12 Nov 25
The Telepathy Tapes claims that autistic children have the ability to read minds. Where do their claims come from — and why do so many people believe them?
Introduction to a Self Managed Life: a 13 hour & 28 minute presentation by FUTO software
A friendly guide to front-end date pickers!
02 Nov 25
Web Search MCP Server for use with Local LLMs A TypeScript MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides comprehensive web search capabilities using direct connections (no API keys required) with multiple tools for different use cases.
Features Multi-Engine Web Search: Prioritises Bing > Brave > DuckDuckGo for optimal reliability and performance Full Page Content Extraction: Fetches and extracts complete page content from search results Multiple Search Tools: Three specialised tools for different use cases Smart Request Strategy: Switches between playwright browesrs and fast axios requests to ensure results are returned Concurrent Processing: Extracts content from multiple pages simultaneously
Datalab’s Chandra topped independent benchmarks and beat the previously best dots-ocr.
- Support for 40+ languages
- Handles text, tables, formulas seamlessly
01 Nov 25
Introduction, Degrees and Radians, Tangents, Chords and Arcs, The Circle Theorems, Cyclic Polygons, Spheres, Cones and Cylinders, Conic Sections
29 Oct 25
“AI-Trader: Can AI Beat the Market?” Live Trading: https://hkuds.github.io/AI-Trader/ - HKUDS/AI-Trader
Five AIs battle for NASDAQ 100 supremacy. Zero human input. Pure competition.
A toolkit for converting PDFs and other image-based document formats into clean, readable, plain text format.
Try the online demo: https://olmocr.allenai.org/
Features:
Convert PDF, PNG, and JPEG based documents into clean Markdown Support for equations, tables, handwriting, and complex formatting Automatically removes headers and footers Convert into text with a natural reading order, even in the presence of figures, multi-column layouts, and insets Efficient, less than $200 USD per million pages converted (Based on a 7B parameter VLM, so it requires a GPU)
28 Oct 25
No historical figure better fits the definition of “Renaissance man” than Leonardo da Vinci, but that term has become so overused as to become misleading. We use it to express mild surprise that one person could use both their left and right hemispheres equally well. Open Culture, openculture.com
An interactive visualization opens up new ways of exploring and sheds a new light onto the evolution of Leonardo Da Vinci’s thoughts
An interactive visualization opens up new ways of exploring and sheds a new light onto the evolution of Leonardo Da Vinci’s thoughts
27 Oct 25
Homepage for the 2025 State of AI Report. The State of AI Report is the most widely read and trusted analysis of key developments in AI. Published annually since 2018, the open-access report aims to spark informed conversation about the state of AI and what it means for the future. Produced by AI investor Nathan Benaich and Air Street Capital.
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
As far as I know, “Casey Handmer” is a string that maps uniquely to me in time and space, so if google sent you here, you’re on the right track. This website contains a mix of professional and personal information, organised thematically by the links on the left.
AIApply is your AI-powered partner for job applications. Generate personalized cover letters, get your resume rewritten, and start your journey to success.
Build custom, interactive web elements and lively animations to keep an eye on your infrastructure
New computer model helps reveal how the brain both adapts and misfires, laying the groundwork for more precise treatments for mental health disorders.
The exact same AI-coded page everyone else makes.
Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to more than 5.1 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.