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mclanetton Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study

I don't hate AI but AI writing is SO boring. Not worth suffering through to read the article.

mclanetton FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

What happens if ffmpeg ignores (after triage) the minor CVEs?

mclanetton The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom

Wow this is quite a rant.

However Zitron seems to have forgotten that Google exists or makes TPUs. He mentions Google only 10 times in the entire article, always in a minor way.

mclanetton Show HN: Haystack – Review pull requests like you wrote them yourself

Did not load, sad.

Failed to load resource: net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT ^ I'm not exactly sure what this is about. I think it is https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vcd15cbe... which I would imagine is probably not necessary.

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot convert undefined or null to object at Object.keys (<anonymous>) at review/?pr_identifier=xxx/xxx/1974:43:12

These urls seem to be kind of revealing.

mclanetton Show HN: Haystack – Review pull requests like you wrote them yourself

I love this idea, trying it out now. There is QUITE a delay doing the analysis, which is reasonable, so I assume as a productionized (non-demo) release this will be async?

mclanetton Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

I'm at a total loss why social chat boards want to have the most antisocial names.

mclanetton He spent his life building a $1M stereo

A very old NTSC TV will be 525 scan lines @ 30 frames / second => 15,750 hz.

The source of the sound is the transformer which resets the scan line back to the original side of monitor.

mclanetton MeshGPT: Generating triangle meshes with decoder-only transformers

This is very cool. You can start with an image, generate a mesh for it, render it, and then compare the render to the image. Fully automated training.

mclanetton Reflecting on 18 Years at Google

Interesting to hear the author complain about Android, which today is held up as the one part of Google which knows how to ship product.

mclanetton Animated Knots

This has been the best app for years.

mclanetton Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online

What I find both amusing and frustrating is that the linked article uses the word "accuracy" 110 times but never explains what is meant by it. For example in the headline "Over 500 ‘Migrant Caravaners’ Arrested With Suicide Vests", what is meant by rating for accuracy? Is it the number 500 and whether it is low, exact, or high? Is it whether the people were migrants? Is it whether the vests were explosive? Is it whether the story is in any way truthful? I really have no idea. Is "accuracy" an alias for "truthful" or something else? The article doesn't explain.