โจ Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Holloway, 34, and Oliveira, 36, entered the contest as two of the most popular fighters on the UFC roster and two future Hall of Famers.Former featherweight champion Holloway holds the record for the most strikes in UFC history with 3,681, and became the first fighter to defend the BMF belt when he defeated Dustin Poirier last year.Oliveira entered the bout as the fighter with the most finishes in UFC history with 21, and the most submission wins with 17.The pair previously fought in 2015…
โจ Read this insightful post from Culture Latest ๐ ๐ **Category**: Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,Far Out ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: network of EEG electrodes covered Anton Pelton's scalp like a jeweled headdress.The machine will map his brain activity as the powerful psychedelic dimethyltryptamine, known as DMT, flows through an intravenous drip into his bloodstream. With some trepidation, he waited to be immersed in another world that was familiar, given his many years of psychedelic experience, and yet, as was inevitably the case with every DMT trip, completely new.โI didn't know when they were going to turn it on,โ he says.…
๐ฅ Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐ ๐ **Category**: Gaming,Hardware,modretro,Palmer Luckey ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: ModRetro, a retro gaming company founded by Palmer Luckey, is in talks to raise $1 billion in funding, according to the Financial Times. The company launched its first product, a Game Boy-style handheld called Chromatic, in 2024. Sean Hollister of The Verge said it "may be the best version of the Game Boy ever," but found it difficult to separate it from Lucky's reputation as the founder of defense technology startup Anduril Industries. โIf Lockheed Martin made a Game Boy, would you buy one?โ…
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**What Youโll Learn**: England's Ben Earl defended Steve Borthwick's record as head coach after their defeat to Italy and claimed that "large parts of their performance were outstanding".England suffered a 23-18 defeat in Rome - their first ever to Italy in 33 matches - and face the prospect of their worst Six Nations result.The team needs to beat title-seeking France in Paris on Saturday to avoid ending the tournament with a record four defeats in five matches.With pressure mounting on Borthwick after three grim defeats, the Rugby Football…
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**What Youโll Learn**: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction. A 240x135 grid of 64 instruction-length Brainfuck-like programs are randomly initialized. Every iteration, neighboring programs are randomly paired, have their instruction tapes concattenated together, and are run for a maximum of $2^๐ฅ$ steps. Once execution completes, the tapes are split back apart. The instructions are such that they can loop and mutate the instruction tapes (programs) themselves. As found in the paper, self-replicating programs that copy…
๐ Explore this insightful post from Culture Latest ๐ ๐ **Category**: Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,TMI ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: In late November, Emily did something she hadn't done in a very long time: she went back to Tumblr and started discussing the fandom. especially, Hot competitionCrave Smash's surprise hit series revolves around a love story between two close-minded hockey players, based on a queer hockey romance series that itself began, in part, as gay Marvel fanfiction.In early 2010, Emily, who asked that only her first name be used due to harassment concerns, was a heavy Tumblr user. I went from…
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**What Youโll Learn**: The task of the rest of the world is to plug the huge gap that India has built at the top of the T20 game.For one thing, the three-time champions, the first men's team to defend a T20 title and the first to win it at home, are looking to have everything go their way.A young team, talent groomed in the Indian Premier League and the benefits of the money the tournament provides, all while taking a bigger share of the international game's revenue than…
๐ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐ ๐ **Category**: AI,Government & Policy,Anthropic,dario amodei,Emil Michael,OpenAI ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: In just over a week, negotiations over the Pentagon's use of Anthropic's Claude technology failed, the Trump administration classified Anthropic as a supply chain risk, and the AI โโcompany said it would fight that designation in court. Meanwhile, OpenAI quickly announced a deal of its own, sparking a backlash that led to users uninstalling ChatGPT and pushing Anthropic's Claude to the top of the App Store charts. At least one OpenAI executive has resigned over concerns that the announcement was rushed…
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**What Youโll Learn**: How much of this article was AI-generated โ code, prose, or structure. The rest is human-written. What if a little pile of M&Ms on a table was a real program? I mean literally. Imagine you arrange M&M-like candies into a specific pattern, that pattern is executable code. Alright story time. Featuring inline interactive interpreter embedded right inside this post. It all started when I spilled a full packet of GEMS โ GEMS is sort of an Indian version of M&Ms. on the floor cus I…
๐ Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: But before the competition season began this winter, something earth-shattering happened on our team.Royal Marines robotics Taylor Lawrence has suffered the first major injury of his career, ruling him out before Christmas.Our start was compromised despite the efforts of excellent substitutes Ollie Butterworth, Alex Cartagena and Ben Simmons.It wasn't until the start of the new year, with Taylor back, Leon Greenwood back at familiar left-hander, and recovery from rampant tendinopathy, that Mojo showed signs of life.Three races was all we had to do before…
