🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
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☁️ On February 17, 1959...
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Vanguard 2, the first weather satellite, was launched to measure cloud cover distribution.
Read more on Wikipedia
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Review of 22 global studies found intermittent fasting leads to only about 3% weight loss, similar to standard diets and barely better than no dieting. No clear extra benefits for quality of life; researchers say it’s an option, not a miracle solution.
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Computer science enrollment is dropping at many U.S. universities while AI-focused majors surge, especially at schools like UC San Diego, MIT, and Chinese institutions. Students and parents are redirecting from general CS to AI degrees, pressuring universities to rapidly integrate AI.
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AI is sold as a way to work less, but research shows the opposite: when tools boost capacity, employees simply do more, extend hours, and face rising expectations. Result: minimal productivity gains but increased stress, fatigue, and risk of widespread burnout.
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Keir Starmer plans to close a legal loophole so AI chatbots fall fully under the UK Online Safety Act, allowing huge fines or blocking if they generate harmful or illegal content for children; Conservatives say Labour is moving too slowly and ambiguously.
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A small UK trial found a single intravenous DMT dose, combined with psychotherapy, produced rapid, sometimes six‑month relief in people with treatment‑resistant depression. Results support psychedelic‑assisted therapy’s promise, though safety, regulation, access, and real‑world integration in public health systems remain unresolved.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Jeff Dean traps the KILL signal.
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⭐ 2757, 🖖 992
Infrastructure to enable deployment of ML models to low-power resource-constrained embedded targets (including microcontrollers and digital signal processors).
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⭐ 39, 🖖 0
LLMNet – The Offline Internet, Search the web without the web
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⭐ 5073, 🖖 287
Delivery infrastructure for agentic apps - Plano is an AI-native proxy and data plane that offloads plumbing work, so you stay focused on your agent's core logic (via any AI framework).
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⭐ 181, 🖖 29
Working example of a Yocto setup without unnecessary complications
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⭐ 4005, 🖖 597
All parts of Claude Code's system prompt, 18 builtin tool descriptions, sub agent prompts (Plan/Explore/Task), utility prompts (CLAUDE.md, compact, statusline, magic docs, WebFetch, Bash cmd, security review, agent creation). Updated for each Claude Code version.
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