Matthew 
@mattasdata@qoto.org
Research Software Engineer | PhD Physics | Author of Super Smart Science: Nuclear Physics Made Easy | Lindy Hop + Yoga + Programming FTW
Joined Apr 2022
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I am once again asking you to stop using LastPass. The company has a history of security issues dating back years, and has yet to make holistic security improvements — or heck even investigate incidents properly.
Good alternatives:
- 1Password is my #1 rec, best for most use cases
- Bitwarden if you want open source
- KeePassXC if you want local vaults and open source
- I hear ok things about Dashlane but don’t know a ton
https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-incident/
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We interviewed OpenAI's new chat bot chatGPT. In addition to writing and explaining code, it was also able to write these haikus for us.
Check out the blog post for an explanation of quicksort by Yoda and a rewrite of the song Imagine to be about #RSEs.
https://blog.esciencecenter.nl/interview-with-chatgpt-c17b87214b9c
@samharrison7 wow, yet another impressive ChatGPT example! I'm really going to have to give it a try. Wondering how it will stack up to thorny problems with lots of dependencies.
@antares I picked #elm because it kept popping up in things I was listening to and reading about functional programming, and consensus was that it was more approachable than some other languages. Also, I wanted to get into a bit of web development because that is something I haven't done before. I'm sure there are better options out there. What would you recommend as a more fully featured language?
I'm attempting #AdventofCode in #elm this year, which I will admit has been quite a challenge so far. #FunctionalProgramming is so weird!!! Hoping I start to see the light soon.
Answers here: https://github.com/bielsnohr/elm-advent-of-code
When you spend hours on solving #adventofcode puzzles only to realize a computer can now do it way better and faster 😭
GitHub - max-sixty/aoc-gpt: Solve Advent of Code puzzles with GPT-3
https://github.com/max-sixty/aoc-gpt
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Hello! We are The Carpentries, an organisation committed to building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research.
You can find out more about us at:https://carpentries.org/about/
@scottmatter funny, I was just thinking about something similar today: the confusion around #mastodon and the #fediverse shows that a lot of people don't understand how email works.
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Let’s try this again. Where you at #fediverse? Boosts welcome so we can get the best sample size.
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📣 I wrote a new blog post!
Mastodon for #Twitter Escapees
https://dramsch.net/articles/mastodon-for-twitter-escapees/
Basically a short intro about the platform from someone that isn't deep in the #fediverse and just making sense of things.
Maybe it helps someone else from the #TwitterMigration?
I joined #mastodon back in April 2022 when the first grumblings of #musk purchase were happening, but then didn't get into it after that threat faded. With things solidified, I'm joining the #twittermigration . Looking forward to learning more, but also a bit dismayed about losing my follower and following lists. Any advice on that front?
Research Software Engineer | PhD Physics | Author of Super Smart Science: Nuclear Physics Made Easy | Lindy Hop + Yoga + Programming FTW
Joined Apr 2022
