@xkcd.com has made a great addition to Maps Without New Zealand: xkcd.com/3122/
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@xkcd.com has made a great addition to Maps Without New Zealand: xkcd.com/3122/
Good! Then there'll be no problem building the nuclear reactor powering all those shiny GPUs...
Since you're unemployed now, you could step up the blogging -- I hear that @hpcguru.bsky.social has become available ;)
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From my daughter.
Is Shane on bluesky yet?
Sure I could manually delete things, but why get in the way of automation. #kubernetes #crashloopbackoff
imgflip.com/i/9ciny8
Solving f(x)=0 is just Newton's method, right? Well the #julialang nonlinear solvers have had lots of innovations in this very common numerical problems. Our nonlinear solvers demonstrate robustness where #SciPy fails to converge. See the details in this manuscript:
arxiv.org/abs/2403.16341
@xkcd.com so you're saying that we have Iceland thanks to committees?! Promise to stop ridiculing my employer's cube committee right away.
Lucky you! My work and family requires that I fly a couple of times a year 😔
When people pose for these things, why in the name of all things that are holy must they smile?!?! I think we need a social contract where folks posing for an airline's sadistic scheme to extract more money from their prisoners need to look exactly how they would if they encountered this IRL
Oh! Families AND those unfortunate souls that booked late
Agreed. But the fighter escort seating looks like a fun ride too!
X Value xkcd.com/2861
Actually that's how units work. You put the unit at the end. 10cm. 15s. 23W. And so on. Given that manual book keeping, and paper checks are no longer a thing, it's fair enough to re-evaluate anti-forgery punctuation.
I'm impressed that you found the symbol for the mill. Or did you copy ₥ from Wikipedia? -- as I just did.