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Kartikay reflects on his Twitter journey, sharing how even as a small account without fancy credentials, he received kindness and support from strangers. He transitioned to an anime profile picture, emphasizing the power of words over appearances. Despite receiving specific questions and helping others, he faces skepticism about the impact of his content. Kartikay remains […]
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The author is excited that their game was mentioned in the New York Times Watching newsletter. The game, created in just four days using the PICO-8 engine, is an arcade action game/childhood dream achievement simulator. Despite its simplicity and short length of 45 seconds, the game has a strong theme of making a square land […]
Ambergris is a mysterious substance produced by sperm whales during their deep dives to hunt squid, and it is surrounded by myths and legends. The process of creating ambergris involves the accumulation of squid beaks in the whale’s intestines over several years. Unable to pass the ambergris, the whale either eventually expels it into the […]
TL;DR: By analyzing 10,000 Hacker News comments with GPT-4o and LangChain, I explored the job market trends. Despite wanting to move to NYC, the high cost of living makes it challenging without a job sponsor. I found Hacker News to be a more honest job market representation compared to biased platforms like X and LinkedIn. […]
The author humorously speculates about a possible bias towards the number 8 in their bank’s TOTP app generated codes due to its auspiciousness. They delve into the technicalities of the TOTP algorithm, questioning the distribution of digits in the codes generated. Conducting a Python experiment to plot the frequency of each digit in the codes, […]
University of Glasgow astronomers have used gravitational wave analysis techniques to shed light on the function of the ancient Antikythera mechanism, believed to have been used to track the Greek lunar year. Contrary to its portrayal in the movie “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” the mechanism was not a time-travel device but a […]
Aerolane is mimicking migrating birds to develop cargo gliders that surf air currents to reduce fuel costs. Their test aircraft, known as the “flying piano”, is equipped with twin engines that idle for electrical power while gliding. The plan is to use data to guide unmanned cargo planes through air wakes and turbulence without burning […]
Bone tissue repair through bone grafting is a common but challenging procedure due to the difficulty of acquiring enough bone mass. A new method utilizing coral and marine sponges as scaffolds has emerged, mimicking bone structure and allowing for easier integration into existing bone. The scaffolds, along with marrow stromal cells or stem cells, are […]
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite moves into the laptop market with the powerful Adreno X1 GPU. The naming convention breaks away from the Adreno nxx tradition, possibly indicating a scaled out version of the Adreno 730. With larger vectors and thread level parallelism, the Adreno X1 competes against top-notch GPUs from Intel and AMD. Qualcomm enhances […]
sc-im, short for Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised, is an ncurses-based, vim-like spreadsheet calculator that supports features such as Vim movements commands, UNDO/REDO, 65,536 rows, and 702 columns. It allows for CSV, TAB delimited, and XLSX file import and export, as well as ODS import and Markdown export. Users can customize screen colors, colorize cells, and format […]