Death of the Department Store
The department store is dying. It’s not the only building type to find itself marooned by social and economic change, but it is the youngest. Castles and churches, stately homes, factories and warehouses have all had to adapt or die, but none is so emblematic of a single historic period. Spanning the high-water mark of […]
A Python script that will Slack a room if a Sonos speaker is playing too loud
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“Creounity Time Machine”, the universal date converter for coin collectors
Welcome to the Creounity Time Machine! This is the universal date converter that covers 33 chronological systems and counting. With the help of Creounity Time Machine you can easily find out when your coins were minted. To launch the Time Machine, simply select the chronological system you are interested in from the menu on the lefthand side of this page by […]
Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today
XKCD 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today (via) One of the all-time great XKCDs. It’s amazing that “check whether the photo is of a bird” has gone from PhD-level to trivially easy to solve (with a vision LLM, or CLIP, or ResNet+ImageNet among others). The key idea still very much stands though. Understanding the […]
45 years ago CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web
Silicon Valley has the reputation of being the birthplace of our hyper-connected Internet age, the hub of companies such as Apple, Google and Facebook. However, a pioneering company here in central Ohio is responsible for developing and popularizing many of the technologies we take for granted today. A listener submitted a question to WOSU’s Curious […]
Euripedes Unbound
If you want to get to know someone, especially if you’re an ancient historian, you should go through their rubbish. At the end of the 19th century, two Oxford academics, Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt, set off for the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus in search of Greek texts written on papyrus. Over six seasons, […]
GSoC’24: Differentiable Logic for Interactive Systems and Generative Music
a(nother) summer retrospective 2024-08-26 Last summer, I participated in Google Summer of Code for the first time, working with GRAME on improving support for using the Faust audio programming language on the web. This summer, I returned for another round, this time working with BeagleBoard.org on a project that defies such easy explanation: “Differentiable Logic […]
Launch HN: Modern Realty (YC S24) – AI Real Estate Agent for Home Buyers
Hey HN! We’re Raymond Xu and Raffi Isanians, the team behind Modern Realty (https://modernrealty.io). Modern Realty is an AI-powered real estate buying experience that helps you purchase homes without relying on a traditional realtor. Demo: https://youtu.be/VhsWSVn5blA Our mission at Modern Realty is to make home buying easier, faster, and far more enjoyable. We interpret real […]
Refactoring Python with Tree-sitter and Jedi
Refactoring Python with 🌳 Tree-sitter & Jedi | Jack’s blog Home Blog Atom 24 Sep, 2024 I was toying around with a refactor the other day that would have taken me ages by hand as it involved 100s of files. I wanted to rename every instance of a pytest fixture from database -> db across […]
Winamp Legacy player source code is now open
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