🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.
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A United Airlines flight over Utah was struck by an unidentified object, cracking its windscreen. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating the incident, gathering radar, weather, and flight recorder data. Potential causes include space debris, a meteor, or a high-altitude bird.
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Tim Brown, SolarWinds' Chief Information Security Officer, described the chaos following the 2020 Russian cyberattack that compromised numerous global clients, including US government agencies. Brown's stress led to significant weight loss and a heart attack. He advocates for mental health support during such crises.
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San Francisco’s new AI-powered Alpha School claims to enhance learning efficiency, with students spending only two hours on traditional subjects via adaptive software. Experts, however, caution that such a model may not equally benefit all students, emphasizing the need for further critical research.
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A promising trial has shown that the triple-action drug amivantamab can shrink head and neck cancer tumors within six weeks. This smart injection targets cancer through three mechanisms and offers hope for recurrent or metastatic cancer patients, particularly those who haven't responded to traditional treatments.
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Energy startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) is collaborating with Google's DeepMind to enhance the Sparc reactor using AI. Their joint effort involves simulating plasma with DeepMind's Torax software and AI models to optimize fusion power generation.
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🌱 Good First GitHub Issue
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Language:
Repository: Uno Platform
(OSS project for creating pixel-perfect, single-source C# and XAML apps which run natively on iOS, Android, macOS, Linux and Web via WebAssembly.)
Why: Simple task focused on single platform, ideal for beginners learning about iOS app development.
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⭐ 6168, 🖖 342
🍿 A collection of QoL plugins for Neovim
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⭐ 2186, 🖖 219
slime is an LLM post-training framework for RL Scaling.
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⭐ 2092, 🖖 66
⚡ Better `pre-commit`, re-engineered in Rust
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⭐ 2164, 🖖 574
Manages Envoy Proxy as a Standalone or Kubernetes-based Application Gateway
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⭐ 12977, 🖖 128
An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust.
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