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Tao argues mathematics has moved from an era of "proof scarcity" to one of "proof abundance," because proofs are objectively verifiable, fully digitizable, and backed by huge high-quality datasets — exactly the three properties that make a domain catnip for frontier AI labs. He warns that AI capability is "jagged," that social media shows massive reporting bias toward AI successes while failures go unreported, and that blindly optimizing for problem-solving is now actively harmful to the long-term health of the field. His prescription for "Math 2.0": expand the research frontier with AI while decentering problem-solving as the discipline's main proxy for value.
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The Nitter maintainer posted an October 10th update saying X Corp has come after the project legally, and that he currently has no counsel: "I'm seeking funding and legal help to fight for the future of Nitter." Donations are being routed to legal expenses first, with any surplus going toward continued development of Nitter or a successor. It's a stark reminder of how exposed a single unpaid maintainer is when a platform decides privacy-preserving front-ends are a problem.
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Terence Eden spent roughly 150 euros at 25 euros an hour paying real humans to screen-share while attempting to follow his ActivityBot README. They hit dead links, ambiguous file-renaming steps, jargon he assumed was obvious, and whole sections that were interesting to him but useless to them — and he rewrote the doc after each session. His conclusion: developers need to watch actual people, not simulate a user with an AI.
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LineageOS 24.0 lands on the Android 17 base, and the headline surprise is experimental bare-metal support — it's reportedly booted on common x86-64 PCs, Apple Silicon Macs, an NVIDIA DGX Spark, and Snapdragon X Series laptops. Device coverage remains the project's superpower: it took longer than GrapheneOS's three-day turnaround precisely because it supports roughly ten times as many devices. Commenters credited it with keeping an enormous number of phones out of landfills.
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Valen takes a swing at relaxing Rust's shared-xor-mutable rule by tracking where a reference points rather than enforcing strict exclusivity. The compiler invalidates a reference only when that specific location is mutated, not when anything in the containing object changes, which permits multiple writable references that Rust would reject outright. One reference type, more flexibility, still compile-time memory safe.
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Pat Kerr resurrected the 1996 prototype that became the vehicle handling in Grand Theft Auto, originally written in GFA BASIC on an Atari ST and later ported to C. The 30th-anniversary recreation runs in the browser as Motion Lab, with Car, Ship, and Brick modes sharing one rigid-body physics engine. The lesson holds up: real torque-based 2D dynamics underneath, plus a tire model Kerr himself calls approximate and technically incorrect, because feeling right beat being right.
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Newly disclosed filings from the Massachusetts case show Exxon scientists privately contradicting the company's public climate messaging. One scientist testified that the 2018 claim of producing 10,000 barrels a day of algae biofuel by 2025 was "completely impossible to achieve" and "patently false." Separate 1988 documents lay out a strategy to monitor alternative energy while protecting the value of fossil resources.
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Quoting a tilde in your PATH export means the shell never expands it, so the entry stays a literal relative path and resolves against your current working directory. That silently creates a lookup in a local directory an attacker could populate, letting a planted binary shadow a real one. The fix is one character class: use $HOME instead of a quoted tilde.
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The IRCv3 working group keeps modernizing the IRC client protocol while preserving backward compatibility, shipping SASL authentication, server-time tags, message metadata, away notifications, and batching. Active work covers chat history, standardized account registration, strict transport security, Unicode nicks and channels, and client avatars. The participant list is a who's who of the ecosystem: UnrealIRCd, InspIRCd, WeeChat, Irssi, HexChat, IRCCloud, and ZNC.
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A long-form trace of how R got its pipe, from early chaining experiments through the magrittr package whose name and Magritte-painting branding made the percent-greater-than-percent operator a tidyverse staple. The post follows the competing proposals and borrowed ideas from F-sharp and the Unix shell that shaped the syntax. It ends with R finally absorbing a native pipe into the base language.
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