A beautiful thing to read. Stephen Wolfram on 36 years with his wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026). writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-m...
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
In remembrance of his beloved and brilliant wife, Elise Cawley, and their 36 years together, Stephen Wolfram shares memories of their family and home and relates Elise's many accomplishments and contributions to mathematics.
writings.stephenwolfram.com
#Florida county clerk announces that a historic book listing cattle brands has been preserved and, even better, digitized so the public can review it online. www.theledger.com/story/news/h...
Polk County book of historic cattle brands preserved and digitized
Polk County has digitized a book of historic cattle brands from the 1860s to the 1940s, preserving local ranching history.
theledger.com
Upgraded all the local AI things and trying out Gemma 4 -- good results so far in OpenClaw (web search, Fitbit stats) and Open WebUI including with images flic.kr/p/2s7acHm
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Trying out gemma4:26b in Ollama via Open WebUI
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I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5mo agoNSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2
Claude is figuring out how to integrate LangChain's OpenSWE with DevPod as the backend for sandboxes. It is slowly making progress... There is _zero_ chance any of this would be happening if I had to read all the code and docs and figure it all out by myself.
Adventures in local LLMs with a Titan RTX card - cat pictures included wsmoak.net/2026/02/21/l...
Having a linguistics background I think there's a huge misconception when it comes to prompting LLM's, the vast majority thinks that coding is "hard" compared with speaking a natural language. Well it's actually the contrary from a utilitarian POV less verbs at your disposal => easier to be specific
Kelsey Hightower@kelseyhightower.com · 6mo agoGenerative AI is a slop generation machine by default. You have to put in a lot of work to get something of quality from it.
> The difference between “AI helped me ship” and “AI gave me a mess to untangle” almost never comes down to just model selection. It comes down to context engineering, prompt specificity, workflow structure, and guardrails. -Addy Osmani addyo.substack.com/p/how-good-i...
How Good Is AI at Coding React (Really)?
A data-driven look at what AI can and can’t do for React developers - and what you can do about it
addyo.substack.com
Open Source in 2025: clone a git repo, discover it's in a language I've never used, install the language, build the project, try the examples, realize it's missing a feature I want, have Claude Code implement the missing feature. So now I guess I get to learn Rust and see if the code is correct!
Internet Roadtrip is my favorite thing on the internet right now—it’s basically Twitch Plays Google Street View. They started in Boston, spent several weeks on a quest to cross the Canadian border, and are now exploring New Brunswick. neal.fun/internet-roa...
Internet Roadtrip
Let's take a streetview roadtrip
neal.fun
Does #Python pass arguments by value? Or by reference? I'm asked this question a lot, and the answer isn't a simple "yes" or "no." (Which is even more confusing!) In my latest video, I explain how you should think about it, and why neither term is quite right: youtu.be/Ah1J85nCdNo
Understanding call-by-value and call-by-reference in Python
YouTube video by Python and Pandas with Reuven Lerner
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Are you using OTel Ruby SDK logging in production, particularly for a Rails application? It's still marked Development, but... it seems to work and the community is responsive. Is it safe enough to give it a try at this point, or would you have reservations? #otel #observability #ruby #rails
There are so many cranes on the Platte that it can be a fight for space—as one flock takes flight, another fills in their spot. On our last morning on the river, researchers conducting aerial surveys estimated an all-time record of 736,000 Sandhill Cranes on the 80-mile stretch of the Platte River.
Thanks to a note on Substack with some invite codes, I have arrived. There appear to be an acceptable number of cat pictures in the Discover feed, and also @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com is here. So far so good.
