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Medium 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&…

10 Weirdest Algorithms That Changed Tech Forever | Data Science Collective
Discover 10 unusual algorithms that defied logic, broke rules, and transformed the way we think about technology and problem-solving.

Dernières nouvelles du paradis du capitalisme: faire ses courses Š crédit.
https://futurism.com/doordash-klarna-loan-partnership

Quanta 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?"

Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans? | Quanta Magazine
AI may sound like a human, but that doesn’t mean that AI learns like a human. In this episode, Ellie Pavlick explains why understanding how LLMs can process language could unlock deeper insights into both AI and the human mind.

🍿 #Tesla #boycottTesla #boycottMusk

Nationwide "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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Nationwide "Hands Off!" 50501 protests against Trump continues for second weekend
Nationwide protests were held Saturday, with thousands of demonstrators rallying against the actions of President Donald Trump's administration.

“Tenho o privilégio de não saber quase tudo. E isso explica o resto.”
Manoel de Barros ✨

Happy , today I deployed a #Forgejo instance to manage my private code projects. I won't be using #Github anymore for my stuff, only to contribute to 3rd party projects.
I still have some pending work to configure the CI workers, but I'll leave that for next week.
Along the way I've learnt some stuff about #OpenTofu and networking. Enough to know that I still prefer to be on the dev side of the "devops" .

USC 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"

Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI

Its creator lost a power struggle that led to an AI winter in the 1970s

8 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"

Mastering Technical Documentation | 8th Light
Technical documentation is an essential part of successful software development teams. Learn actionable strategies to create clear, maintainable, and effective docs. Boost efficiency, reduce bottlenecks, and empower your team.

No 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!"

Finally, a real dark mode for SQL Server Management Studio!
Free add-in bringing a complete dark theme to SSMS.