The Ascetic Programmer
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The Book about asceticism in programming, statistics and the arts: https://asceticprogrammer.info
The hype for the early (single layer) neural networks was quite extreme, not unlike the current AI frenzy. "They hesitated to call it a machine because it is so much like a 'human being without life'" youtu.be/e5dVSygXbAE?...
The First Neural Networks
youtu.be
June 14, 2024 at 4:23 AM
The hype for the early (single layer) neural networks was quite extreme, not unlike the current AI frenzy. "They hesitated to call it a machine because it is so much like a 'human being without life'" youtu.be/e5dVSygXbAE?...
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I posted to my desultory blog the transcript of a talk I gave in 2009 inside Google, mostly because someone recently asked me to, feeling the message needs reinforcing.
commandcenter.blogspot.com/2023/12/simp...
commandcenter.blogspot.com/2023/12/simp...
Simplicity
In May 2009, Google hosted an internal "Design Wizardry" panel, with talks by Jeff Dean, Mike Burrows, Paul Haahr, Alfred Spector, Bill Cou...
commandcenter.blogspot.com
December 6, 2023 at 8:50 PM
I posted to my desultory blog the transcript of a talk I gave in 2009 inside Google, mostly because someone recently asked me to, feeling the message needs reinforcing.
commandcenter.blogspot.com/2023/12/simp...
commandcenter.blogspot.com/2023/12/simp...
Like my old Rdiff but done right!
Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
difftastic.wilfred.me.uk
Instead of looking line by line, or per character changes in a line, it really understands the structure of the code modifications (like formatting changes, wrapping, etc.)
difftastic.wilfred.me.uk
Instead of looking line by line, or per character changes in a line, it really understands the structure of the code modifications (like formatting changes, wrapping, etc.)
Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
difftastic.wilfred.me.uk
March 24, 2024 at 12:34 AM
Like my old Rdiff but done right!
A dialog on statistical algorithms with mistral.ai 's AI assistant LeChat. TL;DR Right on the elementary, wrong on the interesting, always perfectly confident.
gist.github.com/piccolbo/8ba...
gist.github.com/piccolbo/8ba...
Mistral ai answers and hallucinates about stats
Mistral ai answers and hallucinates about stats. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
March 19, 2024 at 5:26 AM
A dialog on statistical algorithms with mistral.ai 's AI assistant LeChat. TL;DR Right on the elementary, wrong on the interesting, always perfectly confident.
gist.github.com/piccolbo/8ba...
gist.github.com/piccolbo/8ba...
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Floor #tomb of Lady Bartholomea, once the wife of Maximus, one of many in Franciscan church of S Maria in Aracoeli, Rome. Sculptor did a lot with a few lines.
Fond memory: a sacristan found an umbrella I left under a chair and she was delighted when I came to find it.
#MonumentMonday #MedievalSky
Fond memory: a sacristan found an umbrella I left under a chair and she was delighted when I came to find it.
#MonumentMonday #MedievalSky
March 18, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Floor #tomb of Lady Bartholomea, once the wife of Maximus, one of many in Franciscan church of S Maria in Aracoeli, Rome. Sculptor did a lot with a few lines.
Fond memory: a sacristan found an umbrella I left under a chair and she was delighted when I came to find it.
#MonumentMonday #MedievalSky
Fond memory: a sacristan found an umbrella I left under a chair and she was delighted when I came to find it.
#MonumentMonday #MedievalSky
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I love the stage of game dev where you spot ways to add little touches with a few lines of code, eg I just added a sunset in 2 mins
March 18, 2024 at 3:20 PM
I love the stage of game dev where you spot ways to add little touches with a few lines of code, eg I just added a sunset in 2 mins
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The code you write makes you a programmer. The code you delete makes you a good one. The code you don't have to write makes you a great one.
-- Mario Fusco
-- Mario Fusco
March 9, 2024 at 1:42 PM
The code you write makes you a programmer. The code you delete makes you a good one. The code you don't have to write makes you a great one.
-- Mario Fusco
-- Mario Fusco
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Today, we’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating, or opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data!
Read more here for how this will affect your experience on Bluesky (in short: it won’t) and why this matters.
bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Read more here for how this will affect your experience on Bluesky (in short: it won’t) and why this matters.
bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Bluesky: An Open Social Web - Bluesky
Today, we’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating, or opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data.
bsky.social
February 22, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Today, we’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating, or opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data!
Read more here for how this will affect your experience on Bluesky (in short: it won’t) and why this matters.
bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Read more here for how this will affect your experience on Bluesky (in short: it won’t) and why this matters.
bsky.social/about/blog/0...
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this is the last time i'll ever say this where it means something new:
just federated 😳
just federated 😳
was gunshy yesterday about migrating my main account to my self-hosted PDS
but then it came to me in a dream and i was no longer afraid
but then it came to me in a dream and i was no longer afraid
February 22, 2024 at 4:14 PM
this is the last time i'll ever say this where it means something new:
just federated 😳
just federated 😳
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It's the time of the year for picking the top science stories of 2023. There were triumphs, yes. But for my newsletter, I pick a different kind of story: the struggle to bring back the American chestnut tree, and what it really takes to address the extinction crisis. buttondown.email/carlzimmer/a...
December 29, 2023 at 6:29 PM
It's the time of the year for picking the top science stories of 2023. There were triumphs, yes. But for my newsletter, I pick a different kind of story: the struggle to bring back the American chestnut tree, and what it really takes to address the extinction crisis. buttondown.email/carlzimmer/a...
"[...] our biggest priority right now is launching federation, which is timelined for early next year." Yay!! Go federation!
It's been exactly a year since the very first post on Bluesky was created!
We just published a new blog post with some updates:
We just published a new blog post with some updates:
Toward Federation and an Open Network
One year ago, the first post on Bluesky was created. Now, we're working toward federation and a truly open network.
blueskyweb.xyz
November 16, 2023 at 9:32 PM
"[...] our biggest priority right now is launching federation, which is timelined for early next year." Yay!! Go federation!
"We are pushing towards federation on the production network early next year (2024}". That's what I wanted to hear.
2023 Protocol Roadmap — just published on the dev blog!
This blog is written for developers already familiar with atproto concepts and terminology. We are pushing towards federation on the production network early next year (2024), if development continues as planned.
This blog is written for developers already familiar with atproto concepts and terminology. We are pushing towards federation on the production network early next year (2024), if development continues as planned.
2023 Protocol Roadmap | AT Protocol
This post lays out the current AT Protocol development plan through the end of 2023
atproto.com
October 12, 2023 at 1:42 AM
"We are pushing towards federation on the production network early next year (2024}". That's what I wanted to hear.
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Via; hci.social/@axz/1109813...
Recursive summarization tool using LLM where you can expand to look at the source material
Recursive summarization tool using LLM where you can expand to look at the source material
Expandable Summaries
exp-sum.apps.allenai.org
August 31, 2023 at 11:44 AM
Via; hci.social/@axz/1109813...
Recursive summarization tool using LLM where you can expand to look at the source material
Recursive summarization tool using LLM where you can expand to look at the source material
A very ascetic cell genome.
“JCVI-Syn3.0 (474 genes) has a genome smaller than that of any autonomously replicating cell found in nature. Surprisingly, it contained 149 genes with unknown biological functions, suggesting the presence of undiscovered functions essential for life.”
APS -APS March Meeting 2023
- Event - Design, Construction, and Analysis of a Synthetic Minimal Bact...
meetings.aps.org
August 5, 2023 at 10:59 PM
A very ascetic cell genome.