robryk @robryk@qoto.org
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
Re usage of nice: some people perceive nice and kind as having very different meanings ("act according to social expectations" vs "act with care for others") and those people will likely at least slightly misread what you mean.
Re other atypical examples: I'm not suggesting you use something with the same meaning, but https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md by @whitequark might be an interesting example of (a) what fits into CoC (b) a viewpoint.
Delta is a Polish #math/#physics/#compsci monthly magazine, mainly aimed at high school students, but read by people of all ages (as evidenced by participation in their send-in monthly problem league). For some unknown to me reason, its April 2025 issue has an English translation: https://deltami.edu.pl/media/issues/2025/04/delta-2025-04-EN.pdf
Enjoy :)
I would expect that sometimes someone can get discouraged when an obvious follow-up question has an answer that cannot be understood without additional, weird concepts (that you can have a bunch of objects that is too numerous to be a set).
But if they don't, then I agree. :)
Have you noticed kids considering it a leap? I'm somewhat surprised by this, because I assumed that the leap happens way earlier and calculus gives kids a formalization of it. How would a kid before the leap describe what does a speedometer/ammeter/... indicate?
(I suspect that it's me who has a wrong model here, given that I was surprised by some similar statement last year but didn't manage to get a good enough description of the before-acquiring-the-concept state to understand it.)
I would expect most kids to see a speedometer at some point in very early primary school. Is my expectation wrong or does it not cause the concept to manifest?
This can quickly lead to questions about how many different ones are there (infinitely many) and which infinity is that (mu; larger than any), which sadly is a hard-to-resolve confusion.
Aren't derivatives and notion of continuity earlier? (For momentary speeds and related concepts.)
@etchedpixels @alessandro @cstross
Or Switzerland. :)
Recongizers are often used only on inputs from some nontrivial distribution (e.g. image models on actual images and not white noise). You need a model for that distribution to use a discriminator as a generator.
Compression is ~equivalent to a model of the thing being compressed in a closer sense than that for recognizers. It's just often not that good of a model, because, among others, runtime performance of decompression is a consideration that at some point overrides optimizing for smallest (expected) compressed size.
Mein Stromzähler wurde diese Woche mit einem "Smart Meter" ersetzt. Bezüglich Datenschutz gibt ewz an:
> Die Datenübertragung ist zwar eine wichtige Funktion, die der intelligente Stromzähler mit sich bringt. Gesendet wird aber nur einmal täglich und zwar in verschlüsselter pseudonymisierter Form. Das heisst: Übermittelt werden lediglich die Nummer Ihres intelligenten Zählers und die aktuellen Verbrauchswerte. (...) So kann aufgrund der Verbrauchsdaten nicht darauf geschlossen werden, welche Tätigkeiten die Bewohner*innen ausüben.
-- https://www.ewz.ch/de/private/strom/anschluesse/smart-meter.html#faq
Das ist schon ein bisschen überverspechend: tagliche Stromverbrauchwerte lassen jemand feststellen, ob ich weg (im Urlaub) sind, oder ob ich an diesem Tag gekocht habe (und vielleicht ob für mehrere Personen gekocht wurde).
Danach habe ich aus Neugiere auf mein ewz geguckt und hat da Stromverbrauch separat für jede 15 Minuten gefunden. Das ist sicherlich genug um viel mehr über meine Tätigkeiten festzustellen: wenn ich komme nach Hause, wenn ich Tee am Morgen mache, vlt. wenn ich koche, usw.
Ich bin ein bisschen enttäuscht mit dem Kleinmachen und irreführenden Erklärungen (wie beim Datenschutz vom Swisspass, der "nur" ein Kennnummer ablesen lässt). Ich bin auch neugierig, ob Angriffversuche auf den System von den Einbrechern finanziert werden.
@kuba Inna interpretacja: po południu stojaki będą przesuwane/remontowane i trzeba żeby były puste.
@8petros Clockwork Rocket Grega Egana ma szansę pasować do opisu.
robryk
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Baba Is You is now 6 years old! Thank you for all these years of support and kindness!
#babaisyou
This also looks like the hinges used in folding tables in trains (such as https://img.chmedia.ch/2019/1/31/3781ec25-d1b6-4e51-914b-a81dcd0cb2ed.jpeg?width=1080&height=720&fit=bounds&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=5246,3497,x0,y0).
robryk
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I’m looking for a job, so…
I’ll be living in Gliwice (Poland), so I’m preferably looking for a remote job that can be done vaguely within the EU timezone, but local in office is fine too. I’m a (mostly backend) software developer with ~10 year of experience. Currently most fluent in Rust, but no language should be a barrier. I also have experience as an SRE and maintaining servers, plus lots of maths knowledge. I’m happy to do any of the above and more, as long as the result has a non-negative impact on society. I believe all my past employers have been very happy with my performance, and I can definitely promise you’ll be too!
@mcc https://blog.m-ou.se/super-let/ might be relevant
robryk
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Made by Zach, but not Zachtronics: Kaizen is the just-announced Japanese-factory automation game from Coincidence that'll have you managing and optimizing an assembly line making all sorts of stuff
https://thinkygames.com/news/kaizen-a-factory-story-is-a-new-automation-game-from-the-developers-behind-beloved-zachtronics-titles/
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
