I had a passing thought the other day that if only Google Wave was open sourced, we could now finally translate it into a non sucky programming language and give it another chance af life.
And then I saw this and realized it is, in fact, open source
40 years ago today, the European Communities, which would later become the EU, officially raised the European flag for the first time.
The 12 stars have since become a symbol recognised far beyond Brussels.
Here’s to unity, solidarity and harmony among the peoples of Europe.
This is so good 😮
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The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen.
And it worked.
Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%.
Industrial process heat is the real prize.
Josh W. Comeau
apenwarr
European Parliament
Inspiration Monday!!
If you like illustrations and technical drawings, you will love the work of Bryan Macomber. He created those amazing dataviz that explains, step by step, how some items work technically.
For example, the Pez dispenser: mechanical-pencil.com/products/pez
So what you do is have the agent interact entirely through tool calling only and have its main tool calling mechanism be Apache wave. All of its internal context is basically just the wave document in its current state.
Effectively at that point it can edit its own memories.
'The real surprise from the OECD’s subsidy numbers is that it cost China less than $18bn in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.'
@adamtooze.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
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