Sunday, August 30, 2026
Today's news and jokes
@thetimes At 9.20 on Wednesday morning, 900 children were halfway through the early shift at Tribhuvan Trishuli secondary school, a three-storey complex in the Trishuli valley of north-central Nepal. Another 700 were on their way on foot and by bus, when the principal, Rajendra Dadabi, received a panicked call from a friend in Betrawati, five miles upstream. “He said the village was gone: taken by the river,” said Dadabi. “He told me to run.” The 47-year-old English teacher took a moment to consider the threat. He remembered that the school buses, each carrying 80 children, were en route. “I got through to all the drivers but one and told them to turn back. Then I saw the bus I hadn’t been able to contact coming across the bridge. By now, the water was in the school grounds — it was so fast — so I told him to turn around. It got to the other side just as the bridge collapsed.” Dadabi’s quick thinking saved the lives of 1,643 children and all but one member of the teaching staff. #nepal #nepalfloods #floods ♬ original sound - The Times and Sunday Times
A human did remarkably well playing Go against an AI (AI roundup)
Great, and long discussion about Go and how the AI works:franklantz.substack.com/p/go-lives?r...
— Frank Lantz (@flantz.bsky.social) August 24, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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Part of the reason it’s very strong is that Go players like it a lot. KataGo had a great innovation where it’s actually accounting for points, which is how humans judge the game: by counting points. The prior AIs were sort of doing something else, which is related to counting points when they judge win rate, but not actually telling you a point estimate. So when KataGo started counting points, and people could read that point estimate and learn from it, KataGo was immediately more useful as an educational tool than any of the prior AIs had been.
Saturday, August 29, 2026
Valiant Comics Humble Bundle
Starts at $5 for five volumes plus one comic. (Big bundle includes mix of 90's comics and newer stuff)
Today's news and jokes
これ最高！突如出現した巨大ソーセージとパンを40秒以内にホットドックにするチャレンジ🌭見事成功するとコンビニ併設型のガソリンスタンドQuikTripで無料引き換えができるQRコードが出現。試合会場にさらに一体感が生まれるエンタメ×ダイレクトレスポンス型の見事な企画。 pic.twitter.com/FnPLStVmTp
— 酒井琢磨 | スポーツマーケティング (@takuma_sports14) August 27, 2026
This "wave object" desk toy is beautiful
金山正貴准教授の作品「波のオブジェ」が東京・神保町で販売されています。
— 長岡造形大学 (@N_I_D) August 26, 2026
デザイン学科の金山正貴准教授が、生き物のような動きの研究から生み出した「波のオブジェ」。
今年3月にリニューアルオープンした「三省堂書店 神田神保町本店」の文具コーナー「神保町いちのいち」で販売されています。… pic.twitter.com/0vWBBa5tfr
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