Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app

@channingwalton yeah, as much as I hate Eclipse and love VS Code, Scala IDE for Eclipse was pretty fantastic and switching to the Dotty plugin for VS Code was a big step back for my productivity....

@pokateo recently found an online dataset that could be opened in ArcGIS Pro, but had some weird setting s.t. you couldn't re-export it as a shapefile 🤔

@adrian @regehr Cache / memory hierarchy effects are of course very strong too, so it’s possible a smaller working set and less pointer chasing still wins out over the contention issues, but an interesting phenomenon to consider

@adrian @regehr FWIW, denser data structures may actually have adverse effects if you need to insert/remove elements dynamically. The standard binary heap implementation (relying on fullness for its depth bound) concentrates contention along paths between the leaves and the root, where a Braun heap (relying on balance for its depth bound) diffuses contention.

@adrian @regehr if you haven't already, it's probably worth reading the HPC literature on implementing Barnes-Hut style tree approximations on GPU. There are some pretty neat tricks in, for example, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1106.1900.pdf

@rechelon in case you didn't already see this news: https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-andor-scripts-disney-plus-tony-gilroy-1850391202

@RockyC just gonna leave this here https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrdgriGgNxy/

stop_doing_math.png / "statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged" / "they have played us for absolute fools"

- unsigned_root = p**third
+ degenerate_p, p = _safe_denom(p)
+ unsigned_root = tf.where(degenerate_p, tf.constant(0., p.dtype), tf.exp(third*tf.math.log(p)))

this_is_fine.gif

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/60468

Can we talk about how, to the consternation of parents everywhere, toddlers turn every single thing you give them into a Non-Fungible Token.

Gotta love the polarization of #StarWars fandom where half the takes I've seen on #TheMandalorian Season 3 are complaining about "Glup Shitto" and "why does everyone in the galaxy know each other" anytime we see someone we've met before, and the other half are complaining that Luke isn't showing up to save the day 🧐

@andrewliptak thought I saw you were on the exhibitor list for the VT SF/F expo but didn’t spot your booth anywhere?

@simon_brooke @olimould visiting some of the palaces around St Petersburg a few years ago was eye opening in a "oh neat, this is what it looks like when you dump an entire empire's GDP into gold leaf" kind of way and also in a "well no fucking kidding that they did a revolution" kind of way

@regehr @palvaro every action has an immediate reward signal with large absolute value

@regehr @palvaro one of my favorite core-strength and balance exercises in the summer is what I like to call “blackberry picking yoga”. Appropriate attire: minimalist footwear, cargo shorts, and a Tupperware.

@SwiftOnSecurity this was my first Linux (before the name changed).