Terence TaoRE: https://mastodon.social/@ZachWeinersmith/116375447678097912
This was a fun collaboration! See also the crypto challenge at the end of the final strip in the 5-part series.
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N.A. FerrellUsing Marginalia Search’s Backlink Search
Marginalia Search may well be the best open source independent search engine on the web. Here, we look at how it can be used to find backlinks to indexed domains.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/using-marginalia-searchs-backlink-search/
Jeff GeerlingYesterday's news about the Pi 5 16GB being $299.99 was *not* an April Fool's joke (sadly)—DRAM pricing is killing the hobby SBC market, and it's not just Raspberry Pi that's affected.
I wrote more on my blog, here: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/dram-pricing-is-killing-the-hobbyist-sbc-market/
tanteAnthropic's Claude Code's full source code leaked. Claude is seen by many to be the best coding LLM on the market with Anthropic proudly stating that Claude Code itself is mostly written by the LLM.
Now this sounds good as long as nobody can see the code which is quite the trash fire. Detecting "code sentiment" via regular expressions, variable and functions names containing prompt parts trying to influence the bot, a completely intransparent mess of a control flow that makes actual maintenance and debugging functionally impossible and the prompts ... of the prompts. All the begging and pleading to the chatbot not to do this or not to do that or please to do this.
It is fascinating but it is as far away from actual engineering as drunkenly pissing your name in the snow. Dunno what you call the people prompting software at Anthropic but "engineer" is not it.
Now it is fun to look at the currently hyped product striped bare and showing its pathetic quality but that is the future of software if we let those companies continue to undermine every good practice software engineering has tried establishing.
The software we have to use will be bad, insecure, unmaintainable, expensive with nobody having the skills or resources to build something better. As I wrote a few months ago: LLM based software production is equivalent to saying that fast fashion should be the only way to produce clothing. A tragic degeneration of the quality of the artefacts we rely on build for maximum profit on the backs of people in countries from the global majority.
Two recent non-technical pieces on the philosophy and practice of mathematics:
"Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI", by Tanya Klowden and myself: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26524 (also discussed in https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/03/29/mathematical-methods-and-human-thought-in-the-age-of-ai/ ). This was a solicited piece for a forthcoming compendium in the philosophy of mathematics.
"What does it mean to think like a mathematician?", https://terrytao.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/talk-ver-3.pdf . These are slides for a talk I gave during a Pi Day (Mar 14) event at the local Curtis Center. The talk will be posted shortly.
Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the name popularly given to a broad spectrum of computer tools designed to perform increasingly complex cognitive tasks, including many that used to solely be the province of humans. As these tools become exponentially sophisticated and pervasive, the justifications for their rapid development and integration into society are frequently called into question, particularly as they consume finite resources and pose existential risks to the livelihoods of those skilled individuals they appear to replace. In this paper, we consider the rapidly evolving impact of AI to the traditional questions of philosophy with an emphasis on its application in mathematics and on the broader real-world outcomes of its more general use. We assert that artificial intelligence is a natural evolution of human tools developed throughout history to facilitate the creation, organization, and dissemination of ideas, and argue that it is paramount that the development and application of AI remain fundamentally human-centered. With an eye toward innovating solutions to meet human needs, enhancing the human quality of life and expanding the capacity for human thought and understanding, we propose a pathway to integrating AI into our most challenging and intellectually rigorous fields to the benefit of all humankind.
beetsVersion v2.8.0 of beets has been released! Check out all of the new changes at https://github.com/beetbox/beets/releases/tag/v2.8.0
Zef HemelI’ve been making good progress on a “native” (Tauri, not Electron)-based version of @silverbulletmd . This would make running #SilverBullet a single app to download without having to run a server (unless you want sync). Any takers?
And if so, what OS are you on?
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Daphne Preston-KendalCodeberg is different.
Codeberg is a non-profit.
Moreover, it is a *democratic* non-profit. You can (and, if you actively use Codeberg, should) become a member and you will have an equal vote and a fair say in the running of the association, and in any decisions we make about what to offer and what not to offer.
This democratic right is guaranteed to you not only by our constitution, but by German law, which guarantees that the membership as a whole has the ultimate decision-making power.
Orhun Parmaksız 👾New blog post! 📢🎉
"**Building a guitar trainer with embedded Rust**" 🦀🎸
The story of me trying to learn guitar... and ending up building a DIY kit for it 🐁
🔗 Read here: https://blog.orhun.dev/introducing-tuitar/
#rustlang #embedded #esp32 #ratatui #tui #devtools #opensource #blog
