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Related/dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939742 (45 comments)

Some related research (in mice) from the news this morning (mainly in the last couple of sections of the article) - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg7p8n9g2klo

To add a complicating factor, from this blogpost [1] GitHub say's "...if you provide private repository content as input to an AI Feature, we may use that input to improve AI featu…

From reading the GitHub privacy statement, I'm interpreting that private repositories won't be used for AI ( https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/privacy-policies/gith... ). I'd …

Eric answered a similar question on the Discord channel saying Slug is suitable for generic vector graphics. He recommends checking out the demo at https://sluglibrary.com/ (you ca…

Scott Geffert did a talk about The Met scanning process on Weds at the OpenUSD working group meeting. Here's the link he shared which explains more (along with a bit of history) ht…

A near neighbour described being interviewed by Tony Hoare for his first job after graduating (he got the job!). Sounds like the interview process in those days was a chat over lun…

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The bytecode interpreter in the second half of the book doesn't use the visitor pattern.

Probably this one (not launched yet) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/argonforty/upton-one-th...

Simon used to maintain the BCPL compiler at Warwick University and helped many people start their careers in Computer Science. I knew him as a very funny and friendly near neighbou…

The Metaverse Standards Forum has had some activity around gaussian splats recently, for example debating whether it's too early to standardise. There's a town hall on 5th March wi…

Nice list. USD (Universal Scene Description) has been renamed to OpenUSD. Part of the motivation was to make it easier to search for. Not all the official docs have been updated ye…

Another example of 'control flow' is the new behavior graph from Khronos (glTF Interactivity Specification). They did a survey of existing visual programming langauges and are tryi…

Talk starts at 4:30 - https://www.youtube.com/live/APajJQGv-Ig?feature=shared&t=27...

Talk about making creative tools from V Buckenham, author of Downpour and Cheap Bots Done Quick. Focusses on themes like simplicity and survivability (think like a cochroach!).

The strapline seems to suggest it is an ORM (I've not used Diesel yet): >Diesel: A safe, extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel