All posts tagged: Amnesia

A man woke up outside a Burger King and claimed to have ‘amnesia’. A new documentary claims he may be tied to cold cases

A man woke up outside a Burger King and claimed to have ‘amnesia’. A new documentary claims he may be tied to cold cases

Published by Sam Flores

He was found naked and unconscious behind a Burger King in rural Georgia – a man with no wallet, no identification and, he claimed, no memory of who he was. For years, the mystery man known as “Benjamin Kyle” haunted investigators and fascinated the public. Since he was found in 2004, he has wandered through life with no social security number, relying on strangers, doctors and documentary filmmakers to help piece together the fragments of a past he said he could not remember. Now, more than two decades later, Investigation Discovery is revisiting the bizarre case in a new two-night, four-part docuseries that suggests the mystery may be far darker than anyone realized. Filmmakers Shannon and Eric Evangelista, founders of Hot Snakes Media, initially set out to help the man recover his identity. Instead, they say they uncovered disturbing inconsistencies in his story, and witness accounts that led them to believe he was linked to several cold cases and a possible connection to a powerful Midwestern crime family. In April 2015, the mystery man was …

Qodo 2.1 solves your coding agents’ ‘amnesia’ problem, giving them an 11% precision boost

Qodo 2.1 solves your coding agents’ ‘amnesia’ problem, giving them an 11% precision boost

Published by skeptic

As AI-powered coding tools flood the market, a critical weakness has emerged: by default, as with most LLM chat sessions, they are temporary — as soon as you close a session and start a new one, the tool forgets everything you were just working on. Developers have worked around this by having coding tools and agents save their state to markdown and text files, but this solution is hacky at best. Qodo, the AI code review startup, believes it has a solution with the launch of what it calls the industry’s first intelligent Rules System for AI governance — a framework that gives AI code reviewers persistent, organizational memory. The new system, announced today as part of Qodo 2.1, replaces static, manually maintained rule files with an intelligent governance layer. It automatically generates rules from actual code patterns and past review decisions, continuously maintains rule health, enforces standards in every code review, and measures real-world impact. For Itamar Friedman, CEO and co-founder of Qodo, the release represents a pivotal moment not just for his company …

Nepal’s Republic of Amnesia | Amish Raj Mulmi

Nepal’s Republic of Amnesia | Amish Raj Mulmi

Published by Jenni Sidey

Four months after the revolt that overthrew the government of Nepal, Kathmandu seems calm. The new interim government has officially recognized the protests, led by Gen-Z activists, as the third “people’s movement” in the country’s history. Renovations have started on some of the buildings torched this past September, although the parliament remains a charred shell. Rush-hour traffic jams are back. Government offices have reopened. The flow of tourists has resumed: in December the popular Annapurna trekking area reported record numbers for the year and Nepal’s premier T20 cricket league concluded its second iteration in Kathmandu. It is all a far cry from this past autumn, when government forces opened fire on young protesters demonstrating against a social media ban, accelerating an uprising that killed seventy-six people and left government offices and businesses in flames. Since then new configurations have emerged in Nepali politics. After the government resigned, a presidential directive appointed an interim one in its place—led by the country’s first woman prime minister, Sushila Karki—and tasked it with holding elections in early March for …