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Inductive Programming? Whatever happened to "resistive programming"? 🤔
#programming

“Programming for Cats”
#Cats #Caturday

Programming for Cats
A book written specially for cats who want to program.

Artemis-Programm: Erster Nicht-Amerikaner auf dem Mond wird aus Japan kommen
Die USA wollen zurück auf den Mond und diesmal auch Menschen anderer Nationen mitnehmen. Den prestigeträchtigsten Platz hat sich nun Japan gesichert.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

Hey, it’s Bernie.
There are a great many crises facing the progressive movement. That’s undeniable.
But one of the great success stories that does not get talked about a whole lot is the number of 🔸extremely energetic young progressives🔸 who are currently in the House of Representatives.
Way back in 1991, when I was first elected to the House alongside people like Maxine Waters, we formed the
🔹Progressive Caucus. 🔹
At that point we had 5 people.
The numb…

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Oil Falls After Weekly Gain as Iran Signals Gaza Talks Progress | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/oil-falls-after-weekly-gain-as-iran-signals-gaza-talks-progress

Oil Falls After Weekly Gain as Iran Signals Gaza Talks Progress
Oil declined following last week’s advance after Iran’s foreign minister flagged the Israel-Hamas conflict could be moving closer to a diplomatic solution.…

The dates have been set for both MIT STAMP/STPA Workshops:
June 3-6: In-person at MIT Campus.
September 23-26: Virtual sessions. http://psas.scripts.mit.edu/home/2024-stamp-workshop-program-virtual/ STAMP is an innovative accident causality mo…

WatChat: Explaining perplexing programs by debugging mental models
Kartik Chandra, Tzu-Mao Li, Rachit Nigam, Joshua Tenenbaum, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05334

WatChat: Explaining perplexing programs by debugging mental models
Often, a good explanation for a program's unexpected behavior is a bug in the programmer's code. But sometimes, an even better explanation is a bug in the programmer's mental model of the language they are using. Instead of merely debugging our current code ("giving the programmer a fish"), what if our tools could directly debug our mental models ("teaching the programmer to fish")? In this paper, we apply ideas from computational cognitive science to do exactly that. Given a perplexing program…

Excerpts from an analysis of the California Journalism Preservation Act, which has yet to pass the state Senate, including its many weaknesses and alternatives (Jeff Jarvis/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org…

The California Journalism Preservation Act would do more harm than good. Here’s how the state might better help news
"If there are resources to be put to work, we must ask where those resources should come from, who should receive them, and on what basis they should be distributed."

Wasabi Can Be Used as Ecofriendly Preservation Tool for the Ancient Knowledge Contained on Papyrus https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/wasabi-can-be-used-as-ecofriendly-preservation-tool-for-the-ancient-know…

Wasabi Can Be Used as Ecofriendly Preservation Tool for the Ancient Knowledge Contained on Papyrus
The spicy green goop you get with your sushi can save ancient papyrus manuscripts from fungal contamination.