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17 min read Jan 8, 2026 A Two Part Post on the Immense Promise and Ecological Tragedy of Natural Herbertsmithite Crystals Introduction Hello Everyone, My name is Dr. For those who haven’t been following my journey, I grew crystals of Zn-Barlowite and Herbertsmithite in my PhD at Stanford. These crystals are candidates to be a new novel state of matter called a “quantum spin liquid” (QSL).
Nikon Z8, full frame, f/7.1, exposure 1/160, ISO 100, Laowa 180mm macro lens, with LED light and bluescreen.Training was done in slang-splat: https://github.com/MichaelMoroz/slang-splatYou can download it under CC BY license, but attribution is appreciated rather than required.
Polypad is a free, web-based mathematical playground featuring the world's best virtual manipulatives. It includes fraction bars, 3D polyhedra, balance scales, function machines, dice and spinners, data science tools, number cubes, and logic gates — all working on any device with no login required. Teachers can create shareable activities and view student work in real time.
His daughter Hellie was with him at the hospital at the time, and they had been listening to classical music together — as you may know, music was another of his great loves in life beyond computer security, with Peter an accomplished player of the piano, French horn, and various other instruments. Hellie has asked me to reach out to his friends and colleagues with this news — it’s still early in the morning in California and I will send on...
19th May 2026 I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. ![Image 1: The last six months in LLMs in five minutes Simon Willison - simonwillison.net PyCon US 2026 Lightning Talk...
Click is an interactive browser-based game with 128 achievements to unlock. It features a minimalist interface where clicking reveals hidden content and progress. Your save state is encoded in the URL, so you can share progress or resume from any browser.
kv4p HT Turn your Android phone into a modern ham radio transceiver Open source hardware & software for makers and tinkerers, 1 watt VHF or UHF **Note:** kv4p HT is an open source project you build yourself. It has absolutely no warranty, or guarantees on functionality or reliability! Requires at least a Technician class amateur radio license to use.
Written by Jay on May 12, 2026. After Netscape, the speed of software sped up beyond what anyone could have imagined. Thanks to a documentary crew and a ghost writer, we have a full view of the whole thing.
The PyTorch Landscape is an interactive, open-source visualization of the entire PyTorch ecosystem, organized by category: Computer Vision, Language, Multimodal, Specialized, 3D, Medical & Biology, AI for Science, and more. Hosted by the Linux Foundation, it serves as a comprehensive map for developers navigating PyTorch tools and libraries.
Composer 2.5 is now available in Cursor. It's a substantial improvement in intelligence and behavior over Composer 2. It is better at sustained work on long-running tasks, follows complex instructions more reliably, and is more pleasant to collaborate with.