sojournTime @sojournTime@social.cleverlibre.org

I survived to my seminar, now I can crash and sleep the whole afternoon

I found this article to be personally relevant.
My parents had to slip over the border for their wedding. At the time, "mix-race" marriage was illegal in the state of Virginia.

https://www.tor.com/2022/05/03/star-trek-wah-chang-and-the-ongoing-legacy-of-balance-of-terror/

Wednesday May 9th, Tai-Danae Bradley and I are giving talks on entropy and category theory.

Her talk will dig into the consequences of an amazing fact: the function at the heart of entropy, namely

d(x) = -x ln x ,

obeys a version of the product rule!

(1/n)

So y2k type bug, baby version: browser versions hitting three digits. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/02/version-100-in-chrome-and-firefox/

"I wish I could compile LaTeX in my browser"

*monkey's paw curls a finger*

https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/pyodide-plastex/

Wow

IBM Computing Cheese Cutter [Restoration]

https://youtu.be/z8VhNF_0I5c

Thufir Tuesdays.

#dune #rimshot

Confused by the relationships between #python types? This may help.

One day i will invent a new kind of indentation and cause a massive war across the whole computer science

Students are stressed studying for finals right now, so my college did the only reasonable thing: bring a therapy llama to campus.

Inside Apple's Hefty DIY iPhone Repair Kit

https://gizmodo.com/apple-self-service-repair-tool-kit-rentals-are-massive-1848848298

Researchers have a formula for getting in the flow ~ Math:

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-formula.html

#Science #Psychology

"Choosing the Right Integers" (C to #RustLang)

https://www.thecodedmessage.com/posts/programming-integers/

"Data Brokers" (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)

https://youtu.be/wqn3gR1WTcA

I heavily suggest giving this a read, and I'd love to hear anyone's take on it. I think this article is pretty much on point, and that worries me greatly.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/

philosophy of mathematics and logic book

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-84706-7

I am just so busy this week. I might pass the thousand page mark for math literature read this month.