Take Two: Eshell
This is a contribution to the Emacs Carnival 2025-06: Take Two collection of posts on Christian Tietze’s blog. My first take with Eshell many years back did not leave a good impression. My early expectations was that it should act like any other shell, only to be unpleasantly surprised by it. It took a long […]
I scanned all of GitHub’s “oops commits” for leaked secrets
TL;DR GitHub Archive logs every public commit, even the ones developers try to delete. Force pushes often cover up mistakes like leaked credentials by rewriting Git history. GitHub keeps these dangling commits, from what we can tell, forever. In the archive, they show up as “zero-commit” PushEvents. I scanned every force push event since 2020 […]
We reimagined Transformer architectures inspired by nature’s hidden structures
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N-Back – A Minimal, Adaptive Dual N-Back Game for Brain Training
The N-Back test is grounded in decades of cognitive neuroscience research. Key studies include: Jaeggi et al. (2008) published groundbreaking research in PNAS showing that dual N-Back training can improve fluid intelligence. Their study found that participants who trained for 19 days showed significant improvements in intelligence test scores. Owen et al. (2010) conducted a […]
Can we test it? Yes, was can [video]
Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System
For only the third time in history, astronomers have discovered a new interstellar object that originated from outside our Solar System. The object, known as 3I/ATLAS, is likely a comet and is much faster than any other interstellar object found before. The object appears to be hurtling towards our Sun at about 60 kilometres a […]
Third Interstellar Object Discovered
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Trans-Taiga Road:The farthest you can get from a town on a road in North America
The Trans-Taiga Road is a gravel road that runs 666 km east from near the top end of the James Bay Road. It was built to access the various dams and generating stations that extend upriver along the La Grande River. This is an extremely remote road, leading 666 km east – almost to Labrador […]
Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian
Abstract Ancient Egyptian society flourished for millennia, reaching its peak during the Dynastic Period (approximately 3150–30 bce). However, owing to poor DNA preservation, questions about regional interconnectivity over time have not been addressed because whole-genome sequencing has not yet been possible. Here we sequenced a 2× coverage whole genome from an adult male Egyptian excavated at […]
What to build instead of AI agents
Here’s what you should build instead Paul: Today, the scene is owned by Hugo, a brilliant mind who advises and teaches teams building LLM-powered systems, including engineers from Netflix, Meta, and the U.S. Air Force. He runs a course on the LLM software development lifecycle, focusing on everything from retrieval and evaluation to agent design, […]