I am a bit of an audio snob in that I prefer wired headphones to wireless ones, for reasons of sound quality. However, when there is construction activity (a jackhammer going full blast right outside my window) then ANC becomes a sanity saver.
Udhay Shankar
@ushankar.bsky.social
Connector. Conversation starter. Counselor to entrepreneurs. Founder, The Goa Project. www.digeratus.in
This is clever, and interesting - especially for people who are old enough, or geeky enough, to assume that 'crypto' means 'cryptography'. 😀 declaude.org/watermarking/
How AI text watermarking works
A gentle visual guide to how a statistical mark hides inside generated text, and what erases it.
declaude.org
The Phone in Your Hand: a part-by-part teardown of "the most intricate machine you’ve ever held". everythingmachine.io/phone/
The Phone in Your Hand
A layer-by-layer teardown of the most intricate machine you’ve ever held.
everythingmachine.io
Fully Homomorphic Encryption is mainstream now? 😮 spectrum.ieee.org/the-fog-clou...
The Fog, a New Encrypted Cloud Platform, Rolls In
It keeps data encrypted all the time—even while computing
spectrum.ieee.org
My latest (and unfortunately more widespread than ever) annoyance: email that appears to be written by an LLM, featuring extreme verbosity and over the top gushing.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you use Windows 11, you can update all your apps at one go with a single command. www.howtogeek.com/winget-is-wi...
WinGet is Windows' best-kept secret—here's what it can do for you
You need to start using Windows' overlooked package manager.
howtogeek.com
An old laptop at home still boots, so I spent an evening putting Linux on it (Xubuntu, if you're curious). It struck me how painless the actual installation was, and how much effort I had to put into the prep work. Quite a difference from the first time I installed Slackware in 1996.
There appears to be a distinct lack of fecal matter here, Mr Holmes. www.wired.com/story/hollyw...
Hollywood Is Losing Audiences to AI Fatigue
Entertainment about or made with artificial intelligence has been missing the mark with viewers over the past year.
wired.com
#TIL that 'ramen' and 'lo mein' are basically the same word. www.etymologynerd.com/blog/stretch...
STRETCHY NOODLES
Ramen was brought by Chinese immigrants to Japan in the late 1800s, and it soon became a staple of their culinary culture. After the instant variety was created in 1958, it also grew in popularity in....
etymologynerd.com
To quote @edzitron.com, "Here’s A Diagram Of How Unbelievably Circular All The Money In AI Compute Has Become"
anthony restaino@anthonycr.bsky.social · 11mo agoah shit, I had swapped lambda and coreweave around to make the diagram more sane and forgot to move the super micro funding arrow from coreweave to lambda. fixed
I will be moderating this session. Hope to see you there!
The Goa Project@thegoaproject.bsky.social · 10mo agoThis Sunday, at the TGP Sessions, we look back at the early public internet in India (roughly mid-90s to 2000). This is an ‘open table’ event: some pre-decided speakers, but anyone with stories to share can ask for a seat at the table. More: thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/d...
QotD (referring to the AWS outage, but can refer to many other things also): "Once you reach a certain point of scale, there are no simple problems left."
QotD: "Ethernet: because cables are ugly, but packet loss is uglier."
#MorningMusing : Removing the first letter from both words in the phrase "trick troll" yields a phrase that means roughly the same thing.
This is basically Part 2 of a train of thought that @rohitkhare.bsky.social started a few decades ago. (link in comments) kk.org/thetechnium/...
The Trust Quotient (TQ)
Wherever there is autonomy, trust must follow. If we raise children to go off on their own, they need to be autonomous and we need to trust them. (Parenting is a school for learning how to trust.) If ...
kk.org
"...the median prompt—one that falls in the middle of the range of energy demand—consumes 0.24 watt-hours of electricity, the equivalent of running a standard microwave for about one second." www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/21/1...
In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
It’s the most transparent estimate yet from one of the big AI companies, and a long-awaited peek behind the curtain for researchers.
technologyreview.com
This is not surprising. Without: ⁍ Training (of the humans using it); ⁍ Training Data (for the models); and ⁍ Use cases (of actual pain points); this will just be another hypefest that will wither in the face of the inevitable backlash.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
Can't really argue with this. One only hopes the political appointee coach doesn't overwork him into premature retirement. indianexpress.com/article/spor...
Why Indian cricket doesn’t deserve Jasprit Bumrah
The fickle fans and rent-a-quote experts have been exposed by their insensitive criticisms of a player fighting his body to do his best for the country
indianexpress.com
Art imitates life imitates art... This seems to be the first case of a company developing a feature because ChatGPT is incorrectly telling people it exists. www.holovaty.com/writing/chat...
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists | Holovaty.com
holovaty.com
Researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to detect cancer-specific DNA fragments in the bloodstream more than three years before a clinical diagnosis. aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...
Detection of Cancers Three Years prior to Diagnosis Using Plasma Cell-Free DNA
AbstractTo explore how early cancers can be detected prior to clinical signs or symptoms, we assessed prospectively collected serial plasma samples from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, ...
aacrjournals.org
I sure don't mind a change I sure don't mind a change Yeah, I sure don't mind I sure don't mind a change I sure don't mind a change But I've fell on black days I've fell on black days
Microsoft Retires Legendary 'Blue Screen of Death' After 40 Years of Frowny Faces
Meet its mournful replacement: the black screen of death, which won't have the same sad face.
cnet.com