I didn't take notes enough in the opening talk to remember which venue cat this is, at North Bay Python 2023 #nbpy
Entry: 2024-02-21 20:12:23.767164+01 diversion from church maintenance, like bell polishing by Dan Lyke comments 0
Spain: Priest arrested in Don Benito for 'selling Viagra'
Via Girl on the Net @girlonthenet@mastodon.social who observed:
Looks like he'll be doing some...
... hard time.
😎
RT Thank Fuck January’s Over @guffo@topspicy.social
@girlonthenet I bet he received a stiff sentence
Chris (so far) @perigrin@nerdfight.online<?a>
@pdcawley @girlonthenet @guffo I’d be surprised if the church doesn’t rise to the occasion here and make a hard stand against this kind of dickery.
Thank Fuck January’s Over @guffo@topspicy.social
@girlonthenet @perigrin @pdcawley I assume the church has the situation firmly in hand. I'm surprised the priest managed to pull it off for so long!
RT Chris (so far) @perigrin@nerdfight.online
@guffo @girlonthenet @pdcawley Fair. I think we can agree he has likely shafted his future with the church … just tossed it out
Matt Jones @solearther@dustbuster.club
@guffo @girlonthenet @perigrin @pdcawley I expect there’ll be a lot of criticism of the higher clergy for allowing this to occur - we’re sure to see a lot of bishop bashing over this
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Entry: 2024-02-01 01:10:03.193914+01 thing I like about C Code written back by Dan Lyke comments 3
The thing I like about C? Code written back in the '80s compiles just fine. Perl? Same damned thing.
Python? Yeah, they've got tools to manage all of the issues.
C++? Sorry, namespace semantics changed subtly, and will subtly change back, because fuck you, that's why. And deities forbid you should try to find cross-platform ways to use Boost. Just code to POSIX and do your own smart pointer types from the ground up.
[ related topics: Perl Open Source Monty Python Python hubris ]
Entry: 2024-01-05 18:28:30.649288+01 Cold Blooded Software by Dan Lyke comments 0
Yes: Cold-blooded software.
A cold-blooded project is like the baby painted turtle. You can freeze it for a year and then pick it back up right where you left off.
A cold-blooded project uses boring technology. The build and test scripts don’t depend on external services that might change, break, or disappear entirely. It uses vendored dependencies.
Of the programming languages I use, Perl seems to be the best at this. C is okay. C++ less so (wait, that library interface changed again?). JavaScript and Python seem to be awful.
[ related topics: Language Books Weblogs Perl Open Source Software Engineering Monty Python Python hubris ]
Entry: 2023-12-26 21:10:03.635558+01 I'm starting to feel like it's time for by Dan Lyke comments 3
I'm starting to feel like it's time for distributed callbacks/web mentions/etc again, if only to try to manage some of the spam better and encourage more bloggage or other resources.
Is the right way to do this Fediverse federation, or is there another modern technology for inbound links that people are playing with these days?
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Entry: 2023-12-20 18:27:00.076667+01 WaPo CEO helped Prince Harry bury misconduct accusations by Dan Lyke comments 0
NPR: New 'Washington Post' CEO Will Lewis accused of Murdoch tabloid hacking cover-up
A very different picture of Lewis emerges from material presented in London courtrooms in recent months and reviewed by NPR. The man picked to lead the Post — a paper with the slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness" — stands accused of helping to lead a massive cover-up of criminal activity when he was acting outside public view.
Likely related: BBC: US judge orders names of more than 170 Jeffrey Epstein associates to be released
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Entry: 2023-12-20 18:01:06.573407+01 Chevy dealership recommends Ford by Dan Lyke comments 0
Chevy dealership’s AI chatbot suggests Ford F-150 when asked for best truck. Chevrolet of Watsonville has been using an LLM chatbot that's capable of writing some pretty complex Python code (based on screenshots I've seen elsewhere), and... yeah...
[ related topics: Writing Monty Python Automobiles Machinery Currency Artificial Intelligence Python ]
Entry: 2023-12-03 03:35:03.580618+01 Wondering if the LLMAI hype would have by Dan Lyke comments 0
Wondering if the LLM/AI hype would have been nearly as enthusiastic if the infosphere hadn't been so polluted by SEO spam to begin with. Like if search engines still had decent results, would we be as impressed?
[ related topics: Interactive Drama Spam Monty Python Artificial Intelligence ]
Entry: 2023-11-02 21:21:44.715362+01 LLM links of the moment by Dan Lyke comments 0
RT Stephanie King @stephstephking@mstdn.social
BECAUSE WE PAID ATTENTION TO SARAH CONNOR IN T2, YOU ABSOLUTE KNOBS
RT Simon Willison @simon@simonwillison.net
New LLM paper highlighting quite how weird and ridiculous these things are https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760
Adding "it's important to my career" can produce better results, across every model they tested!
RT zellyn @zellyn@hachyderm.io
@simon I suspect that it's because these things are trained on the internet, which is 90% bad takes on things! Any kind of signifier that the answer is likely to be "expert" or "well considered" is thus likely to bias towards better answers.
I would expect: "I found this answer on a forum where only licensed medical doctors can post:" to have a positive effect.
And possibly, "Please don't reply unless you have personal experience with this problem: I've had enough answers that were guesses!"
[ related topics: Invention and Design Current Events Monty Python Net Culture Community Artificial Intelligence Model Building ]
Entry: 2023-10-19 21:30:33.54657+02 Python & Pandas by Dan Lyke comments 0
I’m banned for life from advertising on Meta. Because I teach Python.
That’s right: I teach courses in Python and Pandas. Never mind that the first is a programming language and the second is a library for data analysis in Python. Meta’s AI system noticed that I was talking about Python and Pandas, assumed that I was talking about the animals (not the technology), and banned me. The appeal that I asked for wasn’t reviewed by a human, but was reviewed by another bot, which (not surprisingly) made a similar assessment.
[ related topics: Language Books Software Engineering Consumerism and advertising Monty Python Artificial Intelligence Python ]
Entry: 2023-10-07 00:41:33.045252+02 malicious Python packages by Dan Lyke comments 0
Bleeping Computer: Hundreds of malicious Python packages found stealing sensitive data
Checkmarx reports that the malware used in this campaign goes a step further from typical info-stealing operations, engaging in app data manipulation to perform a more decisive blow.
Malware package list at https://gist.github.com/master...65b55a117fe2ea33735f05024abc92c2
Via Jack William Bell @jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com
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Entry: 2023-10-06 23:24:28.836939+02 Singapore automobile Certificate of Entitlement costs by Dan Lyke comments 0
That's one way to fund automobile infrastructure: Cost of car ownership soars in Singapore
The cost of a certificate to own a large family car in Singapore has jumped to a fresh record high of S$146,002 ($106,619; £87,684).
[ related topics: Sociology Current Events Monty Python Automobiles ]
Entry: 2023-09-26 20:11:29.106946+02 possession is 99% of the law by Dan Lyke comments 0
British Museum asks public and experts to help recover stolen artifacts.
Via Jay Miller @kjaymiller@mastodon.social who asked the obvious question:
Wait the UK government is asking people to steal back from their museums?
[ related topics: moron Current Events Monty Python Art & Culture Beer ]
Entry: 2023-09-13 19:56:28.241871+02 the important AI use case is getting venture capital funding. by Dan Lyke comments 1
Pondering that GPT is going to replace programming, and all of my LinkedIn spam recently is OpenAI positions... Amy Castor and David Gerard: Pivot to AI: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain:
Remember, the important AI use case is getting venture capital funding.
Nailed it.
[ related topics: Spam Software Engineering Law Monty Python Artificial Intelligence ]
Entry: 2023-08-14 19:05:04.243882+02 Was trying to find information this by Dan Lyke comments 0
Was trying to find information this morning on food safety and cyanoacrylates. Amazing how the SEO spam has completely overrun Google, and how the vestige of usefulness that could have been there has been destroyed by the semantic matching which means that it was showing me results for all sorts of other adhesives.
[ related topics: Spam Food Monty Python ]
Entry: 2023-08-03 19:55:02.180307+02 Simon Willison's North Bay Python talk by Dan Lyke comments 0
Simon Willison's North Bay Python talk on LLMs is up, and I recommend it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8Jth_ijZyY
Notes at:
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/3/weird-world-of-llms/
[ related topics: Movies Monty Python California Culture Guns Python ]
Entry: 2023-08-03 02:55:03.447268+02 Well by Dan Lyke comments 1
Well, the plaque spam suggests that my name is on another one, US patent 11692845. Some day I'll actually make money from one of these.
[ related topics: Intellectual Property Spam Monty Python Currency ]
Entry: 2023-08-01 18:22:56.55296+02 Scripts and Scripting by Dan Lyke comments 0
I think this could have been a little bit more, but that may be because I had lunch with Marissa the day before and we had much of the discussion. It was, however, one of those talks that helped me make some additional reconceptualizations of programming and think about things a bit more, especially as some of the conversations at the conference have me pondering all sorts of issues about community and programming language as religious endeavors, and the similarities between comments and stage direction.
[ related topics: Religion Movies Software Engineering Writing Monty Python California Culture Community Video Conferences Python ]
Entry: 2023-07-31 19:06:27.191171+02 Dunder Seuss by Dan Lyke comments 0
Brilliance, and a deep dive into Python objects and internal methods to do operator overloading and subscripting and all of those fun things: "Oh the (Methods) You Can (Make): By Dunder Seuss" - Josh Cannon (North Bay Python 2023) (YouTube video)
[ related topics: Movies Monty Python California Culture Video Python ]
Entry: 2023-07-31 17:25:03.453505+02 last weekend at NBPY I made my usual by Dan Lyke comments 0
This last weekend at #NBPY I made my usual conversation about how every time I started a project in Python, I ended up wishing I'd used C++. That led to a discussion of the white male-ness of the C++ community, which is valid, but I'm wondering about the connection to those talking about the processes of building specific zoning plans, and how people crowing about the successes of that process for the CPSC while the lots remain vacant and weed filled, and we lack so much housing.
[ related topics: Monty Python Community Race Real Estate Python ]
Entry: 2023-07-31 03:40:02.903466+02 Saving off White Coast Captioning https by Dan Lyke comments 0
Saving off White Coast Captioning https://whitecoatcaptioning.com/ so that I can find it again when I need closed-captioning services, did a fantastic job at North Bay Python
[ related topics: Monty Python Heinlein California Culture Race Python ]
Entry: 2023-07-31 03:05:04.565334+02 Moment from North Bay Python two by Dan Lyke comments 0
Moment from North Bay Python: two people from different divisions of the same company sat down at lunch, one asked "So what team are you on", there was a pause, and I got to interject "Uh, yeah, I play for the other one..."
Good convention. Neat venue. You should make plans to be here next year. #NBPY
[ related topics: Monty Python California Culture Python ]
Entry: 2023-07-29 23:15:02.818117+02 I didn't take notes enough in the by Dan Lyke comments 0
I didn't take notes enough in the opening talk to remember which venue cat this is, at North Bay Python 2023 #nbpy
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Entry: 2023-07-20 18:40:03.394796+02 North Bay Python is next weekend I'm by Dan Lyke comments 0
North Bay Python is next weekend. I'm gonna bike there. See any of y'all at it?
https://2023.northbaypython.org/
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Entry: 2023-05-11 18:20:02.257012+02 way to tell that the current wave of AI by Dan Lyke comments 0
The way to tell that the current wave of AI hype is hogwash, aside from dramatically declining search result quality, is that nobody's harnessing it to solve the obvious problems: email spam, social media moderation, Pinterest in the search results.
When LLMs can solve those issues, I'm interested.
[ related topics: Spam Journalism and Media Monty Python Artificial Intelligence ]
Entry: 2023-04-06 00:22:04.969678+02 BMC Infectious Diseases and the peer review process by Dan Lyke comments 0
Chronicle of Higher Education: This Questionable Study Caught Fire in Anti-Vaccine Circles. How Did It Get Through Peer Review? (requires registration)
“The maintenance of scientific integrity in journals — the correction and retraction process — is fundamentally ill-equipped to deal with the pandemic,” said Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an epidemiologist and Ph.D. student at the University of Wollongong, in Australia. Having dug into dozens of shoddy Covid studies, he called the soon-to-be-retracted paper “among the worst things I’ve ever seen published.”
The Chronicle article is mostly about the peer review process and the failures in that. David Gorski has a more complete takedown of the paper itself: Economist Mark Skidmore publishes antivax propaganda disguised as a survey.
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Entry: 2023-03-10 18:47:19.735916+01 Snowflakes pressuring BBC on Attenborough by Dan Lyke comments 0
The BBC has decided not to broadcast an episode of David Attenborough’s flagship new series on British wildlife because of fears its themes of the destruction of nature would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the rightwing press, the Guardian has been told.
[ related topics: Nature and environment Invention and Design Journalism and Media Monty Python ]
Entry: 2023-02-09 20:06:21.998657+01 Turkish building code lack of enforcement by Dan Lyke comments 0
Turkey earthquake: Why did so many buildings collapse?
In Turkey, however, the government has provided periodic "construction amnesties" - effectively legal exemptions for the payment of a fee, for structures built without the required safety certificates. These have been passed since the 1960s (with the latest in 2018).
Critics have long warned that such amnesties risk catastrophe in the event of a major earthquake.
Up to 75,000 buildings across the affected earthquake zone in southern Turkey have been given construction amnesties, according to Pelin Pınar Giritlioğlu, Istanbul head of the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects' Chamber of City Planners.
Just a few days before the latest disaster, Turkish media reported that a new draft law is awaiting parliamentary approval which would grant a further amnesty for recent construction work.</blockquyote>
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Entry: 2023-02-02 19:36:10.173053+01 Large language model on M2 laptop by Dan Lyke comments 0
How to implement Q&A against your documentation with GPT3, embeddings and Datasette
Calculating embeddings with gtr-t5-large in Python
I've long wanted to run some kind of large language model on my own computer. Now that I have a M2 MacBook Pro I'm even more keen to find interesting ways to keep all of those CPU cores busy.
Running the Sentence Transformers gtr-t5-large model.
Via.
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Entry: 2023-01-21 00:11:29.22393+01 More on Andrew Tate's operation by Dan Lyke comments 0
Andrew Tate: Romanian teens explain how he approached them on social media.
She says many men of her age idolise Andrew Tate, who is 36.
"This is a big problem," she told me, "because we can't wake up in 20 years with two million Andrew Tates."
[ related topics: Current Events Journalism and Media Monty Python ]
Entry: 2022-12-17 00:41:35.725787+01 Fusion breakthrough by Dan Lyke comments 0
Best article I've read on that "fusion breakthrough": Let's celebrate the fusion breakthrough, even if it's 'bulls—t': SFGate's Drew Magary on why this isn't the holy grail — but it's still cause for celebration
[ related topics: Interactive Drama Current Events Monty Python California Culture ]
Entry: 2022-11-23 00:15:03.537805+01 Blast from the past For years I've had by Dan Lyke comments 5
Blast from the past! For years I've had an "if anyone uses webmentions, contact me" on my web page, and someone just did. And the code still works. A little susceptible to spam, but daaang.
And as I looked through the code to try to figure out what this was all about, I'm starting to think okay, maybe ActivityPub after all.
[ related topics: Interactive Drama Spam History Monty Python ]
Entry: 2022-10-26 20:43:31.25555+02 Benchmarks by Dan Lyke comments 0
This is fascinating: Python 3.11 vs 3.8, with an excursion into JavaScript and C++. An n-body simulation runs in 31.98 seconds vs Python 3.8's 96.79 seconds...
But JavaScript runs in 0.768 seconds, and C++ compiles in 0.183 seconds and runs in 0.423 seconds, with the observation that theoretically JIT languages can beat compiled languages.
[ related topics: Theater & Plays Monty Python Python ]
Entry: 2022-08-15 17:35:02.980564+02 There's not much I use my work email for by Dan Lyke comments 0
There's not much I use my work email for. Internally, we use Slack, so it's accounts & password recovery for a few services, Github, Algolia, and so forth. So why TF is said email full of recruiter spam? Who thinks this is a useful way to recruit?
[ related topics: Spam Work, productivity and environment Monty Python ]
Entry: 2022-08-03 01:31:41.661495+02 Story Sniffer by Dan Lyke comments 0
Stored off because we've talked about using machine learning to better understand square dance music filenames in SquareDesk, rather than the cobbled regex heuristics I came up with: StorySniffer - using machine learning and Python to tell whether or not a given URL points to a news story
[ related topics: Music Current Events Monty Python Education Python ]
Entry: 2022-08-02 19:24:47.618162+02 Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching by Dan Lyke comments 0
Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching
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Entry: 2022-04-22 18:20:23.792309+02 Medieval England diet by Dan Lyke comments 0
BBC: Cambridge University study finds Anglo-Saxon kings were mostly vegetarian
Dr Leggett said: "I've found no evidence of people eating anything like this much animal protein on a regular basis.
"If they were, we would find isotopic evidence of excess protein and signs of diseases like gout from the bones. But we're just not finding that.
"The isotopic evidence suggests that diets in this period were much more similar across social groups than we've been led to believe.
"We should imagine a wide range of people livening up bread with small quantities of meat and cheese, or eating pottages of leeks and whole grains with a little meat thrown in."
Food and Power in Early Medieval England: a lack of (isotopic) enrichment DOI: 10.1017/S0263675122000072
Food and Power in Early Medieval England: Rethinking Feorm DOI: 10.1017/S0263675122000084
[ related topics: Cameron Barrett Interactive Drama Invention and Design Food Current Events Monty Python Education ]
Entry: 2021-11-29 04:57:29.701301+01 On Lily Cade & transphobia by Dan Lyke comments 0
Julia Serano on Medium: On Being Explicitly Named in a Violent “Gender Critical” Manifesto
In a subsequent statement to The Guardian, Cade has claimed that “she had only attacked ‘personas’, not people.” But the thing is, I’m not a fucking “persona” — I’m an actual human being. I am a real person who regularly faces anti-trans harassment and abuse, which Cade’s posts both exacerbate and contribute to. And I sure as hell can tell the difference between critiques of my work, writings, and beliefs (which are fair game, even if I disagree with said critiques), and slanderous attempts to smear me, and trans women more generally, as “sexual predators” in tandem with calls to “lynch” and “execute” us.</bloickquote>
[ related topics: Interactive Drama Erotic Games Sexual Culture Writing Work, productivity and environment Monty Python Bicycling - Tandem ]
Entry: 2021-11-12 19:45:03.651632+01 message in my spam folder by Dan Lyke comments 0
A message in my spam folder, in French, but with the title "parking" so I tried to read it anyway because I'm always looking for good resources & potential speakers on the topic of parking...
[ related topics: Spam Monty Python ]
Entry: 2021-11-10 21:15:02.849331+01 Facebook by Dan Lyke comments 0
Facebook, out there protecting the readers of Floof Therapy from the spam that is my cat.
[ related topics: Photography Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality Spam Monty Python ]
Entry: 2021-11-10 03:10:03.976187+01 party of pedophiles and voicemail spam by Dan Lyke comments 3
The party of pedophiles and voicemail spam https://www.newsweek.com/forme...less-voicemail-robocalls-1641018
[ related topics: Sexual Culture Spam Monty Python ]
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