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This Animation is insane, and they say AI has no soul 🤡

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The Figure of mathematics

في قطار بلندن، قالت امرأة لشاب مسلم من أصول عربية: "عُد إلى بلدك، المغرب أو تونس." فأجابها بأنه بريطاني ويعمل طبيبًا في هيئة الصحة الوطنية. سألها إن كانت بريطانية، فلم ترد وهددته بإبلاغ الأمن. الشرطة اعتقلتها، ليتبين أنها هندوسية ولا تحمل الجنسية البريطانية أصلًا، فتم ترحيلها.

I found out the other day that any compression tool can be contorted to do language modeling. Turns out gzip can generate text that somewhat *resembles* Shakespeare. Short write up linked below

A Japanese programmer looked at every existing programming language in 1993, decided none of them made him happy, and spent two years building his own the language he built became the foundation GitHub, Shopify, Airbnb, and Coinbase were all built on. His name is Yukihiro Matsumoto. Everyone in the programming world calls him Matz. He was born in 1965, studied information science at the University of Tsukuba, and graduated in 1990 with a head full of ideas about what programming languages could be and a quiet frustration with what they actually were. He knew Perl. He did not like it. He said it had the smell of a toy language. He knew Python. He did not like it either, because he felt its object-oriented features were add-ons bolted onto a language that was not designed around them from the start. He wanted something that was genuinely, completely object-oriented, easy to use, and built for the person writing the code rather than the machine running it. He looked for that language. He could not find it. So on February 24, 1993, he opened a chat window with his colleague Keiju Ishitsuka and typed: "Let us decide the codename now." They wanted to name it after a gemstone, inspired by Perl. Ishitsuka suggested Coral. Matsumoto suggested Ruby. Ruby was shorter by one letter. Ruby won. He spent the next two years building it alone, working through the architecture piece by piece. The object system. The string class. The IO streams. He later said he talked through specific features while speaking to his baby daughter, using her as a sounding board the way programmers use rubber ducks. In August 1993, he finally wrote the line of code that produced "Hello, world." on the screen. The first public version, Ruby 0.95, was released to Japanese domestic newsgroups on December 21, 1995. No press release. No launch event. Just a quiet post to a mailing list. The design principle underneath everything was the one nobody else had ever made primary. Matsumoto called it programmer happiness. He believed programming languages should be built for the joy and productivity of the person writing the code, not optimized purely for machine efficiency. Every decision in Ruby's design ran through that filter. If it made the programmer's life harder, it was wrong. That philosophy attracted a small but devoted following in Japan through the late 1990s. Then in 2003, a Danish programmer named David Heinemeier Hansson discovered Ruby and used it to build an internal project management tool for his company. He called the tool Basecamp. He extracted the framework underneath it and released it publicly in 2004. He called it Ruby on Rails. Within a year of that release, the framework had changed how web applications were built. Rails introduced the principle of convention over configuration, meaning developers could make decisions about structure quickly because the framework had already made sensible defaults. What used to take weeks of setup took days. What used to take days took hours. Shopify started on Rails in 2005. GitHub built on Rails a couple of years later. Airbnb, Twitch, Coinbase, SoundCloud, and Zendesk all followed. The first generation of consumer internet companies that defined how people think about software products were largely built by small teams moving fast on a framework that traced directly back to one Japanese programmer who was dissatisfied with his tools in 1993. Shopify now processes over $200 billion in annual commerce volume. It still runs on Rails. GitHub became the largest code hosting platform on earth and was acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion in 2018. It started on Rails. Matsumoto has said many times that he created Ruby for selfish reasons. He was so underwhelmed by every available option that he built something that would make himself happy. The programmer happiness he was chasing was his own. The community that grew around Ruby adopted a motto that says everything about who he is. Matz is nice and so we are nice. They abbreviated it MINASWAN. It spread because it was true. He answered emails from strangers. He engaged with the community with patience. He treated the language as a gift, not a product. He is still the chief designer of Ruby today. The language is 31 years old. It is still being improved. The last stable release was Ruby 4.0.4, shipped on May 11, 2026. One programmer, unhappy with his tools, built something better in the evenings in 1993. The companies you use to buy things, to store code, to book travel, and to watch streams were built on top of what he made. He just wanted to be happy while he worked. Did you know Ruby was behind the tools you use every day?

Anthropic with software engineers:

Claude @claudeai

2 weeks ago

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use. Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

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Someone used AI to create a live action version of the Dragon Ball World Martial Arts Tournament. Fan made AI films are going to worth billions.

The power rules for derivatives and integrals, quotient rule, chain rule, product rule, reciprocal rule, and integration by parts. These are the core tools for finding rates of change and accumulated quantities. They drive applications in physics (motion and forces), engineering (system optimization), economics (marginal costs and trends), biology (population models), and data science.

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🚨BREAKING: Google just DROPPED a masterclass on GPUs Get it here 100% free:

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Who are your top 5 programmers of all time and why? Mine: 1. Fabrice Bellard (ffmpeg, tinycc, quickjs) 2. John Carmack (doom, quake) 3. John McCarthy (lisp, father of AI, invented GC, timesharing) 4. Linus (linux man) 5. Dennis Ritchie (C and unix, K&R book)

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am.

Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy

2 weeks ago

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name. He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual

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A teenager in the United States started publishing software at 14 in 1998, built the entire online infrastructure for the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011, joined Google as a software engineer, quit in 2018, and then spent five years writing a C library that does something the entire industry said was impossible. Then she combined it with llama.cpp and shipped the easiest way on the planet to run a large language model on any computer. Her name is Justine Tunney. Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the low level systems world knows what one engineer has built. Justine was born in 1984. She started writing and publishing software at 14, back when distribution meant uploading binaries to BBS systems and chat networks. She picked up the handle jart, which she still uses on GitHub today. She did the work most teenagers her age were not doing. She read the systems programming literature. She studied compilers. She fell in love with C. In July 2011 she registered the @occupywallst Twitter handle and the occupywallst dot org domain. Within weeks the protest movement that began in Zuccotti Park in New York had become a global phenomenon, and her infrastructure was the digital backbone of the entire thing. She handled the social media, the website, the donations, the coordination. She built the platform that pushed the movement to reach millions. After Occupy she joined Google as a software engineer. She worked on TensorBoard, the visualization tool for TensorFlow, and on site reliability for Google infrastructure. She stayed for years. Then in 2018 she left Google Brain to work on a personal project. The project was called Cosmopolitan Libc. Cosmopolitan does something most C programmers would tell you is mathematically impossible. It lets you compile a C program once and have the resulting binary run natively on Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD with no modification. One file. Six operating systems. No virtual machines. No interpreters. No recompilation. The technique she invented is called Actually Portable Executable. The implications are wild. Cosmopolitan binaries violate every assumption about how operating systems load programs. They are at once a Windows PE file, a Linux ELF binary, a macOS Mach-O binary, and a shell script. The same bytes run on every platform. For five years she worked on it mostly alone. She funded the development partly through Mozilla's MIECO program, which sponsored her work on Cosmopolitan 3.0, released on October 31, 2023. A month later she shipped llamafile. llamafile is what happens when you combine Cosmopolitan with llama.cpp. You take any LLM weights file in the standard GGUF format, you wrap it in Justine's binary, and you get a single file that runs on six operating systems without installation. No Python. No CUDA setup. No dependency hell. Just one file that you double click and it works. Mozilla launched it as an official project of their innovation group on November 29, 2023. It went viral immediately. The repository, hosted at github .com/mozilla-ai/llamafile, now has 24,600 stars. The license is Apache 2.0. Justine kept shipping. She added GPU support to Cosmopolitan, a task systems engineers thought would require rewriting the whole thing. She added dlopen support, another thing nobody else had figured out. She wrote whisperfile, a single file version of OpenAI's Whisper speech-to-text model based on the same architecture. Her GitHub profile lists projects most engineers would consider impossible. sectorlisp, a Lisp interpreter that fits in a boot sector. blink, the tiniest x86-64-linux emulator on Earth. bestline, a teletypewriter command session library. redbean, a complete web server inside a single zip file. A teenager who shipped software in 1998 grew up to write the C library that the entire local AI movement now runs on top of. She did most of it alone, and most people scrolling AI Twitter cannot name her.

🇮🇳🇰🇷 Korean man travelled to India disguised as an ugly pregnant woman. Ceaseless sexual assaults ensure. (Commentary in Chinese)