May 2024 Archive
1111.
Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History (maggieappleton.com)
1112.
Ex-OpenAI board member provides her first detailed account of CEO ouster (reuters.com)
1113.
Decoding UTF8 with parallel extract (nrk.neocities.org)
1114.
Sam Altman Is Full of Shit (wheresyoured.at)
1115.
Move over, tractor – The farmer wants a crop-spraying drone (spectrum.ieee.org)
1116.
I'm Bearish OpenAI (stovetop.substack.com)
1117.
The history of 'OK' (2023) (people.howstuffworks.com)
1118.
The Myth of Medieval Small Beer (2017) (ianvisits.co.uk)
1119.
Tegelwippen (nk-tegelwippen.nl)
1120.
The Adwaita Icon Theme no longer follows the FDO spec, breaking e.g. KDE apps (cullmann.io)
1121.
World-first tooth-regrowing drug will be given to humans in September (newatlas.com)
1122.
Refusal in LLMs is mediated by a single direction (lesswrong.com)
1123.
Folding and One Straight Cut Suffice [pdf] (1999) (imsc.res.in)
1124.
Tine Text Editor (github.com)
1125.
Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI (twitter.com)
1126.
Flags Are Not Languages (flagsarenotlanguages.com)
1127.
StackOverflow is banning accounts that delete answers in protest against OpenAI (m.benui.ca)
1128.
Generalizing Support for Functional OOP in R (blog.r-project.org)
1129.
Sorry, wrong number (roads.org.uk)
1130.
Shell sold carbon credits for carbon that was never captured (cbc.ca)
1131.
You thought OpenStreetMap uses WGS84? No it doesn't (2019) (openstreetmap.org)
1132.
'Smart' antibiotic can kill deadly bacteria while sparing the microbiome (nature.com)
1133.
How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy? (leonarddavid.com)
1134.
Road planners embrace the diverging diamond interchange (npr.org)
1135.
Ultrasonic Coffee (theguardian.com)
1136.
Ask HN: How to do simple heartbeat monitoring?
1137.
The obscure intelligence bureau that got Vietnam, Iraq, and Ukraine right (vox.com)
1138.
Steam's Last Stand (technicshistory.com)
1139.
Designed to Crash: the story of Antonov An-28 HA-LAJ and its demise (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)
1140.
Dune 3D 1.1.0 Released (github.com)