Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

March 4, 2025

The Empty Promise of AI-Generated Creativity
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Sure it makes generating content faster... but it's indeed so bland and uniform.

‘Flow’ wins best animated feature film Oscar

Behind the movie this is a big win for Blender. It proves Blender is viable for full length movies at this point. The movie was nice too. :-)

Who is Free Software for?
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Interesting piece, we indeed need to move beyond from the "for hackers by hackers" mindset. I don't even think it was really the whole extent of the political goals when the Free Software movement started. Somehow we got stuck there though.

Binary search as a bidirectional generator | mathspp
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Nice little Python trick using bidirectional generators.

Globstar - The Open-Source Static Analysis Toolkit
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Looks like an interesting toolkit to make your own code checkers.

Some things that make Rust lifetimes hard to learn

This is an important concept in Rust... but clearly it's harder to grasp than you'd expect.

AI versus the brain and the race for general intelligence
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Friendly reminder that AI was also supposed to be a field about studying cognition... There's so many things we still don't understand that the whole "make it bigger and it'll be smart" obsession looks like it's creating missed opportunities to understand ourselves better.