An AI assistant that sounds like Mrs. Wolowitz.
08.03.2026 16:36
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An AI assistant that sounds like Mrs. Wolowitz.
It's amazing how good Claude is with Word and Excel files.
Sources: Anthropic recently surpassed $19B in run-rate revenue, up from $9B at the end of 2025 and roughly $14B a few weeks ago (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
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Claim of the moment: “Facebook employees in Kenya are watching your naked Ray-Ban Meta videos”
www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...
They have a 6 month transition period.
A Star Trek episode where they discover a pre-warp planet, whose denizens are human-sized pelicans. And they ride bicycles.
NYU physics researchers have observed a new type of time crystal—one whose particles levitate on a cushion of sound while interacting with each other by exchanging sound waves.
"Instead of training LLMs through next-token prediction, their technique, called internal reinforcement learning (internal RL), steers the model’s internal activations toward developing a high-level step-by-step solution for the input problem."
"The results showed the AI’s treatment plan matched the physicians’ 99.2 percent of the time."
In the late 90s a synthesis engine was built - so powerful, it was separated from its language & set free.
Today, running in an AudioWorklet it survives as a soldier of sound.
If you have a web page... if you need real-time synthesis... maybe you can call SuperSonic.
sonic-pi.net/supersonic/d...
"Stayin' Alive," "We Are Family," "YMCA," and "I Will Survive" are all '70s dance songs will get every Gen Xer out of their seats.
Track your Claude Code usage with DuckDB (it's much faster than ccusage)
Scientists have turned ordinary wood into a material that rivals steel in strength and weighs far less—and it’s already heading to market.
HistoSonics’ Edison system uses a water-filled membrane to transmit focused ultrasound into the body. The resulting bubbles expand and collapse within the tumor, producing mechanical stress that destroys cancer cells and liquefies the tumor
In a new study publishing November 19 in the Cell Press journal Trends in Biotechnology, researchers used a gene-editing technology called CRISPR to increase a fungus’s production efficiency and cut its production-related environmental impact by as much as 61%—all without adding any foreign DNA.
"This new technique enables LLMs to dynamically adjust the amount of computation they use for reasoning, based on the difficulty of the question."
Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.
Scientists at Ohio State University have shown that fungi can be trained to act like memristors – microscopic components used to process and store data in computer chips.
Shunmyo Masuno creates gardens that blend Zen philosophy with contemporary design. Here are his favourite green spaces in Tokyo – from cherry blossom havens to historical treasures.
A US company has engineered a new type of wood that it says has up to 10 times the strength-to-weight ratio of steel, while also being up to six times lighter.
Operators say it can cut fuel bills by up to 20% as well as reducing planet warming greenhouse gas emissions from burning diesel.
A dash of modern CSS accomplishes so many things that used to require abstractions, dependencies, and tricks (wink, wink).
This one from Christian Sabourin is a great example: custom properties, clamp()-ing, calc()-ing, counters, relational pseudo selectors, etc.
css-tricks.com/css-elevator...
"The data, gathered from 139 mice, encompass activity from more than 600,000 neurons in 279 areas of the brain — about 95% of the brain in a mouse. This map is the first to provide a complete picture of what happens across the brain as a decision is made."
