Bryan Bischof fka Dr. Donut

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Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7 the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day: > two cameras watch every salmon that swims past > AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse > then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away > the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao

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My former Google colleague Matthieu and I have launched our new recipe and cooking app, apinch! It's a recipe manager where you can follow what your friends are cooking – a Strava for home cooks. Load old recipe cards; add what you see on Insta; record what works for you!

🔥 NEW PROJECT🔥 I tried to find Wally/Waldo lookalikes on unsecured CCTV cameras. The first results came in after a few days, so I let the GPU server run for weeks. You can find more information and results on this page: wallyfinder.com My projects: driesdepoorter.be/

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 🤑 Sidequest is a Claude Code mod that pays developers to see ads while they work. → One short “Sponsored” line appears under Claude’s response → Developers earn from every ad they see and get paid our through Stripe → Each ad is matched to your session and never changes Claude’s output

Introducing Lattice, a local LaTeX workspace for your research. A paper is more than a .tex file: the papers you cite, notes, slides, Overleaf co-authors and now an AI agent. I wanted it all in one app, so I built it. Free to download, open source: leo1oel.github.io/lattice

Before Astra came out, codex + sol medium (and a little high) were quite good at continuing to execute. I would do large projects with many steps, and I could get them to: - do a pretty good job of planning - take meaty steps that actually made progress - ask the right followups to stay on track. Astra broke this completely, on any thinking level astra simply will not continue working and rarely sets up the project in a way that it can iterate through a lot of work. Similarly, 6.1 sol has the same problem, but even more stop-and-go. Even more 'i'm sorry, i explained it but didnt do it' or 'next is X' and then nothing. Before 6, I was thinking Codex was fully taking over as my go-to harness because it was something throughout the day i could poke and keep getting more work done. Now, days go by with virtually no progress. Has anyone migrated off Codex+remote in a way that preserved their context well enough and has good mobile support?