2025-04-20
Super Tomcat 21: The Ultimate F-14 Tomcat Fighter the Navy Never Built
Summary and Key Points: The Super Tomcat 21 and ASF-14 were revolutionary proposed upgrades of the iconic F-14 Tomcat, designed to elevate the legendary fighter into the 21st century. -Enhanced...
How the F-15 Eagle Almost Became America’s Next Stealth Fighter
Summary and Key Points: The F-15 Eagle, born from Cold War competition with the Soviet Union, revolutionized air combat with unmatched speed, maneuverability, and power. -Designed to surpass Soviet MiG-25s,...
Invisible Fighter: How Lockheed’s F-117 Redefined Stealth Warfare
Summary and Key Points: Lockheed’s F-117 Nighthawk marked a turning point in military aviation by combining groundbreaking stealth technology with laser-guided precision strikes. -Secretly delivered in 1983, the Nighthawk first...
Palia's big Elderwood expansion is coming in May with a new zone that reminds me of WoW's Teldrassil
Palia's Elderwood expansion isn't Teldrassil, it only looks like it.
Florida Woman Arrested for Selling Human Remains on Facebook Marketplace
Down in the wild and wonderful nation-state of Florida, the owner of an oddities shop has been accused of selling human bones on Facebook Marketplace. As USA Today reports, 52-year-old...
Ubisoft has made its colorblindness simulation tool available to any game developer for free
A win for gaming accessibility.
Investor Says AI Is Already "Fully Replacing People"
The hype over artificial intelligence might be quieting as the US tech sector stresses over tariffs, but some investors are still knee-deep in the mud, panning for gold. One of...
The U.S. Army’s New M10 Booker Is Much More Than a ‘Light Tank’
Summary and Key Points: The M10 Booker, the U.S. Army’s new armored combat vehicle, is nearing full production after rigorous tests in extreme cold and desert conditions. -Often referred to...
Dekáf Coffee Roasters
My thanks to Dekáf Coffee Roasters for sponsoring last week at DF. Dekáf started with a simple question over a late-night cup of decaf: why do coffee lovers who skip...
An AI Identifies Where All Those Planets That Could Host Life Are Hiding
Researchers in Switzerland have repurposed an AI model to uncover where all those elusive, potentially habitable worlds are hiding. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Astronomy...
testing.B.Loop: Some More Predictable Benchmarking for You
Go developers who have written benchmarks using the testing package might have encountered some of its various pitfalls. Go 1.24 introduces a new way to write benchmarks that’s just as...
March-April 2025 Progress in Guaranteed Safe AI
Published on April 20, 2025 7:00 PM GMTSay hi at ICSE in Ottawa, I’ll be at the reception Thursday, this colocated event on Friday, and the LLM4Code workshop on Saturday.As...
How to end credentialism
Published on April 20, 2025 6:50 PM GMTThe current University System is bad. Very bad. Half of young adults spend 3 to 4 years learning nothing of particular value so...
Spending on Ourselves
Published on April 20, 2025 6:40 PM GMT The Effective Altruism community has encouraged a range of different approaches to doing good over time. Initially there was more focus on...
Finally, a climate change solution: This free game lets you shoot a tornado with a shotgun
Kill the Tornado is exactly as goofy as it sounds (and more challenging than you think).
Scientists Take First Ever Video of Colossal Squid in the Wild... With One Comical Issue
An international team of scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute have captured the first ever footage of a colossal squid — the terrors of the sea that are legendary for...
Interesting ACX 2024 Book Review Entries
Published on April 20, 2025 6:10 PM GMTI have finally got around to updating codex cc with all the book reviews from 2024!Here are some interesting books/reviews that I’ve found...
How to Prompt Engineer Phi-3-mini: A Practical Guide
In this article, we’ll walk through how to do it in Python, using the Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct model by Microsoft. We’ll use the Huggingface inference API for this, so you won’t have...
Teleport, alter gravity, and survive on the run in puzzle platformer Bionic Bay
Full of beautiful pixels and probably perfect for speedrunners.
Meet AbramsX: The U.S. Army’s Revolutionary Hybrid Battle Tank
Summary and Key Points: The AbramsX, America’s next-generation battle tank, combines hybrid-electric power, advanced artificial intelligence, and enhanced maneuverability to redefine armored warfare. -Despite a strategic pivot towards the Indo-Pacific’s...
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