It's 15y (i.e. # rev around the sun) only between the end of 2025 (which is not yet) and the end of 2010. So on a technicality the bad calculator is correct .. the question being is it right in the way a broken clock is right twice a day?
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It's 15y (i.e. # rev around the sun) only between the end of 2025 (which is not yet) and the end of 2010. So on a technicality the bad calculator is correct .. the question being is it right in the way a broken clock is right twice a day?
Oh he *is* being practical. But prestige is in the perception. If people think and talk about how "this big person travels by train and so do I 🦚" we'll be on our way (literally).
www.myprivacy.blog/denmark-make...
... and I guess you're not trying to tell me that you're that billionaire?
Yeah I think the only route to getting people to do sensible things in India is to attach prestige to it.
To CS profs - are you all so pro-choice that you're willing to go all out and support students who insist on using Windows on their laptops because ... games? Any groups that insist on students running an open source unix?
வேற வேலை இல்லை?
Also, America is no longer cool then.
People self proclaimed to have renounced relationships seem to be the ones most obsessed with them.
And "less" is from "less is more" where "more" was the pager on earlier unices :D
I wish people in #India start treating cycles as status symbols instead of cars. 'Cos cars are ruining our cities.
If you're ever in a position to type some math symbols like ∂u/∂x in an email to someone on your phone, you might appreciate this "dictionary" this person put together which gives completion suggestions for latex symbols - github.com/DenverCoder1...
Does he have kids he's pulled out of school and is getting home schooled using "AI"? If not how does he "see this future"? Hallucinations, not visions.
Kid's review of "K-pop demon hunters" - "The songs are cool and catchy. The story is lame."
Installed the npm package (on macos). The "ahoy" example in the cmdline docs (`pyret --help`) gives the error in the picture. The VSCode extension works though.
Bicycle for solo short distances instead of using a motor vehicle - ex: groceries, drop kid off at school, etc. I ride up to about 15km within the city, occasionally shooting over that bar. Take public transport when I can (trains mostly).
Sounds like the S.Ve.Sekar joke - where a patient visits a doc and complains about a pain "where he sits" and the doc asks him to move aside a little. (darn it, found it hard to translate from the original tamil - கொஞ்சம் தள்ளி ஒக்காருங்க - which sounds much funnier to me).
Omg!
I don't know whether to laugh at bsky poised to rejoice on DT's ceasing to exist or to cry at the naïvette of the expectation that the problem will go away with that.
Perspective: Your "birthday" is not a time by a calendar. It is the place in the solar system relative to the sun where you were born and the earth comes close to it once every time it completes an orbit around the sun - gist.github.com/srikumarks/9...
"Analysis has found drivers in the tallest cars could not see children as old as nine when they were directly in front of the vehicle."
It sounds like he's insulting Americans though .. by saying that people in the US are generally mentally ill and therefore go for guns with the consequential gun related deaths.
"If you are going to ignore the constraints of nature, you are simply inviting disaster. The people of neither state want foolhardy development. They want sustainable development," Rohit Chopra tells Tanvi Deshpande. Read the full interview here: scroll.in/article/1085... Via IndiaSpend
Perspective people. Support cyclists and cycling for commute #Chennai. Our roads are getting cramped because cars are parked on either side everywhere without having to pay rent.
Tbh neither is any European country (in practice).
Not a day goes by without me going "you learn something old every day".
(paraphrasing) "if you don't know how to build a nicer god, you should STOP" - a moral counter to the "move fast and break things" dudes (yeah, usually dudes).
"AI" companies, if they have even a shred of integrity left, should deny to participate. predictive-optimization.cs.princeton.edu
Sure. There were musicians and composers before Mozart and who he learnt from. That doesn't diminish his contributions.
energyandcleanair.org/january-2025... - it *is* complicated. See graph "who bought russian fossil fuel after the EU ban". China .. and EU (!!) ... top the charts. The "if you're not a friend you're a foe" attitude of the US ruins relations, like saying "if you won't buy a stock you should short it".
Sure yeah. But the code was projected and very much part of the performance. Nerd party indeed!
One of my thumb rules is if I use "X is *just* Y", I examine it further especially if both X and Y exist. Sorensen and Magnusson made their own lang/env to align with their creative think. Max would've been humanly slow for their process is my guess.
Those tools have existed for long as you say but actually using the code projected during the performance is (relative to csound) recent simply cos the compute wasn't there before. And csound can't practically be used live today too (a tad too low level). Max could've been but wasn't used like that.
Double typo - Andrew Sorensen - apologies!
typing.python.org/en/latest/sp... - to add to the confusion, googling for "python namedtuple" still takes students to the older form in the "collections" module. So I was wondering what went into the choice.
That's understandable. The early incarnations of NT have been kinda yuck to force on students. However the recent versions have solidified NamedTuple to not even require explaining decorators. It read a tad awkward in the text having to explain why the dataclass didn't change form to get mutability.
Oops - typo.- Andrew Sorenson
Live coding music is a thing - folks like Andrew.Dorenson and Thor Magnusson perform like DJs in clubs as well. Here is a great talk by Sorenson using his Extempore program to live code a performance and talk us through it - youtu.be/yY1FSsUV-8c?...
I share this worry. To be honest it's a surprise that Scholar survived as long as it did.
For some reason this doesn't compute in my head. If anything, NAMs and antibiotics have been used together for ages now which means of mutations are enhanced by the combo, we should've been in an antibiotic resistance crisis for like 50yrs now? What am I missing due my non expertise?
The age limit of 65 means ye olde ones in the admin can get them while others can't.
Wish the Hobbit films had coloured Smaug orange.
x.com/Dudesposting... Here I go counting to 1 million in a skeet - 999999 1000000 done
In the "from pyret to python" track, "data classes" are introduced as the counterpart for pyret's "data". Were NamedTuples (`from typing`) not considered for that stage (since they're also immutable) to avoid proliferating concepts? NTs might be a better fit there and dataclasses for mutables right?
Depending on the field, paper tests with crafted mcqs can be quite effective for summative assessments without this writing pain. Also, students who have this difficulty should be able to get a guardrailed laptop provisioned by the univ to type in their answers (my kid's school does that).
Super excited to release the latest version of "A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing" (DCIC). See release notes for 2025-08-27 for what's changed and new (a LOT!): dcic-world.org/2025-08-27/R.... dcic-world.org
A little irreverance for symbolisms of all kinds is healthy, lest they start limiting our faculty to think and empathize ... methinks. Demanding symbolic "respect" can skirt dangerously close to faux nationalism/groupism and mask fascist tendencies. That said, know your laws.
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Cautionary tale on benefit-sharing mechanisms under the biodiversity convention. Tribal elder who introduced the world to a herb significant for rejuvenating properties died in poverty while companies worldwide sold it without sharing returns with the community www.downtoearth.org.in/wildlife-bio...
Waiting for my "cars ruin cities" polo shirt. Printed it on the print-your-tee service printo.in
Our instatiable hunger for food as entertainment.
"The idea of robot/AI rights acts as a smoke screen, allowing theorists and futurists to fantasize about benevolently sentient machines with unalterable needs and desires protected by law." firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
Incredible sulk?
I had a sort of "reference" related problem when I first encountered the Macos "alias" (system 7.x). It wasn't a symbolic link a la unices, because you can move the target and the alias will continue to point to it ... across network mounts, as it damn well should.
The greatest vindication of the atheist stance that there is no all benevolent and loving god is ... ... no smiting of the vile, no protecting the innocent, nothing. Or maybe humanity is truly godforsaken.
Sarve jana sukhino bhavantu apparently ... but PS "except wo jana". 🤷
If anyone is to get the peace prize, it is perhaps Zelenskyy. Man his job must be emotionally tough as hell.
This is great (although kind of noisy), and I particularly loved the #knitting 🧶 part. 🤣 youtu.be/VLq8RPwDnMc
Apparently, according to google trends, "enable ai" has enough data to show some results but "disable ai" doesn't. Who're they kidding?
Kid (still dreaming): Dad if I had two siblings and one of them was meteoric, how do I find out?
momentummag.com/the-happiest... hear hear #Chennai
Ha ... TIL en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lughnas...
A plot isn’t “something happens and then something else happens” A plot is “what do you want” “What are you willing to do to get it” “What unspeakable, shameful part of your soul are you willing to walk up to in the darkness and name” “This is me, this is me, this is me” That is a plot
Nice example of reinforcement learning appropriate to #Indian context of public transport usage - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-learn...
Why is it "cheating" if the "AI" are being pitched for this purpose as "productivity tools"? If they can prompt an LLM well to generate code that should be good for google right? ... Right? (Muttering certain words under breath)
This is one of the absolute toughest things about predatory inclusion — the predation is often fun or a little useful. Criticism makes a reasonable person sound like an asshole. LowerEd weathered me for this kind of social death. So I’ll say it: your enjoyment does not matter & should not matter.
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
The sad part of that future is that biz schools exist 25 y down the road.
no, that is an estimate that is far out of date (if it was ever accurate in the first place, which it's not clear it was). arxiv.org/abs/2508.15734 is the technical paper that google released with numbers, which align with other public estimates and approximations.
I dread robot cars on Indian roads. It's like you need full AGI or something to drive here. Also I say "robot cars" because "self driving car" here means "car that you drive yourself" (instead of hiring a driver).
With a human, in case of a mishap, you know who to hold accountable for damages. With a self-driving car, how do you handle that? Waymo pays damages the same way via insurance? What happens when a hacker gains control of a car to commit a crime?
"Simply put, for every ₹100 the government spends on salaries, Indian society burns ₹168 in a collective effort of rent-seeking just to decide who gets them."
Fishy to say the least. Charging him with perjury when the right assumption should've been an honest mistake since he isn't an expert is basically grounds to scare off any future whistle blowers. I don't know the details but this doesn't feel like justice.
I mean I'm not even in the US and this is still too painful to read about. Just how impotent the political opposition there is to not being able to just effing stop this madness.
The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
When you get "calling out whataboutery is the usual get away card" as a response, you know what you're dealing with. Don't engage. Not worth it.
Laurie Anderson's voice played in my head - "This is the haaaand..."
It might make it more interesting if they did hold it and the players all actively diss T@#₹& as a fascist on social media so that conversation will be weird at immigration points.
Wondering whether the pattern in the future will be the population shifting hemispheres twice a year with humanity ending in a chirp of these migratory oscillations due to the additional CO2.
Isn't it like 3Wh per prompt?
Do we have an "Ender's game" scenario today with companies using kids to make money (a.k.a. child labour)? Kid plays Roblox partly for the economics of making robux - teeny amts. Sometimes his friends also ask him to earn some for them on their account. Who benefits from all this work? Roblox right?
25 years of delta debugging! On this day in 2000, I presented “Simplifying Failure-Inducing Inputs” at ISSTA - now one of the most influential works in the 50-year history of Transactions on Software Engineering. Read all about its genesis and impact at doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TSE....
Why are Indian immigrants suddenly facing so much backlash in places like Europe, North America and Australia? How come Iranian, Syrian or Ethiopian immigrants dont face the same backlash? 2 key factors IMO - Assimilation and Caste Privilege. #thread
Whoa! Thanks a ton for killing my weekend 😃 (in a good way)
Are you saying it is exponential for small enough rises? - like 1.07^D for D degrees?
Am still in the "cautious experimentation" phase with this.
Recently I've taken to wearing 3M ear protectors that cut noise by about 20dB while cycling in #Chennai. Seems like a dangerous thing to do, but hell I'm able to hear every honk and even the jabbering of nearby motor cyclists on cellphones (believe it!). So I'm just saving my ears a ton of damage.
"murder rate" even better.
TIAL "pretotyping" - www.pretotyping.org "Pretotyping was originally developed at Google in 2010 and since then has been tested, refined, taught, and put into practice with great success in hundreds of projects and organizations." - not instilling confidence given the number that were cancelled.
TIL about `coproc` command - linuxcommand.org/lc3_man_page... Runs a subprocess with pipes connected to its stdin/out and when you can then access in the shell.
For whatever inaccurate meaning of "straight". I suspect they didn't do proper geodesics for these.
Ah thanks. Having been used to the way Indian states were drawn up, I've been intrigued since school by how the US draws state boundaries with many sides being straight lines. Never really followed up on that curiosity though.
They'll lose followers.
Why "sort of"? It's not an island? (checks google) So "Rhode Island" not being an island is another thing to add to the list that includes "game played by throwing non spherical object is called football"?
IIRC Siri is a familiar name in Thailand .. so my heart really goes out to all of them too.
Maybe the C programmers - they're well braced for longjmp.
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