Hey do you like coffee? A friend of mine has started a small batch roaster company in Chicago.

https://orbitercoffee.com/

I do not get any cut of proceeds, these are just great people and I'm sure everything is delicious thank you for your attention to this matter.

Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'

https://www.404media.co/jimmy-wales-wikipedia-ai-chatgpt/

> Wikipedia's founder said he used ChatGPT in the review process for an article and thought it could be helpful. Editors replied to point out it was full of mistakes.

I’ve been quiet this week, as I’m at a conference in Ingelheim near Mainz.

That said, the conference is in a cloister surrounded by nice grounds, including flowers & meadows, & there are plenty of insects.

This woolly-bottomed marsh fly (Helophilus hybridus; Helle Sumpfschwebfliege in German) sat still long enough for me to get a phone picture.

Home tomorrow 🚄

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🦗
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

The FBI warned Americans about Russian hackers attacking American infrastructure.

It won’t register until the hackers open flood gates to cause damage downstream or turn off power to heat homes this winter.

Trump admin fired the U.S. response team to counter those threats. Why?

Birthday Problem: In a group of 23 people, there's a 50% chance that two people share the same birthday.

This counterintuitive probability applies to software engineering:
- Hash collisions happen more often than expected
- Database ID collisions occur sooner than you think
- Cache key conflicts emerge with fewer entries than anticipated
- Bug report duplicates appear with smaller user bases

The lesson: when dealing with random events, our intuition about probability is usually wrong.

21 August 1942 | A Yugoslavian Jewish boy, Robert Flesch, was born in Sombor.

In May 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.