Ten-year-old code, twenty-twenty vision

  1. A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis: A dermatologist pitted two frontier LLMs against a decade-old, fine-tuned CNN on 200 biopsy-confirmed skin lesions, and the old network caught 62% of cases to the LLMs' 42% — including a melanoma both chatbots waved off as harmless. (lynchlab.net)
  2. What's wrong with AI?: A longtime programmer and bioinformatics researcher lays out his accumulated objections and anxieties about current AI, aimed less at converting believers than comforting fellow skeptics. (homepage.farm)
  3. Nova Scotia farmers' markets draft proposal to ban generative AI: A CBC video report covers a draft proposal from Nova Scotia farmers' markets to bar vendors from using generative AI in their products or marketing. (cbc.ca)
  4. Seam Cutter: Simon Willison's niche cropping tool slices a screenshot horizontally or vertically and slides the two halves together, handy for redacting the middle of a stitched image. (simonwillison.net)
  5. TitleArt: make text like it's 1997: A browser tool renders your text in late-90s GeoCities-style title graphics, complete with the gradients and bevels web design mercifully grew out of. (titleart.dvy.io)
  6. The Slurptop: a home-built luggable that runs on power tool batteries: A maker documents building a 'luggable' laptop around a mini PC motherboard powered by swappable 24V power-tool batteries, complete with a custom mechanical keyboard and cyberpunk-styled case. (slurpburgers.com)
  7. Sketch-a-day, October 25 entry: The latest installment in villares' long-running daily generative coding series arrives with its source code published alongside it on GitHub. (github.com)
  8. Simulating day and night cycles in Godot: A YouTube tutorial walks through simulating a day/night cycle for 3D games built in the Godot engine (unverified). (youtube.com)

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