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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Pretty Bitter:
🎵 Outer Heaven Dude Ranch
#PrettyBitter
https://prettybitter.bandcamp.com/track/outer-heaven-dude-ranch
https://open.spotify.com/track/32S4UTJzF0XzYwkWApK2TL

Okay, time to continue bashing. Perhaps this one project is just that bad, but Conan sounds like a complete antithesis of what a package manager is all about.
Well, this package insists to build its dependencies via Conan. Except it insists on really old versions that don't work with my glibc. So I need to start swapping dependencies.
Except it turns out Conan doesn't care much about resolving dependencies. So I actually need to start adjust versions of the dependencies of packages that it wants to build. And then it starts rebuilding other stuff and again everything fails because of incompatible versions.
And when I finally manage to find a working set, the actual project fails over protobuf version. After a long WTF-ing, I finally realize that it's complaining, because it somehow managed to mix the version of protobuf built by Conan and the external protobuf installed by Conda.
So yeah, great job. A package manager that doesn't really resolve dependencies but instead forces a dependency hell on you, and on top of that ends up mixing system packages with its own packages.

Wealthfront, which uses AI to build investment portfolios, confidentially files for a US IPO; it was valued at $1.4B in 2022 during a failed acquisition by UBS (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/wealthf

Wie sich #KI auf unser Hirn und Denken auswirkt via @…
Gut anzuschauen, auch wenn man schon etwas müde ist.

Stop Killing Games: A History
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little known fediverse tip: you can follow @PeerTube@<peertube instance> to get a feed of all videos on that instance! for instance, @…'s PeerTube instance is @…

With 35% of the stock market value coming from 7 companies benefiting from AI hype, and us being in a bubble, I felt it was time to diversify my retirement portfolio. I’ve added this asset to my holdings.

On the Zoom H1n "Handy" Field Recorder: Review - Finally time to get my own portable audio recorder! - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zoom-H1n-field-recorder.html

On the Zoom H1n Handy Field Recorder: Review
Finally time to get my own portable audio recorder!

Fnally, there is the option to run Github dependabot on a cron job base <3
(released in April, I haven't seen it before)
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-04-22-dependabot-now-lets-you-schedule-update-frequenci…

Dependabot now lets you schedule update frequencies with cron expressions - GitHub Changelog
Dependabot users can now schedule custom update frequencies by using cron expressions in schedule.interval in the Dependabot configuration file. This enhances the predefined intervals (daily, weekly, and monthly) and provides…

Multi-objective Portfolio Optimization Via Gradient Descent
Christian Oliva, Pedro R. Ventura, Luis F. Lago-Fern\'andez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16717 https://

Multi-objective Portfolio Optimization Via Gradient Descent
Traditional approaches to portfolio optimization, often rooted in Modern Portfolio Theory and solved via quadratic programming or evolutionary algorithms, struggle with scalability or flexibility, especially in scenarios involving complex constraints, large datasets and/or multiple conflicting objectives. To address these challenges, we introduce a benchmark framework for multi-objective portfolio optimization (MPO) using gradient descent with automatic differentiation. Our method supports any …