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[soviet.recipes]
Digitizing "The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food" - a Soviet-era cookbook that survived an empire's collapse, an ocean crossing, and decades as a family heirloom. Using OCR, vision-language models, and document processing pipelines to extract data from 224 high-resolution book page images.
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An extensible tool for extracting transaction data from PDF bank and credit card statements. Find exactly which vendors to update when your card is lost, stolen, or expires.
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Kiro SDLC Toolkit
Five Kiro Powers, two Steering files, and setup instructions for an optional Hook and MCP server, installed with one prompt. The companion toolkit for the Agentic AI SDLC guide.
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This Is Not Bogdan
A reflection on identity, representation, and the tension between the digital self and the real self in an age of AI and algorithmic personas.
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PHP2Shell and the Math of Vibe Coding Your Own Software
Shared open source costs about 2,000 times less than a world of vibe-coded copies. PHP2Shell shows that every copy needs patches for its whole life.
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The US Economy, Week of Oct 26-30, 2026: Where the Cycle Stands
The US economy stays mid-to-late cycle. Oil near $103 keeps inflation firm, the Fed is at 4.00%, and jobs, claims and credit show no recession trigger.
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Fifteen Times a Second: The Brain's Hidden Vote on What You See
A UC Berkeley preprint finds that face neurons in two monkeys switch between the seen face and the unseen face about 15 times a second.
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