Rares

passionate about building software. and more. working on language translation challenges

[MisterSpread @MisterSpread]

Congratulations to all the Romanian teams for this incredible achievement at the world robotics championship in Houston / Texas! 🇷🇴🤖

The first 4 places were won by Romania:

🥇 1st place – Velocity from Braila
🥈 2nd place – Heart of Robots from Buzau
🥉 3rd place – Quantum Robotics from Bucharest
🏅 4th place – AICitizens from Focsani

Massive respect to all the students, mentors and teams involved.

Romania keeps proving that talent, intelligence and hard work can compete with anyone in the world.

[Kickboxing Romania @kickboxing_ro]

Robotics: Romania made history by securing top four spots globally at 2026 Tech Challenge World Championship in Houston, Texas, USA

1st Place: 🇷🇴 Velocity (Brăila)
2nd Place: 🇷🇴 Heart of RoBots (Buzău)
3rd Place: 🇷🇴 Quantum Robotics (Bucharest)
4th Place 🇷🇴 AI Citizens (Focșani)

[Leonardo Bertozzi @lbertozzi]

7 de maio de 1986: há 40 anos, Helmut Duckadam defendia quatro pênaltis consecutivos em Sevilha e o Steaua Bucareste conquistava o título europeu em cima do Barcelona.

[Rares @raresva]

@MagicalEurope @GHarward A view from the fortress itself

[Wonders of Europe @MagicalEurope]

Rupea Fortress is a medieval fortress built by Transylvanian Saxons and first mentioned by a 1324 document. It is situated on a 120 m high basalt cliff, to the west of the Transylvanian town of Rupea in Romania.

[Brave Romania @brave_romania]

Bear about to crash into a Romanian.

Guy casually: “Bro, don’t you see me?”

[Rares @raresva]

@matusalem1989 Cea cu hot water solar e interesanta. Cum faci un boiler cu rezistenta de 3K sa consume doar o fractie? Merge doar cu ceva dispozitiv intre el și priza de alimentare?

[Rares @raresva]

“Because machines, unlike humans, have no objectives of their own, we give them objectives to achieve.” - an artifact of training may well result in machines having (at least latent) objectives of their own. What then? - or is it now already ?

(quoted from the “Human Compatible…” book)

[Rares @raresva]

Packing things in newspapers seems to be an older tradition that we thought. Sure, they didn’t have newspapers so they used the Illiad.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Archaeologists have made a stunning discovery inside a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy — a fragment of Homer's Iliad.

The papyrus was found tucked inside the gut of a mummy unearthed in Tomb 65 at Oxyrhynchus, an ancient city located 118 miles south of Cairo.

The excavation was carried out between November and December 2025 by a team including researchers from the University of Barcelona and the Institute of Ancient Near East Studies.

This marks the first time a Greek literary text has been found incorporated into the mummification process.

Previous discoveries at Oxyrhynchus had turned up Greek papyri used in burials, but their contents were always magical or ritualistic in nature.

The fragment found within the mummy belongs to Book II of the Iliad, a section known as the Catalogue of Ships, which lists the Greek forces that sailed to Troy.

The Iliad, composed around 800 BC, is widely considered the cornerstone of Western literature and centers on the Trojan War and the fate of the warrior Achilles.

Researchers are still unsure why this particular literary passage was chosen for the embalming ritual.

The funerary complex also yielded other remarkable finds, including mummies adorned with gold tongues and fingernails, heart scarabs, and amulets depicting gods such as Horus, Thoth, and Isis.

#archaeohistories

[Rares @raresva]

I love it!

[NASA's Kennedy Space Center @NASAKennedy]

The planet can spell your name – literally. 🔤🌍

This Earth Day, see your name written in landscapes captured by Landsat: https://t.co/kcP12dhsI2

[Rares @raresva]

Please let this be true.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First teaser for ‘SPACEBALLS: THE NEW ONE’.

In theaters on April 23, 2027.

[Rares @raresva]

@OrthodoxTao - pască - ✅
- cozonac - ✅
- sarmale - ✅ (all season)
- lamb?

[Rares @raresva]

Yes

[Rares @raresva]

@FFmpeg Vibe-coding ftw! Great start of the month, you will be shipping new features everyday now!

[Rares @raresva]

@SYTrofimov @karpathy @doodlestein @Qivshi1 Yes. Feels only natural to have a “short term to long term” mechanism . I am pondering building it myself. And it should not be “one time” - I can see this process going though about all memories every time

[Rares @raresva]

@levelsio I could not

[Rares @raresva]

@karpathy @doodlestein @Qivshi1 Just build your own memory manager. With decay, smartness about what interests you and how you decide.
If anything… built a “dreaming / sleeping” equivalent (like us humans have)

[Rares @raresva]

@felixrieseberg @om Does it use accessibility helpers / does it enumerate UI elements or is it relying on screenshot and “ocr” ?