๐ฅ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Michelle Pfeiffer,Elle Fanning,Television,Apple TV,TV streaming ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: MArgo's Got Money Troubles first gives us why. Margo has financial problems because Margo got pregnant. Margot got pregnant because she was very young, and she thought it was a good thing for her English professor to write a poem for her (poems written by English professors are never a good thing). She started having sex with her English professor and their shared brain power clearly didn't extend to using contraception. Margot remained pregnant because there…
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**What Youโll Learn**: Darkbloom โ Private AI Inference on Apple Silicon | Eigen Labs "> Research Preview โ An Eigen Labs Initiative Eigen Labs Research We present Darkbloom, a decentralized inference network. AI compute today flows through three layers of markup โ GPU manufacturers to hyperscalers to API providers to end users. Meanwhile, over 100 million Apple Silicon machines sit idle for most of each day. We built a network that connects them directly to demand. Operators cannot observe inference data. The API is OpenAI-compatible. Our measurements show…
๐ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Pop and rock,Indie,Music,Culture ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: 'I โI hated fame,โ says Samuel Preston. โI hated it, hated it, hated it.โ Twenty years ago, Preston, who styled himself by his surname in imitation of Morrissey, was suffering from a very severe kind of notoriety. He was best known in the NME with Worthing band The Ordinary Boys, whose socially conscious, ska-influenced indie-punk band had a strong cult following known as the Ordinary Army, thanks to hits such as Boys Will Be Boys. But it was his…
๐ฅ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Hiraeth is a local AWS emulator focused on fast integration testing. The first release target is SQS: signed AWS SDK requests go through a local HTTP endpoint, state is stored in SQLite, and an optional web UI exposes the local emulator state for debugging. This project is early. It is intended for local development and test environments, not as a production AWS replacement. AWS SigV4 header authentication with a seeded local test credential. SQLite-backed principals, access keys, queues, messages, attributes, and tags. SQS-compatible endpoint…
๐ฅ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Nicole Kidman,Death and dying,Film,Culture ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Nicole Kidman has revealed her next role: a death doula.The Australian actress revealed she is now training to be a death doula - professionals who provide emotional, physical and psychological support to the dying - while speaking at the University of San Francisco.A doula, typically, is a professional who helps mothers during pregnancy and childbirth in a non-medical capacity. End-of-life doulas have become more popular in recent years โ one was recently depicted in an episode of The Pitt…
โจ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: I spent this past weekend angry at an AI agent. Truly. White hot actual anger. I had a clean plan, a well-structured prompt, explicit rules in the projectโs context file. I queued the work and let it run. First task came back good. Second came back good. Somewhere around hour four the quality started sliding. By hour six the agent was cutting corners Iโd specifically told it not to cut, skipping steps Iโd explicitly listed, behaving like Iโd never written any of the rules down.…
๐ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Awards and prizes,Publishing,Books,Culture ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: โAA colleague of mine recently told me: "All you need is a five-minute pitch on a morning TV show. Then everyone will buy your novel." I tried to imagine myself, with my terror of photography, wearing heavy orange makeup, sitting on a sofa in a brightly lit studio while trying to talk about how the French critic Hรฉlรจne Cixous had inspired me to want to write the first great ovulation novel. It seemed ridiculous to everyone involved.However, when you're a…
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**What Youโll Learn**: Description We introduce the Universal Constraint Engine (UCE), a system for generating emergent multi-state architectures from declarative constraint rules over conserved quantities. Unlike conventional neural network architectures that rely on learned weights, gradient descent, and massive training corpora, UCE derives computational behaviors -- including memory, logic, hysteresis, and oscillation -- directly from symbolic constraints without any training phase. The system comprises four layers: a Rule Definition Layer, a Constraint Solver Layer, an Emergent Behavior Engine, and an Embodiment Mapper for translating symbolic architectures into hardware…
โจ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: History books,Books,Culture,Social history,Ireland,Catholicism โ
**What Youโll Learn**: MAll readers, and certainly most Irish readers, will finish this book in a state of intense anger mixed with sadness and at least a pang of guilt. It is a detailed, comprehensive and harrowing account of the Magdalene Laundries, the best known and best known, of Ireland's expansive and diverse landscape of penal or correctional institutions, which operated for most of the twentieth century (the last of the laundries closed in 1996).As academic Louise Brangan points out in her book…
โจ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: YouTubeโs time management settings now have an option to put a zero-minute time limit on Shorts, effectively removing them from your app in Android and iOS. The option is an update to the Shorts timer YouTube originally announced in October; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes.The feature was expanded in January to give parents some control over how long their kids spend scrolling through Shorts, with an option for zero minutes โcoming soon.โ According to YouTube spokesperson Makenzie Spiller, the option to set the…
