27 Oct 25
Llion Jones, co-creator of the transformer technology powering ChatGPT, warns AI research has become too narrow.
In a striking act of self-critique, one of the architects of the transformer technology that powers ChatGPT, Claude, and virtually every major AI system told an audience of industry leaders this week that artificial intelligence research has become dangerously narrow — and that he’s moving on from his own creation.
After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved.
New OSM file format: 30% smaller than PBF, 5x faster to import - General talk - OpenStreetMap Community Forum
The OSM dataset is huge, and keeps growing every day. Great news, of course, but sometimes the sheer volume can be overwhelming – there are just gobs and gobs of data!
Hence, we created GOB (“Geo-Object Bundle”), a new file format that makes tackling OSM data faster and easier. It’s a companion format to our now-familiar Geo-Object Library (essentially, a tightly-compressed GOL with its indexes stripped).
To support this new format, GOL Tool 2.1 has two new commands: save GOLs as GOBs and load GOBs into a GOL (Of course, like all of the GeoDesk Toolkit, the GOL Tool is free & open-source).
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soarXiv is a visual exploration of the arXiv, a repository of scientific papers. It is a tool for exploring the arXiv in a new way, and for finding new papers to read.
Curate, Annotate, and Manage Your Data in LightlyStudio. We at Lightly created LightlyStudio, an open-source tool designed to unify your data workflows from curation, annotation and management in a single tool. Since we’re big fans of Rust we used it to speed things up. You can work with COCO and ImageNet on a Macbook Pro with M1 and 16GB of memory!
https://books.physics.oregonstate.edu/GMM/book.html
Study identifies the two pathogens that helped destroy Napoleon’s Grande Armée during its 1812 retreat from Russia.
A detailed step-by-step guide for turning rough rocks into beautiful gems with a rotary rock tumbler. Rock Tumbling Is Easy! Using a rock tumbler to convert rough rock into sparkling tumbled stones is easy if you follow a simple procedure and observe a few rules. We are writing this to share the procedure that we have used for many years with a number of rotary tumblers.
FTA (Fast TypeScript Analyzer) is a super-fast TypeScript static analysis tool written in Rust. It captures static information about TypeScript code and generates easy-to-understand analytics that tell you about complexity and maintainability issues that you may want to address.
FTA uses swc to parse your code then runs various analytical routines against it to understand how complex and maintainable it is likely to be. JavaScript code is also supported.
There is potentially a huge amount of value to be unlocked by replacing SQL, and more generally in rethinking where and how we draw the lines between databases, query languages and programming languages.
Diagram as Code Tool Written in Rust with Draggable Editing. The goal of oxdraw is to make it easy to create and maintain high-quality diagrams using a declarative and reproducible syntax. Charts are written in Mermaid syntax, while a web interface allows users to fine-tune positions connector paths, colors, and other styling components. Whenever a diagram is tweaked visually, the structural changes are persisted back to the source file as declarative code so that everything remains deterministic and version-able. The changes are saved as comments in the mermaid file so it remains compatible with other Mermaid tools. The repo is composed of the Rust CLI to compile .mmd files into images and the React based web interface to editing the files.
Discover and create beautiful themes for shadcn/ui. Browse thousands of community-made themes, customize colors with OKLCH picker, select Google Fonts, adjust border radius, and export themes instantly for your Next.js projects.
Agent Lightning is the absolute trainer to light up AI agents.
Features - Turn your agent into an optimizable beast with ZERO CODE CHANGE (almost)! 💤 Build with ANY agent framework (LangChain, OpenAI Agent SDK, AutoGen, CrewAI, Microsoft Agent Framework…); or even WITHOUT agent framework (Python OpenAI). You name it! 🤖 Selectively optimize one or more agents in a multi-agent system. 🎯 Embraces Algorithms like Reinforcement Learning, Automatic Prompt Optimization, Supervised Fine-tuning and more. 🤗
D2 is a modern DSL that turns text to diagrams. D2 is a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams. It stands for Declarative Diagramming. Declarative, as in, you describe what you want diagrammed, it generates the image.
Pico-Banana-400K is a large-scale dataset of ~400K text–image–edit triplets designed to advance research in text-guided image editing. Each example contains:
an original image (from Open Images), a human-like edit instruction, and the edited result generated by Nano-Banana and verified by Gemini-2.5-Pro. The dataset spans 35 edit operations across 8 semantic categories, covering diverse transformations—from low-level color adjustments to high-level object, scene, and stylistic edits
Discover the wild world of hand-painted African movie posters. These colourful, often outrageous artworks from Ghana turn Hollywood hits into bold, imaginative masterpieces. So bad they’re good — and utterly unforgettable.
10k Downloadable Movie Posters From The 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s
Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities. We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being broadcast unencrypted, including critical infrastructure, internal corporate and government communications, private citizens’ voice calls and SMS, and consumer Internet traffic from in-flight wifi and mobile networks. This data can be passively observed by anyone with a few hundred dollars of consumer-grade hardware. There are thousands of geostationary satellite transponders globally, and data from a single transponder may be visible from an area as large as 40% of the surface of the earth.
A look around the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center underground facility.