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YOWSA that was some #toronto parade! We left #christiepits at dusk, with 4 sousaphones, some number of trumpets, trombones, saxophones of all sorts, fire dancers and drums galore, and I'm told my notoriously loud banjo was actually heard above the chaos.
It's largely a blur, but I do recall an extended 2nd line paused in the centre of some intersection where a blocked streetcar called Hold was opposite another that seemed in business, so that suggests we were crossing College?! A fair hike from Bloor.
My feet hate me, but it was a magical night. All musicians volunteered, for many it was old-home catching up with others not seen in years, and dancers of all ages.
I pinged a few fellow players with my "THIS is what Music is for, what we do on a stage is only a simulation of this" and all agreed. That gives me hope.

I took a video of some AI agents coding (ridiculously fast scrolling as it refactored and tidied up my entire app) and put it on #loops - yes the code works fine, and it’s in Swift which I don’t know, but I’m having fun building an iOS app for my own amusement. The music I was playing - Hunger Strike by Estradasphere goes well with it

Watch @adrianco's loop on Loops.video
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Today's "how not to lock up your bike" photo... (And yes, the seat got stolen, though the bike did not!)
#bikeTooter

Just finished "Once For Yes" by Allie Millington. A phenomenal book dealing with tragedy, gentrification, grief, and community, it's preposterously poetic, but unfortunately has a twisted neoliberal politics lurking behind the scenes that makes me hesitate to recommend it. I enjoyed it greatly, especially the tightly choreographed prose, and the plot was both very well-paced and touching. It's fun for adults but also written for kids, which makes it all the more frustrating that despite touching on gentrification, it valorizes someone who is objectively a pretty scummy landlord, and fails to interrogate land ownership or rent in the slightest. It wouldn't be nearly the same story without the way things wrap up, but that doesn't make me comfortable with the larger messages it's sending, even if I think its messaging about grief is good, including for children.
#AmReading

Product idea announcement:
Securing your company's most important digital assets of the 21st century: [productA] transforms your most valued AI prompts into blockchain-secured NFTs.
(Yes, I feel dirty to have come up with such an idea. But I won't be the only one coming up with such 💩, and by posting it I can later tell people "See? ProductB is just plagiarism!". I don't have any plans to make such a product. If your moral code allows you to do it to exploit …

Society of hopeful technologists (uk oriented): https://buttondown.com/society-of-hopeful-technologists/archive/

Combinatorial optimization enhanced by shallow quantum circuits with 104 superconducting qubits
Xuhao Zhu, Zuoheng Zou, Feitong Jin, Pavel Mosharev, Maolin Luo, Yaozu Wu, Jiachen Chen, Chuanyu Zhang, Yu Gao, Ning Wang, Yiren Zou, Aosai Zhang, Fanhao Shen, Zehang Bao, Zitian Zhu, Jiarun Zhong, Zhengyi Cui, Yihang Han, Yiyang He, Han Wang, Jia-Nan Yang, Yanzhe Wang, Jiayuan Shen, Gongyu Liu, Zixuan Song, Jinfeng Deng, Hang Dong, Pengfei Zhang, Chao Song, Zhen Wang, Hekang Li, Qiujiang Gu…

Combinatorial optimization enhanced by shallow quantum circuits with 104 superconducting qubits
A pivotal task for quantum computing is to speed up solving problems that are both classically intractable and practically valuable. Among these, combinatorial optimization problems have attracted tremendous attention due to their broad applicability and natural fitness to Ising Hamiltonians. Here we propose a quantum sampling strategy, based on which we design an algorithm for accelerating solving the ground states of Ising model, a class of NP-hard problems in combinatorial optimization. The …

CVIRO: A Consistent and Tightly-Coupled Visual-Inertial-Ranging Odometry on Lie Groups
Yizhi Zhou, Ziwei Kang, Jiawei Xia, Xuan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10867 https://

CVIRO: A Consistent and Tightly-Coupled Visual-Inertial-Ranging Odometry on Lie Groups
Ultra Wideband (UWB) is widely used to mitigate drift in visual-inertial odometry (VIO) systems. Consistency is crucial for ensuring the estimation accuracy of a UWBaided VIO system. An inconsistent estimator can degrade localization performance, where the inconsistency primarily arises from two main factors: (1) the estimator fails to preserve the correct system observability, and (2) UWB anchor positions are assumed to be known, leading to improper neglect of calibration uncertainty. In this …

🥡 3D printed food: Yuck or yes? Researchers ask South African consumers
#food

3D printed food: Yuck or yes? Researchers ask South African consumers
Would you eat food that was printed by a machine? 3D printed food is built up by equipment (a 3D food printer), layer after layer, using edible pastes, dough and food slurries in three-dimensional forms. These machines use digital models to produce precise, often personalized food items. Most 3D printed foods are made from nutrient-dense sources (plant and animal), which means they can offer health benefits.

So I think I'll need to read up on it a bit. I understand that "Passkeys" try to do something similar as SSH pubkeys.
But do you know a good technical explainer of what's going on and how it works?
(Yes, I could search myself but I am looking for recommendations of articles you have read that you found helpful and clear.)
EDIT: https://

Passkeys.io – A Real-World Passkey Demo & Info Page
Try a Realistic Passkey Demo Login and User Profile. Browse the Passkey Directory and Find Websites With Passkey Support. Learn About Device Compatibility and Technical Details.