Mark Tomczak @mtomczak@qoto.org

TFW you tell the #frc team you're "just going to clean up the code a bit" and you accidentally a 194-lines-in, 119-lines-out change.

... well, that's what pull requests are for.

Oh nooooooo is #openai gonna be upset that someone trained an AI without their consent off of the AI they trained on... Other people's online-accessible content, used for training without their consent?
Oh nooooooooo!

https://twitter.com/steventey/status/1641267979399704576

Really enjoyed the #lackadaisy pilot. Great work and a fun adventure.

https://youtu.be/vffu6FG4YP4

@nasa Nice.

@codinghorror Twitter was already doomed when they proved they had no ethical compass a half decade ago.

The era of "centralized communication with no moderation position" is pretty much over.

@emojipedia *HONK*

@ian Peace was never an option.

@aberrant68 The most polite way to get the message across you're trying to pass to them, IMHO, is that if they don't care about gracious professionalism, this isn't the program for them. There are other programs, but what this one seeks to do is not tied to the machines generated alone.

(... categorically true. I can tell you how many of these machines become coat racks or spare parts in five years. It's a program for building students, not robots. ;) ).

I wish you best of luck; it's never an easy conversation to have.

@aberrant68 All three of those, I think, are clear violations of the spirit of Gracious Professionalism, and a case can be made that if they aren't abiding by the spirit of the program itself, they are not welcome to participate.

FIRST isn't about the robots; it's about learning to treat each other like professionals. And as a professional: in my field, such a person is a walking HR problem.

@3psboyd Clearly, the right approach is for one of those startup folk to start a new banking startup that can serve the needs of startups accustom to the SVB treatment and~ERR_HISTORY_CYCLE

@ryanhoulihan "But why should some technocrat or factory owner get to monetize their talent when I can't?"

Good question, but flip it around.

TBH, a lot of people in the "Don't use cloud analytics" camp are real, real naive about how hard it is to roll your own analytics.

This is a non-trivial problem. So you see the traffic to your site. Do you have the mappings set up to geo-locate IPs by country? Are they up-to-date? How much of that traffic is noise? Do you know? What is "noise?" Do you count hits from aggregator sites? Do you count crawlers? What do crawlers look like? How do you know if your content got re-hosted?

Analytics is not a technical problem; it's a social problem. Google and the other companies that do analytics solve it with people making decisions about definitions and enforcement, not just algorithms.

In which I use #python to push a demo program to a Brilliant Labs #monocle peripheral screen.

https://blog.fixermark.com/posts/2023/controlling-monocle-from-python-script/

@urusan The SML-NJ programming language uses pattern matching to select on what variant of a function runs based on the input arguments. It is idiomatic to define functions recursively, such as the factorial function, which yields 1 if you try to take factorial of 0 (0!) or x * fact(x-1) if you try to take a number larger than 0.

This results in the definition of a factorial function in SML-NJ usually starting with

`fun fact 0 = 1`

@mikkergp @caseynewton @verified That would have been the right way to implement it.

... They almost certainly didn't do that.

@davetroy I've actually been startled by how good it is at math. Granted, I haven't hit it with a huge battery of problems. And it does have the problem that if you're asking it to solve a problem, you, the asker, might not have enough domain knowledge to know when it makes a mistake.