist, he’s qualified to give the TDS staff advice #DailyShow

is your family ruining your mental health?

How did spices like nutmeg end up going from medicine to favorite wintertime holiday spice?

Sociologists Want to Establish Scientific Consensus

Interview with 80s Computer Nerd

ORIGAMI CHRISTMAS TREE EASY TUTORIAL | DIY CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATION FOR CHRISTMAS EVE AND NEW YEAR

EASY TUTORIAL ORIGAMI CHRISTMAS TREE | HOW TO MAKE ORIGAMI CHRISTMAS TREE STEP BY STEP PAPER DECOR

How Do You Install and Run NX in Your Monorepo with Lead Engineer, Sean Amarasinghe

God and the Afterlife: The Story of God with Morgan Freeman | MEGA EPISODE | National Geographic

MELLISAI MANNAR MIGHT LIKE INSTRUMENT TRUMPET BUT CANNOT TRUMPET SELF

Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #455

Chanakya dance cover | Ishanvi Hegde | Ranodip Poddar choreography

Late entry for Christmas number 1?

Kathak By Antonia Minnecola & Ustad Zakir Hussain Ji On Tabla #kathak #classical #icmdance #shorts

Ustad Zakir Hussain Ji Singing And Playing Guitar🙏✨#icmtabla #guitar #music #shorts

Rakesh Chaurasia & Ustad Zakir Hussain Ji 🙏✨#flute #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

Fundamental analysis of Nuvama | FII increasing stake ft. Mr. Akshay Jogani

DIY Shaking Torch! (Emergency Flashlight) #diy #project #flashlight #light #led #electronics #shake

The Zen of Data Science • Eugene Dubossarsky • YOW! 2018

👀 WARNING: Cyclist Got SCAMMED Hard ⚠️ 😢

Can Our £200 Bikes Survive An Epic Gravel Ride?

Dirty D3.js Part 1: D3 is not what you think

The tough training of border guards on the Norwegian-Russian border | DW Documentary

MIT Scientists Create Implantable Cancer Treatment

Watch chef Sanjna make the best ever chilli oil!! This will be the greatest you’ve ever tried!!

How Big Were Dinosaurs Really?

Drawing a Winter Scene: Cabin in the Snow

Carlsen toasts Nepo’s French Defense in 23 moves

"Arey Queen!" | Deniel Safarov vs Ilamparthi AR | Sunway Sitges Blitz

Sacrificing your Queen to destroy a Grandmaster | Ilamparthi vs Vetokhin | Sunway Sitges Blitz

Exchange Sacrifice gone wrong - Md. Reyan v Pranav Sai Ram | 37th National Under-13 Open

Attack, Defense & Counterattack! Ilamparthi (2391) 🆚 Donchenko (2585) | Sunway Sitges Blitz

Ian SHOWS Magnus WHAT He MISSED Before the NEXT GAME BEGINS

The Enemy Bishop From THE MOUNTAINTOP!

Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi are GOOD FRIENDS

Single, Best Knee Pain Exercise!

Holiday Stress? Melt It Away with the C2 Pro Massage Gun! 🎄✨

Held Hostage: A Deadly Business

Hot Doug's: the Movie (Full Documentary) The Sausage Revolution!

Blake Lively files legal complaint against Justin Baldoni. #BlakeLively #ItEndsWithUs #BBCNews

Magdeburg Christmas market attack suspect Taleb al-Abdulmohsen appears in court | BBC News

Sir Chris Hoy on bike technology and future of cycling | BBC News

Blake Lively accuses co-star Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment | BBC News

How one of gaming's best-known actors took on one of film's biggest roles | BBC News

André Gleißner named as nine-year-old killed in Magdeburg Christmas market attack | BBC News

Syria's minorities seek security as country charts new future | BBC News

Tyson Fury: 'Judges gave Usyk Christmas gift'. #TysonFury #OleksandrUsyk #Boxing #BBCNews

Israeli military carries out wave of attacks in Gaza | BBC News

Anger grows after German Christmas market attack. #Magdeburg #Germany #BBCNews

FULL EPISODE: One of the World's Most Remote Places: The Tibetan Plateau | Wild China | BBC Earth

"THE OVERDOG" || Magnus vs Nepo || Champions Chess Tour Finals (2024)

Kya Mujhe Pyar Hai | Pritam | K.K. | Zendria

Kya Mujhe Pyar Hai | Pritam | K.K. | Zendria

Script vs Real | Galatta Digital Stars 2024 | Vikkals

New Dzire vs Amaze: Sub Rs 10 Lakh Battle | Which Car Is More Value for Money?

The Interview That will Redefine Unfiltered | Unfiltered By Samdish Ft. Rajdeep Sardesai

Fentanyl Addict interview-Georgia

Skid Row Resident interview-Tina

Atul Subhash’s Suicide: Systemic failures and troubling narratives | South Central Ep 6

कितना खूबसूरत यू टर्न लिया है डंकापति ने | #nltippani

"How much maintenance are you willing to give?"

Suffering is like a jewel | Krishnamurti

Đừng vứt 15 loại rác thải nhà bếp này, bạn sẽ có vườn rau củ tốt um |These 15 types of kitchen waste

Save Time & Money with Mastercard Tap and Go 💳😎 #collab #Mastercard #BigBarbecue #tapandgo

“Don’t Fear The Reaper” Breakdown #guitar #classicrock #blueoystercult #shorts

The FBI Agent Who Betrayed America for 22 Years