Simon @spoltier@qoto.org
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code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Recovering reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.
Joined Jul 2023
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@ahl @bcantrill not sure if it's a real story, but the whole square / circle thing sure vindicates Steve jobs' alleged demand to have rounded corners on the boards in early Macs
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Last night, @bcantrill and I were joined by Andy Hock and James Wang from Cerebras to talk about the pace of genAI innovation--remarkable even in the first few weeks of 2025!
From the disruptive training costs of DeepSeek to the wafer-scale silicon of Cerebras--clearly we are at the the earliest stages of this new domain.
@SuperMoosie I think Elon is *from* Mars, and his mission is Marsforming earth. Kessler syndrome is also an option, as a low-tech "three-body problem" kind of attack.
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re: computer talk, "pro tip" adjacent, basically irrelevant 2010's web discourse
have never understood the whole "i always have one million tabs open forever" discourse. just like save them as a bookmark group if you want to come back to them later, you get infinity of those. the idea of leaving a web browser with one million tabs open just weirds me out. by sheer probability one of those is going to be mining bitcoins or something. just close them.
edit: yes it is also fine to leave tabs open the world is big and broad and all kinds of things can happen in it
edit2: i don't understand the discourse as in i don't know why it is such a big deal and worth talking about, despite generally being interested in the design of digital interfaces and how they influence behavior. it just doesn't seem like a big problem to me! the ephemerality of being on a website is not something that weighs on my soul but it is fine if it does yours!
edit3: truly! the last thing i wanted! was to engage in tabs remaining open discourse!
@jospueyo @jimbob I've used both, and both as a maintainer and a user I prefer python by far. The absence of a proper version / dependency solver in R, forcing one to rely on CRAN snapshots for reliable setups, borders on unusable for developing any kind of somewhat complex system. As a (co-) maintainer of a CRAN package, the very existence / need for something like revdepcheck is somewhere between concerning and insane.
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Looking into some #rstats code attached to a paper.
The code won't run now, because it relies on a package that has been archived (removed) from CRAN.
This package had been around for over a decade, with updates over a time.
Looking into why it was removed, it appears that one of the package examples required downloading a GeoTIFF file from a website. It seems that, at the time CRAN tried to run and test this code, the server hosting that file happened to have an expired SSL certificate. The certificate and website is now fine. The example code was marked "don't run".
Maintainers, understandably, gave up on CRAN's bullshit and have not bothered with the package since, or trying to get it back on CRAN.
Good job, CRAN.
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I hated the ill-informed dogpiling of @danielvanstrien.bsky.social 's Bluesky dataset.
However, I'm also not persuaded that was a tipping point that prevented bsky from developing a ML community. That's the kind of morally legible history people always like to write — which makes me suspicious. +
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:565ebob5f6hw33hjdkxty6qj/post/3lhh6nn5n6s2n
I did see that the timing of the HF stuff coincided with a drop in ML posting. But it also coincided with a drop in other people posting, and there...
@matdevdug I have a recurrent intrusive thought that some rich shitposter should buy the eggs.com domain and start a mastodon instance called eggs dot com, the Everything App
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In our first 2025 show( https://embedded.fm/episodes/493 ) we talk about what makes an embedded developer stand out, “LEGO block” based design, unit tests, and astronomy.
Here's Chris on keeping an eye out for overengineering systems:
Thank you to Nordic Semi for sponsoring the show!
#embedded #engineering #podcast #astronomy #lego #mind #testing
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"Oh, my gosh, [computer science] isn’t for me… I don’t dream in code like they do.”
- Female student at Carnegie Mellon University, in Margolis, J., & Fisher, A. (2002). Unlocking the clubhouse: Women in computing. Cambridge: MIT Press (p 69)
also in Cheryan, S., Plaut, V. C., Handron, C., & Hudson, L. (2013). The stereotypical computer scientist: Gendered media representations as a barrier to inclusion for women. Sex roles, 69, 58-71.
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At the Scala Center advisory board we're discussing Eugene's SCP-034 proposal on artifact publishing, which I googled but I think this isn't the right one?
@SethTisue that seems to me like a very reasonable way to safely publish artifacts
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but the natural instinct is to crank up whatever's fun a little more. heighten the stimulation. expand the palate. binge harder. break the record - and the juice is back, for a little while.
and then we have another group that's like "well better not take off at all, then there are no crashes". okay, but have you considered safe landings? it's a possibility, if you schedule for your bodies natural desire to come down, and find a way to make "meh-time" feel productive, social and healthy.
@lritter so, not like Jever?
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this east frisian style black tea by teekanne smells shroomy and has a slightly bitter lingering chlorophyllic aftertaste.
disappointing, but somewhat expected, provided that this is the cheapest offering of the brand.
i trust that these are only aromatic defects and nothing worse.
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A new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month presents HH 30 in unprecedented resolution: https://esawebb.org/images/potm2501a/ - it is an edge-on #protoplanetary disc that is surrounded by jets and a disc wind, and is located in the dark cloud LDN 1551 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud.
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19yo son who studies biomedical science shared this and titled it etheriophage. 💯 #meme #computervirus #infosec
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We're talking a lot about principled data saving. But there is also principled data destruction, researchers' obligation to destroy any data that might bring unanticipated harm to participants because the potential control and use of that data has changed and some sensitive piece of information could put someone at risk.
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code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Recovering reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.
Joined Jul 2023
