ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Computer science pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper was born #OTD in 1906.

As far as I’m aware, she is the only person who has both a supercomputer and a US Navy destroyer named after her.

Image: Computer History Museum

Storytime:

One stormy winter's night, a knight named Sir Guy rode down the #Northumberland coast. The knight searched for shelter, but the coast was wild and empty.

In a flash of lightning, he saw the ramparts and towers of a castle perched above the raging sea: Dunstanburgh Castle. On riding up, he thought the place deserted, until with a crash of thunder, the door was thrown open.

There stood a giant of a man, surrounded by flickering flames. The man bade Sir Guy follow him into a great, echoing stone hall, lit by an eerie light.

All around the hall were sleeping knights, and at the centre lay the figure of a sleeping queen with a crown upon her brow.

The giant presented Sir Guy with a choice: blow the horn that lay by the queen, or draw the sword from the scabbard beside it. Only the right choice would wake the queen. Sir Guy hesitated in indecision, but finally thought that drawing the sword could be seen as a threat, and instead wound the horn.

With another thunderclap and a rushing of wind, Guy fell senseless to the floor. He awoke to a cold, clear dawn. He was outside, the castle was a ruin, and although he searched, he could find no trace of the hall or the sleeping queen.

Sir Guy returned many times to Dunstanburgh, haunted by the wrong choice he had made, but he never saw the queen or the flaming man again.

It's said that his ghost still haunts the ruins, ever fruitlessly searching.

#Storytelling #FolkStory #Folklore #Stories #Winter #GhostStory

China's social credit system is not what it seems. good report by AlgorithmWatch https://r.algorithmwatch.org/nl3/sv94Xx-cTJFrPnlvkG76VA?m

As A'v annoonced - that's me pitten 100% o the Mastodon interface intae Scots
Noo it wants luiked ower, an suggestit edits afore we verify the translation an push tae hae it incluidit. If ye'r wantin tae tak pairt in gaun forret wi this project, pit yersel forret in the replies tae this, an A'll bring aab'dy thegither.
Owersettin principle is thit as monie Scots speakers unnerstaun a simple Scots.
@trumpet cuid ye please gie this a wee heeze (boost) tae get the wird oot athort the server. 🐘

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day.

Teach a man to fish, and you'll be fending off random and oddly-specific fishing questions for the rest of your life.

If this garbage can photo brings you joy, you know what to do.

#Fensterfreitag is too much fun. Another picture out my window this morning, but with some #wildturkeysofmastodon

Having laws on the books that have no penalty and laws that we are saying apply to SCOTUS Justices but in reality do not is ridiculous. If we want rule of law it must apply to everyone equally.

Hoar Frost on a very special morning in the Lakes today. #lakedistrict #landscapephotography #nikon

#blackmastadon #blackjoy new day #blackjoy

@ceoln @AndyGER I did a video overview about #Friendica at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS6oAy7ibqc which may help show what it does

Cards for Insight: Generative Sequences

Moon & Mars Occultation

#astrophotography #moon #mars #eclipse

a debugging manifesto

Time for a new #introduction on the new instance

I'm Esther, a queer, polyamorous, autistic goth lady, into electronic music, synthesizers, movies, tattoos, cooking, photography, video, and writing, among other things.

I quit a 15 year tech career and will go back to university to study psychology after recovering from burnout.

I'm one of the admins of https://strangeobject.space

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#goth #tattoo #synthesizer #mastoadmin #psychology #cooking #movies #eletronicmusic #photography #videography

@ScaredyCat Here's an abridged summary:

Pi: "We hired this cop. Isn't he neat? He used to use our product for surveillance, in his job as a cop!"

Pi users: "Uh... That's a little concerning. This type of cop has caused some of us a lot of undue trauma and legal trouble in the past. Are you sure you don't want to have a discussion about this...?"

Pi: "Oh, don't be so childish. He's just a funny little guy! Look! He has a lightsaber!"

Pi users: "..."

Pi: "We're going to block you, now."

RT @biblioracle@twitter.com

In case it's not clear the #ChatGPT just makes stuff up. None of these articles exist, and all of them are dated prior to the actual publication date (Dec. 2018) of my own book, which I asked about.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/biblioracle/status/1599545554006003712

One of my favorite #mathematics papers is a paper by Milnor "On manifolds homeomorphic to the 7-sphere" from 1956.
https://www.scribd.com/document/75338163/John-Milnor-On-Manifolds-Homeomorphic-to-the-7-Sphere
It's only 7 pages long (8 with bibliography). Milnor showed that there exists a smooth 7-manifold homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to the 7-sphere. The proof is absolutely beautiful and has influenced much of the development of high dimensional topology to this day.

Cryptocurrency folks: let's smash the legacy banking system!

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Cryptocurrency folks: oh, so that's why banks do accounting