I don’t play MMORPGs so I wasn’t aware of the history of epidemics within these games and the bugs that have sometimes caused them unintentionally. The focus is on the Corrupted Blood virus in Warcraft that spread to pets and wasn’t properly cleared, leading to persistent issues.
Also from Unsung, reflections on the quality and humor of the BBEdit release notes.
Data from the history of domain name registrations with summaries of the oldest domains and the biggest domains from each year.
“In short, curiosity puts the entire brain into a mode of heightened receptivity — not just for the specific thing you want to know but also for everything around it. Curiosity opens a window, and while the window is open, learning deepens across the board. But the window stays open only as long as the question remains unanswered. When an A.I. summary answers your search query in three seconds, the window closes before curiosity can deepen.” (We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask)
Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”: Proposing a new metric for whether AI does what you actually want is a nice unpacking of the alignment issues with agentic AI that take us beyond concerns with hallucinations.
Book Corners is a delightful site mapping little free libraries and the like. There’s definitely entries remaining to be added in my area, and possibly yours.
This is a very good Blueberry Buttermilk Cake. It stands up to having a few extra blueberries thrown in. I’d recommend cutting back on the amount of flour you toss the berries in to keep them from sinking – a quarter cup left them floury even after baking, and with having upped the berry quantity.
The fairly comprehensive Make Better Documents guidelines from Anil Dash are now available as an LLM skill.
Automated sales assistants that worked like genies were all the rage back in 1983 as well….
