Khalid G. Khair

باحث أكاديمي, زمالة دكتوراه
PostDoc
Researching ML/ANN in Geoscience (Mainly in Hydrogeology, Hydrogeochemistry and Isotopes)

[slash1s @slash1sol]

A DEVELOPER TAUGHT GIT WITH A BOX OF CHILDREN'S TOYS AND ENGINEERS WITH TEN YEARS IN SAY IT'S THE FIRST TIME THE THING EVER ACTUALLY MADE SENSE

90 minutes, one table, a pile of Tinkertoys. No wall of jargon -- he builds a real Git repo out of plastic rods right in front of you.

-> The moment he snaps the first pieces together, Git stops being scary command-line magic and becomes what it really is: a chain of tiny objects pointing at each other.

Branches, merges, rebase, the staging area -- every concept that's ever burned you at 2am -- he rebuilds with toys until a four year old could follow. He calls Git a two-trick pony. After this you'll see exactly why.

Memorizing commands was never the skill -> holding the graph in your head is. And with an AI agent now committing and rebasing on your machine all day, that mental model is the only thing between you and a history you can't read.

Scroll the comments and you'll see the same thing over and over: this is the talk that finally made Git click and made people the one their whole team comes to when it breaks.

Bookmark & watch it today. It's the 1.5 hours that pays you back for the rest of your career ↓

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Everyone's looking at the games. The real target is Intel and AMD.

RTX Spark is a full PC on one chip: a 20-core Grace CPU, an RTX graphics core rated around a 5070, and a petaflop of AI compute, all running Windows on Arm. For the first time in 40 years, a mainstream Windows machine ships with no x86 chip from Intel or AMD inside it.

The two laptops Jensen held up were running games for one reason. Games are the hardest proof that Arm can finally do what x86 owned. Once a 5070-class machine plays your Steam library on Windows on Arm, the "my software won't run" objection that protected x86 for two decades quietly dies.

Then look at the launch list. Over 30 laptops and 10 desktops, from Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus, MSI, and Microsoft, all shipping this fall. Nobody lines up every major OEM at once for a niche gaming SKU. That many partners moving in one window means the platform underneath them is changing.

The gaming demo was the wedge. The personal AI computer was the announcement. The company that spent a decade selling everyone else's picks and shovels just walked into the consumer PC business it used to leave to Intel.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Everyone's reacting to the wrong number here.

32 million sounds like a biblical swarm. Every one of them is male, and male mosquitoes don't bite. The bite, the disease, the whine in your ear at 3am, all of that is the females. This release adds zero bites to the world.

What's actually happening is older than the headline suggests. Alphabet's life sciences arm, Verily, has run the Debug Project for nearly a decade. They did it in Fresno back in 2017, releasing a million sterile males a week for 20 weeks. The Florida Keys are already two years into their own version of this.

The target is one species: Aedes aegypti. It's a sliver of the total mosquito population but it carries dengue, Zika, yellow fever, and chikungunya, which sicken hundreds of millions a year. The CDC calls the mosquito the deadliest animal on earth, and this is the one doing most of the killing.

No genetic modification involved. They infect males with Wolbachia, a bacterium already living in more than half of all insect species. A Wolbachia male mates with a wild female and her eggs never hatch. The population collapses from the inside.

The reason a tech company is running this instead of a county sprayer: Aedes aegypti has gone resistant to the pesticides we've thrown at it for decades. Chemistry stopped working, so the play is to breed the species into a dead end.

This is the Sterile Insect Technique that wiped out the screwworm in the 1950s, now run with Google's sensors and automation against a mosquito pesticides can no longer touch.

[Shawn G. Chittle @ShawnChittle]

I became fearful of these animals some years ago when I found out their venom contains defensin-like proteins and C-type natriuretic peptides found nowhere else in nature.

After being stung, there is no real treatment. It does not respond well to opioids, including morphine, meaning standard hospital pain management is ineffective.

It also causes hyperalgesia, meaning the affected area becomes hyper sensitive to pain stimuli, and this can persist long after the initial injury.

It’s like being tortured with excruciating pain for months with no way to stop it.

No thanks.

[Techjunkie Aman @Techjunkie_Aman]

PPSSPP now runs directly inside the browser through WebAssembly.

No install.
No emulator app.
No desktop client.

You literally:

• open a webpage
• load a local PSP file
• start playing

This is one of the clearest examples of how insanely powerful modern browsers have become.

Potential use cases:

• quick ROM testing
• portable emulation setups
• browser-based save experiments
• compatibility testing across devices
• running PSP games on locked-down systems

We’re entering an era where high-performance apps no longer need native installs.

The browser itself is becoming the platform.

Demo:
https://t.co/JJe9L2recb

Source:
https://t.co/9VkiDOeQqZ

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

10 WEBSITES THAT WON A WAR AGAINST BILLION-DOLLAR COMPANIES

Every one got taken down, sued, or buried. Every one came back stronger. Bookmark them before they "disappear" again.

1. https://t.co/eCHA5IoZef
The free Netflix Hollywood couldn't stop. It fuses Jellyfin, Radarr and Sonarr into one Netflix-style screen you browse, you click, it streams, all from a server you own. No subscription, no account, no one to bill you.

2. https://t.co/1oR0fCxbK4
Publishers spent years getting Tachiyomi killed. So someone turned it into a server you host yourself. Thousands of manga sources, running on your own machine, that no legal team on earth can touch.

3. https://t.co/oGvSFqW3yz
Mozilla killed Firefox Send because it was too private. The community brought it back from the dead. End-to-end encrypted files with self-destructing links answering to no company.

4. https://t.co/OAhaYocdxH
The library so big it made Elsevier's legal team cry. 40 million books, 98 million papers. They've chased it across domains for years. It's still here. It's still growing.

5. https://t.co/92NhR6TmDI
Google delisted the entire site from search. It didn't matter. The biggest free-tools wiki on the internet just kept going every tool, every guide, one page.

6. https://t.co/sylORxDadP
A Chromium browser with an ad-blocker Google can never disable no Manifest V3 crippling, no tracking. It does exactly what Chrome made illegal. Still shipping.

7. https://t.co/fPZaWKS40J
Downloads your entire Spotify library full quality, album art, metadata straight to your drive, so you actually own it. They keep trying to break it. It keeps working.

8. https://t.co/BVi18RdZyf
A community archived thousands of concerts artists never officially released shows that exist nowhere else on earth. Free, organized, and growing every single day.

9. https://t.co/VXFiMyanRS
Midjourney-quality image generation on your own PC. Unlimited, uncensored, zero settings, $0. No company can revoke it, rate-limit it, or "update" it away.

10. https://t.co/CG5ZANosXI
Google Photos, but on a server you own. Face recognition, AI search, albums all private. A dev built it because he was done with Google training AI on his family photos.

The pattern is always the same: they take it down, the internet rebuilds it. You can't sue open-source. Bookmark all 10.

[Screen Mix @ScreenMix]

ومن سيصدقني ياخديجه❤️🥹

[Ahmed Dirdiri | أحمد درديري @AhmedDGhandour]

إنابةً عن كل الزملاء…
شكرًا على الثقة.

متابعين كل الملاحظات القيّمة،
وما بدأ… لن يتوقف بإذن الله. 🇸🇩

وكل عام وأنتم بخير

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

After 9 years… and 3 BILLION miles… this is what we found 😳

For decades, Pluto was just a blurry dot in the sky.
But everything changed when NASA’s spacecraft finally arrived…

🚀 After an incredible journey across the Solar System,
we got our first close-up look at Pluto’s frozen world ❄️

🏔️ Massive ice mountains
🌌 Vast frozen plains
🌫️ A thin, mysterious atmosphere

This isn’t just a rock…
it’s a complex, active world at the edge of our Solar System.

✨ And the craziest part?
This data was sent back from billions of miles away…
taking hours just to reach Earth.

From a tiny dot… to a breathtaking world.

That’s the power of space exploration 🚀
#Pluto #NASA #SpaceExploration #NewHorizons #SolarSystem #Astronomy #Universe #Science #SpaceFacts #DeepSpace

[DeepSeek @deepseek_ai]

We are making our discount permanent! 🎉

Enjoy building with DeepSeek-V4-Pro and bring your innovative ideas to life! 🚀

[Ahmed Dirdiri | أحمد درديري @AhmedDGhandour]

نفخر اليوم بإطلاق (SUDAPASS)، الهوية الرقمية الوطنية بالسودان، كخطوة مهمة نحو بناء منظومة رقمية حديثة وآمنة تُمكّن المواطنين من الوصول الموثوق للخدمات والمعاملات الإلكترونية، وتعزز جاهزية السودان لمستقبل الاقتصاد الرقمي والتقنيات الحديثة.

#السودان #SUDAPASS #التحول_الرقمي

[AGIHound @TrueAIHound]

Some of these optical illusions fascinate me because I can explain them with my model of the human visual system.

The human retina does not detect pixels but tiny edge movements in 10 orientations and 20 directions.

By carefully changing the luminance of the edges in this GIF, it is possible to fool the visual cortex into perceiving movements in various directions.

I believe that, after we solve visual perception, our future robots will report the same illusions. Once you understand why the retina has to be designed that way, you'll also understand why it is not a flaw.

I love the brain. 😍

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Where will AI be in 1, 2 or 3 years?

[Roy🇨🇦 @GrandpaRoy2]

A kit available on the internet turns an ordinary paper airplane made from a sheet of A4 paper into a real mini-drone.
I can’t help looking at this whimsical little thing and picturing how it could be scaled up and weaponized for use in Ukraine.

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

He folded so quickly 😂

[Feener Advisor @Reddynsneh]

You deserve relationships where love feels safe instead of confusing. Real care should not leave you anxious all the time. ❤️

[🇸🇩🇬🇧Aziz Musa @azizmusa]

ضيفي في الحلقة دي عمره ١٦ سنة.
مش ١٦ سنة وبيحلم إنه يشتغل في تقنية. ١٦ سنة وشايل مشاريع حقيقية، بيدرب ناس، وبيبني أنظمة ذكية بتشتغل ٢٤ ساعة في اليوم من غير ما تلمسها.
أحمد مصطفى زروق بدأ البرمجة وعمره ١٠ سنين. في وقت الحرب في السودان، ما وقف ولا استنى الظروف تتحسن. استمر، درّب أطفال، وبنى نفسه.
في الحلقة الجديدة من ذا امباكت لاب، جلست مع أحمد وتكلمنا عن حاجات كتير الجيل الكبير لسه ما استوعبها.
كيف تربط Shopify بـ ChatGPT وتخلي عندك "موظف رقمي" شايل شغلك وانت نايم. ليه يوتيوب سلاح ذو حدين وكيف تستخدمه صح من غير ما يضيعك. الفرق بين الأتمتة العادية والـ AI Automation وليه الفرق ده بيساوي آلاف الساعات. وكيف مشروع منزلي بسيط يقدر يستفيد من الأدوات دي زي الشركات الكبيرة بالظبط.
لو عندك ولد أو بنت في المنزل ما عارف تعمل شنو بيه، خليه يسمع الحلقة دي.
ولو انت الشخص الكبير اللي لسه ما بدأ، والطفل البدأ في العاشرة بيتقدم عليك، ما في وقت أفضل من دلوقت.
الحلقة موجودة الحين على ذا امباكت لاب.

[Founders Inc @fdotinc]

They reinvented the hearing aid by studying the human ear

Normal hearing aid: $4700

Theirs: $20

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

It’s happening…

[Khalid G. Khair @Ne_oL]

That's the scary/dark side of the AI revolution. just as AI accelerated the development of good software, AI will help accelerate the bad one as well... threat actors took long time to figure out, develop, chain and utilize zero-day attacks, now the AI will handle it for them...

[News from Google @NewsFromGoogle]

The Google Threat Intelligence Group has detected the first known instance of a threat actor using an AI-developed zero-day exploit in the wild. While the attackers planned a wide-scale strike, our proactive counter-discovery may have prevented that from happening. This finding is part of our new report on AI-powered threats.