With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
Compare it to sports. Being a pro player is mostly boring (training, working out), and players can lose without being a villain. Every kung fu movie has a training montage. Every science movie should have something equivalent.
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A dried brown spiky seed pod at the top of a plant. In the background, out of focus, a boardwalk and a lake.
Waiting for a dog
Wow, Google Colab just added Julia support!!! 🎉
Currently sitting in a parking lot (waiting). A nearby car's alarm has been going off continuously for the better part of an hour. No one cares.
Seems on point.
I thought this article was very insightful for #programming in general, but also for scientific computing and #HPC 🔭⚛️🧪
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Two underappreciated aspects 🧵👇
“If people really understood the science behind all this, they would have a very different attitude”
Five years of the COVID-19 pandemic: An interview with Dr. Arijit Chakravarty
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American TV shows based on foreign ones should have one episode, in season 2, where they meet the foreign show. Just, like, that whole cast shows up in character for a team-up.
Open-source software for open-source hardware! The Julia programming language julialang.org now supports precompiled external dependencies for RISC-V riscv.org : github.com/JuliaPackagi.... (This means that packages such as OpenBLAS or MPI can soon be easily downloaded as binaries.)
It’s power laundering. Like money laundering.
So when a health insurance company (or any other company or person ftm) says “it’s an AI deciding this” what they really say is “our executive leadership deliberately choose to let an AI decide they fully know is fundamentally flawed”.
It always comes back to Weizenbaum’s book from 50 years ago.
I walked our dog yesterday night (on a leash). I saw a Smelly Cat (*) at the side of the road, and so did the dog. He yanked the leash, the cat ran away, and we were engulfed in the smell.
At home it turned out that the dog was completely clean (the wife confirmed), but I wasn't...
(*) skunk
A backyard lawn with part of the tree in the foreground. On the tree sits a squirrel. From the tree hangs a wheel filled with peanuts, and a blue jay is sitting on the wheel.
... and that's what they are looking at!
Two cats sitting on a rug on the floor looking through a screen door onto a stone deck. There are some rain boots behind the cats.
The cuties are looking into the backyard
Britische Forscher haben herausgefunden, dass Steuersenkungen für Reiche keinen (Trickle-Down-) Effekt auf den Wohlstand eines Landes haben. Die Reichen werden lediglich reicher und die Ungleichheit steigt.
Yes I am!
A cat (tabby) lying curled up on a cat tree. Some house plants in the background.
Whiskers is his name
A backyard with a lawn, a large tree with red leaves on the left, trees with orange and yellow leaves in the background. A bit of clear blue sky is visible.
Autumn in Ontario, Canada
