Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app
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co-Founder // Chief Science Officer at @geopipe (🖖🏻), PhD from Brown CS Dept (w/ @maurice), SMCVT alum (Math/Physics/CS), admin at Cemetech, AFOL & open-theist.
Decentralizing systems (human & digital). Opinions are my own.
📍 Vermont
Joined Nov 2022
#Introduction thread 1/n (I have **lots** of interests):
On the tech side, I like solving real-world multidisciplinary problems through an algorithmic/computational lens. Currently doing #VisualComputing / #ComputerGraphics / #ComputerVision (with a side of #DeepLearning + #MachineLearning + #ProceduralModeling). I did my PhD work on #Concurrency, #DistributedSystems, #SoftwareTransactionalMemory, and #SmartContracts.
@dev are you talking over 6'5" or
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As revenge for my PhD apps, I will now take dictatorship of types and request two (2) reference letters from existing types users if you are a professor who wants to apply to join types
@dev just DMing "senpai notice me" to yourself over and over again
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Hello, it is Follow Friday??? Who should I follow on here, it is kind of boring on my timeline.
@PariahDog @enbrown I can see both toots. I'm curious if @enbrown can see only mine (or can't see mine either because I'm also replying to you)
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how do i get back to the federation timeline
@zhuowei so a Windows XP Screensaver? 😜
@GreenFire@climatejustice.social @wrigleyfield @aug24 @blaine @amirouche I’ve only been here for a week - just reporting what I read here https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12753
Effective altruism
@damienmiller it really doesn’t take long for the followers of any religious teacher (saying very helpful/moral things) to 180° those teachings into whatever the followers want them to mean (usually justifying their own pursuit of power & comfort)
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@shriramk I remember learning HTML by viewing source in AMosaic on my Amiga. At first I thought, obviously, the “<LI>” tag must be for LInk. When I learned it was “<A>” I rationalized it as “from A to B”
I don’t remember when I finally learned what it really stood for, but by that point I’d already written plenty of Web pages. :)
@wrigleyfield @aug24 @GreenFire@climatejustice.social @blaine @amirouche but has the rather odd property that you don’t get notified I did it, and doesn’t count as a boost for you
@wrigleyfield @aug24 @GreenFire@climatejustice.social @blaine @amirouche you can basically already quote by just sharing a link like so https://fediscience.org/@wrigleyfield/109359348010728123
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@aug24 @GreenFire @blaine @amirouche
Maybe the best of all world is a QT option where the original author (the one being quoted) can decide whether to be anonymized or not (and can toggle this freely, not a one-time choice; so you could change if a dog-pile began).
In the ordinary course of things, if I write something that someone is interested in engaging with to the point that they want to create their own post commenting on it, I probably want my name on it!
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Reminder: the Roomba was originally programmed in a dialect of Lisp.
That makes sense, because the hardware is optimized for garbage collection.
@dan *slow clap* (I need an app client that makes it easy to use GIPHY…)
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Blog post: A Secret Apple Silicon Extension to Accommodate an Intel 8080 Artifact
I've made a post to share a fascinating little detail of Apple's M1 design so well explained to me by @dougall, as a follow-up to his Rosetta 2 deep-dive blog post.
- Personal
- http://sfgp.cemetech.net/
co-Founder // Chief Science Officer at @geopipe (🖖🏻), PhD from Brown CS Dept (w/ @maurice), SMCVT alum (Math/Physics/CS), admin at Cemetech, AFOL & open-theist.
Decentralizing systems (human & digital). Opinions are my own.
📍 Vermont
Joined Nov 2022
