I usually skip this section, paying more attention these days given chaos around research & funding, feeling 😞

arxiv.org/pdf/2505.10468
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This work was supported in part by the National Science
Foundation (NSF) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Institute of Food and Agriculture
(NIFA), through the “Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute for
Agriculture” program...

Looking Back at Postgres This is a recollection of the UC Berkeley Postgres project, which was led by Mike Stonebraker from the mid-1980's to the mid-1990's. The article was solicited for Stonebraker's Turing Award book, as o...

arxiv.org/abs/1901.01973

A Decade-Long Search for a Battery That Can End the Gasoline Era

“spinning wheels.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/b...

LIVE: Warren Buffett presides over the 2025 Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting — 5/3/25 YouTube video by CNBC Television

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Why Trump Could Lose His Trade War With China | The Ezra Klein Show YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqBa...

Massive Google slop that’s all fake.

Someone on Reddit searched for (the non-existent) John Wick 5, and Google spared no expense to lie to them.

Russell L Ackoff From Mechanistic to Systemic thinking YouTube video by Systemic Thinking 101

From Mechanistic to Systemic thinking: Thinking a lot about this Talk.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGN5...

Happy 50th Birthday, Microsoft!

news.microsoft.com/microsoft-50/

Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ut...

Studio Ghibli-style illustration of the Golden Gate Bridge!

Studio Ghibli-style illustration of the Golden Gate Bridge!

CHM Releases AlexNet Source Code In partnership with Google, CHM releases the source code to AlexNet, the neural network that in 2012 kick-started today’s prevailing approach to AI.

AlexNet Source Code: In partnership with Google, Computer History Museum announces the public release and long-term preservation of the source code for AlexNet, the neural network that kick-started today’s prevailing approach to AI. Learn more about AlexNet here
computerhistory.org/blog/chm-rel...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu delivered a powerful speech at the House committee hearing on sanctuary cities, standing firm on the city’s commitment to inclusivity and public safety. A must-watch moment. This is what great leadership sounds and feels like.

When AI Competes: Deepseek Vs Open AI Explained YouTube video by Josh Johnson

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWOP...

becknprotocol.io

A 129-Year-Old San Francisco Lawsuit Could Stop Trump From Ending Birthright Citizenship | KQED In 1898, Wong Kim Ark, a man born in the U.S. to Chinese parents, won a Supreme Court battle to defend his claim to citizenship. His case could prevent Trump from fulfilling his promise to end birthri...

www.kqed.org/news/1201544...

An A.I. Boom Makes Electricians Flock to Central Washington The rural region is changing fast as electricians from around the country plug the tech industry’s new, giant data centers into its ample power supply.

For all the hype over $100,000 chips and million-dollar engineers, the billions pouring into the infrastructure of A.I. is being built by former morticians, retired pro football linebackers, single moms, two dudes described as Gandalf in overalls, onetime bouncers

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/25/t...

An Unelected Tech Bro Has Taken Over America (w/ Heather Cox Richardson) | Bulwark Podcast YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Home | USAFacts Our nation, in numbers. USAFacts provides a comprehensive, nonpartisan view of the state of our union.

usafacts.org with videos www.youtube.com/@USAFacts_Of...

Freedom in the Age of Trump (w/ Timothy Snyder) | The Michael Steele Podcast YouTube video by The Bulwark

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spot on

"what doesn't have presence of good is the machine ... right now what's coming for us is the machine like in the sense of social media, the algorithms ... it does not have a sense of what's good it just doesn't .... "

youtu.be/n4eCVdkQbf8?...

Free State of Jones (film) - Wikipedia

Watching Free State of Jones on Netflix

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Thomas Friedman on the Future of America and the World: The Post-Election Dissection (Part 1) YouTube video by Intelligence Squared

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The GOP Never Cared About Experience! It Was All a SCAM (w/ Sam Harris) | The Bulwark Podcast YouTube video by The Bulwark

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULVY...

The Man Who Freed Me From Cant Tony Judt said that there is darkness in this world, and that darkness often triumphed—and liberated me to do the same.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Jon Stewart on the Divide Between Dems and the Working Class with Sarah Smarsh | The Weekly Show YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC-V...

Jon Stewart on Trump’s Win and What’s Next w/ Heather Cox Richardson | The Weekly Show YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7cK...

Current Stripe CEO website

https://patrickcollison.com/

GitHub - Mooler0410/LLMsPracticalGuide: A curated list of practical guide resources of LLMs (LLMs Tree, Examples, Papers) A curated list of practical guide resources of LLMs (LLMs Tree, Examples, Papers) - GitHub - Mooler0410/LLMsPracticalGuide: A curated list of practical guide resources of LLMs (LLMs Tree, Examples,...

A curated guide for Large Language Models

https://github.com/Mooler0410/LLMsPracticalGuide

Guava

Goan mango

Mankurad , Goan mango

Cashew

Pictures from GOA, India fruit market