@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social#F35 #killswitch
« Bien sûr, il y a un bouton d'arrêt. Tout ce qui est équipé d'un logiciel ou d'une connectivité internet est doté d'un kill switch. C'est comme ça que ça marche - bienvenue dans la société moderne ».
@migoettingen@academiccloud.socialHeute vor 100 Jahren im Institut im Kolloquium der Mathematischen Gesellschaft #Göttingen:
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Berichte der Dozenten über ihre Vorlesungen im W.-S. 1924/25.
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aus "Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung", 1926
#OTD1925
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.socialDernières nouvelles du paradis du capitalisme: faire ses courses Š crédit.
https://futurism.com/doordash-klarna-loan-partnership
@Leon@liker.social謝謝南哥
@rperezrosario@mastodon.socialQuanta Magazine authors Janna Levin and Steven Strogatz strike up a conversation with Ellie Pavlick (Research Scientist at Google Deep Mind) about the differences and similarities between the way people understand language, what NLP algorithms do, and the fact that such conversations more often than not shed light into more than Linguistics' computational side.
"Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans?"
@rperezrosario@mastodon.socialMedium writer Paolo Perrone curates a short list of interesting algorithms, the rationale behind them, along with graphs and diagrams to boot.
Algorithms that made this short list:
Wave Function Collapse
The Diffusion Model
Simulated Annealing
Sleep Sort
BOGO Sort
BOID
SHOR’s
Marching Cubes
Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance and,
Boyer Moore
"The 10 Weirdest, Most Brilliant Algorithms Ever Devised and What They Actually Do&…
@piraten_muc@muenchen.socialDer nächste kostenlose #RadlCheck des Mobilitätsreferats findet am 26.03. 10-16 Uhr am #Prinzregentenplatz in #Bogenhausen statt.
Radfahrende können einfach mit ihrem Fahrrad vorb…
@caroldib@vivaldi.net🥁❣️⚡️ Toquei surdo pela primeira vez e pude sentir porque ele é chamado de coração do samba!
@dpl@muenchen.socialDie Nasen #Merz #Spahn predigen den #TrickleDown und wir schauen zu, oder was?!
@dankeck@a11y.socialTwo years ago at #CSUN I learned about what became my favorite browser extension, BeeLine Reader. I've been a subscriber ever since.
It's easy to set up on desktop, but has been some struggle to get working on Android. But this week I discovered it works with Microsoft's Edge Canary mobile browser, which has experimental support for extensions. Instructions are here:
@cwilcke@bildung.socialAbsolut geniale Grafik! Artikel- Illustration von #theatlantic
#trump :
"Americas Mad King"
@piraten_muc@muenchen.socialWir haben gerade auf #Twitter bekannt gegeben, dass wir nun auf Mastodon:mastodon: sind: https://x.com/Piraten_Muc/status/1902427402375970870
Sagt drüben gerne bescheid, dass wir nun…
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialCan the ai components (NPU) of new processors be used for non-ai work?
What I'm thinking is along the lines that the vector-processing components of GPUs have also been used to speed up non-graphic mathematics on large arrays.
#NPUs #AIProcessor
@dpl@muenchen.socialKÖNNT IHR ALLE ENDLICH MAL AUFHÖREN, SO ÜBER EURE MITMENSCHEN HERZUZIEHEN; ES NERVT BRUTAL, UND WIR HABEN IN WENIGEN TAGEN OSTERN, IHR MÖCHTEGERNCHRIST*INNEN
#CDU #CSU #KleineKoalition
@castarco@hachyderm.iotechno-political rant
Say what you want about using the right tool for each problem, but there are tools that suck no matter what.
I'm tired of people portraying legit technical criticism as "biased" and "religious", while at the same time they present themselves as tolerant and open-minded (spoiler: for the most part, they aren't).
Almost every day of my life I have to deal with the nasty consequences of ultra-dumb decisions made by the very same people who are obsessed with productivity and criticise all day long whoever pushes for any design that shows any minim amount of care and/or deep thought (mostly via strawmen arguments).
And, of course, unironically: this has a lot to do with capitalism, as many of our other social and economic problems.
They arrive, have a strike of super-productivity for a few weeks/months and then use that as a trampoline to raise through the ranks or abandon ship before having to face the consequences of their technical crimes.
Then others arrive and are obviously slower at that same job... so the uneducated observers start believing that these newcomers aren't as good as the class traitors who wrote the initial nasty code.
To make things worse, if any of these newcomers dare to speak openly about introducing good practices... this ends up creating a new mental association (in the minds of uneducated observers) between "good engineering" and "lack of productivity".
The ones trying to fix the mess are indeed slower, not because they try to do things the right way though, but because they have to waste vasts amounts of time fixing what is objectively broken besides doing the "visible" work.
Most of today's established "super-productive" ones, if they were starting today, would be probably "vibe coders", certainly not what we commonly understand as a programmer. Not because AI-coding is the future, but because they never cared about the trade at all. They were here only for the grift.
@cwilcke@bildung.socialNationwide "Hands Off!" 50501 protests against Trump continues for second weekend
https://eu.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/nation/2025/04/19/protest-resist-trump-rally-photos/83173515007/
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@dondario@chaos.social @caroldib@vivaldi.net🐰🐣 Lembrança de uma Pšscoa em Amsterdam. Dividimos deliciosas tortas! Jš a colomba pascal que comprei esse ano…doce demais.
@isf@muenchen.socialKT #Guttenberg und Gregor #Gysi machen seit fast 2 Jahren einen Podcast 🎧 zusammen - bzw. "Poothcast", wie #Gysi es auszusprechen pflegt, der vielfach von erfrischender Selbstironie bei Beiden ge…
@dassascha@norden.socialOh, gut dass ich nicht bei der Bank mein Konto habe:
#Banking …
@caroldib@mastodon.socialGraças Š magia do algoritmo o You Tube me recomendou essa joia da PBS!
“WE WANT THE FUNK! is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African, soul, and early jazz roots, to its rise into the public consciousness. Featuring James Brown's dynamism, the extraterrestrial funk of George Clinton's Parliament Funkadelic, transformed girl group Labelle, and Fela Kuti's Afrobeat, the story also traces funk's influences on both new wave and hip-hop” …
@chrislowles@mastodon.socialme on the way to the voting booth getting approached with party leaflets #ausvotes2025
@dpl@muenchen.socialUnd ich dachte immer, *ich* wär der schlimmste Aufschieber Deutschlands.
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/warum-das-afd-gutachten-immer-noch-nicht-vorliegt-der-verfassungsschutz-ist-nicht-allein-…
@rperezrosario@mastodon.socialUSC professor Allison Marsh writes this delightful short article for IEEE Spectrum about Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert's British counterparts in Cambridge and how, in their case, a document (the Lighthill Report) precipitated cuts in British AI research funding in ways similar to how funding was temporarily cut in the U.S. following MIT's publishing of Minsky and Papert's "Perceptrons" in 1969.
"Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI"
@cwilcke@bildung.social @scottmiller42@mstdn.socialOn the same day I signed an initial IEP plan, I find out the US Dept of Education has cut half its staff.
Fuck POTUS47 and anyone that voted for him. And fuck any #ProgressivesForTrump that didn't have the maturity to vote for a better future. There's a million ways we will suffer for your single-minded refusal to see the future. You think people will "try harder&quo…
@caroldib@vivaldi.net“Tenho o privilégio de não saber quase tudo. E isso explica o resto.”
Manoel de Barros ✨
@piraten_muc@muenchen.social @dankeck@a11y.social @dondario@chaos.socialDas willst'e einmal ein Paket verschicken, da ist die DHL Online-Filiale offline.
@rperezrosario@mastodon.socialNo dark mode for SSMS?
SQL Shades to the rescue!
Free version adds plain dark mode to the IDE (fine by me.) Paid version supports additional themes.
This solution is cleaner than the rather hacky approach of modifying ssms.pkgundef to restore a half-finished dark theme commented out by SSMS developers apparently at the last moment.
"Finally, a real dark mode for SQL Server Management Studio!"
@dpl@muenchen.socialTABS. It is a question of #accessibility, you morons!
Death to #smartTabs (aka random haphazard inserts of spaces depending on the IDE at hand)!
#codingStyle
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialTrue story time, from about 8 years ago.
After work, I joined few co-workers for happy hour. I had 1 or 2 alcoholic drinks, then cut myself off and drank soda rest of the night, for many reasons including I wanted to be 100% sober to drive home.
One guy was rude, insisted I keep drinking, said I was ruining the fun.
Kids, be your own person. Be stubborn. Don't let someone pressure you into doing something you don't want to do. No means no.
1/x
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social8 Light writer Taylor Keazirian argues in favor of maintaining a set of "living" documents as part of software development project efforts. Common misconceptions about software documentation are addressed and refuted with insights on what a minimal technical set of documents for a software project should look like.
"Mastering Technical Documentation"
@chrislowles@mastodon.socialdammit
@dassascha@norden.socialNa, Ihr Radfahrer, habt Ihr auch schon vom Gaadi Schlauch gehört? Schlauchwechsel ohne Radausbau, ja, sogar ohne eine Schraube zu lösen?
Geht nicht? DOCH! OOOH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Luoxat3x4c
@dondario@chaos.social"The Front Fell Off!"
BEIM 3D DRUCKER?
![Fehler-Dialog von Bambu-Drucker: "Toolhead front cover fell off. Please remount the front cover and check to make sure your print is going okay. [0300-8005 002006]"](https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/459/896/572/186/803/original/342a2150e35738e7.png)
@rperezrosario@mastodon.socialPVS Studio author Valerii Filatov dives deep into the past twenty-six years of C# history: from the humble beginnings of version 1.0 to present-day C# 13.
"History of C#: versions, .NET, Unity, Blazor, and MAUI"
https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/csharp/1248/
@piraten_muc@muenchen.socialDie #StadtMünchen vergibt #FrauenTaxi Gutscheine, abgeholt werden können diese in #Bibliotheken, im Rathaus usw.:
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialLooks like the USPS shut down the covidtests.gov at 8:00 PM EDT on 3/9/2025, per text on the website.
I'm feeling somewhat fortunate in that I got my order placed and received in the last couple weeks.
If they had too many tests stockpiled, better management and allowing people to order additional test kits seems like a better choice than destroying good tests.
#CovidTests…
@caroldib@mastodon.socialLet me love the part of you
that doubts whether it can be loved.
You’re not a puzzle I wish to solve;
You’re the Universe I long to get lost in.
And in your vastness, find myself home.
.
🖼️ Hilma af Klint. The Swan, No 24, Group IX ✨
@dpl@muenchen.social#Koalitionsvertrag so:
> Wir führen eine verhältnismäßige und europa- und verfassungsrechtskonforme dreimonatige Speicherpflicht für IP-Adressen und Portnummern ein, um diese einem Anschlussinhaber zuordnen zu können.
Ich so:
Aha, na wenn es verhältnismäßig, europa- und verfassungsrechtskonform sein soll, dann droht uns nach allen wesentlichen Urteilen aus der Vergan…
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.socialLe DOGE a le soutien des Américains. Arrêtez de vous faire des illusions, les gens.
Source : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/polls/doge-elon-musk.html
@ELLIOTTCABLE@functional.cafeWow, what a weird rabbit-hole I just ended up down.
So, the “Spread Mastodon" page (tutorial?) recommends a cool-sounding browser extension as an alternative to all those constantly-dead 'fedifinder' / Twitter-person-looker-upper-tools: the ‘Whosum Social Assistant' browser extension.
Sounds cool! Sounds like the correct solution to this problem!
@Leon@liker.social氣溫終於回到二十度以上，又可以跑步了，好幾個月沒動了，跑著跑著碰到毛毛雨，風吹到浸濕的衣服還是有點冷，幸運的是回到家雨才開始轉大，很快又要進入清明雨季了，把握能跑的日子盡量跑，讓肥肉少一點。
@chrislowles@mastodon.sociali hope tumblr likes us
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialI looked into buying a solar charged battery bank. This product category is completely dominated by no-name 3rd party sellers. 🚩
Charge time is key. No listing had even a rough estimate for solar charge time. 🚩
An example unit claims max solar power 1.13 w, with enough battery power to charge an iPhone 14 Pro twice. Working from that, you'd need ~25 hours of full sun to fully charge. I'd roughly estimate that means at least 3 days in summer. Not quite worthless, but close…
@caroldib@mastodon.socialTo the seeker of Truth who never stops thinking, but sometimes forgets to rest in his own heart:
You don’t need to impress me.
You don’t have to have all the answers.
I don’t want your solutions.
I want your smile.
Let me in, not through the door of reason, but through the crack in your voice when you speak what scares you.
.
🖼️ Hilma af Klint. Svanen, nr 1, grupp IX/SUW, serie SUW/UW ✨
@cwilcke@bildung.socialYEZZ! Lead by the #IndianaUniversity in the #usa #universities bond together to fight the #trumpcoup
@rperezrosario@mastodon.socialQuanta Magazine Staff Writer Yasemin Saplakoglu describes the various ongoing inter-disciplinary efforts to advance our scientific understanding of the Human brain. Computer scientists and computational neuroscientists collaborate as the latter borrow mathematical models from the former, and studies ways to incorporate new biological data to enhance, or supplant existing computational models.
"AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That's OK."
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialToday is Employee Appreciation Day, announced by mass email to all employees. Get ready for (tokens of) our appreciation next week.
#OfficeWorkerGripes
@dpl@muenchen.socialEin kleiner Lichtblick in den #Koalitionsverhandlungen, auf den #NFDI4Culture @… zum Glück letzte Woche aufmerksam wurde:
@dpl@muenchen.socialHeute mal wieder eine persönliche Premiere an einer für mich neuen #Orgel gehabt. #Kirchenmusik-Einflusssphäre ausweiten und so. 😈
Vor dem Gottesdienst noch geschäkert mit Pfarrerin und Vertrauensfrau:
– „Na wenn es den Leuten heute gefällt, dürfen Sie natürlich demnächst nochmal bei u…
@isf@muenchen.socialBei welchem AfD-Wert in der #Sonntagsfrage wird den führenden Leuten in der #CDU #CSU, #Merz,
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialPSA: Do you have a carbon monoxide detector in your home? Do you have more than one (think redundancy)? Does it have a fresh battery (or lifetime battery)? Have you tested the alarm function recently?
If you have appliances that may create carbon monoxide, or an attached garage, now is a good time to check all of the above.
#CarbonMonoxide
@caroldib@mastodon.socialNiver Fer.
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialTrue story time. ~7 years ago, onsite team meeting
New hire said when starting job, they thought "model" in job description meant we take photos, wondered where the girls were. Initially sounded like joke, but as they kept going, I realized they were serious. Next few years confirmed laziness, lack of curiosity.
How do you see "model" in #DataAnalytics job &…
@dassascha@norden.socialNoch 2 Stunden, dann gibt es #Fruhstuck ( #Intervallfasten ). Vermutlich möchte ich #Hummus und #Orangenmarmelade
@caroldib@mastodon.socialNiver Fer. Taking a walk on the wild side! 💃🔥
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialOne thing I think about is how flat-earth types could convince themselves, without having to trust anyone, their model of the earth is wrong. I don't think the earth is flat, but it is an interesting problem in #epistemology.
A model needs to explain observations if it is to be believed.
Lately, I've been thinking about day length as seasons change, and how cycle is opposit…
@caroldib@mastodon.socialDown to the nightclub, Mister Bass Man! 🎸🎂
Niver Fer.
@caroldib@mastodon.socialLast train to London! 🪩🎶
Niver Fer. As fotos que o Bsky não carregou.
@rperezrosario@mastodon.socialStartup CTO, writer and coach Dr. Milan Milanović shares a love letter to C# in 2025, and why its adherents believe it's such a good choice. He discusses, amongst other topics:
1. Language Features
2. The .NET Ecosystem
3. Tooling
4. Libraries and NuGet
5. Documentation
6. Community
7. Popularity
8. C# vs Other Languages, and
9. The Future of C#
He also shares a brief history of the language.
"Why C#?"
