#CSed question - can students learn critiquing programs as a skill without being able to write programs on their own? Asking since LLMs can synthesize programs but do so too eagerly and will need spec clarification to iterate.

I keep wondering what Cho Ramaswamy would have to say about the union gov and its actors today had he been alive ... given that he was their supporter back then.

🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR: Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor, intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility. Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...

"the financial system is very often a wealth extraction mechanism. it's not a wealth creation system for the many. it's a wealth extraction mechanism for the few" Eat The Rich: The Gamestop Saga (Netflix)

I've likely annoyed both the French and the Chinese by making Oolong tea in a French press.

Generated some simple mental math questions for kid using Claude Sonnet. Then kid grabbed phone & wrote "make it easier". & kept doing it until Claude gave problems like "You have 1 apple. You buy one more. How many apples do you have?". And then "ok You're messing with me." & then "I give up" :D

Super cool.

Oh what superb weather in #Chennai for cycling. Many areas around us which used to get water logged for even light rain are nearly water free after these incessant rains.

Do LLMs not provide source links (reliably or at all) because they were not trained to do so for fear of being sued for copyright violations ... Or did everyone know this already and I'm late to the party?

Buddha takes the middle path even amongst the top 10 on bsky.

The JCP of traffic in Greater Chennai Mr. Vijaykumar (IPS) (vijaypnpa_ips on the other site) has publicly shared a whatsapp number +91 9994790008 to send suggestions to. Sent my think that we should work to make the city better for pedestrians and cyclists and stop trying to optimize for cars.

As an illustration of how sound processes and music processes are presented by Synth.jl, an interface to play @talakeeper.org pattern URLs is available here - github.com/srikumarks/S... . You construct a "tala" from the URL using the TK3.tala function and schedule it on to a playing "bus".

Mr.T will probably be like "damn right. Thanks for 75m income. Tariffs at work for the American people."

A fixture during #Deepavali in #Chennai as a kid for me was Solomon Pappiah "pattimandram".

Every traffic signal stop in #Chennai is an opportunity for commuters to play a mini game of community tetris. Kinda explains why the avg Indian gamer doesn't find Tetris all that interesting. Perhaps the same thing applies to stunts where motorbikers criss cross with high precision without falling.

"South in Asia and east of here" is like "playing with an elongated ball that measures a foot". So it's totally in line.

Wow and wonderful! Given how smaller and supposedly organized events in India end up with people dead in stampedes, what's the foundation that makes this work?

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Check out indivisible.org

Let me go on the record: as much money I have, whatever I can spare, I will ALWAYS want the extra to go to feed children

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When I used to travel a bit to the US, I've appreciated cities like SFO and NYC for the sheer mix of people from everywhere who've gathered there. I still recall standing still for a moment in Tines Square to just let people wash past me on the sidewalk .. just taking it all in.

Been working on a simple Synth pkh in Julia for teaching purposes and kinda like how it's come out - ergonomic and performant - github.com/srikumarks/S... . Compose "signal processes" & "musical processes" using plain fns and structs. Appreciate any API/perf tips by Julia community. @julialang.org

Kinda weird that a "wee Willie winkie" level story of the "poochandi" was told to us in India as kids to get us in line - saying "the poochandi will catch you and take you away". ... and it is literally happening to *adults* in the US.

really interesting thread www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

"coding agent is chugging away" is the new "my code is compiling"?

This aspect of the Trek world is something I've enjoyed and hoped would become our reality at some point. Some say "visualize it and it will happen" and there are simple.enpugh reasons why that might be, so ... I still hope.

Ridicule is what fascists fear.

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2... Wonderful! Congratulations!

Good. Fossil intensive transport should be high priced.

In all seriousness, I'd be happy if Zelenskyy got it.

"How a Gaza music teacher created the "drone song" to calm children terrified by the sound of military drones." God is dead. Even in the hearts of those who claim to believe in God.

I don't at all mind the "we don't know what's going on". What I do mind is that it looks like we've stopped asking interesting and probing questions about intelligence at all ... compared to the likes of what Winograd, Hofstadter and others did with far less compute at their disposal.

We're in the age of endarkenment.

Inspired by this: please find my official apology regarding the cause of the 2025 LA wildfires. I will try to do better in the future #learning

hi.aloeecell.com - ordered a number of these. Looks like env friendly cells is all they do, which is nice and if it truly is, am happy to support. #India

This whole quote chain!

Python 3.14 is out - docs.python.org/3.14/whatsne... - and me wondered whether the name changed to "πython".

New Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere variant: lunnova.dev/articles/atp... Embed #atproto discussions below your articles

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever" - www.wancherpen.com - received my Wancher pen yesterday and very pleased with its feel and traction of the F nib on paper. Sooo satisfying! Gorgeous craftsmanship. Came in a lovely light wooden box. ❤️

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

May this whisper resonate loudly across the globe!

The "AI" research community: 1) Claims to be building "everything machines", doesn't acknowledge that that means what they're doing is untestable (see Gebru & Torres 2024) firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph... >>

The "communicating with music" episode of Star Trek SNW was a gloriously silly and fun episode .. perhaps ever .. and I bet the team had a whale of a time doing it.

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

we've been saying this over and over but I guess still good to wake up now than later

Interesting that speaking coherently about a problem didn't correlate with ability to design after the damage. (See alt text)

The way we use "risk" generally reads more or less the same as "probability" which is where perhaps the problem arises, but risk is like probability × cost - i.e. Low probability × high cost can still be high enough risk while low cost × high probability can be low risk.