2025-04-21

👾 IT

• Work from Martin Karsten where he focuses on optimizing network processing in Linux which can reduce up to 30% CPU consumption, making this interesting use case for data centers. However best results are only possible for high-traffic scenarios (link).
• Philip Laine writes about his experience with Microsoft forking his Spegel project as Peerd (link)
• #python PEP 750 accepts t-string (https://davepeck.org/2025/04/11/pythons-new-t-strings/)

🔬Science

• Scientists show in mice that IL-17 cytokine plays two divergent roles - in amygdala it triggers anxiety but in cortex it promotes social behaviour. The study highlights possible link between immune system and nervous system suggesting possibilities new therapies for neural disorders by affecting modulating immune system (link).

🔗 Links

• brainstorm.gg is a website for brainstorming some fun ideas

🔧 Tools

• nari-labs/dia is a 1.6B model capable of generating ultra-realistic dialogue with open-weights published on Hugging Face