Unusual music trivia (via math.stackexchange.com/questions/4207…).

No One: Academics: It’s a shame this conference is online… I would much prefer the State fund and fly me to an otherwise cost-prohibitive conference at the Hilton in NYC, where I’ll present my research for 12 mins to nobody, and then drink wine with my buds for five days.

“Can you explain this gap in your resume” yeah I made it in LaTeX and I don’t know how to make the paragraph breaks smaller

Theoretical computer scientists make up a computer and get mad at it

Some real Neal Stephenson shit wired.com/story/malware-…

Happy Halloween. 😱 trojansource.codes

When your code fails 997 out of 1000 tests, it will probably take a lot less time to fix than when it fails 3 out of 1000 tests.

Hmm, I didn't know you could do this in #Python: >>> float(bytes([51, 46, 49, 52])) 3.14

A "Hello, world!" Haskell program that is also a palindrome

emacs on a remarkable 2, wireless edition

An underappreciated aspect of functional programming is that it's different from other styles because it arose from a historical context where the foremost goal was to formally reason about semantics, not to accomplish programming tasks on existing hardware.

The mark of a great programmer is not doing exotic stuff. It is writing code that anyone can understand and see is obviously correct by inspection. Once a year you might do something extreme--and then write a giant comment explaining why it was unfortunately necessary.

This weekend I built =GPT3(), a way to run GPT-3 prompts in Google Sheets. It's incredible how tasks that are hard or impossible to do w/ regular formulas become trivial. For example: sanitize data, write thank you cards, summarize product reviews, categorize feedback...

I'm speechless. Not peer-reviewed yet but a submitted paper. The 'presented images' were shown to a group of humans. The 'reconstructed images' were the result of an fMRI output to Stable Diffusion. In other words, #stablediffusion literally read people's minds. Source 👇

What is the difference between the two urls? one has an @ and one doesn't. But also the first downloads version 15 of postgres from GitHub and the second one resolves to v15 dot zip domain which can also downloads a zip file that sure doesn't have postgres in it. You see,

The "X is Turing-complete" Iceberg aztek.github.io/turing-complet…

Duck typing? You're thinking too small. With AI, we can finally take Guido van Rossum's dream to its logical conclusion