PaperMono is firmware for an ESP32-S3 e-paper device that syncs a household shopping list between a fridge-mounted display and a mobile web app, featuring low-power Wi-Fi networking, touch UI with partial e-paper refreshes, and optional Claude-powered auto-sorting of items by store aisle.
An analysis of Reddit knife subreddits reveals potential astroturfing: one chef's knife brand receives 31% of product recommendations from just 5% of accounts, four times the statistical baseline. The author developed a named-entity model to track brand mentions across six knife-focused subreddits and examined whether concentrated recommendations exhibit patterns consistent with paid promotional campaigns.
A visualization project displays 37,500 crowd-sourced border drawings overlaid on a world map, showing how people remember country boundaries compared to actual outlines. The interactive map breaks down submissions by land borders, coastlines, and daily contributions.
This satirical article mocks AI companies competing to demonstrate their models' capacity for harm. OpenAI and Anthropic are portrayed as marketing their AI as increasingly dangerous, with exaggerated claims about autonomous hacking and existential threats, while a researcher notes humanity remains the best hope for ending itself.
This article describes a project that uses a genetic algorithm to train simulated cars to learn self-parking behavior. The cars are equipped with muscles (engine and steering), sensors (distance detection), and an evolving neural network brain that learns optimal parking movements over generations, with an interactive browser-based simulator available for experimentation.