KeyeoH @keyeoh@social.cleverlibre.org

A perfect meme!

Something often lost in the programming world is that it is possible to enjoy the *process* of coding more than the result.

Showing off the results are often not notable, IMO. Probably 90% of the hobby projects I do are things that have been done a million times before, but the difference is that *I* did them. The process was the purpose.

I don't know how to show that off or share it, really, without also giving an artifact (source code, app, etc) away.

It was never about the artifact for me.

Reminded of the “Kurt Vonnegut goes to buy an envelope” quote. One of the best expressions of the joys of careful and deliberate inefficiency I’ve read.

Posted as image because the alt text has a higher character limit than a toot so I can paste the whole text as actual text there. Weird huh.

I’ve been reading some of the criticism of the BBC creating their own Mastodon instance. Those against fall mostly into “they promote Transphobia” or “they skewed Brexit coverage” Both seem fair.

BBC creating an instance is good for Fediverse. Period. Just because they are on your street doesn’t mean you have to invite them in for tea or read/boost their posts / support them at all

BUT - If BBC fails *no one* else you DO want to read will follow here.

#fediverse #Journalism #BBCBias #BBC

Never buy a PC with a power button on top. N E V E R.

There's a big research group in my field that "forgets to upload" major parts of the raw data in every single paper I looked at over the last 10 years. In the methods of their "high impact" papers they claim to provide everything, but when you check, some crucial data are missing. Eg they only provide exomes not whole genomes, or leave out the control samples. I once even asked a Nat Gen editor who just shrugged 🤷‍♂️

What to do about it?

@academicchatter #Science #ReproducibleResearch

Starting a reading list for only normcore content around LLMs. What would you add?

Normcore = no hype, no langchain, no AI is going to destroy us all, but practical, technical readings in navigating in this brave new world.

https://gist.github.com/veekaybee/be375ab33085102f9027853128dc5f0e

Help me pick the new @pixelfed default app logo!

Like == black background
Reblog == color background

It's funny when people tell biologists to get a "real job" in the "real world". The living world *is* the real world. The world of economics and finance, real estate speculators and venture capitalists? *That* is the fake world, operating under the delusion that it isn't embedded in and entirely dependent on the the biosphere and all other aspects of the natural world. The problem is our society, which systematically favors profits in the illusory world over the well being of the real one.

@Barredo Hola Álex, he visto la cabecera de la última newsletter de mixx.io y desde aquí quería mandarte ánimos! ❤️

Espero que vayan mejor las próximas semanas! 🙌

Remembering that time I wrote an internal #RStats tutorial using bookdown and made one of these fake O'Reilly covers and the IT boss contacted my boss telling her I was violating copyrighted material

Ooh, a good one by way of @davidgerard — screecaps show what happens when you ask ChatGPT how many sunflowers you need to process to extract 1 litre of sunflower oil. By page 3 we're well into straitjacket territory …

(NOTE: Unfortunately I can't provide alt-text for these images, I tried but they each contain over 1500 characters; you'll need to OCR them yourself. They're in sequence, 1-4.)

mind blown by NixOS again - runing `nixos-rebuild build-vm` makes a virtual machine clone of your computer from its config - or any other NixOS config file. and then it prints the instructions to boot from it, and a few seconds later you're logged into a mini-me version of your PC, whoa

lately I've been thinking I want to replace my crufty Ubuntu home server with NixOS, and this will let me stage a new setup easily in a VM

way cool nerd shit. good job Nix!

#nixos #linux

20x faster pgvector alternative written in Rust

https://github.com/tensorchord/pgvecto.rs

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/tensorchord/pgvecto.rs

#compsci #databases #machinelearning #programming #rustlang

Can your phone do this?

#nixos #mobilenixos #nix #nixthefuture #byebyeandroid

🎯 This is what you call "nailing it":

Via Brian Karem:

#Trump supporters are RIGHT!

There is a two-tiered justice system.

But when you're charged with 78 felonies in 3 different jurisdictions, have your own private plane and can keep your passport, without having to get a mug shot or make bail, then guess which tier you belong to?

tl,dr; it’s email