Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

October 19, 2026

Composite objects and C++26 the std::polymorphic type

Another interesting type introduced C++26. This should make it easier to deal with owning polymorphic types at runtime.

Study explores how AI use affects performance on math and reasoning tasks - Berkeley News

Go read the full paper of course, but in case you won't this is a quick summary which kind of does the job. There are obvious limitations to the study: most notably time as it's only a few minutes use each time. And yet that raises clear questions on longer term use... There is clear recovery after a few minutes but does it still exist after weeks or months of prolonged use? How fast would it be? Clearly we don't know yet.

The Slow Formation of Durable Software

Interesting account of Zotero history. Another venerable software which passed a nice milestone.

How Strategy Stopped Intimidating Me

It doesn't have to be something mysterious indeed. It's a skill one can learn.