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Ahoy bread bakersVoisilmapulla | Finnish Butter Eye Buns
https://breadtopia.com/voisilmapulla-finnish-butter-eye-buns/?utm_content
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John PumphreyDNA from the skull of an unknown Revolutionary War soldier reveals more than his name
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Phantom Twist
Link to videoNew spinning drone hides in plain sight
‘Phantom Twist’ harnesses motion blur to nearly vanish in flight
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/07/new-spinning-drone-hides-in-plain-sight
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How do LLMs work?Large language models can write essays, solve math problems, and generate computer code, but it’s not fully understood how they do it. Researchers can observe the billions of parameters inside these systems changing during training, yet the internal logic of the models remains largely hidden. In a sense, the engineering is ahead of the science. Can science catch up and make LLMs and other deep neural networks mechanistically interpretable?
https://cacm.acm.org/news/can-we-understand-how-large-language-models-reason/
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What are you reading?I actually thought it was recommended by someone here at WTF
I passed along bachophile's recommendation of Mason's book.
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Rise Up PennsylvaniaJosh Shapiro goes big for down-ballot Dems
The Pennsylvania governor is pouring millions into a coordinated campaign to help elect other Democrats. It could serve as a launchpad to a presidential bid.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/17/josh-shapiro-down-ballot-dems-01001996
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For the bourbon drinkersThis $25 Bottle Is America’s Best Straight Bourbon, According to the 2026 International Wine & Spirit Competition
The bottled-in-bond whiskey earned 98 points and a coveted Gold Outstanding medal, an honor awarded to just 1.3% of spirits entered this year.
All Old Bardstown bourbons are distilled from a mashbill of 72% corn, 13% rye, and 15% malted barley. (Among Kentucky bourbon producers, that’s a notably high barley content.) The whiskey enters the barrel at 125 proof, and Old Bardstown Bottled-in-Bond ages for at least four years before bottling at 100 proof. If you’re looking to pick up a bottle, you may need to travel. This is generally a Kentucky-only release — fortunately for shoppers, it’s readily available on shelves in the state for around $25.
