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I think it’s a more global movement.

When I was recruited at my university in the early 2000s, every teacher had an ftp-accessible space with an http address like myuni.edu/~myname. The more techie ones did html, the fancier ones even added css. Muggles would export html from a Word document.

Then one day, the IT department decided to replace this with a “learning management system”. A wysiwyg platform with dozens of modules for videoconferencing courses, homework submission, online exams, and so forth.

Except that the user (the teacher) no longer has control over his or her personal space.

Yeah, you’re right, it doesn’t make sense to say that O(f(n)) is good or bad for any algorithm. It must be compared to the complexity of other algorithms which solve the same problem in the same conditions.

Singular Value Decomposition is widely used in machine learning, image processing, natural language processing, recommender algorithms…

Stable Video Diffusion is a good marketing name, but SVD is quite confusing from an academic point of view.

It’s not the best idea to call it SVD, as it already stands for Singular Value Decomposition.

Not only that. It’s also a means of long-term tax evasion, by storing works of art in a freeport.

Xubuntu. Ubuntu because most of the time, I just want a plug and play experience with a huge community. And XFCE because it’s lightweight and has all the tiling features I like.

I really enjoyed tinkering Arch, I learned a lot of stuff, but it’s too much effort for my usual laziness.

I totally get that. For most people, watch history and relevant recommendations are indeed useful tools.

But if, for some reasons, you want to switch off these tools, the price to pay was a home page full of flashy clickbait miniatures. This terrible home page could have been an incentive to switch history on.

Now, it’s just a minimalistic google-ish search page. It’s an unexpected improvement when they could have done much worse, like a home page autoplaying ad videos, for example.

I don’t understand. Is this supposed to be an incentive to turn on watch history?

I destroyed an old, out of order chimney. I rebuilt a wooden formwork with an electric radiator which looks like a fireplace. Now, my SO and I are going to cover the formwork with mosaic tiles (she knows how to lay tiles, I’m going to learn to). After that, I’ll put wooden shelves on top, for books and geeky decorations.

Also, on the evening, I’m helping her sewing amigurimi toys, as she is a professional crochet craftswoman.

I’ve never heard of this. How is it linked to transhumanism? Is it a re-branding? A fork? An attempted to propose a moral stance to transhumanism? Unless they are two rival theories to think the future?

(I’m not a transhumanist)

I would use the language I know the best which provide a library that handles .dot files (Graphviz?) and I would check if the library has an internal data structure for the graphs.

I guess it would be adjacency matrice or adjacency lists.

Thank you for the article. Opaque struct is an interesting subject for people who want to go deeper into their understanding of C.

If I could add/emphasis two points to the article:

• FILE is a famous example of struct using this trick. So, even if yon don’t often need to develop an opaque struct in C, you certainly use such struct daily without knowing.

• you can’t declare a variable with an opaque type (because the compiler would need to know its size). Everything must be handled through pointers, and the library has to provide functions to allocate/destroy the struct, like fopen() and fclose() for FILE.

Not everyone is on twitter, but lots (all?) of Content Management Systems and blogs have a RSS feed.

As an academic, I’m syndicated to several labs and research groups which have their own websites, but don’t care about being visible on Twitter.