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Rabrg/artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction ยท GitHub

Rabrg/artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll 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 $2^๐Ÿ”ฅ$ 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…
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Why is public discourse so frustrating now?

Why is public discourse so frustrating now?

๐Ÿš€ Explore this insightful post from Culture Latest ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,TMI ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll 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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T20 World Cup: India’s third successive white-ball Trophy win proves the rest of the world needs to catch up

T20 World Cup: India’s third successive white-ball Trophy win proves the rest of the world needs to catch up

๐Ÿš€ Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll 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…
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Will the Pentagon’s humanitarian controversy scare startups away from defense work?

Will the Pentagon’s humanitarian controversy scare startups away from defense work?

๐Ÿš€ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Government & Policy,Anthropic,dario amodei,Emil Michael,OpenAI ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll 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 โ€‹โ€‹company 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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I made a programming language with M&Ms

I made a programming language with M&Ms

โœจ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll 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…
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Winter Olympics: Deep disappointment over losing the medal

Winter Olympics: Deep disappointment over losing the medal

๐Ÿš€ Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll 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…
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Dinosaurs Review – Morgan Freeman’s novel is so soothing, you can use it as a relaxation aid | television

Dinosaurs Review – Morgan Freeman’s novel is so soothing, you can use it as a relaxation aid | television

โœจ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Dinosaurs,Evolution,Culture,Steven Spielberg,Morgan Freeman,Zoology,Palaeontology โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: IIt's hard these days to make a nature documentary that's different from other films. Stunning landscapes, sharp close-up photographs, and tales of predation and survival, birth and death: whether you choose Pixar's Gravity, Crimson Claws, or Eco-Crisis, it's been done 100 times before. Watching The Dinosaurs, it's hard not to feel like the same problem is starting to affect reality shows about the animal kingdom as it has for millions of years. It's amazing that big-money dinosaur documentaries…
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Joburg Open: Dan Bradbury had a strong finish to claim his third DP World Tour win

Joburg Open: Dan Bradbury had a strong finish to claim his third DP World Tour win

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this insightful post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Dan Bradbury birdied five of the last 10 holes to earn a one-stroke victory at the DP World Tour's Joburg Open.South Africa's Henny du Plessis led by two shots heading into the final round at Houghton Golf Club, with Bradbury one of three players in a tie for second place.The 26-year-old Englishman produced a strong finish to take the lead before holding his nerve in the 18th to take his third career win.Needing a par four to clinch victory, Bradbury found himself just off the…
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Force your MacBook to only charge up to 80 percent (and why you should)

Force your MacBook to only charge up to 80 percent (and why you should)

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this must-read post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / How To and Advice,Juice World โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Batteries are not magic. It's chemical. Like most things built by humans, they wear down over time. I don't need to tell you this, anyone who owns a MacBook knows that battery life gets worse with age. But what if I told you that it is possible to slow down this process?One common tip is to only charge your devices up to 80 percent most of the time. Battery University, which is funded by a consulting firm that helps…
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BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker: Open-source intelligence for the global theater. Track everything from the corporate/private jets of the wealthy, and spy satellites, to seismic events in one unified interface. The knowledge is available to all but rarely aggregated in the open, until now. ยท GitHub

BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker: Open-source intelligence for the global theater. Track everything from the corporate/private jets of the wealthy, and spy satellites, to seismic events in one unified interface. The knowledge is available to all but rarely aggregated in the open, until now. ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Global Threat Intercept โ€” Real-Time Geospatial Intelligence Platform ShadowBroker is a real-time, full-spectrum geospatial intelligence dashboard that aggregates live data from dozens of open-source intelligence (OSINT) feeds and renders them on a unified dark-ops map interface. It tracks aircraft, ships, satellites, earthquakes, conflict zones, CCTV networks, GPS jamming, and breaking geopolitical events โ€” all updating in real time. Built with Next.js, MapLibre GL, FastAPI, and Python, it's designed for analysts, researchers, and enthusiasts who want a single-pane-of-glass view of global activity. ๐Ÿ›ฉ๏ธ Aviation Tracking…
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