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Glad to celebrate the release of The Freaks Came Out To Write, Tricia Romano’s incredible oral history of the Village Voice. I’m a tiny footnote amongst so many huge voices. And very surreal to read back what I remember about waking up the morning of 9/11. https://www.

The Freaks Came Out to Write
A rollicking history of America's most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legendary writers, editors, and photographers.  You either wer...

You Can Use Visual Studio Code To Write Commodore 64 Assembly
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-81dda17b-46499aab566a15d3
You Can Use Visual Studio Code To Write Commodore 64 Assembly Once upon a time, you might have developed for the Commodore…

How crazy/horrible/stupid would it be to write a single-pass streaming parser for ELF as part of a firmware updater?
More specifically, you're given a chance to look at each byte of data once. You can either write it to flash immediately, update some local variables (like "offset of .text"), or ignore it.
But once you've seen a given part of the file, you can't rewind and look at it again later (since I'm flashing an image that might be larger than avail…

We've written guidelines for news reporting that supports democracy. This column from Cleveland.com is a great example of what we think we need.
Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor

Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor
This is a tough column to write, because I don’t want to demean or insult those who write me in good faith. I’ve started it a half dozen times since November but turned to other topics each time because this needle hard to thread.

Just published my first #rust blog post for #jetbrains #RustRover about building your first web app.

Random theory that occurred to me yesterday: poetry must be a rather recent and accidental invention compared to singing.
A poem is a song without melody. I bet that, before the invention of writing, there were no poems, only songs. But when writing was invented, and people tried to write down songs, they of course could not write down the melody. Only the lyrics, rhyme, and some of the rhythm could get through. VoilŠ, poetry...

Muy #LastFourWatched on this #LetterboxdFriday:
🔹American Fiction (4★)
🔹Definitely, Maybe (3½★)
🔹The Wolf of Wall Street (4★)
🔹Irish Wish (1½★)
🔗 https…

Realised last night that JavaScript Database (JSDB) doesn’t run the constructor on persisted custom objects (https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb#custom-data-types) when deserialising them because I didn’t know that you apparently have to define your constructor manual…

jsdb
A zero-dependency, transparent, in-memory, streaming write-on-update JavaScript database for the Small Web that persists to a JavaScript transaction log.

Codeium, whose AI tools help companies write code, raised a $65M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins, a source says at a $500M valuation, and reports 300K users (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

AI Startup Codeium Is Valued at $500 Million in Financing Round
Codeium, a startup that combines artificial intelligence and coding, has raised $65 million in another sign of investor enthusiasm for generative AI.

What I needed to do: write a post.
What I did: write an Obsidian plugin to improve my writing workflow by 5%.

"Dixon looked through his old Twitter threads and blog posts and said, effectively “Boom. Nailed it. No notes. People just need to hear what I have to say.”
He’s a venture capitalist who lacks the capacity to imagine a problem cause by Silicon Valley’s techno-capital machine that can’t best be solved by Silicon Valley’s techno-capital machine. I don’t doubt that he means well. But there are no new ideas in this book. It’s just a rehash of the applause lines he formulated during th…

Read Write Own, Reviewed
Chris Dixon's Read Write Own has a few problems. And the biggest problem is Dixon himself.

Write #PostcardsToVoters
What? Democratic Primary and Nonpartisan Election
When? Tuesday, May 21th
Who? John Barrow
For? Georgia Supreme Court
Why? Restore women's right to make their own medical decisions.
How? Be a voter!
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Root-to-Leaf Scheduling in Write-Optimized Trees
Christopher Chung, William Jannen, Samuel McCauley, Bertrand Simon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17544 https:…

Root-to-Leaf Scheduling in Write-Optimized Trees
Write-optimized dictionaries are a class of cache-efficient data structures that buffer updates and apply them in batches to optimize the amortized cache misses per update. For example, a B^epsilon tree inserts updates as messages at the root. B^epsilon trees only move ("flush") messages when they have total size close to a cache line, optimizing the amount of work done per cache line written. Thus, recently-inserted messages reside at or near the root and are only flushed down the tree after a…

I have a story to tell that is relevant to the xz-utils thing that just happened. I'll probably write this up properly later, but I'm in pre-vacation mode so it may take a while . We have a problem with the way we develop and then distribute FOSS software, and both stories show that. A while ago I looked at the testcases of a widely used library implementing a widely used data format. There was one file that was... strange. 🧵

Readers write to the Washington Post
Karl Hertag, Warrenton, Va:

Please stop pasting a photo of Donald Trump’s face at the top of every online story involving him.
The Post’s readers, whether supporters or opponents, know what Trump’s face looks like.
And he’s always in the same navy suit and red tie and always sporting the same coif.
The only variation is whether he’s wearing a red “Make America Great Again” cap.
If you must use a photo for every stor…

Procrastination is a curse!
I JUST wanted to write a little #february recap about my #hiking & #photography this month: What did I (not) achieve, what were my plans, etc.
But: Oh my D…

Recap February 2024
February's wrap-up is here. Writing these monthly reflections feels like a task, but it's also a cool way to ponder over what went down. Did I achieve much or just let time fly?

We presented a jurisdiction issue in my international law class today. When I was done describing it, my professor said she was going to write it down as an exam hypo.
#law #lawSchool

Next week at @… in #Berlin, I'm giving a talk about writing *in* open source.
Not the source code but real, human communication that comes along with building a community of users and contributors in a collaborative project. One of my favourite subjec…

How you write matters in open source FOSS Backstage 2024
Form follows function in writing: you probably should write in a distinct way when the topic is open source. In this session, learn about unique writing challenges presented by open source projects and how to overcome them to be inclusive and accurate in your communication.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14234 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

The sum of the reciprocals of the prime divisors of an odd perfect or odd primitive non-deficient number
Write $T(n)$ as the sum of the reciprocals of the primes which divide $n$. Write $H(n) = \prod_{p|n}p/(p-1)$ where the product is over the prime divisors of $n$. We prove new bounds for $T(n)$ and $H(n)$ in terms of the smallest prime factor of $n$, under the assumption that $n$ is an odd perfect number. Some of the results also apply under the weaker assumption that $n$ is odd and primitive non-deficient.

This is really fun to listen to. Not only for the soothing voice of @… but also for his British Humor.
From: @…

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Let's play!
#FictionalCharactersRetiredLife

The [[federalist papers]]: https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/
h/t @…

TIl With SQLite you can write the results of queries directly to files. It also supports many different formats.
```
.headers [on|off]
.mode line
.output filename
SELECT * …
.output stdout
```
#sqlite

I should write a book about how my specific experience experience of life is universal and then get super mad on Twitter at anyone who has a different experience

Having a bot close an issue as "resolved" and locking it because no one has commented on it for a while is an asshole move.
"Deal with the brokenness, we DGAF" is _not_ a resolution.
The bug is still there, you haven't made any PRs that mention it, and now I can't comment "still broken as of version X"
If you can't make github-actions-bot not do this, don't use it. I'm less inclined to write a bug report if you're going …

«You don't help men by telling them that they need to be strong, or clean, or perfect, or that women won't date them if they're not manly enough. You help men by working towards policies that actually help men—and by remembering that there are lots of different ways of being a man. Men can have messy rooms. They can be nurses. They can wear dresses. They can date other men. They can live with their parents.
When we write think piece after think piece on the crisis of mascul…

There Isn't a Crisis of Masculinity
Masculinity is the crisis.

In this quarter’s Tone Report, I write about the state of the ESPionage RPG, the start of The Final 5 comic, Yota’s Room 412, Band of Blades, Matt Wagner’s Mage, 52 Pickup podcast, and the GraphineOS.
https://tonemilazzo.com/2024/03/28/bootstraps-engaged/

Hey everyone!
We wrote an article about implementing OpenAI and Qdrant to write our own RAG LLM powered web service in #Rust!
Check it out: https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/02/28/rag

Building a RAG Web Service with Qdrant and Rust
Diving into Retrieval Augmented Generation to help enhance your web applications

I just published "How to write a Python app that uses Ollama" over on @…. https://jws.news/2024/how-to-write-a-python-app-that-uses-ollama/

The UK is piloting the use of ChatGPT and open-source AI models to analyze responses to public consultations and write draft answers to parliamentary questions (Lucy Fisher/Financial Times)
https://t.co/qwP9ZtKL1T

Nice piece, it's a difficult balance for scientists we are supposed to write impersonally, but does language we employ blunt message?
https://spore.social/@rewildingmag/112007046787772384
@…

Started re-reading David Golumbia's "The Cultural Logic of Computation".
And hell does that make me miss David and his voice these days. This book is so far ahead of its time, so clear ... if I ever write something half as good, I'll have punched way above my weight.

Proposal: if you want to use an interface in #Go, you have to write a 20 page document justifying exactly why and also donate £100 to a charity.
From me, currently debugging code which is in Validate, an interface method, which is called from Validate, an interface method, which is called from Val…

Re-write the operating system with the device still in the box? No sir, no potential security issues here...
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/this-device-can-update-new-iphones-while-theyre-still-in-the-box/…

How Apple plans to update new iPhones without opening them
Apple wants to rid the iPhone-buying process of the post-unboxing update.

DeLaM: A Dependent Layered Modal Type Theory for Meta-programming
Jason Z. S. Hu, Brigitte Pientka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17065 https://

DeLaM: A Dependent Layered Modal Type Theory for Meta-programming
We scale layered modal type theory to dependent types, introducing DeLaM, dependent layered modal type theory. This type theory is novel in that we have one uniform type theory in which we can not only compose and execute code, but also intensionally analyze the code of types and terms. The latter in particular allows us to write tactics as meta-programs and use regular libraries when writing tactics. DeLaM provides a sound foundation for proof assistants to support type-safe tactic mechanism.

Readers write to the Washington Post
Karl Hertag, Warrenton, Va:

Please stop pasting a photo of Donald Trump’s face at the top of every online story involving him.
The Post’s readers, whether supporters or opponents, know what Trump’s face looks like.
And he’s always in the same navy suit and red tie and always sporting the same coif.
The only variation is whether he’s wearing a red “Make America Great Again” cap.
If you must use a photo for every stor…

✍️ I really enjoy working with Storybook, but I've found that it's very easy to end up repeating a component's arguments quite a bit. Well, I'm here to say that there is a better way! A DRYer way!
(And I have to remind myself of it every single time I set up a new codebase, so I thought I'd finally write it down 😉)
#StorybookJS #React

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01472 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

Studying and Recommending Information Highlighting in Stack Overflow Answers
Context: Navigating the knowledge of Stack Overflow (SO) remains challenging. To make the posts vivid to users, SO allows users to write and edit posts with Markdown or HTML so that users can leverage various formatting styles (e.g., bold, italic, and code) to highlight the important information. Nonetheless, there have been limited studies on the highlighted information. Objective: We carried out the first large-scale exploratory study on the information highlighted in SO answers in our recent…

Sigh -my erstwhile hero. Alan Sokal, tonight talked at Toby Young's Free Speech Union -one of the foremost anti-science organisations.
See https://www.dcscience.net/2024/03/11/how-do-we-stop-a-resurgence-of-fascism/

How do we stop a resurgence of fascism? - DC's Improbable Science
Is it bad to write for hard-right outlets?

#WordWeavers April 28: Do you have an irrepressibly good-humoured character? How do others react to them?
Maybe I should, but no.
I wonder if this is a reflection of my own biases. As an introvert, I can't imagine having the energy to be outgoing/cheerful all the time, so I don't write any characters who do.

If I ever write “supporting the growth and operational capabilities of [product]” in an unironical way in a blog post, please fire me. Out of a cannon, into the sun.

Last May I interviewed 40 experienced managers to write a "what I wish I had known" article for new managers. It turned into 7 articles since there was so much material, and it has taken me 10 months write them since life happens inconveniently.
ANYWAY. Here's the last one in the series, about resilience. If you know someone who is a new manager, they might find it helpful. (I make no money off these articles -- I'm retired now)

John Schrag - trainer, coach & facilitator - Everything Changes and That's Okay
Tips for riding the storm

A helpful guide from The Perkins School for the Blind on how to write #AltText. https://www.perkins.org/resource/how-write-alt-text-and-image-desc…

How to Write Alt Text and Image Descriptions for the visually impaired – Perkins School for the Blind
Making your website and social media accessible to people with blindness and low vision.

*snorts huge line of cocaine*
BILLY MAYS HERE WITH THE FEDIVERSE!!!
Have YOU ever wanted to be told how to write AltText?
How about getting told who you can or can't federate with?
What about having others blatantly misunderstanding and lying about the platform they're currently using?!?
If you answered yes to any of those, then the Fediverse is for you!!!
#Fedi

I recently read a post on "6 Ways To Pass Parameters to #Spring #REST API". Though the title is a bit misleading, as it’s unrelated to REST, it does an excellent job listing all ways to send parameters to a Spring application. I want to do the same for

TIL as a #Kubernetes n00b: Don't put write-intensive persistent storage on shared spinning disk NFS.
I thought I was being super smart™️​ placing the /config directories of my deployments on #Synology for better availability and scaling. My Synology has spinning disks and could not keep up with the heavy read/write that some containers hit /config with. Moved /config to NVMe and problem was solved.

Cowboys needed a mulligan on two of their 2024 draft picks https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_needed_a_mulligan_on_two_of_their_2024_draft_picks/s1_17100_40303566

Cowboys needed a mulligan on two of their 2024 draft picks
Okay, I've given my opinion on the Cowboys' picks in the 2024 NFL Draft. And I've graded how the NFC East did overall too. Judging by some of the responses, a few of you disagree. Too bad. Because you're dead wrong. And with half a century of watching NFL football – along with 40 years of covering the game at every level – under my belt, yes, I'm right. Once you come to terms with that, we'll be just fine. Now, if we could just get Jerry Jones to see the light… Unfortunately, I only write…

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Puzzle's have been popular for thousands of years. Earliest history is 2300BC in Ancient Egypt with labyrinth drawing puzzles. The 1700's brought jigsaw puzzles. Let's play!

The UK is piloting the use of ChatGPT and open-source AI models to analyze responses to public consultations and write draft answers to parliamentary questions (Lucy Fisher/Financial Times)
https://t.co/qwP9ZtKL1T

A common talking point of CSS & separation of concerns is the idea that you can just swap out the CSS for different CSS to have a whole new design.
That’s neat and all, but the real-world need is the opposite: the HTML changes ALL. THE. TIME. Write your CSS so it works with changing content.
#css #webdev

Human Factors in Model-Driven Engineering: Future Research Goals and Initiatives for MDE
Grischa Liebel, Jil Kl\"under, Regina Hebig, Christopher Lazik, In\^es Nunes, Isabella Gra{\ss}l, Jan-Philipp Stegh\"ofer, Joeri Exelmans, Julian Oertel, Kai Marquardt, Katharina Juhnke, Kurt Schneider, Lucas Gren, Lucia Happe, Marc Herrmann, Marvin Wyrich, Matthias Tichy, Miguel Goul\~ao, Rebekka Wohlrab, Reyhaneh Kalantari, Robert Heinrich, Sandra Greiner, Satrio Adi Rukmono, Shalini Ch…

Human Factors in Model-Driven Engineering: Future Research Goals and Initiatives for MDE
Purpose: Software modelling and Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is traditionally studied from a technical perspective. However, one of the core motivations behind the use of software models is inherently human-centred. Models aim to enable practitioners to communicate about software designs, make software understandable, or make software easier to write through domain-specific modelling languages. Several recent studies challenge the idea that these aims can always be reached and indicate that h…

I've successfully gone from "write a quick python script to do something" to "I have a complex python application with a config file that gives me a lot of flexibility in using it and actually saves me a ton of time", and am currently considering escalating to "I need a domain-specific language (DSL) for the config to support even more complex use cases".
However, my intuition says that, as a rule of thumb, when you reach the point where you consider introducing a DSL, you should maybe instead reconsider some other parts of the system first. For example, I may just make it easier to introduce your own Python code to perform these complex custom checks, instead of generating it based on a config file 😅​.

"I’m writing for myself. I write to figure out what I think. I also publish mostly for myself—a public archive for future me. But if what I publish just happens to connect with one other person, I’m glad.
So, yeah, it’s true that the world doesn’t need you to write and share and publish. Isn’t that liberating? You’re free to write and share and publish for yourself.
So write! Share! Publish!"
@…

What the world needs
Write for yourself.

Sums, Differences and Dilates
Jonathan Cutler, Luke Pebody, Amites Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18297 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402…

Sums, Differences and Dilates
Given a set of integers $A$ and an integer $k$, write $A+k\cdot A$ for the set $\{a+kb:a\in A,b\in A\}$. Hanson and Petridis showed that if $|A+A|\le K|A|$ then $|A+2\cdot A|\le K^{2.95}|A|$. At a presentation of this result, Petridis stated that the highest known value for $\frac{\log(|A+2\cdot A|/|A|)}{\log(|A+A|/|A|)}$ (bounded above by 2.95) was $\frac{\log 4}{\log 3}$. We show that, for all $ε>0$, there exist …

The Design and Implementation of a High-Performance Log-Structured RAID System for ZNS SSDs
Jinhong Li, Qiuping Wang, Shujie Han, Patrick P. C. Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17963

The Design and Implementation of a High-Performance Log-Structured RAID System for ZNS SSDs
Zoned Namespace (ZNS) defines a new abstraction for host software to flexibly manage storage in flash-based SSDs as append-only zones. It also provides a Zone Append primitive to further boost the write performance of ZNS SSDs by exploiting intra-zone parallelism. However, making Zone Append effective for reliable and scalable storage, in the form of a RAID array of multiple ZNS SSDs, is non-trivial since Zone Append offloads address management to ZNS SSDs and requires hosts to dedicatedly mana…

We review the high end Wolf Coffee machine. We examine why Tyler Perry is right to embrace AI entertainment. We compare API friendliness for Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral and Perplexity!
Here's the question we asked all our API Bots in our test:
"Where do you start to write a story? Explain your process. As well, tell us why the name 'Elara' is so often used by LLMs in creative storytelling as a name."

I‘m pretty sure this works in Swift as well https://xoxo.zone/@annika/112235474499044620

Having a bot close an issue as "resolved" and locking it because no one has commented on it for a while is an asshole move.
"Deal with the brokenness, we DGAF" is _not_ a resolution.
The bug is still there, you haven't made any PRs that mention it, and now I can't comment "still broken as of version X"
If you can't make github-actions-bot not do this, don't use it. I'm less inclined to write a bug report if you're going …

After I sent out my last newsletter issue, two people wrote back just to say thank you for encouraging them to write and publish more on their website – this feedback really makes my day! 🤗💪💚 #OwnYourWeb

What software do you use to write musical scores (sheets, "partituras")? Is MuseScore the standard of shorts to write scores?

The Reflection Coefficient of a Reflectionless Kink
Jarah Evslin, Hui Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17968 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402…

The Reflection Coefficient of a Reflectionless Kink
Classically, reflectionless kinks transmit all incident radiation. Recently, we have used an analyticity argument together with a solution of the Lippmann-Schwinger equation to write down the leading quantum correction to the reflection probability. The argument was fast but rather indirect. In the present paper, we calculate the reflection coefficient and probability by methodically grinding through the Schrodinger picture time evolution. We find the same answer. This answer contains contribut…

Delay-tolerant distributed Bregman proximal algorithms
S. Chraibi (UGA, LJK), F. Iutzeler (UGA, LJK), J. Malick (UGA, LJK), A. Rogozin (MIPT)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17190

Delay-tolerant distributed Bregman proximal algorithms
Many problems in machine learning write as the minimization of a sum of individual loss functions over the training examples. These functions are usually differentiable but, in some cases, their gradients are not Lipschitz continuous, which compromises the use of (proximal) gradient algorithms. Fortunately, changing the geometry and using Bregman divergences can alleviate this issue in several applications, such as for Poisson linear inverse problems.However, the Bregman operation makes the agg…

Missing Link: Buchrezension Chris Dixons "Read Write Own"
Der prominente Krypto-Risikokapitalgeber Chris Dixon liefert mit "Read Write Own" eine wenig überzeugende Bibel für Prediger von Blockchain-Lösungen.

In this quarter’s Tone Report, I write about the state of the ESPionage RPG, the start of The Final 5 comic, Yota’s Room 412, Band of Blades, Matt Wagner’s Mage, 52 Pickup podcast, and the GraphineOS.
https://tonemilazzo.com/2024/03/28/bootstraps-engaged/

Some things I’m going to do to improve my #wellbeing
* proactively plan and schedule some fun things into my life, like going to a big #drumandbass night
* spend more time and effort connecting with friends and family
* write down some life goals
* do more journaling

@… Hey folks, quick question: any idea why the embed of my video at the European Parliament from your PeerTube instance is showing a password field and lock. (I’m on my phone and haven’t had a chance to view source.) Would appreciate it if you could take a look. Thank you :)

The Future of Internet Regulation at the European Parliament
A brief write-up of my talk at the EU Parliament last week with embedded videos of my talk and a link to my slides.

I do dev posts from time to time for various reasons (usually I just want to archive things I've spent hours figuring out), but that article resonates with me a lot.
My inner self-critic can be annoyingly vocal at times.
https://manuelmoreale.com/why-i-don-t-write-…

Browns write thank-you note to new Colts QB Joe Flacco for 'one helluva ride' in Cleveland during 2023 season

https://www.cbssports.co…

Browns write thank-you note to new Colts QB Joe Flacco for 'one helluva ride' in Cleveland during 2023 season
Flacco certainly left his mark in Cleveland

Write #PostcardsToVoters
What? Democratic Primary and Nonpartisan Election
When? Tuesday, May 21th
Who? John Barrow
For? Georgia Supreme Court
Why? Restore women's right to make their own medical decisions.
How? Be a voter!
Go to

postcardstovoters | Facebook | Linktree
Linktree. Make your link do more.

Read Write Self-Own https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/

Review: Chris Dixon's Read Write Own
Prominent crypto venture capitalist Chris Dixon provides an unconvincing bible for blockchain solutionists.

I think a big part of being in a long term relationship is the remembering and sharing of anecdotes.
All those little tales of sex and tragedy and transitions and laughter that give a partnership its identity.
What happens to those when a spouse dies?
Does it matter?
Perhaps not.
Or perhaps very much.
Maybe the next thing I should do is to write it all out, the story of us, so it doesn’t just exist in my head.
Because to me, the story of our love is…

The first year without Kevin
One big difference is that I no longer feel strong. I used to think of my body as sturdy, trustworthy, capable of rising above the niggling health issues most people my age face. But since my husband died, that has changed. I get breathless for no reason. I tire easily. I tremble a lot, I ache. Occasionally, I have a panic attack. I’m embarrassed, because grief has aged me so much.

Typo alert
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Marvel employees created National Superhero Day 3 decades ago. Let's play!
#MashupSuperHeroesAndFood

Too late for #LetterboxdFriday? Maybe a little bit... Anyway here are my #LastFourWatched
🔹Huesera (3½★)
🔹Man on the Moon (3½★)
🔹The Menu (3½★)
🔹Strange Way of Life (4★)
🔗

I just published "How to write a JavaScript app that uses Ollama" over on @…. https://jws.news/2024/how-to-write-a-javascript-app-that-uses-ollama/

If I ever write “supporting the growth and operational capabilities of [product]” in an unironical way in a blog post, please fire me. Out of a cannon, into the sun.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14234 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

The sum of the reciprocals of the prime divisors of an odd perfect or odd primitive non-deficient number
Write $T(n)$ as the sum of the reciprocals of the primes which divide $n$. Write $H(n) = \prod_{p|n}p/(p-1)$ where the product is over the prime divisors of $n$. We prove new bounds for $T(n)$ and $H(n)$ in terms of the smallest prime factor of $n$, under the assumption that $n$ is an odd perfect number. Some of the results also apply under the weaker assumption that $n$ is odd and primitive non-deficient.

I've successfully gone from "write a quick python script to do something" to "I have a complex python application with a config file that gives me a lot of flexibility in using it and actually saves me a ton of time", and am currently considering escalating to "I need a domain-specific language (DSL) for the config to support even more complex use cases".
However, my intuition says that, as a rule of thumb, when you reach the point where you consider introducing a DSL, you should maybe instead reconsider some other parts of the system first. For example, I may just make it easier to introduce your own Python code to perform these complex custom checks, instead of generating it based on a config file 😅​.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Let's play!
#CriminalASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames
How to play: Write something, Use the HashTag, Toot/Post and Repeat!

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17360 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Bender--Knuth Billiards in Coxeter Groups
Let $(W,S)$ be a Coxeter system, and write $S=\{s_i:i\in I\}$, where $I$ is a finite index set. Fix a nonempty convex subset $\mathscr{L}$ of $W$. If $W$ is of type $A$, then $\mathscr{L}$ is the set of linear extensions of a poset, and there are important Bender--Knuth involutions $\mathrm{BK}_i\colon\mathscr{L}\to\mathscr{L}$ indexed by elements of $I$. For arbitrary $W$ and for each $i\in I$, we introduce an operator $τ_i\colon W\to W$ (depending on $\mathscr{L}$) that we call a noninvertib…

This is a cool post about hosting a #dotnet #dev environment running #jetBrainsRider on #aws

Remote development on AWS using JetBrains Rider | Amazon Web Services
Using .NET and Docker developers continue to write software on a familiar Windows environment deploying applications seamlessly on Linux servers. With virtualization, developers can write and run .NET code that is later deployed in different environments. However, there is another option-using remote development you can use your IDE, running on your machine to run, debug […]

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.08824 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Verifying a Realistic Mutable Hash Table
In this work, we verify the mutable LongMap from the Scala standard library, a hash table using open addressing within a single array, using the Stainless program verifier. As a reference implementation, we write an immutable map based on a list of tuples. We then show that LongMap's operations correspond to operations of this association list. To express the resizing of the hash table array, we introduce a new reference swapping construct in Stainless. This allows us to apply the decorator pat…

Am I missing something really obvious here?
"key" is a 32-byte stack variable that I write a string to, then pass to a function.
How does the pointer magically move by 18 bytes when passed as a function argument??? Obviously the data I read in StoreStringObjectIfNecessary() is wrong, it's not reading from the address I passed!

Google rolls out its Gemini-powered "Help me write" tool in Chrome on macOS and Windows for English-speaking US users, offering shortform writing suggestions (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/2407990

Google’s ‘Help me write’ tool can now finish your sentences in Chrome
Google has started rolling out “Help me write” in the US — an experimental Gemini-powered feature for Chrome that helps users write or refine text based on webpage content.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Mom and Pop small businesses are usually run by families & they seem different from the big corp biz because of the special circumstances, touches, relationships of being locally owned. Let's play!
#MomAndPopASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames
Hint: You don't have to make it about a business. Topic can be anything with that special mom & pop touch.
How to play: Write something, Use the HashTag, Toot/Post and Repeat!

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11849 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

A note on small generators of number fields, II
Let $K$ be an algebraic number field and $H$ the absolute Weil height. Write $c_K$ for a certain positive constant that is an invariant of $K$. We consider the question: does $K$ contain an algebraic integer $α$ such that both $K = \Q(α)$ and $H(α) \le c_K$? If $K$ has a real embedding then a positive answer was established in previous work. Here we obtain a positive answer if $\Tor\bigl(K^{\times}\bigr) \not= \{\pm 1\}$, and so $K$ has only complex embeddings. We also show that if the answe…

GoTo reports $5.76B net loss for 2023, up 2x YoY, due to a write-down on TikTok's acquisition of a ~75% stake in GoTo's Tokopedia, on a net revenue of ~$933.6M (Nana Shibata/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Compa

Indonesia's GoTo posts $5.8bn loss in 2023 on TikTok write-down
Superapp and ride-sharing company expects EBITDA breakeven this year

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
A dissertation is a substantial research project. Graduate students write a dissertation to earn their doctorate. Let's play!

Despite Google and OpenAI's promises, Gemini and ChatGPT appear to have almost no safeguards against creating AI disinfo for the 2024 US presidential election (Maxwell Zeff/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/want-gemini-chatgpt-write-political-campaigns-…

Want Gemini and ChatGPT to Write Political Campaigns? Just Gaslight Them
Google and OpenAI's chatbots have almost no safeguards against creating AI disinformation for the 2024 presidential election.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Let's play!
#PoliticalSitcoms

Despite Google and OpenAI's promises, Gemini and ChatGPT appear to have almost no safeguards against creating AI disinfo for the 2024 US presidential election (Maxwell Zeff/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/want-gemini-chatgpt-write-political-campaigns-…

Want Gemini and ChatGPT to Write Political Campaigns? Just Gaslight Them
Google and OpenAI's chatbots have almost no safeguards against creating AI disinformation for the 2024 presidential election.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Ever take a plot further than the writers? Let's play!
#DeepThoughtsAMovieOrShow

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Let's play!
#WaysDogsAnnoyCats
#HashTagGames
How to play: Write something, Use the HashTag, Toot/Post and Repeat!
Hint: Come up with some unique ways. Odd, off-the-wall, etc