Notices by Shriram Krishnamurthi (shriramk@mastodon.social)

Given how Zug has become crypto central, it would have been genuinely funnier if they'd set the cap at 21 million.

Inspired by a Bluesky post from a while ago, I *finally* got around to writing up a bunch of things I find myself frequently telling people. (Well, I wrote it up a while ago, but not sure I remembered to post it here.)
https://parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/pedagogy-recommendations/

New research thread:
1/ Error messages have always been designed, sometimes painstakingly, for humans. But now we have new "readers" for errors: agentic AI. Should this affect what PLs generate? Can we measure this experimentally? We have some preliminary results: ↵

For the people who feel LLMs do violence to language, this bit from Claude certainly won't improve their feelings…

RIP Luna the rat. After her sis Rizzo passed last month, she totally deteriorated. )-:

If Claude is so good at generating code, why does the desktop Claude app (on MacOS) make my machine burn with the intensity of a thousand suns?

I have a particular fondness for Hungary because I spent a formative time studying there. It was just after The Wall came down. I had so many encounters that conveyed a sense of hope for a bright future. I imagine the squares of Budapest feel like that again right now. ↵

I have a particular fondness for Hungary because I spent a formative time studying there. It was just after The Wall came down. I had so many encounters that conveyed a sense of hope for a bright future. I imagine the squares of Budapest feel like that again right now.

My evolving relationship with coding.

This is the prediction market I'm here for: you can now bet on German train delays. Glorious stuff. Peak trolling.
https://bahn.bet/

Two of the most influential books in my life were GEB and EoPL, and it's amazing that both were written in the same department. IU CS knocked out real bangers.

I had not previously realized just how beautiful the Indiana University campus is. (Funny, for the number of times I've visited it.) The combination of limestone + Gothic is pretty compelling.

@simulo @tonofcrates Yes indeed, New Math was part of that, but only one part of the curriculum.

Education researchers: what are good books by knowledgeable folks (educators, researchers) about how US curricula changed after the "Sputnik moment", and what the lasting consequences were (e.g., did things "revert to norm" in 10 years?)? CC @tonofcrates

View from Manhattan yesterday: the frozen Hudson, and the sun setting over NJ.

@xgebi
My alt text contains the full links to my sources.

I was comparing to US car deaths because this is from a US newspaper. That is *a* reasonable point of comparison: what does the US paper choose to report, or even what it contextualizes (e.g., it could have put that Spanish number in context, whether in Spain or the US).

And finally, it is better to ask questions first and confirm the facts before accusing someone of something as extreme as "manipulat[ing] data".
@GreenSkyOverMe

Twice as many people die in car accidents *every day*.

Scheme, the ur programming language, is 50 years old, as Jason Hemann just reminded me.

Almost like they're chopped off the metaverse at the knees…

So visionary that they renamed and redirected the company after the wrong technology trend.

We're all at home and doing fine, thanks for asking. (If you don't know what this is in reference to, don't worry.)
https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-regularly-happens/