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Sabine Hossenfelder's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxmTqIkToTg

News release from HSBC

https://www.hsbc.com/news-and-views/news/media-releases/2025...

http://archive.today/tKfmh

I hope for the good of humanity that a difference here is that Twitter has some utility, whereas the comparable code bases at large tech firms are mostly useless features/products (i.e. bullshit work).

What are the implications on quantum gravity?

Basically the same article from Purdue.

How interpreting PDF in Postscript became untenable

I was wondering how the "io" module was involved when the exploit claimed to not use any import. The answer is "io = open.__self__" [1]. Allowing "open()" would be an oversight if a sandbox intends to block "io".

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[1] https://github.com/kn32/python-buffered-reader-exploit/blob/...

The writing was on the wall in the summer of '89.

MSFT still outperformed SP500 index this week.

Basically the only languages with full stackful coroutine support in wide use are Lua and (sort-of) Go.

Aren't Javascript Generators also coroutines?

Were there no Japanese spies in the 1930's with similar backgrounds and motivations? What's so new about it?

Let's assume that all the issues are binary (i.e. you are either for or against a proposition). But there are a large number of them. Humans are lazy. We try to use few categories to organize people we come into contact with (e.g. left or right, colored or white).

What will happen next? We feel that "the other side" seems to be all around, almost half the population. Example: many who oppose abortion probably also believe Black Lives Matter.

Seek Consensus — Take the time to bring your whole team along. Let discussion and disagreement bring you to the best solution.

There you have it! What the political leaders in this country have been failing to do.

The details in the article may be useful for malware research. But in most situations, when the target executable is PIE and is not sensitive about how it is run (which normal programs are), you can just "dlopen()" it like a shared library and invoke its "main()" function after changing the runtime environment in your own executable.

For anyone who wonders what about Charles Kuen Kao (高錕):

... Despite Kapany's work, the loss of signal over long distances via optical glass fibre was a recurring problem. What Kao did was work out how to fix this problem, and calculate how to transmit light over long distances. It was Kapany's work which led to the fabrication of the first ultrapure fibre in 1970. This was a game-changer in modern communication systems. ...

https://www.ibtimes.co.in/narinder-singh-kapany-passes-away-...

The more interesting question may be what innovation was achieved in performing the experiment, mainly I assume, in controlling and measuring the large number of photons accurately. Hints on those seem to be Fig. 2 [1].

In the spirit of sensationalizing "China" and "supremacy", does anyone know if this technology is relevant to some Star Wars weaponry for example?

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/12/02/scie...

Is there any risk here of violating copyright or patent protection held by Notion.so?

I am not a mathematician. But there is also a JSON representation [0] besides XML. As an exchange format between pieces of software, isn't it usable?

[0] https://www.openmath.org/standard/om20-2019-07-01/omstd20.ht...

Why so little interest and activities?

The setup of the game is simply unfair for a comparison between AI and human. If you want to keep the perfect data link between the simulator's outputs and the AI player computer, then at least let the human play by watching the (God's eye) display with the aircraft sprites sporting those kill-point spears and ditch the HUD. The objective would simply be to touch the enemy aircraft with that spear.

The HUD is cool and all. But how do I know where the enemy is if it is outside of the HUD's field? Think about how the AI knew. :) And while we are at this, maybe just invite a young gamer instead of a real pilot.

A thought just came to my mind. Let's say 30 years ago, I said to a colleague with whom I shared accesses to some Unix systems, "You know, I can use 'ps' to see what processes you are running. If I know the details about certain flaws of those binaries, I may be able to run a custom binary simultaneously on the system and figure out some of your data!" Would he/she be surprised or alarmed?

History has shown us that technological advancement of this kind will be adopted first by ...

Obvious application: H-anime. Reduced parameters for the "emotion" as well.

Final Fantasy 7's "cutscenes" are mostly rendered in real time. I wonder why the combat screens are not as good?

Someone's hack of the save files: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfZbFXSLLtk

More in uploader's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf7y6pZ-rnrFtHpX0vqB5HQ

He said he only hacked the save files.

There were reports that at least a few cutscenes were pre-rendered and cannot be changed.

How far are we from "procedural scene generation"?

I guess no one would object if you want to write an SPA using HTML5 and ES2020 that retrieves an XML semantic Web document and displays it in all kinds of CSS glory.

I am not sure "rerunning the script from top to bottom" is a necessary condition but for the code layout to reflect the expected behavior.

How would people compare this to Observable [1]? 1. Javascript vs. Python 2. Client-only vs. server-required?

Does the market already give advantage to Python and server-required because the data sets are too large and live on the server, and the users (data scientists) prefer Python and the existing libraries there?

[1] https://observablehq.com/

Looks like this guy is on someone's radar now. But before you flag this, I think what makes his videos hilarious is that like a great comic, while not telling the 100% true story, there is often some deep truth behind the gag.

I hope the patients won't regress when their pets almost inevitably die before they do.