CBC: Former U.S. congressman George Santos pleads guilty to wire fraud, identity theft
Former U.S. congressman George Santos pleaded guilty on Monday to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, short-circuiting the federal fraud case that led to his expulsion from Congress just weeks before it was set to go to trial.
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U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert scheduled Santos’s sentencing for Feb. 7, 2025.
Santos was indicted on felony charges that he stole from political donors, used campaign contributions to pay for personal expenses, lied to Congress about his wealth and collected unemployment benefits while actually working.
I hope this is the beginning of the end of this ugly saga.
Wikipedia: Tree-sitter (parser generator)
In computing, Tree-sitter is a parser generator and incremental parsing library.
It is used to parse source code into concrete syntax trees usable in compilers, interpreters, text editors, and static analyzers. It is specialized for use in text editors, as it supports incremental parsing for updating parse trees while code is edited in real time, and provides a built-in S-expression query system for analyzing code.
Text editors which have official integrations with Tree-sitter include Atom, GNU Emacs, Neovim, Lapce, Zed, and Helix. Language bindings allow it to be used from programming languages including Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript (with Node.js and WASM), Kotlin, Lua, OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby, Rust, and Swift. Tree-sitter parsers have been written for these languages and many others. GitHub uses Tree-sitter to support in-browser symbolic code navigation in Git repositories.
Tree-sitter uses a GLR parser, a type of LR parser.
Topic of discussion on this week’s Core Intuition (Episode 609: Accidentally Opt-In).
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): U.S. power grid added 20.2 GW of generating capacity in the first half of 2024
According to our latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, developers and power plant owners added 20.2 gigawatts (GW) of utility-scale electric generating capacity in the United States during the first half of 2024. This new capacity is 3.6 GW (21%) more than the capacity added during the first six months of 2023. Based on the most recently reported data, developers and owners expect to add another 42.6 GW of capacity in the second half of the year.
This is good news. There are still issues (for example, not all the additional power is going to replacing existing coal and gas plants; much is supplying the growing demand for large energy consumption such as AI servers, increased space cooling, etc.) but it is nice to see things moving in the right direction.
Outside: How Your Genetics Impact Your Athletic Performance
…a new study finds that, of all fitness domains, flexibility is the one most determined by your genes. The study, which is published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, uses data from twin pairs to tease out the respective contributions of genes and environment — talent and training, you might say — for fifteen different fitness tests. Overall, the results support the notion that picking your parents well is a crucial step on the road to athletic stardom, but they also reveal some surprising nuances about how nature and nurture interact.
Guardian: Science podcast: Summer picks: what does the science say about birth order and personality?
We all know the cliches about older siblings being responsible, younger ones creative, and middle children being peacemakers. But is there any evidence our position in the family affects our personality? In this episode from March 2024, Madeleine Finlay meets Dr Julia Rohrer, a personality psychologist at the University of Leipzig, to unpick the science behind birth order.
“Larger families are just very different from smaller families.”
“There is a real danger of confusing birth order effects with age effects.”
The “big five” personality traits are: extroversion, emotional stability, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openess to new experience.
Re-broadcast from earlier this season.
The Hockey News: NHL vs. PWHL: Here Are 5 Reasons Why The PWHL Is Better
The NHL has been around for more than a century, and there is a lot to love about the top men’s league in the world, but the PWHL has already managed to outdo the NHL on other fronts. Here are five.
I find the women’s league far more entertaining than the NHL during the regular season now.
Financial Post: Electra gets $20 million from US DoD for Ontario cobalt refinery
The United States Department of Defense says it’s giving US$20 million to Toronto-based Electra Battery Materials Corp. to kickstart construction of what would be North America’s first battery-grade cobalt refinery.
Electra is trying to restart a mothballed refinery near the town of Cobalt, Ont., but has struggled to raise the remaining estimated US$60 million needed to cover the cost of machinery and equipment.
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Last week, the federal government’s Next Generation Manufacturing Canada announced a $2.8-million grant to Burnaby, B.C.-based Nano One Materials Corp. to further develop its patented “one-pot” process for making cathodes with Worley Chemetics Inc., a Canadian subsidiary of the Australian-based engineering firm.
This past spring, the U.S. DoD made two grants to Canadian critical mineral exploration companies totalling US$14.7 million.
Xerox Alto Demo: Xerox Alto Restoration Part 17
We take you through a demo of our restored Xerox Alto. We go through the Neptune file browser, the Bravo text editor, the Draw and SIL programs, network booting, ftp, telnet, Smalltalk, some games and new programs we have made for the Alto. This demo was developed to be presented live at VCF West 2017. And I mispelled Ken’s last name, it’s Ken Shirriff.
Xerox PARC must have been a dream to work at!
Last Updated: 20.Aug.2024 20:55 EDT
