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From a friend in #Gaza on the food situation today:
"For the variety of foods, there are not a lot of items. For example, no meats, no chicken, no eggs. If we find them, the price is insane. For example if we want to bring two chickens for my family, I think we need more than 130$."
If you are supporting families in Gaza, please keep doing it. If you're not yet supporting fa…

Just discovering #looptober and wanted to share this old Forth experiment (from already 9-10 years ago 😱) with my https://thi.ng/synstack VM and its DSP/Synth vocab, all running on STM32 dev boards. This Forth-based sta…

What’s a great example you love of a technical blog post (or similarly shaped writing) that:
- explains a tool, technique, technical idea
- by trying it to the author’s specific project or experience
- but also illuminates a larger concept, a bigger picture?
I don’t just want tutorials; I want writing that illuminates. I’m thinking of things where you read it and had a reaction like:
“Oh, FINALLY, I get it now!”
“What a nice example of _____!”
“This is great. I’m going to bookmark this for the next time I need to use / explain / teach a colleague to use _____.”
Looking for writing examplars to share with students. I want your favorites.

Convergence of local eigenvector processes of generalized Wigner matrices
Lucas Benigni, Mohammadreza Rezaei Feyzabady
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19581 https://

Convergence of local eigenvector processes of generalized Wigner matrices
We prove convergence of eigenvector processes of the form $(\sqrt{N}\langle \mathbf{u}_k,A_t\mathbf{u}_k\rangle)_{t\in[0,1]}$ where $\mathbf{u}_k$ is a bulk eigenvector of generalized Wigner matrices and $(A_t)$ a family of symmetric matrices with bounded norm and Hölder regularity. We give explicit examples of limiting processes and prove that a large class of Gaussian process with Hölder-continuous covariance function can be obtained as such a limit using its Karhunen--Loève expansion. The…

Longing for a gentler timeline that is less fascist and less full of ignorant people
For example Biff's 1985

Mireo Plus B: Batteriezüge von Siemens starten in Dänemark
Eine regionale Eisenbahngesellschaft auf dem dänischen Festland setzt Akkuzüge von Siemens ein. Sie sollen Dieselzüge ersetzen.
https://www.

I've been trying to find a name or descriptor for people who I think are looking at "AI" broadly and soberly, with a genuinely objective perspective and information that's not captured by the big tech companies but also fluent in the technology behind it. ( @… would be the exemplar here.) What would you call this cohort? Because I think it…

Der #Bauernkaktus (#Echinopsis) ist eigentlich unscheinbar und nicht besonders groß, aber er entwickelt langstielige, riesige, weiße #Blüten, die viel Eindruck machen. Sie öffnen sich in der…

Die Schönheit der Bauernkaktus-Blüte im Zeitraffer (Echinopsis)
Schau Dir im Zeitraffer an, wie ein Bauernkaktus (Echinopsis) zur Blüte kommt! Erlebe die abendliche Entfaltung der weißen Blüten.

»Math.random() is not so random — The Illusion of Randomness in JavaScript:
Don’t Trust Math.random() - Uncovering the Hidden Predictability of Random Numbers.«
In some applications random numbers are very useful but not unique and therefore you should consider where to use it. In this regard, there are for example, UUID v4 or Nano ID and the same.
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Math.random() is not so random: The Illusion of Randomness in JavaScript
Don’t Trust Math.random(): Uncovering the Hidden Predictability of Random Numbers.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115601979925351548
hear me out, how about NOT CRAMMING EVERYTHING INTO ONE DEVICE that just works mid for everything, but instead, you know, do some actual innovation here and there
for example, make devices specifically tailored for certain tasks
like if you're Apple why in the fuck don't you make devices with e-paper screens for people who don't want to be terminally online