nrposner.bsky.social
Nicolas Roman Posner
@nrposner.bsky.social
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data science UChicago -> NY; comparable rat of confidence; current pipeline: rust, neovim, slurm, scientific integrity; writing @ nrposner.com, nicoroman.substack.com; no kings;
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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 15h
More like the core for a game, using Rust+Bevy. Turns out Bevy's schedule system is a good match: lots of rules+systems, but explicitly ordered and defined for ease of human comprehension.

I'm still firmly in the 'implement basic rules' stage, but figured out how to get flexible reactions working!
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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 16h
Also, seeing you're into Pathfinder: 1st edition or 2nd as well? I got into it recently, after the 2e remaster and I've actually been trying to build an engine for 3d gridless PF2e (very slowly and with mixed success)
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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 17h
I'd read it for sure!
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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 17h
Praise be!
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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 17h
How planned are we talking?

Do these shenanigans still work?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MykD...
Learning JavaScript with WAT
YouTube video by Dylan Beattie
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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 17h
Hear hear! This is my feeling every time I go back to Python. I never worked with typescript before, but maybe rescript is worth a shot...
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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 19h
Attending a scientific codebase devmeeting

Expectation: We need to optimize the Lagrangian on the super-massive black holes, stat!

Reality: I regret to inform you all that the foot injury curse has spread
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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 22h
@seangoedecke.bsky.social nails it
www.seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-...
Seeing like a software company
The big idea of James C. Scott’s Seeing Like A State can be expressed in three points: Modern organizations exert control by maximising “legibility”: by…
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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 1d
Just added Air to the Arrow CI jobs 🪂

It's an R formatter written in Rust, and so fast I genuinely had a "wtf?!" moment the first time I used it.

Would love to see a similar linter; if I had the time, I'd love to try building one - need to get acquainted with tree-sitters one day! 🌳

#rstats
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ArchLinux @archlinux.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy · 1d
python-maturin 1.9.6-1 x86_64 Build and publish crates with pyo3, rust-cpython and cffi bindings - Python bindings

#Extra-Testing #x86_64

Origin | Interest | Match
Arch Linux - python-maturin 1.9.6-1 (x86_64)
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Kyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · 1d
New blog post! kylebarron.dev/blog/fast-py...

This dives into performance pitfalls of Python bindings, why projects like Lonboard are so fast, and why I care about Apache Arrow so much. The post is high level and you don't need to know C/C++/Rust to understand it!
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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 1d
Good post! I'd previously backed off from trying to use the Arrow FFI for one of my projects, but maybe it's a good time to take another look at it.

Also, I've written a tutorial on Py-Rust interop here (and will hopefully write up the script from my latest talk soon) nrposner.com/blog/rust-py...
Rust, Python, and You: Rust-Python Interop for Python devs — nrposner
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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 8d
New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 1d
A screenshot of an orc from the Lord of the Rings movies captioned with the phrase 'the age of windows is over, the time of the linux desktop has come'
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 2d
1. Federal agents from ICE and other agencies are wrongly detaining U.S. citizens, sometimes detaining them for days, on suspicion that they are undocumented immigrants.

The raids are done without search warrants or other procedures designed to protect civil liberties.
How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens
Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.
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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 2d
@rustaceans.bsky.social first pass on the string compressor. Lots of room for optimization on this one, but it works! play.rust-lang.org?version=stab...
Rust Playground
A browser interface to the Rust compiler to experiment with the language
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goingforbrooke 🦀 @goingforbrooke.bsky.social · 2d
wooo, my talk on Rusty counter human trafficking forensics software is up on YouTube! 🦀

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XHZ...
goingforbrooke: "Rust Against the Odds: Fighting Human Trafficking [...]" | RustConf 2025
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d
Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...
Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data Sep. 3, 2025 Judge's house on fire
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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 6d
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?
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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 4d
why does the largest yaml file simply not eat all of the smaller yaml files
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d
I am just so fucking proud of her.
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 4d
It’s a JAX, JAX, JAX, JAX World
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/03/i...
It’s a JAX, JAX, JAX, JAX World | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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The Rust Foundation @rustfoundation.org · 4d
We’re proud to have hosted an incredible #rustconf 2025 — where the Rust community not only shared real-world successes, but also discussed what’s next for Rust.

Read our full recap on the Rust Foundation blog: rustfoundation.org/media/rustco...

#rustlang #rustconf
RustConf 2025 in Review: Rust for the Road Ahead - The Rust Foundation
From September 2-5, 2025, the Rust Foundation brought the Rust community together in Seattle, WA and online at RustConf — four unforgettable days of learning, collaboration, and celebration! Now that…
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 4d
My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
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LnuOpen | Meta-Psychology
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Nicolas Roman Posner @nrposner.bsky.social · 5d
`with/as` considered harmful