Articles by scrlk
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GLM-4.7-Flash (huggingface.co)

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The Factory Workers Who Build the Power Grid by Hand (wsj.com)

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The Engineering Behind Apple's 3D-Printed Watch Cases (hodinkee.com)

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A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition (generativehistory.substack.com)

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Intel in early talks to add AMD as foundry customer (semafor.com)

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Ctrl Alt Deleaf blows away competition as new leaf-busting train name (bbc.co.uk)

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AC vc DC: who would win a modern Battle of the Currents? (watt-logic.com)

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GPT-5 (platform.openai.com)

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Kioxia unveils highest capacity SSD at 245.76 TB (blocksandfiles.com)

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Office for Nuclear Regulation: Our assessment was not bananas! (onr.org.uk)

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A Clean, Powerful, Supercharged and Rotary Valved Two Stroke Engine [video] (youtube.com)

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Spanish Peninsula Blackout Report (Red Eléctrica, System Operator) [pdf] (cloudfront.net)

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Sizing Up Sizewell C (thecritic.co.uk)

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Who first described the "fence-post error?" (archive.org)

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ENTSO-E panel initiates the investigation into the causes of Iberian blackout (entsoe.eu)

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OpenAI GPT-4.5 System Card [pdf] (cdn.openai.com)

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Young Persons Guide to BCPL Programming on the Raspberry Pi [pdf] (cam.ac.uk)

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Alignment faking in large language models (anthropic.com)

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A century of motorways (roads.org.uk)

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FTX Sues Binance, Ex-CEO Zhao Seeking $1.8B Clawback (bloomberg.com)

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How red tape holds back nuclear power in Britain (samdumitriu.com)

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The Chancellor Game: Can you mastermind a UK Budget? (ft.com)

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The search for Japan's 'lost' art (ft.com)

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End of an era as Britain's last coal-fired power plant shuts down (theguardian.com)

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Caroline Ellison sentenced to 24 months in prison for FTX fraud (bloomberg.com)

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Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by 50 bps (cnbc.com)

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OpenAI Nears Release of 'Strawberry' Model, With Reasoning Capabilities (bloomberg.com)

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Spyder 6.0 Released – The Scientific Python Development Environment (github.com/spyder-ide)

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UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns (politico.eu)

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Kangxi Chinese vases: Recovery from disaster (cam.ac.uk)

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Cutaway drawings of nuclear reactors around the world (unm.edu)

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Wells Fargo Fires Over a Dozen for 'Simulation of Keyboard Activity' (bloomberg.com)

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How the transatlantic telegraph cable changed finance (2019) (tontinecoffeehouse.com)

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Sorry, wrong number (roads.org.uk)

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Mathematicians are bitterly divided over a controversial proof (newscientist.com)

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Global glut turns solar panels into garden fencing option (ft.com)

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Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison (cnbc.com)

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CorsixTH: Open-source clone of Theme Hospital (github.com/corsixth)

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'Enshittification' is coming for everything (ft.com)

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Claude Shannon (wikipedia.org)

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Is Beethoven worth eight times Mahler?

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UK government plans further nuclear power expansion (bbc.co.uk)

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Spot Bitcoin ETFs will begin trading on CBOE tomorrow (cboe.com)

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2024 Big Race Is TSMC N2 and Intel 18A (semiwiki.com)

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Coastline paradox (wikipedia.org)

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New UK record for wind power set today – 21.81 GW between 0900-0930 GMT (iamkate.com)

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Oliver Heaviside (wikipedia.org)

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Old RTX 3080 GPUs repurposed and modded for Chinese market as 20 GB AI cards (tomshardware.com)

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Apple's Effort to Replace Qualcomm Chip in iPhone Falls Further Behind (bloomberg.com)

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Why Apple Won't ARM the MacBook (2011) (realworldtech.com)

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Intel Itanium IA-64 Support Removed with the Linux 6.7 Kernel (phoronix.com)

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Ofcom revises net neutrality guidance (ofcom.org.uk)

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John Nash's cryptography letters to the NSA (1955) [pdf] (nsa.gov)

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John Nash's Letter to the NSA (agtb.wordpress.com)

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How Britain’s Dream of More High-Speed Rail Came Off the Track (bloomberg.com)

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The UK is at risk of running low on water. Why? (ft.com)

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SwissMicros – Keeping the iconic HP RPN calculators alive (vintageisthenewold.com)

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rustworkx: A High-Performance Graph Library for Python (github.com/qiskit)

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How bonds ate the entire financial system (ft.com)

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U.S. prosecutors worry Binance charges could cause run on exchange (semafor.com)

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Curve Finance Reentrancy Exploit Puts $100M+ Worth of Crypto at Risk (coindesk.com)

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Will there be enough cables for the clean energy transition? (ft.com)

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How I do my computing (2006-2022) (stallman.org)

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Railway Mania in 1840s Britain (tontinecoffeehouse.com)

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Richard Feynman – There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (1959) [pdf] (caltech.edu)

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Amateurs cracked a 445-year-old code to reveal Mary Queen of Scots’ secrets (ft.com)

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Fed holds off on rate hike, but says two more are coming later this year (cnbc.com)

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Fun in the Supermax (2017) (themarshallproject.org)

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Finnish nuclear plant throttles production as electricity price plunges (yle.fi)

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Do Kwon Charged with Fraud by US Prosecutors in New York (bloomberg.com)

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Arm seeks to raise prices ahead of hotly anticipated IPO (ft.com)

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Federal Reserve to increase interest rates by 25 basis points (federalreserve.gov)

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San Francisco’s Banking Panic of 1855 (tontinecoffeehouse.com)

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Euler DeFi Protocol Exploited for Nearly $185M (coindesk.com)

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How Glasgow’s tiny, muckraking crime mag stays afloat (ft.com)

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Arthur Hayes, the Original King of Crypto, Is Back (nymag.com)

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Why numbering should start at zero (1982) (utexas.edu)

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How does overhead line electrification for railways work? [pdf] (ocs4rail.com)

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Kernel Density Estimation explained visually (mathisonian.github.io)

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Learn Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF) [video] (youtube.com)

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MPC-HC v2.00 (github.com/clsid2)

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British Motorway Database (roads.org.uk)

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What is CRI? The ultimate guide to the Color Rendering Index (waveformlighting.com)

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Panasonic Let's Note SV2: 12.1“ ultraportable with removable battery and ODD (panasonic.jp)

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How We Get Down to 0.2 nm CPUs and GPUs [video] (youtube.com)

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Federal Reserve to increase interest rates by 50 basis points (federalreserve.gov)

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SEC Charges Samuel Bankman-Fried with Defrauding Investors in FTX [pdf] (sec.gov)

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FTX’s Assets Frozen by Bahamas Securities Regulator (bloomberg.com)

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International Prototype of the Kilogram (wikipedia.org)

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An Introduction to Asynchronous Design (manchester.ac.uk)

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Building a container from scratch in Go (2016) [video] (youtube.com)

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Korn Shell Story (c2.com)

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IBM industrial robots – keyboard assembly (1983/4) [video] (youtube.com)

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Federal Reserve to increase interest rates by 75 basis points for the third time

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The decline and fall of Roman coinage (2019)

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Maximator and other European SIGINT alliances

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Big Changes in Architectures, Transistors, Materials

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London Ringways