@lobrien

A writer who programs. Formerly, a programmer who wrote. Ex: Azure Machine Learning, Xamarin, Gemini Observatory, magazines, etc. He/him.

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Joined May 2007
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A higher-ordered function is worth a thousand loops.
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OK. Going cold turkey on Twitter. I'll probably be back in a couple weeks. Probably.
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For programmers, it's always one thing or another.
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Alex Berryman@AlexJB49725 Oct 2022
Phenomenal. Bar-tailed Godwit has broken its own record: a first-year bird (five months old!) has flown 13,560 km—just shy of the direct flight limit of a Boeing 787—from Alaska to Tasmania, seemingly non-stop, in just 11 days (avg. speed: c.51 km/hr). facebook.com/437949496218757…
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Cover image of Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger

ALT Cover image of Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger

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Saved you a click: It has a super-prominent distinctive scar.
HitPlay Productions@HitPlayProd24 Oct 2022
New satellite imagery research led by @OttawaU becomes the first to identify a North Atlantic right whale from SPACE! The team was able to pinpoint NARW no. 3530, a.k.a. Ruffian. Find out how now: phys.org/news/2022-10-satell…

New satellite imagery first to identify endangered Gulf of St. Lawrence North Atlantic right whale...

New satellite imagery research led by the University of Ottawa is the first to identify a specific endangered Gulf of St. Lawrence North Atlantic right whale from space.

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What if not believing in intelligence is like not believing in God? Incomprehensible initially, but after "IQ is logic!" "Oh, no it isn't." "IQ is pattern reco!" "Nope." "IQ is token prediction!" etc. you end up with an IQ hiding in the gaps. Unnecessary.
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MAY10@mayur_tendulkar23 Oct 2022
So far, @xamarinhq had the best t-shirts. Simple, bright colors and minimalist designs.
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With Copilot going in to wide use, public repos will rapidly take up Copilot-written code. Future Copilot versions will, in turn, take this code as examples for future code. Tracing to original human source will be harder; code will converge towards Copilot biases.
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They're going to milkshake duck the lettuce.
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Very proud that I had the self-discipline to go into last night’s Welcome to Wrexham game ignorant of the result. Really good show!
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Dorothy Lange photo of out of work Homer Simpson  
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Firing 3/4 of your staff is not “hardcore software engineering.” “Build one to throw away” is not a prescription for HR. You’re blowing up teams, culture, processes, trust: things that take years to develop.
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can we skip to the good part
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Pretty robust regression!
Rob Sansom🐟@Sansom_Rob20 Oct 2022
Following current trends, the next PM will be in office for approximately minus 200 days
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“Russia turns to Iran for advanced weaponry,” is not a headline I was expecting to see. And yet, here we are.
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CCC Updates@chaosupdates20 Oct 2022
Ugly sweater season: Render yourself invisible to AI with this adversarial sweater of doom hackaday.com/2022/10/20/rend…

Render Yourself Invisible To AI With This Adversarial Sweater Of Doom

Ugly sweater season is rapidly approaching, at least here in the Northern Hemisphere. We’ve always been a bit baffled by the tradition of paying top dollar for a loud, obnoxious sweater that …

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Sending out my drysuit for maintenance. Marine iguanas, I'll be seeing you soon!
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After last night's House of the Dragon, guess I'll watch Charles' crowning.
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/me starts fine-tuning LLM...
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Copilot. But it writes your Connect. (Microsoft self-evaluation thing that is torture for a certain type of personality. Literally my least favorite aspect of work there.)
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