𝕐
@nomad421
I ♥ science & compiled, statically-typed programming languages! I dislike slop in all forms, incl. slop languages, content, products & thinking. Views my own.
Let me add - novel algorithm and data structure developer. I find it quite poor at that synthesis problem.
Software engineers who don’t find LLMs for coding useful either 1. Used it a >2mos ago and formed an opinion, before Claude Code 2. Program in an esoteric language or framework, including low level systems / C 3. Work on large preexisting codebases
Corollary : be *damned* sure you *need* C++ before you waste any time on it. If you can do anything to avoid it, try your best.
Honestly, if you care about low level development specifically, you should probably learn C first, so you know why Rust does what it does. Learn C++ if you need C++
I've been told about “consequence culture” (as opposed to cancel culture) for more than a decade now, but usually from the left. If the consequence is someone thinking you're a jerk, no problem. That’s your right. However, if the consequence violates the First Amendment, as…
She has no pass for the consequences of her free speech, however.
For crying out loud, you can't remove a school's federal funding because you don't like the First Amendment protected speech of one of its board members. Please remember the Hulkster’s theme song says a real American “fights for the right of every man.” And that sure includes…
As their federal Representative, I look forward to meeting with Sarah and @AlachuaSchools to discuss their federal funding.
I'm really starting to dislike Jensen and his rhetoric. He is powering the enshitification of everything, and he should stop building products that make things worse. pcgamer.com/software/ai/yo…
The seemingly rampant scale of AI reviewing and AI submissions really makes me question the legitimacy of NeurIPS and if it may be time for that community move onto another format.
Wow. I'm sorry but this is a wild take. Of course we vigilante executions are inexcusable. But if you think these prices are reflective of real costs rather than inflated nonsense largely *driven* by private insurance's intentional market distortion, you're not paying attention.
Since Luigi I've been driven kind of insane by how many people can look at stuff like this and decide that the insurance companies need some kind of violent retribution when they're the ones coming up with elaborate schemes to help manage these insane costs in the first place
What does "face" the problem mean. In the most compelling worldviews, the world is just as it is; not all things require explaining away. To require that nature is "just" or "fair" in her ways, and that lack of this must be explained away, is hubris to the extreme.
Every worldview has to face the problem of suffering. But which one gives the best answer? In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky takes it head on. We might flinch. But he doesn’t. Here’s what he says about it🧵
🤦♂️ not per-capita, man. C'mon, absolute rookie mistake. An American is more likely to die from a gunshot wound than a European is from *any* heat related death.
Let me also mention here that PtrHash got best paper at SEA! You should check it out if you're interested in a fast hash function to map a static set of keys to values 0 to n. Paper and slides: doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs… curiouscoding.nl/slides/ptrhash
Sassy, a tool for fast approximate string matching (eg searching short DNA strings) is out now! Conceptually simple but very nice work with Rick Beeloo.
Sassy: Searching Short DNA Strings in the 2020s biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_bioinfo
My amazing PhD student Wendy Yang @muyu_wendy_yang is graduating this summer & seeking industry R&D roles! She's published in ISMB, Nature Methods, and interned at Genentech. Strong in #AI/#ML for gene regulation. Looking for top AI+bio talent? Contact Wendy: [email protected]
Congrats to @muyu_wendy_yang on a successful PhD thesis defense today! Wendy developed a series of ML methods to study genome organization & function, and genome editing - expanding our toolkit for uncovering genome principles. Here is a photo with the happy thesis committee 🎉
This level of hyperbolic black & white thinking helps nobody. The situation in med schools (to which I cannot speak as well) may be different than other academic departments. The current system is flawed in many ways, but to deny the merits it has is to fail to engage honestly.
The NIH R01 system is a scam. Universities recruit faculty just to pump out grant applications. Odds of funding? Shrinking. Impact? Irrelevant. Exhaustion? Guaranteed. It’s not a meritocracy—it’s a slot machine for bureaucrats. Fund the best scientists directly. Burn the system…
At the root of the “Christian right”, is the acceptance of and push for the least Christ-like ethical framework. Why self-proclaimed Christians would embrace an ethos and movement that is anathema to most of what Christ taught is, perhaps, a mystery of the false faith.
People used to be grieved by sin
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring"; thus, "we are the custodians of life's meaning". "If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal."
No atheist in their right mind should try to spread atheism. The problem is that no atheist is in their right mind.
False gods: - All of them; every single one.
False gods: - Allah - Buddha - Vishnu - Zeus The one true God: - Jesus
Holy shit; is this an instance where I agree with Yacine on something?
Now, listen here