Notices by phiofx (phiofx@hachyderm.io), page 11

@jonny there is also the falacy that an automated system will somehow bind people to behave according to its builtin assumptions and they will not game it in every which way. Only people can put themselves in other people's shoes and imagine why and how they might game a system. DAO is either stupid or evil.

“Each new observing run brings new discoveries and surprises. The third observing run saw gravitational wave detection becoming an everyday thing, but I still think each detection is exciting!" - Hannah Middleton

https://spaceaustralia.com/feature/stellar-mass-graveyard-just-doubled-size

@CosmicRami explains discoveries from #GWTC3

@gerrymcgovern nevertheless I think its important to push current ideas regarding how to tackle climate change as far as possible as soon as possible.

Provided we stick to and demand measurable change (and thus eliminate greenwashing) this process is seeding the knowledge and behavioral toolkit that will enable the monumental further transformations that need to happen.

A sustainable energy system is a necessary but not sufficient condition for reaching full #sustainability

@lwpembleton how about some shade of gray for winter? Imho helps contrast better with summer

@joshjacobsen people opted for economic "efficiency" defined in some arbitrary way and religiously optimised for it in a spreadsheet. Scale up some accounting metric or move out of the way.

To paraphrase a well known #sustainability cartoon, "we destroyed any sense of locality, tradition, community and social contract, but for a brief moment in time we reached a glorious GDP number".

Ultimately its just stupidity and narrow greed. Optimizing multi-dimensional objectives is harder.

@saethlin only fair given how plants have exploited the planet

@skarthik

TIL the word #tonotopy. Love the sound of it :-)

It would be cool if the mathematical group structure of conceptual models of scales reflects some physical crystal-like symmetry of these chains of neurons.

@johncarlosbaez

@trochee

Awkward. I can see @jonny's italics render fine but not my very own. We need to find a more democratic representation of italian accents.

@jonny one day mastodon will render _italics_ and nothing will ever sound the same

@RikerGoogling

no pun indended

@johncarlosbaez @skarthik do these constraints reflect some generic feature of our neural network topology? While their precise nature varies from culture to culture, there are always *some*.

@leroy yes. Its implemented in discord (one of the few features I like).

@leroy single thread but with the possibility to optionally split into a new one. Tangential tangents hidden inside a busy discussion are cognitive load without an obvious benefit

@derek are they indeed even "rectangles"?

Poor person's recipe for a "federated" experience of large numbers of #discourse forums:

1) start with your favorite #rss client (I currently use #akregator)

2) create a folder named "Forums"

3) visit the forums you want to follow and copy the URL

4) click the "add feed" button of your client and *append* URL/posts.rss (discourse will not serve the rss url by default)

5) Done. When the #fediverse catches up you will be able to upgrade your #opml into some #activitypub thingy

@danjac yes, the vast prior art of older languages is both a curse and a blessing.

discussing the real advantages of new takes is subtle enough, but weighing these against the benefit of reusing existing know-how for both current and future projects is very tricky. in applied maths this is the problem of subtracting two large numbers (catastrophic cancellation): your result is unstable, very sensitive to assumptions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophic_cancellation

@OddDev ha ha, fair enough, but thats as anecdotal as my hunch

I don't mean that none of the new proposals will make it into say "top 5" universal language, its just that there is a pattern that it may take longer (if ever) than what the sentiment was few years ago

In the rust vs cpp space the latter is definitely trying to get its act together, whether people will again build greenfield projects remains to be seen

@MobileOak but as far as I know kotlin has not made any meaningful dent outside the android domain (the vast corporate space that determines the future of java). So its fate is highly linked to the whims of Google and even they hedge their bets with dart/flutter

@arno_in_sing

Both the historical and current moral leadership of the West is what it is. Are you arguing that Asia is entitled to the same?

The challenge is that in the 21st century an overpopulated, environmentally degrading planet needs to do much better.

Organized violence (war) that is gamed for advantage is bringing us closer to the precipice.

The only rational survival tactic is that any organized violence is *immediately* deprived of oxygen by *everybody* else

@Sustainable2050

@tamas oh for sure. its only a gut feeling anyway. but the pattern I sort for see is that 3-4 years ago the newcomers had an easier time because the incumbents were more stagnant. For example the complain that python is not fast enough prompted several iterations and more are coming.