The Daily Index — Friday, October 23, 2026 · TLDR Index

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AN ARTIST'S TAKE ON AI IN MATH

Mathematics seems to be a field where the outputs are celebrated less as examples of subjective expression and more as advancements in knowledge and understanding. A mathematician's work may be informed by their experience, but that's not what gives their contributions value. Mathematical knowledge remains objectively true whether it is observed by humans or sea sponges or computer programs.

3blue1brown.substack.com · 9 min

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SOFTWARE IS SLOW BECAUSE OF BAD DESIGN, NOT SLOW LANGUAGES

Most programs can't be meaningfully sped up by rewriting them in C or Rust.

seangoedecke.com · 7 min

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JPEG XL, WELCOME TO THE WEB!

JPEG XL is the end-game universal image format because it has excellent compression efficiency, a universal feature set, wide color depth, gamut, and native HDR, lossless JPEG transcoding, high-speed parallel software encoding and decoding, and an open-source, permissive license.

cgicoffee.com · 5 min

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WARHOUND RAISES $200M TO ENGINEER WAR DOGS AND ARM THEM WITH ANDURIL GEAR

The US has become increasingly reliant on foreign nations for dogs that play an important role in the US military and law enforcement.

techcrunch.com · 4 min

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SUPERVISORY ENGINEERING WORK

Supervisory engineering work is a different job from software engineering and so requires a different system around it.

annievella.com · 17 min

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FINANCE IN THE INTELLIGENCE ERA

Finance companies in the AI era need to be built around continuous decisions, portable assets, and delegated distribution.

fintechbrainfood.com · 15 min

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I'M NOT DOING 996

We are the ones who get to decide what to do with all of the productivity that AI creates.

elenaverna.com · 18 min