Today my daughter and I are pleased to announce the release of our first open source project together! github.com/humphrem/action ACTION is an AI detector pipeline for automatically extracting animal/fish clips from camera trap videos. It uses the YOLO-Fish and MegaDetector models

No Margot Robbie in a bathtub today. Just a hedgehog who's been watching private credit for months and needs you to read this carefully. 🦔The biggest banks on Wall Street are launching a new tool next week to bet against private credit funds, the same $3 trillion corner of finance that quietly holds money from pension funds and retirement accounts. JPMorgan, Bank of America, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, and Goldman Sachs are working with S&P Global to launch a credit default swap index called CDX Financials, allowing investors to profit if private credit fund managers including Apollo, Ares, and Blackstone run into trouble. Credit default swaps are insurance contracts that pay out when borrowers default. Banks want protection against their own exposure. Hedge funds want to profit from a downturn. This comes as Blue Owl reported 41% redemption requests last quarter and Carlyle's fund was hit with a 15.7% redemption request this week, more than three times its normal limit. My Take I want to explain why this matters for regular people because the language around it is designed to be confusing. Private credit is a market where investment firms lend directly to companies outside the traditional banking system. Millions of Americans have indirect exposure through pension funds and 401k plans without knowing it. When those loans go bad and investors try to get their money out simultaneously, funds gate withdrawals, meaning you simply cannot access your money when you need it. What the banks are doing now is building the infrastructure to profit when that happens. Credit default swap indexes were central to the 2008 financial crisis, and that doesn't mean we're heading there again. But when the largest banks on Wall Street simultaneously decide they need protection against private credit losses, and hedge funds are lining up to bet on a collapse, people with retirement savings in these funds deserve to understand what the people on the other side of that trade are seeing. Hedgie🤗

We're looking for another engineer to join our team! Learn more: inaturalist.org/pages/jobs

5 years later, issue 2552 is closed! github.com/denoland/deno/iss…

Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking "Our findings reveal that while LLM assistance can provide short-term boosts in creativity during assisted tasks, it may inadvertently hinder independent creative performance when users work without assistance, raising concerns about the long-term impact on human creativity and cognition." by @1harsh_kumar J. Vincentius, E. Jordan, @ashton1anderson 📖 arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03703

An incredible story, told v well! Nice to see mention of @inaturalist, the best source for up to date distribution records of species. With so much intentional & continued spreading of the species by people its range here won’t attract scientific study! 🦎 inaturalist.org/observations…

I spend more time fixing my code for eslint to continue working in my projects than I do fixing things that eslint finds. I'm getting to the point where I feel like it's not worth the extra maintenance.

How can we make our documentation, notes, and libraries more LLM-friendly? Create a single .txt file. 🤔 llms.txt proposed by @jeremyphoward, now adopted by @AnthropicAI proposes as a new standard to provide a structured, concise overview a single markdown file with key information to make the content more accessible and usable for AI agents. 🧠 TL;DR: 📄 Add a new standard file /llms.txt at website root, similar to robots.txt but specifically for LLMs 🎯 Use Markdown format for both human and LLM readability while maintaining strict structural requirements 🔄 Suggests appending .md to URLs to provide clean markdown versions of regular web pages 💡 Optional sections to handle context window limitations effectively 🛠️ created llms-txt to parse llms.txt for better use 🌐 Compatible with existing web standards like robots.txt and sitemap.xml

Everyone please do this for everything. .txt is the universal interface

Honestly, at this point If you give me a programming interview and don't let me use AI assistance you won't get a very realistic idea of what I'm actually capable of

Any cash left over to buy Twitter?

#WebVM 2.0 is Here! 🌟 Revamped UI ⚙️ #CheerpX Integration 🌐 Faster Performance 🖼️ Desktop Environment Live Alpine Linux / Xorg / i3 demo: webvm.io/alpine.html

Love Transformers.js youtube.com/watch?v=n18Lrbo8…

Hurl is used in the official Python repo 🤯! Hurl tests all the redirection of Python docs; as one the PR says «We have ~9,400 test cases for redirects [...] Hurl runs these in parallel, so all tests only take a second or so to run.» github.com/python/psf-salt/t…

Pleased to announce Anchoreum, my free coding game for learning CSS anchor positioning. In the same spirit as Flexbox Froggy and Grid Garden. Chrome and Edge only for now. anchoreum.com

Added support for attaching, pasting, and dropping various file types (PDF, DOCX, csv, code, text, images, etc) to chatcraft.org and having them get included as extra context messages when chatting to LLMs.

I've always been impressed with how @mattermost has treated my open source students when they contribute during @hacktoberfest, but this was really cool to see.

Just went to file an issue on github.com/jina-ai/reader/is… and there's 30 *pages* of spam issues that seem to have been created in the past day. Never seen anything like this before. cc @github @GitHubEng

I bet people under 30 have no conception of how mind-blowing the concept of an infinitely scrollable and zoomable global map seemed in 2005. There wasn’t anything remotely like it prior to 2005.