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Researchers are investigating using synthetic diamonds to help cool AI data center chips; De Beers-owned Element Six has long used diamonds in satellite chips (Amos Zeeberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/science/diamonds-computer-chips-ai.html…

Why Diamonds Are Computer Chips’ New Best Friend
Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity, most of it as heat. The physical properties of diamond offer a potential solution, researchers say.

HEAR: An EEG Foundation Model with Heterogeneous Electrode Adaptive Representation
Zhige Chen, Chengxuan Qin, Wenlong You, Rui Liu, Congying Chu, Rui Yang, Kay Chen Tan, Jibin Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12515

HEAR: An EEG Foundation Model with Heterogeneous Electrode Adaptive Representation
Electroencephalography (EEG) is an essential technique for neuroscience research and brain-computer interface (BCI) applications. Recently, large-scale EEG foundation models have been developed, exhibiting robust generalization capabilities across diverse tasks and subjects. However, the heterogeneity of EEG devices not only hinders the widespread adoption of these models but also poses significant challenges to their further scaling and development. In this paper, we introduce HEAR, the first …

There's ice in the house and my computer is back--again. See what else is going on this week.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/cooling-it-down/

Cooling It Down – Bob Mueller
A quiet night turns chaotic, a computer gets rebuilt, AI brings the dead back to life. From icemakers to holograms, it’s been a strange week.

screenshots of one wip webpage from two different computers. ive been looking at css reset shit for a while and im losing my mind. is it even possible to make this consistent. help a girl out

Maybe I should mention how well it does.
It's caught some bugs before they're published, some fairly serious. But mostly its hallucinated many problems which aren't really there.
With all the code we write being reviewed by robots now, the code is written slightly differently to avoid it going on about issues that aren't really there.
People imagine that code is written for the computer to run, but really it's always been written for the programmers to understand. Now it's also written keeping in mind it'll be reviewed by an AI that has no context or understanding tasked with nit-picking to review.
Arguably this is ending up with better code. More unnecessary re-validation of everything mostly, but its also taking longer rather than being quicker.
Is that more efficient? 🤷 Sort of maybe?
3/3

"Perl's decline was cultural"
https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical
Never been a Perl person, but the points made about Unix admin culture resonate with me nonetheless — seen exactly…

FLOWING: Implicit Neural Flows for Structure-Preserving Morphing
Arthur Bizzi, Matias Grynberg, Vitor Matias, Daniel Perazzo, Jo\~ao Paulo Lima, Luiz Velho, Nuno Gon\c{c}alves, Jo\~ao Pereira, Guilherme Schardong, Tiago Novello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09537

FLOWING: Implicit Neural Flows for Structure-Preserving Morphing
Morphing is a long-standing problem in vision and computer graphics, requiring a time-dependent warping for feature alignment and a blending for smooth interpolation. Recently, multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) have been explored as implicit neural representations (INRs) for modeling such deformations, due to their meshlessness and differentiability; however, extracting coherent and accurate morphings from standard MLPs typically relies on costly regularizations, which often lead to unstable traini…

Thought I had a good sabbatical plan for the spring, but it's been upended by a one-time opportunity: I've ended up on the committee creating India's new national 11th and 12th grade curriculum/textbook in computer science. So much for the best laid schemes, but also exciting!

Cooling It Down
The house was completely silent—until it wasn’t. A sudden thud and rush of noise had me bracing for an expensive repair. From that small surprise to AI reviving legends, it’s been a week of odd resurrections.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/cooling-it-down/

Cooling It Down – Bob Mueller
A quiet night turns chaotic, a computer gets rebuilt, AI brings the dead back to life. From icemakers to holograms, it’s been a strange week.