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Today's topics:

Claude 4.7 tokenizer cost shock - A developer found Claude Opus 4.7’s new tokenizer can inflate English-and-code prompts up to ~1.47x, impacting context window, caching, and effective cost despite unchanged pricing.

Floating-point equality and epsilons - A critique of “just use an epsilon” explains why fuzzy float comparisons can break transitivity and algorithms, and why exact checks are sometimes the correct choice under IEEE-754.

Interval unions for uncertainty math - A new open-source interval-union calculator models uncertainty with unions of ranges, preserving the inclusion property even through tricky operations like division by intervals containing zero.

Emacs 30 file trust usability - An Emacs package smooths Emacs 30’s new file-trust security model with just-in-time prompts and project-scoped trust, reducing risky workarounds while keeping protections.

Kdenlive 2026 stability and AI - Kdenlive’s state-of-the-project report emphasizes stability, workflow polish, and practical AI-assisted masking/segmentation, alongside interoperability and performance gains.

Michael Oser Rabin remembered - Michael Oser Rabin, Turing Award winner, pioneered nondeterminism, randomized algorithms, and cryptography-adjacent tools like Miller–Rabin—core building blocks of modern computing.

Category theory meets order theory - A “Category Theory Illustrated” chapter reframes orders as relations, connects preorders to thin categories, and links joins/meets to categorical coproducts/products for clearer intuition.

Amiga art preservation and attribution - The Amiga Graphics Archive added newly found early work by Jo-Anne Park, highlighting the ongoing challenge of provenance and credit in retrocomputing digital preservation.

Lunar dust health risks for astronauts - ESA is investigating whether sharp, electrostatically active lunar dust could cause long-term respiratory harm, a key unknown for sustained Moon bases and repeated missions.

-Category Theory Illustrated Explains Orders, Posets, and Preorders as Thin Categories
-Turing Award Winner and Cryptography Pioneer Michael O. Rabin Dies at 94
-Amiga Graphics Archive Adds Newly Found Early Works by Jo-Anne Park
-Anthropic Launches Claude Design to Generate and Iterate on Prototypes and Visual Assets
-Why Epsilon Comparisons Often Harm Floating-Point Code
-Open-Sou