Today
How much better, and infinitely more needed today, are people able to steward and encourage our souls – not in following the base anger and constant outrages encouraged so readily today, but to turn and follow our better selves we know we can be.
Next Gen cyberpumk clothes
A robotics and animatronic cosplay enthusiast known as Zibartas has made a real-life NUSA Infiltrator jacket.
This is a cosplay recreation of the NUS Infiltrator bomber jacket from Cyberpunk 2077 that has a tall collar that houses a display. That feature collar alone packs in $1,200 worth of 4 flexible OLED displays driven by a pair of Raspberry Pi 4 SBCs.
I think this is a great example of new technological fashion that is becoming possible for designers. We’re already starting to see 3D printed clothes, spray on shoes and spray-on dresses, and the re-booted Tron franchise a few years ago introduced Oryon Technologies Elastolite EL Panels (tape) into real-world costumes.
I think we’re just scratching the surface of what will soon be very quickly possible in wearables.
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Quantum Computer hooked to AI
“The results reported here constitute, to our knowledge, the first demonstration of end-to-end quantum enhancement of a production-scale, widely-deployed LLM on real superconducting quantum hardware for autoregressive language generation,” the scientists wrote in the study. “Their significance lies not in the magnitude of the perplexity improvements — which will grow with hardware fidelity and qubit count — but in the fact that they exist at all.”
IBM researchers have demonstrated a new way of using a quantum computer to fine-tune a pretrained large language models (LLM) and have achieved measurable improvements in the model’s ability to forecast text.
It did this by a quantum-assisted optimization technique that reduced the model’s “perplexity” (the metric for how well an AI predicts the next word). The model became more accurate at answering questions — including some it previously got wrong.
This is an amazing development not only for the possibility of quantum-enhanced LLM’s – but is probably the first real demonstration of quantum computing demonstrating a clear advantage of classical computing. Quantum computing has struggled to demonstrate its advantages in real-world applications. This appears to be the first real-world application that showed clear improvements.
It makes me wonder if this works so well because LLMs and AI rely on the fuzzy statistical domains that quantum computing’s big issue of stability matches well with. Perhaps it could even flip things on it’s head. Perhaps an specially trained AI system might turn out to be the perfect API (if you will) for determining outcomes from fuzzy quantum computations.
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Google Stitch for all your UI needs
Is Figma dead?
Google Stitch is a prompt driven complete AI designer that allows you to develop full UI designs almost instantly. But it’s not some isolated tool. You can export your UI designs from the system into Claude Code, Cursor, and any other coding agent.
Does it work? Yes. I re-created most of the UI of an app I wrote in less than 15 minutes. It was so easy, I literally gasped when it generated almost a better version of my own app.
Have inspiration? Point Stitch at any website and it will create it’s own version for you as a starting point.
Then you can go in and change the color palette and automatically create light/dark modes.You can then use the editor to add and change individual elements: change images, logos, create animations, add and remove App Store, Web, Marketing Kit, and Accessibility assets.
With the Direct Edit pencil you can click any text or swap any images for fine control – all without charging credits.
If Figma and UI coders aren’t dead, they definitely need to up their game to use these kinds of tools or they soon will be.
Minigolf you can’t lose
Constructive Chaos proves that geometry is powerful! His channel is full of fascinating builds like making square looking wheels that actually roll.
In this one, he creates increasingly complex minigolf courses that are nearly impossible not to get a hole in one. No really! They’re geometrically designed so that so long as you hit it hard enough to get to the hole – it will always go in.
Personally, this would be an absolutely amazing date night minigolf course. Nothing but good times no matter how much you drink.
When all the things happen
Joseph’s Machines brings some new spins on Rube Goldberg machines. This one captures when just about everything goes wrong
Historical analysis of sacramental true presence in the Eucharist
Belief that the Eucharist at Mass is the actual body and blood of Christ is one of the biggest differences between Catholic belief and all major Protestant sects. So who’s right? How do we decide?
This is a great summary of the doctrine of the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist. It’s not something that was made up – it was something we have well documented proof of from the earliest life of the Church.
Un-True facts on Snapple caps
Sadly, a large number of ‘True Facts’ on Snapple caps are somewhat to completely wrong. Here’s two that I ran into that I knew were wrong:
Snapple True Fact: “The word “purple” does not rhyme with any other word in the English language.”
Wrong: ‘Circle’ rhymes with the word purple
Snapple True Fact: “There is no English word that rhymes with the word ‘machete'”
Wrong: The words confetti, spaghetti, and sweaty all rhyme with the word machete
AI Python/pip wheels
What a treasure when I stumbled upon this! I was pulling my hair out trying to get a working copy of Flash Attention compiled for Qwen-TTS agent I was trying to run locally on Windows.
Compiling some AI packages for Windows systems can be notoriously horrible experiences (looking at you flash-attn). Here you can tell it which version of CUDA, Pytorch, and Python and then find a pre-compiled wheel for that configuration.
Get the versions of your tools by using these command lines:
- > python –version
- > python -c “import torch; print(torch.version)”
- > nvcc –version