Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance
The ability to recognize and avoid pathogens is essential for survival. In some cases, animals recognize molecules produced by pathogens, allowing them to mount an immediate response. In other cases, animals learn to avoid the pathogen after they have been exposed to it – a phenomenon that is called “learned avoidance”. The worm Caenorhabditis elegans […]
USA Gives South Korea Green Light to Build Nuclear Submarines
Revealed on October 29th, U.S President Donald Trump has announced that the U.S government has given the go ahead for South Korea to build Nuclear Submarines on U.S soil. Story by Ethan Gossrow, additional reporting by Eunhyuk Cha. The announcement came following a meeting with various Asian heads of state including South Korean President Lee […]
Things that aren’t doing the thing
Preparing to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Scheduling time to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Making a to-do list for the thing isn’t doing the thing. Telling people you’re going to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Messaging friends who may or may not be doing the thing isn’t doing […]
TiDAR: Think in Diffusion, Talk in Autoregression
Abstract:Diffusion language models hold the promise of fast parallel generation, while autoregressive (AR) models typically excel in quality due to their causal structure aligning naturally with language modeling. This raises a fundamental question: can we achieve a synergy with high throughput, higher GPU utilization, and AR level quality? Existing methods fail to effectively balance these […]
Trellis AI (YC W24) Is Hiring: Streamline access to life-saving therapies
Trellis builds and deploys computer use agents to get patients access to life-saving medicine. Our computer-use AI agents process billions of dollars worth of therapies annually with patients in all fifty states. We do this by automating document intake, prior authorizations, and appeals at scale to streamline operations and accelerate care. We classify medical referrals, […]
Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop
Automated workflow that orchestrates Claude Code in a continuous loop, autonomously creating PRs, waiting for checks, and merging – so multi-step projects complete while you sleep. This all started because I was contractually obligated to write unit tests for a codebase with hundreds of thousands of lines of code and go from 0% to 80%+ […]
Wealth
In the human world, wealth inequality arguably has more of an impact on lives and relationships than physical differences like distance and energy. We need to have meaningful discussions about structural class differences, and segmenting the population based on wealth is an obvious starting point. Wealth, like most quantities, doesn’t need precision beyond the exponent […]
Kodak Ran a Secret Nuclear Device in Its Basement for Decades
In a secured Rochester, New York, office basement, a nuclear device the size of a fridge spent three decades quietly firing off neutrons for Eastman Kodak without a fuss. But after it was shut down and shipped away, an employee mentioned it to a reporter. Word spread, alarms rang in newsrooms, and even CNN jumped […]
Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729
This post describes my experience using Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729. The tl;dr is that it’s a delightful laptop, and Linux runs flawlessly, and all the hardware things I’ve needed run OOTB. The only difficulty I had was in disabling Secure Boot, but I figured out how to do it, which I explain below. […]
How to write type-safe generics in C
C is barebones and “doesn’t support” generics, but it’s actually quite easy to implement with the tools we already have. There’s many ways you might find them being implemented in the wild. Some of the common ones are: Using function-like macros #define vector_push(vector, item) vector.buf[vector.idx++] = item; Con: This will cause everything to be inlined […]