sojournTime @sojournTime@social.cleverlibre.org

Playing with bevel gears, with @sabetta.

Yesterday would be the 35th birthday of Aaron Swartz.

He's been fighting for a free and open Internet and has tragically passed away after a legal battle in 2013.

He's been an important part of Creative Commons, Reddit (co-founder), Open Library, Demand Progress and many more.

A documentary:
https://vidcommons.org/w/jW7wSVvHF4o7LCTdaCCUQ2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

#AaronSwartz #CreativeCommons #OpenLibrary #Reddit #DemandProgress #Freedom #Internet

For legitimate pedagogical reasons, I just searched my Google Drive for "dank".

Microsoft Visual C++ ... Runtime Error!

What I wrote:
After consultation, we think this result is new

What I meant:
I asked the guy in the office next to mine and he said he'd never heard of it

What I wrote:
We conclude by formulating a conjecture about [...] and then prove one case under a mild technical assumption...

What I meant:
The mild technical assumption never holds in practice

The Puppy Gesserit litany:

[deep breath]

I must not chase. Squirrel is the mind-killer. Squirrel is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my squirrel. I will permit it to pass over me not through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the squirrel has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

@rythur Our current monetary system may be dumb, but life would be overly complicated if we still had to use trade or a barter system to get things. Pooling resources and distributing has never worked well in practice, except at small scale (too much incentive to cheat, not much incentive to produce). Does that leave anything other than taking what you need by violence?

I've noted before that most of the neural network books on my shelf are blue. That's probably a coincidence, but the similarity between these two programming languages book covers (from different publishers) is just weird.

Good news for #Portland! I know people who have been working on #RankedChoice (#InstantRunoff) voting for decades. It solves the "spoiler problem" by letting you vote for the candidate you like best rather than guessing how everyone else is going to vote and weighing "lesser evil" choices.

#pdx #democracy #voting

Measure to Change Portland Charter Can Stay on Ballot, Judge Rules https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/2022/08/15/45061907/measure-to-change-portland-charter-can-stay-on-ballot-judge-rules

Overheard: "Dude, I'm clearly the Frodo and you're clearly the Sam."

Experimenting with some CNC engraving of @saulsch's and my Cannon-Thurston paths with
my brother Will Segerman.

Some part of our "ability" to read things from faces of other humans seems to be projection, while we intuitively think otherwise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_effect

Pentester says he broke into Datacenter via hidden route running behind Toilets

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/07/lock_down_your_piss_corridor/

Before I actually start explaining entropy, a warning:

It can be hard to learn about entropy at first because there are many kinds - and people often don't say which one they're talking about.

Here are 5 kinds. Luckily, they are closely related!

(1/n)

#fireknife #SivaAfi #fire #dance

@jalefkowit So maybe go the whole way and situate computing in the social sciences? This paper makes an interesting argument:
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/8/246368-why-computing-belongs-within-the-social-sciences/fulltext

The gameshow host gently explains the rules to you:

Behind one door is a Hall.
Another has a Carlo.
One contains a Python.

If you pick a door, you'll get the option to choose a different door. You can repeat this as many times as you like.

Then a foot will descend & crush you.