🙈 Useless Fact of the Day

Each of us generates about 3.5 pounds of rubbish a day, most of it paper.
📰 News
Juliette van Haren and Frank Delbressine are developing a transfer device to move premature babies from a natural womb to an artificial womb. This innovation could save lives but raises ethical and regulatory questions about redefining pregnancy and parenthood.
A report warns that uncoordinated geoengineering in the Northern Hemisphere could cause severe droughts in Africa's Sahel region and increase North Atlantic hurricanes. While geoengineering could lower global temperatures if globally coordinated, it risks exacerbating climate impacts if mismanaged.
Researchers at Goodfire.ai have found that memorization and reasoning in AI language models utilize distinct neural pathways. By removing memorization circuits, the AI retained its logical reasoning abilities but saw a decline in arithmetic performance, suggesting math relies on memorization.
The d7vk project is developing a Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7 games, allowing them to run on Linux via Wine. This initiative aims to enhance compatibility and performance for older Windows games, though full compatibility may be challenging.
💡📚 Articles
🌱 Good First GitHub Issue
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Repository: Video Hub App (Angular & Electron app for browsing and searching videos on your PC.)
Why: Simple code change that improves performance, ideal for junior contributors to practice optimizing JavaScript.
👨‍💻 Repositories
⭐ 110, 🖖 10
Sysgpu – Experimental descendant of WebGPU written in Zig
⭐ 28, 🖖 1
Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy
⭐ 334, 🖖 14
My Git history was a mess of 'update' and 'fix' – so I made AI clean it up
⭐ 2395, 🖖 160
Making ComfyUI more comfortable!
⭐ 2249, 🖖 103
Open-source platform that transforms your personal media library into live, custom TV channels.
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