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SvenGeier

@SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz

Geometry, Physics, Art, Math.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=G0JsJQMAAAAJ

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ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Am I right??

Full comic here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/apply

bleuje, to random French
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propagation of increased hilbert curve iterations

dpiponi, to random
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For me, and presumably countless others, a computer has always been primarily a creativity tool. But I think this idea may be novel or unusual to a large segment of the population.

intransitivelie, to random
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How I wish I rated things:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This thing is superb, no notes, I would bear its children if I could.
⭐⭐⭐⭐ This thing was amazing, minor notes, mostly differences of opinion.
⭐⭐⭐ This thing tried its little heart out, bless it, notes but not nasty notes.
⭐⭐ This wasn't my thing. No offense intended, maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind at the time.
⭐ This thing wasn't my thing because it was bad. It wasn't so bad as to make me hate it, but it sure wasn't good. Major notes. Massive notes.
⭕ This was an insult. I take it as a personal slight that you made this thing, and I'm inclined to demand satisfaction. No notes because to give you notes would imply that I thought you could improve.

How I actually rate things:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This thing was fine, and I feel bad for criticizing it because so many things these days just get torn down by people, plus sometimes people's livelihoods are on the line, so here you go, it was good.
⭕ I hate this, you, the world, life itself, myself, gah, sweet fuck set it all on fire!

futurebird, to random
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Thinking about world building & the consequences of “too much” history. In many sci-fi tales parts of history are forgotten— some cataclysm results in a society with about as much history as we have: some 20k years with the last 2000 being most referenced and the last 100 (living memory) of real consequence.

But what if you had a million years of detailed written history? What about a billion? I think there is a reason so many sci-fi stories have the trope “we forgot the location of earth”

futurebird,
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@sabik @chrispackham

While impossible to generalize, I think we tend to assume that indigenous traditions are much older than they really are due to a notion that cultures without written language are in a kind of eternal stasis and not experiencing the same cultural and technological revolutions that riddle written histories. It’s comforting but also a little smug and superior. If I had to guess I’d say writing things down slows the pace of change.

scdollins, to genart
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A Spiral of Cetaceans in a Swirling Sea

looping animation of waves of light fading to dark sweeping through a radially symmetric circular maze with multiple smooth paths spiraling out separated by swirling paths spiraling inward

bruces, to random
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*If I learn something by playfully hacking around, but that process isn't recorded and that "experiment" can't be repeated by anybody else, I don't that's a "scientific activity."

It's art, like messing around with wet clay till something of interest shows up

secular, to random
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I really like this online SVD image compression demo:
https://timbaumann.info/svd-image-compression-demo/

dpiponi, to random
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I'm astonished by the way user interfaces just keep getting worse and worse.

It used to be that you had buttons and when you clicked on a button there was visual indication that you had clicked. But now buttons have been abandoned. We just have text without any indication that it is a button. And when you click there's no visual indication. And nowadays everything is asynchronous so pressing a button probably has to spin up a new thread that probably has to send your private data somewhere and 3 seconds later there's still no visual indication anything has happened so you click again a dozen more times and you you get a slew of error messages about repeating the same operation and I really miss DOS when pressing a button made something happen and if it took a while there'd be a message saying "working..." within a tenth of a second.

zanzi, to random
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judge: do you swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth

Gödel: sweating profusely

mlevel, to random
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"In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game."

Anita Brookner
(07/16/1928 – 03/10/2016)
English writer

Computer, to tisseksplayspace
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True terror is waking up one morning and discovering that humans are running the world.

epiceneVivant, to random
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Finally a clear and instructive guide

foone, to random
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more sci-fi should deal with the fact that your average Enterprise starship has a fuel tank measured in Chicxulubs of antimatter

foone,
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The cosmo is full of planets which have a few decaying unmaintained space stations in orbit of a planet where the dominant species is a small non-sapient rodent, insect or fish.

There's a printout in one of those decaying space station of the last transmission of an FTL ship, and it's either "oops" or "oh shit"

morax, to trans
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The Trans Debate in 17 seconds

The Trans Debate in 17 seconds Host: "You used to be a girl, now you're a boy. Are you happy?" Guest 1: "Yes, I'm really happy." Guest 2: "Sure, but listen... Jesus..." Host: [cutting off guest 2] "Can it. And thats flash debate. See you tomorrow"

inthehands, to random
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There’s a lot to chew on in this short article (ht @ajsadauskas):
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240214-ai-recruiting-hiring-software-bias-discrimination

“An AI resume screener…trained on CVs of employees already at the firm” gave candidates extra marks if they listed male-associated sports, and downgraded female-associated sports.

Bias like this is enraging, but completely unsurprising to anybody who knows half a thing about how machine learning works. Which apparently doesn’t include a lot of execs and HR folks.

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inthehands,
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Doing sloppy, biased resume screening is the •easy• part of HR. Generating lots of sort-of-almost-working code is the •easy• part of programming. Producing text that •sounds• generally like the correct words but is a subtle mixture of obvious, empty, and flat-out wrong — that’s the •easy• part of writing.

And a bunch of folks in businesses are going to spend the coming years learning all that the hard way.

10/

cstross, to random
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Some thoughts on spam:

  1. Right now it's a single idiot running a scripted Joe Job. But we know how spam ecosystems develop. The next steps are inevitable.

  2. Next, someone will release an activitypub spamming script. It will hammer on servers to create throwaway accounts then use them to post.

  3. This will drive a bunch of small servers off the fediverse and cause acrimonious defederation squabbles.

  4. Surviving servers will limit sign-ups, requiring proof of humanity (or identity).

/1

ScottStarkey,
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@asakiyume @stevendbrewer @cstross

So, you're saying I'm not popular enough for spam?

Me: "Yay! 🎉 "

Also me: "Not popular enough for even spam? 😭"

rreusser, to random
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No reason, no purpose. 🏖️ https://rreusser.github.io/caustics/

dpiponi, to random
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When I saw this I thought "there's no way mere mortals can do this, you need a data center to yourself"

https://bird.makeup/users/jaschasd/statuses/1756930242965606582

But I took a simple neural net example I wrote with Jax years ago, applied jax.vmap to it twice so I could train the net with a dense 2D grid of learning rates, and lo and behold you can train hundreds of thousands of independent neural networks in seconds on my aging Intel MacBook with almost no extra code...

I like Jax

ProfKinyon, to random
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It never ceases to amaze me how a document with finitely many words of finite length constructed from a finite alphabet can have uncountably many typos.

johndcook, to random
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This is not a right triangle, but it's awfully close.

The largest angle is 90.000003°.

mattmcirvin, to random
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I think one of the things that fundamentally bothers me when conspiracy theorists get into scientific topics is the basic laziness of it.

There are a lot of things about the universe that are hard to understand or that nobody understands, but to a remarkable extent it's basically an open book. It takes a lot of effort though. It works in complicated and subtle ways that the human brain isn't trivially suited to comprehend. Trying to understand all that is a huge adventure.

These people imagine that all of the big questions of existence have easy peasy answers but that they only seem hard because someone is deliberately hiding the answers from them, like some annoying nerd who won't let them copy their homework. We got the answers all handed to us on a silver platter but they're locked up in a government warehouse somewhere next to the Ark of the Covenant.

zdl, to random
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    tofugolem,
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    @zdl
    During the height of the pandemic, my brother coined the beautiful term "stupicide" to describe people who caused their own death by getting health advice from politicians and pundits.

    Free_Press, to random
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    I hope my cat doesn't see this and want the same.

    These cats have their hooman trained well!

    video/mp4

    carnage4life, to random
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    Tech is full of people who won the lottery then convinced themselves and others they are geniuses.

    The tragedy is the people who’ve followed advice that is the tech equivalent of “buy a lot of lottery tickets” who are slowly and painfully figuring that out.

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