This is why we fund science and specifically mRNA research.

Excellent article on having realistic positivity about #AI. Personally I am far more worried about humans than I am about AI!

A popular NPM package got compromised, attackers updated it to run a post-install script that steals secrets But the script is a *prompt* run by the user's installation of Claude Code. This avoids it being detected by tools that analyze code for malware You just got vibepwned

Great interview with my awesome colleagues Kaushik Shivakumar Robert Riachi Mostafa Dehghani and Nicole Brichtova by Logan Kilpatrick about the new image generation and editing capabilities in our latest Gemini Flash 2.5 model (also known as nano banana 🍌)

People who think they no longer depend on trusting experts only survive because they're mistaken. Every time you get on a plane you trust experts implicitly about a million questions you're not even aware of.

1. "Nobody in their right mind will use autoregressive LLMs a few years from now." The technology powering ChatGPT and GPT-4? Dead within years. The problem isn't fixable with more data or compute. It's architectural. Here's where it gets interesting...

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

This is what I have been saying for many years.

We are rapidly approaching a point where the entire software engineering world will grind to a halt every time the Claude API endpoint goes down. (Which happens frequently.) It is alarmingly easy to become entirely reliant on AI coding tools.

The CEO of IKEA was just elected Prime Minister in Sweden. He should have his cabinet together by the end of the weekend.

After hundreds of hours of usage of AI coding tools, I have reached the conclusion that vibe-coded code is just another kind of AI slop. It's an enormous burden to have to take a large AI-generated codebase, deeply understand it, and prove it correct and complete.

Current state of vibe-coding experiments: I oscillate between "this is great" to "man these agents are so retarded, can I fire them and hire someone with bare competence?" The capability cliff feels so weird.

Mathematics, physics. We live in a chaotic, unpredictable universe. This is a grid of 812 double pendulums, each with slightly different initial conditions for the two angles of the pendulum. By Jonathan Nafziger, tinyurl.com/ya2da9vg, Used with permission

Head-tracked “Window Mode.” Your front camera finds your head. The view reprojects in real time so the screen feels like a window into the 3D scene. True3D, no glasses.

Also, basic science is dramatically underfunded, especially now.

Ever since I made a video about Fourier Transforms, one of the most requested topics on the channel has been its close cousin, the Laplace Transform. I've been having a lot of fun animating a mini-series about this topic, and the main part is now out. youtu.be/j0wJBEZdwLs

I love lazygit so much. Such a nice way to deal with git, partial commits, catching up on history, creating new branches, seeing what's there. Incredible power up for any developer.

hi, statistician here! this is not funny, statisticians only do this when they’re in extreme distress.

The greatest danger of all with #AI is that it is not intelligent at all.

It's almost the end of the year and I finally reached my deductible limit, but not my out of pocket maximum, so coinsurance still applies. It's all a big scam.