Public Notes by kirubakaran

With a Simple Twist, a ‘Magic’ Material Is Now the Big Thing in Physics | Quanta Magazine www.quantamagazine.org

The “I am Become Death” quote is misunderstood entirely. : OppenheimerMovie www.reddit.com

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          I am all-powerful Time which destroys all things, and I have come here to slay these men. Even if thou doest not fight, all the warriors facing thee shall die.
        

The End of Programming as We Know It – O’Reilly www.oreilly.com

"Can I Have a Word About The Homeless?" | Jimmy Carr - YouTube www.youtube.com

Mark Zuckerberg messages Facebook engineer | Hacker News bonkersworld.net

My Struggle with Doom Scrolling | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com

Highlights

          Reading on an e-ink device has kept me somewhat sane over the past 12 months.It's still very tempting to just "hop on reddit and see what's there" or "I'll just check bluesky for..." Then it's 2 hours later and you're angry and despondent.
        

A minimax chess engine in regular expressions | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com

Adam Savage: Unsure What to Do With Your Life? Do This www.youtube.com

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I spent $34,563.38 to travel for 18 months: My budget breakdown www.cnbc.com

Bathroom App www.bathroom.app

People can read their manager's mind yosefk.com

codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x: Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch. github.com

The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours - YouTube www.youtube.com

Arc Prize 2024 Winners and Technical Report | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com

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          AlphaProof and o1 are evidence of this new reality. All frontier AI systems are now incorporating components beyond pure deep learning like program synthesis and program search.
        

          One big update since June is that progress is no longer stalled. Coming into 2024, the public consensus vibe was that pure deep learning / LLMs would continue scaling to AGI. The fundamental architecture of these systems hasn't changed since ~2019.
        

Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming | Nick Hanauer - YouTube www.youtube.com

Some good tech from 2024 www.youtube.com

Hacker News news.ycombinator.com

Why Everyone Should Use a Sauna: Top Health Benefits You Can’t Ignore! - YouTube www.youtube.com

Research shows insane reduction in all cause mortality from sauna use

Summary of research

The Greatest YouTube Video Ever Made! - YouTube www.youtube.com

Really incredible video

AI for real-time fusion plasma behavior prediction and manipulation | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com

ChatGPT Search | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com

How is this Website so fast!? - YouTube www.youtube.com

Apple Knowledge Navigator Video (1987) - YouTube www.youtube.com

Dolores Park: Old photos show 150 years of popular park - Curbed SF sf.curbed.com

Dolores Park used to be a cemetery!

Vector databases are the wrong abstraction | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com