Unreal Engine 5.8 ships today with experimental MCP server support: Your sources, your pipeline and your workflow—simply configure the MCP plugin and connect to any agent. Get familiar with the MCP server and the PCG Primitive Plugin today and see what teams can build together: epic.gm/ue-5-8-blog

Math behind being 10% better every week

Maxwell -Boltzmann distribution from beads and a motor.

In 1541, John Calvin, a Swiss Protestant Reformer banned all jewelry as frivolous & sinful displays of vanity. This left Swiss jewelers, goldsmith’s & craftsmen jobless, so they all shifted their skills to making watches, which were exempted from the ban because they were considered time-keeping devices , & not jewelry. And that is how the Swiss became the best watchmakers in the world

AI super-cycle applied to IT/Software feels like Industrial revolution applied to Textiles. India impacted by both. Posted this casually a few days back, and kept thinking of it. Used AI to flesh out parallels. A 🧵, generated with AI help (warning!), but factual & eerie imo.

Discovering Arrange Marriages from first principles

Soviet propaganda poster titled "No!" created by graphic artist Viktor Govorkov for the USSR's anti-alcohol campaign, 1954.

POV: you are downloading npm packages in 2026

Aspirational.

in the 2000s ian mcdonald wrote a novel and a short story collection set in a futuristic 2040s india; in one of the short stories a girl accidentally ends up with several AIs embedded in her head that can do things like offer medical or astrological advice, in another a man attempts to court a woman using a dedicated flirting AI to feed him lines in real time only to eventually find she was using one too and neither of them had spoken a single authentic word to each other (and the two AI fall in love or something, iirc) not only are both of these things that are very close to being able to just happen now, 20 years ahead of schedule (i guess we'd need some advances in taking real-time video input and voice output, and some new wearables, and time for all that to diffuse culturally), but that fact is itself unremarkable en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_…

Among elite chess players, those with the lowest IQ are the best. Among NBA players, the shortest ones are the best. Among Hollywood actors, the least attractive are the most talented. Among elite academics, those with poorer early academic performance are the best. Among people with high LDL & high plaque burden, LDL is barely correlated with plaque burden. Learn collider bias. Nice catch by @AlexTISYoung

i love how people are saying "if we write a sufficiently detailed specification, the agent can write all our code" do you know what writing a sufficiently detailed specification that deterministically maps to what a computer's actions is? it's coding

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Arpit Bhayani's recent post is viral,He goes to eat Panipuri & notices owner giving panipuri in Round Robin manner to each person,tells owner he could optimise by prioritising customers eating fast instead of Round Rb(Kafka consumer backpressure) Owner said "Apna kam karna lavde"

AWS Lambda in 40 seconds.

He’s never going to a barbecue with Messi ever!

Where do you think Karl Marx is from ? Born in Trier, studied in Bonn and Berlin and got his PhD from Jena. Look up these cities. Every version of industrialization has faced backlash. The capitalism that drove it also spawned socialism for a reason.

Time Dilation kind of makes the whole “datacenters in space” idea more fun. Technically…something like a GPS Block III CPU runs an extra ~7,000 clock cycles per day compared to the same machine on earth. Extend this to the extreme, and you get the whole subfield of CS physics called relativistic hypercompuation. There’s some (fun?) papers that allow you to solve the halting problem by placing yourself dangerously close to a black hole…while your computer safely computes for ~infinite-ish amounts of time. One of the better papers on this field appears to be: "Relativistic computers and the Turing barrier" (Németi & Dávid 2006) (sadly, the maximum speedup just escaping earths gravity well is something like 1 x 10 ^ (-10), so yeah the blackhole thing is kinda necessary)

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