EV: Samsung Solid State batteries

How much range electric cars with Samsung's Solid State batteries will have - YouTube

Samsung to Mass-Produce Solid-State Batteries for 'Super Premium' EVs by 2027 | PCMag

Samsung's latest solid-state battery technology will power up premium EVs first, giving them up to 621 miles of range

The new batteries—which promise to improve vehicle range, decrease charging times, and eliminate risk of battery fires—could go into mass production as soon as 2027. Multiple automakers have been reportedly testing samples. Samsung did not list any by name but it's worked with Hyundai, Stellantis, and General Motors, among others.

AI: Gemini 2.0 best performance & price?!

Apparently, the latest Google AI models are not only very competitive in performance,
but also have by far lowest price, even better than DeepSeek.

That makes sense, since Google has custom designed and optimized HW (TPU processors),
software, people, and the most data of all companies. 

The real AI competition!

Gemini 2.0 blew me away - YouTube by Theo-t3.gg

Gemini 2.0 model updates: 2.0 Flash, Flash-Lite, Pro Experimental

The Gemini app is now powered by Gemini 2.0 Flash.

Gemini Flash - Google DeepMind

Google’s Gemini app adds access to ‘thinking’ AI models | The Verge

AI art with three.js

GitHub - eduardfossas/codrops-generative-artwork-three: Codebase for the tutorial created on Codrops: "Creating a Generative Artwork with Three.js" @GitHub

Manoela Ilic | LinkedIn

 Creating a Generative Artwork with Three.js

"Develop a dynamic, generative artwork using Three.js and grid systems,
inspired by Lygia Clark’s minimalist geometric designs."

AI: Reasoning LLMs: DeepSeek R1, OpenAI o1, o2

very detailed technical description of some of AI training techniques

 Understanding Reasoning LLMs - by Sebastian Raschka, PhD

"reasoning": the process of answering questions that require complex, multi-step generation with intermediate steps.

AI Czar David Sacks Explains the DeepSeek Freak Out - YouTube (All-in Podcast)

DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459 - YouTube

DeepSeek-R1 from A-to-Z | newline

Chess engines: JS, GoLang

Chess Engines: A Zero to One Guide

This a guide on how to build a Chess engine from scratch, updated periodically as I further explore the space. This assumes some basic knowledge of Chess, search algorithms, and coding.

code: 

GitHub - 0hq/starter_chess_engine

chessboardjs.com » Homepage

GitHub - jhlywa/chess.js: A TypeScript chess library for chess move generation/validation, piece placement/movement, and check/checkmate/draw detection

GitHub - 0hq/antikythera:
An instructional parallelized chess engine written in Golang.
Starts simple, ends complex.

Antikythera

A parallelized Chess engine written in Golang.

This engine is mainly written with educational use in mind: ...start with an engine that is as simple as possible and add more complex features one-by-one. You can read through each one of the engine versions in the /engines/ folder, each with different levels of sophistication.

Chess opening book (computers) - Wikipedia

Computer chess - Wikipedia

EV: Toyota bZ3X: $13,800 ?

Toyota's new bZ3X EV gets 520 km range - price starts at $13,800 USD - YouTube

2025 Toyota bZ3X: What We Know So Far @CarAndDriver

Toyota bZ3X - Wikipedia

The Toyota bZ3X is a battery electric compact crossover SUV produced by Toyota through its joint venture GAC Toyota in China.

extract PDF data

JS libs/modules

pdf.js-extract - npm

"extracts text from PDF files
This is just a library packaged out of the examples for usage of pdf.js with nodejs.
It reads a pdf file and exports all pages & texts with coordinates. This can be e.g. used to extract structured table data.
This package includes a build of pdf.js. why? pdfs-dist installs not needed dependencies into production deployment.
Note: NO OCR!"

alternative libs:

Parsing PDFs in Node.js - LogRocket Blog

pdf-parse

pdf2json

pdfreader

AWS OCR API

Using AWS services with OCRs (Textract and Tesseract.js) in Node.js | by Noam | Medium

OCR Software, Data Extraction Tool - Amazon Textract - AWS

Amazon Textract Resources - Amazon Web Services

What is Amazon Textract? - Amazon Textract

story: TSMC (maker of most AI chips)

excellent interview and original story (podcasts)  @acquired.fm

TSMC Founder Morris Chang: The Complete History and Strategy

TSMC (Remastered): The Complete History and Strategy

TSMC - Wikipedia

tsmc stock - Google Search

#10 largest company in the world, almost $1T

All U.S. Listed Stocks, Ranked by Market Cap - Stock Analysis

No.	Symbol	Company Name	Market Cap	Stock Price	% Change	Revenue
1	AAPL	Apple Inc.	3,406.32B	226.52	-4.02%	395.76B
2	MSFT	Microsoft Corporation	3,058.04B	411.36	-0.89%	261.80B
3	NVDA	NVIDIA Corporation	2,863.74B	116.94	-2.61%	113.27B
4	AMZN	Amazon.com, Inc.	2,502.14B	237.96	0.12%	620.13B
5	GOOGL	Alphabet Inc.	2,493.49B	203.70	-0.16%	339.86B
6	META	Meta Platforms, Inc.	1,772.95B	699.76	1.54%	164.50B
7	TSLA	Tesla, Inc.	1,244.65B	386.96	-4.36%	97.69B
8	AVGO	Broadcom Inc.	1,035.18B	220.85	-0.19%	51.57B
9	BRK.B	Berkshire Hathaway Inc.	1,010.43B	465.19	-0.74%	369.89B
10	TSM	Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited	843.76B	202.50	-3.26%	88.29B

NVIDIA/ARM N1x & N1 for Windows laptops

Intel, AMD, Qualcomm/ARM... and now even NVIDIA/ARM (CPU/SoC) chips for Windows laptops.

Maybe even AMD will switch to ARM architecture... 

Apple has safely escaped this by vertical integration before... also ARM based chips. 

In the meantime, Intel may produce ARM based SoC chips, too.

It is not easy to justify enormous stock price... 

Nvidia ARM SoC for Windows machines reportedly debuting in Q4, featuring N1X, with N1 to follow in early 2026 | Tom's Hardware

"Nvidia's first-ever ARM-based SoC for Windows devices is purportedly coming this year. some reports that Nvidia will be introducing two new chips, the N1X at the end of this year and the N1 in 2026.

Nvidia is expected to ship 3 million N1X chips in Q4 this year and 13 million vanilla N1 units next year. Nvidia will be partnering with MediaTek to build these chips, with MediaTek receiving $2 billion in revenue from this joint venture alone, accounting for 8% of its revenue next year."

Nvidia and AMD plan to launch Arm PC chips as soon as 2025, Reuters reports - The Verge

Intel and Arm Team Up to Power Startups

photos: Ken Jenkins

 Ken Jenkins Photography - Gatlinburg, TN - Great Smoky Mountains - Ken Jenkins Photography

2025 Great Smoky Mountains National Park Calendar - Ken Jenkins Photography

old barn: Tyson McCarter Place - Wikipedia

and nearby moderns cabins

** PARKWAY TREASURE CABIN, GATLINBURG **

Databrics: data architecture & engineering

What is a Medallion Architecture?

A medallion architecture is a data design pattern used to logically organize data in a lakehouse, with the goal of incrementally and progressively improving the structure and quality of data as it flows through each layer of the architecture (from Bronze ⇒ Silver ⇒ Gold layer tables)






Big Book of Data Engineering — 3rd Edition | Databricks

The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform | Databricks

AI: DeepSeek R1

DeepSeek R1 Cloned for $30?! PhD Student STUNNING Discovery - YouTube

technique: using LLM to train specific SLM (Small Language Model);
$30 = 10 NVIDIA H100 hours (could run on aws)

DeepSeek might not be as disruptive as claimed, firm reportedly has 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and spent $1.6 billion on buildouts | Tom's Hardware

The fabled $6 million was just a portion of the total training cost.

DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459 - YouTube

The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1 - by Jay Alammar

Deep-dive into DeepSeek (Practical AI #302) podcast

Daniel’s blog post on DeepSeek

DeepSeek R1 on Hugging Face

DeepSeek

Anthropic CEO Reveals New Details About DeepSeek R1 - YouTube

DeepSeek vs. Open AI - The State of AI w/ Emad Mostaque & Salim Ismail | EP #146 - Moonshots with Peter Diamandis | Podcast on Spotify

Vite: web UI build tool vs. Webpack

Vite | Next Generation Frontend Tooling (vite.dev)

Vite is a blazing fast frontend build tool powering the next generation of web applications



Getting Started | Vite

vitejs/vite: Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast! @GitHub

Vite (French word for "quick", pronounced /vit/, like "veet") is a new breed of frontend build tooling that significantly improves the frontend development experience. It consists of two major parts:

A dev server that serves your source files over native ES modules, with rich built-in features and astonishingly fast Hot Module Replacement (HMR).

A build command that bundles your code with Rollup, pre-configured to output highly optimized static assets for production.

In addition, Vite is highly extensible via its Plugin API and JavaScript API with full typing support.

Vite vs Webpack: Which Build Tool is Right for Your Project?

The major difference between Vite vs Webpack lies in its functionality and its bundling process. Webpack is a bundler-first tool, which means it bundles all the files (including all dependencies) into one or more optimized files in development and also during the production build. Vite, on the other hand, serves files to the browser using ESM and does not bundle code during development. Vite bundles code during the production build process.

Vite vs Webpack: A Comparative Analysis - DEV Community

AI: OpenAI o3-mini model released

OpenAI o3-mini | OpenAI

the newest, most cost-efficient model in our reasoning series, available in both ChatGPT and the API today. Previewed in December 2024⁠, this powerful and fast model advances the boundaries of what small models can achieve, delivering exceptional STEM capabilities—with particular strength in science, math, and coding—all while maintaining the low cost and reduced latency of OpenAI o1-mini

Models - OpenAI API

GPT models are fast, versatile, cost-efficient, and customizable.

• gpt-4o
• gpt-4o-mini

Reasoning models use chain-of-thought reasoning to excel at complex tasks.

• o1
• o3-mini

Reasoning models - OpenAI API

Structured Outputs - OpenAI API

OpenAI Releases o3-Mini! A Blazing Fast Coding BEAST! - YouTube

OpenAI releases its new o3-mini reasoning model for free | MIT Technology Review

OpenAI's o3-mini reasoning model arrives to counter DeepSeek | VentureBeat

OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest 'reasoning' model | TechCrunch

Announcing the availability of the o3-mini reasoning model in Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service | Microsoft Azure Blog

OpenAI launches new o3-mini model - here's how free ChatGPT users can try it | ZDNET

Hyperview: mobile apps from server XML metadata

App is a generic React Native client, driven by server-side metadata files.

Why XML metadata now, 20 years later? 

Maybe because it can enforce schema, and more visible start/end tags, like in JSX.
Or because it looks like HTML, in fact proper HTML is XML (XHTML)

GitHub - Instawork/hyperview: Server-driven mobile apps with React Native @GitHub (MIT license)

Hyperview is a new hypermedia format and React Native client for developing server-driven mobile apps.

Serve your app as XML: On the web, pages are rendered in a browser by fetching HTML content from a server. With Hyperview, screens are rendered in your mobile app by fetching Hyperview XML (HXML) content from a server. HXML's design reflects the UI and interaction patterns of today's mobile interfaces.

Reference · Hyperview

JSON vs XML - Difference Between Data Representations - AWS

JSON vs XML

AI: Tony Robbins virtual coach app

demo of AI app @ 3:11:30

Time to Rise Summit Day 1: Break Through in 2025! - YouTube

alternative: custom prompts with ChatGPT

Make Tony Robbins Your Personal AI Business Coach With ChatGPT

Total Transformation Package

$495 package includes this app, listed with $149 price. 

Tony Robbins AI (free) : r/TonyRobbins

ChatGPT - Mindset Coach

ChatGPT - Luther Protocol 8.0