Minutephysics published an interesting video discussion on the different types of time travel used in fiction, mostly movies, with some neat drawings to represent the time flows of each.
Jason Cohen shared a great A Smart Bear article from his archives that discusses positioning your product to offer more for more, more for less, or less for less, and the good and bad of each strategy.
Dr Vladimir Dinets from the University of Tennessee observed a Cooper’s hawk using a line of cars waiting at a red light to hide its approach when hunt smaller birds outside a house in his neighbourhood. Further observation revealed that the Hawk learned that when the pedestrian crossing signal was pressed, the lights stayed red for longer and resulted in a longer line of cars which made it easier for the hawk to stay hidden.
CATransformers is a new machine learning framework developed by META AI that includes embodied and operational emissions as parameters to optimise for alongside latency, energy consumption, and accuracy.
A study by EIT Urban Mobility and Transport for London has shown that EVs can reduce the amount of brake dust pollution emitted into the air by up to 83% thanks to their use of regenerative breaking.
Blindboy interview Jeremy Corbyn and it was great. A conversation full of hope of where politics and society can move, towards an inclusive system for everyone.
Yoko Li at a16z published an interesting list of development patterns and methods that are now changing to meet the new expectations of an AI tech landscape, such as dashboards being now designed to be consumed by AI agents, documentation becoming interactive via AI chatbots, and ho version control needs to change when developing with AI.
Codemanship published a list of software development team productivity tips that are still more effective than using AI coding assistants, such as smaller teams, more frequent releases, and cross-functional teams.
Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have developed contact lenses with embedded gold and sodium gadolinium fluoride nanoparticles that allow the wearer to see infra-red, which is even clearer when the wearer's eyes are closed.
