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Jesus chatbots are on the rise. A philosopher puts them to the test What would Jesus do? Chatbots generated by artificial intelligence bring a new kind of challenge to religion.

Jesus chatbots are on the rise. In other religions, the same development has taken place, with AI chatbots like the Buddhist Norbu AI and, in the Islam faith, like Brother Junaid at Salaam World.

Bought a GPU "for the kids"

I see this and I should just move along but no, all I can think of, isn't this a single point of failure

spark.js Real-Time GPU Texture Codecs for the Web

I’m excited to announce the release of Spark 1.3 and the launch of spark.js, our new JavaScript API for real-time GPU texture compression on the web.

ludicon.com/sparkjs

What a show! The Kaggle Game Arena AI Chess Tournament is complete — and O3 takes the win! 🏆

Big thanks to
@magnuscarlseny.bsky.social , @gmhikaru.bsky.social, @gothamchess.bsky.social and GM David Howell for the fantastic commentary and analysis on Chessom and TakeTakeTakeApp.

Should be fun, starting in 30m.

Vibe Linux

AI + Terminal is going to bring even more people to Linux.

New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes | Quanta Magazine A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks.

My latest in @quantamagazine.bsky.social: a new algorithm solves the classic single-source shortest paths problem faster than ever before — by finding paths out of order:

Gemini-Cli calculate speed of medgemma response

I'm finally trying out Ollama and Medgemma on my laptop and getting pretty good performance of about 103 tokens/s. I'm also really enjoying the convenience of Gemini-Cli.
ollama.com/alibayram/me...

Jerk salmon dish from Passion Kitchen in North London

Really enjoying our summer break in London, kids are learning about capoeira in summer camp, having delicious Jamaican food, found banana plantain at the corner store where someone from Indian descent knows greetings in Wolof (Sénégal) and Twi (Ghana)..

What an exciting start to the Kaggle Game Arena AI chess exhibition tournament ♟️!

The first round is complete, and we have our four semi-finalists! Congratulations to o4-mini, o3, Gemini 2.5 Pro & Grok 4!

Come back tomorrow! Semi-finals kick off, August 6th, at 10:30 am PT.

https://bcounter.nat.vg/ counter showing 38,000,011 users on Bluesky

38 million folks on @bsky.app!

You know Elon is going to brag about this

"Deepseek lost the sauce" as per the host. Grok is playing impressive chess!

GUESS THE ELO, AI VERSION! Kaggle AI Chess Exhibition Quarterfinals! YouTube video by GMHikaru

The game is underway, and Deepseek is dominating so far
www.youtube.com/live/-nByurc...

Don’t forget to check out the Kaggle AI chess exhibition tournament tomorrow. The matches take place daily from August 5-7, with streams starting at 10:30 AM PT on kaggle.com/game-arena.

📢 Introducing Kaggle Game Arena: a new, open benchmark platform where top AI models compete in complex, strategic games in streamed match-ups. We're charting new frontiers for trustworthy AI evaluation and it begins with chess — a classic proving ground for system intelligence.

🇨🇦 Heading to @rl-conference.bsky.social next week to present HyperMARL (@cocomarl-workshop.bsky.social) and Remember Markov (Finding The Frame Workshop).

If you are around, hmu, happy to chat about Multi-Agent Systems (MARL, agentic systems), open-endedness, environments, or anything related! 🎉

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

Texas researcher faces deportation after being held for week at San Francisco airport A legal permanent resident with a green card who flew back to the U.S. after visiting family in South Korea was detained by immigration authorities and held for more than a week at the San Francisco I...

apnews.com/article/texa... researcher faces deportation after being held for week at San Francisco airport

First AI generated video from my laptop using the image-to-video HunyuanVideo model via Pinokio. Running time 20 min. Why is Earth showing in background, no idea.

damn, nvidia linux drivers got hands but I think i won

Public access to the first fly connectome that spans the whole CNS - BANC!: codex.flywire.ai?dataset=banc

Different from prior connectomes - it is brain + cord (think spinal cord)

We use it to ‘embody’ the system and find it resembles ‘subsumption architecture’ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Gemini-cli installing rust from a prompt

hey gemini-cli install rust 1.88+

📝 olmOCR v0.2.1 has arrived with new models! Our open‑source OCR engine now reads tougher docs with greater precision—and it’s still 100 % open. 👇

mRNA vaccines for HIV trigger strong immune response in people Results from early-stage trial show that 80% of participants who received one of two HIV vaccine candidates produced antibodies against viral proteins.

Two vaccine candidates using mRNA technology elicit a potent immune response against HIV

go.nature.com/4ov7WZI

Just wasted 3 hours battling BIOS options and dual-boot setup etc..to add Linux. Some things never change even a decade later. Anyway beast unleashed!

a Google map screenshot showing wildfires and smoke in North America

That's a lot of wildfire smoke

🚨 Keynote alert! We’re thrilled to welcome
‪Sanmi Koyejo as our next speaker in #DLI2025!
Catch the session "Beyond benchmarks: Building a science of AI measurement" On Tuesday, August 19 at 9 am GMT+2.
🌐 Join us now via the Virtual indaba: deeplearningindaba.com/2025/virtual...