Last week I read the 1958 Rosenblatt paper. The one that started everything. The Perceptron, the first learning machine, the idea that memory lives in connections and not addresses. And at the very end of that paper, almost as a footnote, Rosenblatt wrote that "some system, more advanced in principle than the perceptron, seems to be required." This is that system. Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams.…

A small, HLS-capable video player for React and Vue, with zero global CSS side-effects. Built in the open. Try it: https://video-player-playgraound.vercel.app/ The annoying gap I needed an embeddable video player for a side project. Requirements were boring: HLS streaming ( .m3u8 ) A clean play button overlay, optional close button, optional desktop/mobile aspect-ratio toggle Fits the design syst…

* The gap between theory and practice in Agentic AI is massive. Here’s how we fix the friction of learning by doing. * If you’ve been following the AI space recently, you know the feeling. Every week, there’s a new paradigm-shifting whitepaper on Agentic AI. ReAct, Plan-and-Solve, Multi-Agent Orchestration, Model Context Protocol (MCP) — the sheer volume of theory is staggering. For a while, I tr…

You ever start watching an anime or a series on episode 12 and just sit there wondering wtf is going on? 😂 Yeah, that’s exactly what it would feel like if I just dropped my Kaggle code today without an intro. So, let’s start at Episode 1. Hey, I'm Vishnu. I’m currently a 1st-year B.Tech CSE student, but I'm playing the long game. My ultimate endgame is pursuing my Master’s in AI and Machine Learn…

To improve stability, security, and performance, database upgrades are a core operations task. GBase 8c, the China‑domestically developed database from GBASE, supports both online and offline upgrades with a grey‑release approach — business is unaffected during the process, and you can quickly rollback at the first sign of trouble. Upgrade Modes Online upgrade : No downtime. Services keep running…

Most discussions around AI tooling still focus on one thing: Code generation. Which model is better. Which assistant writes cleaner code. Which autocomplete feels smarter. But after working through real backend incidents, I believe we’re optimizing the wrong layer entirely. The Real Problem in Backend Systems A few weeks ago, we debugged a production issue that looked impossible at first. Tests w…

Labour party loses more than 1,400 English council seats and crashes out in Welsh and Scottish parliament votes • UK politics live – latest updates Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, is facing increasing pressure to set a date for his departure after elections across much of the country resulted in massive losses for his ruling Labour party. With the bulk of results now counted after votin…

Every developer has felt the ripple effect of a cloud outage. In our current era, as AI workloads surge and demand unprecedented resilience and efficiency, the conversation often centers on software-defined networking, container orchestration, and distributed systems. But what if the most critical battleground for future AI performance and stability lies deeper, within the very optical nerves of …

A Wireshark dissector for DVRIP/Sofia protocol found on Xiongmai based IP cameras. Full working dissector code is available at a DVRIP analysis repository . Full writeup of a sample IP camera on which this dissector was tested is available at Besder 6024PB-XMA501 IP camera security investigation repository. Table of Contents Usage Linux Windows Test Device DVRIP/Sofia Headers DVRIP/Sofia Message …

Scientific Data, Published online: 09 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41597-026-07379-w A dataset of clinical pediatric brain MRI with and without motion correction

In Filozofować eksperymentalnie - umysł w świecie kultury. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL. pp. 75-100. 2018The article compares Western and Chinese perspectives on the relationship between the mind and the body, and discusses the question of the cross-cultural universality of mind-body dualism. The West has traditionally viewed the mind and the body in dualistic terms while the Chinese tradition has ado…

The companion paper Seven Persistent Failures, One Root Function (Schlereth, 2026) derives a single information-theoretic constraint, H = 1/(α − 1), from Shannon's entropy evaluated on a Pareto-distributed consequentiality landscape. It unifies seven documented LLM failure modes — hallucination, sycophancy, overthinking degradation, accuracy collapse, out-of-distribution blindness, variance explo…

In Agent-based modelling in population studies. Switzerland: Springer. pp. 29-51. 2017This chapter aims to contribute to the debate on the role of model-based approaches in the future demography. First we call attention to the developments of the discipline since the XVIIth century, and we describe its four successive paradigms related to the period, cohort, event-history and mutilevel perspectiv…

Food and Drug Administration commissioner’s decisions have hurt staff morale and put his job in crosshairs Donald Trump has signed off on a plan to fire Marty Makary, the commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, after a series of high-profile agency decisions put the FDA head in the crosshairs of the White House and Republican lawmaker…

The contrast between the dense, layered building and the clean lines of the cab make for a winning image William Shum describes Yau Ma Tei, the Hong Kong district in which he took this photo, as “one of the region’s older and most characterful districts. I’m always drawn to this area because it feels authentic and full of local life. Older residential buildings, street-level shops and constant tr…

Children exhibiting high ADHD traits often face psychological distress into middle age. A recent study in Nature Mental Health suggests this ongoing burden is not inevitable but is heavily influenced by lifelong experiences of societal exclusion.

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy partnered with Artemis 2 commander Reid Wiseman to create stunning, never-before-seen views of the far side of the moon.

The Supreme Court weakened minority voting rights and prompted Republicans in four states to move to redistrict as part of Trump's push. A court nullified Democratic redistricting in Virginia.

The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to restrict access to the country’s most popular abortion method, but California’s network of online providers and pharmaceutical suppliers already has an alternative in mind.