computerscience

Entering my 53rd year. 53 is the 16th prime, and is also the number of bits used for the significand in IEEE 754 double-precision (binary64) numbers.

#birthday #math #ComputerScience

#lispyGopherClimate Sunday morning in Europe with #lisp # live @kentpitman

Going over proto #emacs, #cref, #lispm #computerScience #softwareEngineering #GUI history ! Ask questions in #lisp on #irc now please !

https://toobnix.org/w/gXLXQqxf5MYg1NDF2Ua6oA 15 minutes to live.

#Archive: https://toobnix.org/w/jWdWsrBLCFkFQYrfzbzCR8

Finally, an updated #introduction: Hello! From #Shanghai to #Montreal, now in #NewYorkCity. Master #student in #ComputerScience at #NYU Tandon, still struggling to figure out what I gonna do next. Gained notoriety for making Barinsta, now I hang out in #Matrix and ActivityPub circles and code stuff once in a while. Am a #FediAdmin. Fervent user of #PublicTransport. Knows too little of too many things. Posts are #SliceOfLife + minor commentaries. Happy to have an IRL #meetup with y'all!

Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon will be hiring adjuncts to teach Data Structures (in Python) (fall '25) and CS0 (spring '26). You must be in person and have a Master's degree.

If you happen to be interested, DM me.

#ComputerScienceEducation #CSEd #hiring #ComputerScience #education #pdx #portland

Massive compute power applied to massive data sets can produce outcomes that are worse at the task they’re (ostensibly) intended for than much simpler, easier to understand, less wasteful, and less intrusive data-light methods. It requires an extreme form of bias to believe that big compute + big data is always better.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #tech #dev #DataScience #science #ComputerScience #EcologicalRationality

I'm thinking I'll get myself a copy of Samuel Butler's Erewhon. It's on Project Gutenberg but lately I've been acquiring paper books and this seems like a good one to have in hard copy. I feel vaguely embarrassed that I've never read it, given how closely it relates to what I've researched in computer science (evolutionary algorithms and artificial life) and what I spend my time thinking about these days (clarifying why I believe machines cannot be alive or intelligent in the way we usually mean these words).

Apparently Giles Deleuze and Felix Guatarri were influenced by this book and Butler's other writings on machine life. The Butlerian Jihad of Dune is possibly named after him (so far haven't found a definitive statement of this, though a very similar event happens in Erewhon). Even Alan Turing references it. Butler, in turn, was heavily influenced by Darwin's On the Origin of Species. So there is a fascinating confluence around this book.

Without spoiling it, does anyone have thoughts about Erewhon?

#Erewhon #Butler #fiction #SciFi #ScienceFiction #evolution #MachineIntelligence #AI #ArtificialLife #ComputerScience #EvolutionaryBiology

I guess we shouldn't be surprised, but no way:

AAAI Launches AI-Powered Peer Review Assessment System

https://aaai.org/aaai-launches-ai-powered-peer-review-assessment-system/

No.

Speaking as someone who has co-organized an AAAI symposium and among other things did a bunch of editorial work.

#NoAI #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #aIOutOfScience #science #ComputerScience #PeerReview