I made my first OSS contribution in Rust and got a PR merged into ruff 🤩

I indeed churned for a while.

But i’m back.

Oh no, bluesky, i am churning

Research should follow ethical guidelines. But collecting data people voluntarily published for the world to see is fine.

Most of the time, hating librarians is the wrong move.

Compiling large datasets and making them publicly available is good actually

A librarian that previously worked at the British Library created a relatively small dataset of bsky posts, hundreds of times smaller than previous researchers, to help folks create toxicity filters and stuff.

So people bullied him & posted death threats.

He took it down.

Nice one, folks.

In history class, i wondered how propaganda — so incredibly clumsy — could be so effective in persuading.

But propaganda doesn’t need to persuade. It only needs to confirm everything from latent hunch to overt belief.

Interestingly what feels true seems to be more important than what is true

How to bcome an ML engineer in 5-7 steps.

A blog post i wrote that a lot of ppl liked on the other place.

Whats the vibe here?

www.maxmynter.com/pages/blog/b...

A tensor is anything that transforms like a tensor what is the problem?

Musks material success is an enigma to me

Things are a certain way. But in principle most could also be different.

Contingency is a pretty neat concept.

Who is this Pynchon guy and how can he write so opaque yet entertaining?

It's interesting that the Golden Age many conservatives are nostalgic about where golden because of Keynesian investment in infrastructure and education during times of downturn, not fiscal austerity and trickle down economics.

What are some cool acc's to follow here?

My main page is still a bit random.

I'm into poasting, science, math, tech, cs, armchair sociology, anything interesting really, as long as its rooted in democratic values and mutual respect.

Drop yourself too, if you think you'll stick here for a bit

just setting up my bsky