wintersun @wintersun@librem.one
@westenfalke juhu! Nur nicht wundern, vor übermorgen kommt allerdings nichts von hier ;))
In 2012 and 2013 I did a photography project where I had to capture a picture each week according to a given theme. It was fun and I learned a lot.
I will restart another in 2020 and you are kindly invited, if you wish so. PM me if you want reminders at the beginning of each week.
If you follow me, this is my friendly info, because my feed will change a bit and I will post a bit more than the odd link.
See you in 2020!
Somehow I love this idea. Five entropy generators made up as superheroes. Now I want a blockbuster, some comics, hard scifi and tons of fan art. Please?
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League of Entropy: Not All Heroes Wear Capes
Everything from cryptography to big money lottery to quantum mechanics requires some form of randomness. But what exactly does it mean for a number to be randomly generated and where does the randomness come from?
Mathematician Disproves Hedetniemi’s Graph Theory Conjecture | Quanta Magazine
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-disproves-hedetniemis-graph-theory-conjecture-20190617/
For legacy reasons, everyone's name starts with "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;".
Mozilla announced "Enhanced Tracking Protection" to protect people from tracking (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/firefox-now-available-with-enhanced-tracking-protection-by-default/), but if you check out the https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection list of trackers, all Google trackers are still allowed through. #privacy
When it comes to privacy, default settings matter! - The Mozilla Blog
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/when-it-comes-to-privacy-default-settings-matter/
...and everytime I reinstall something and load a new firefox I have to switch the default search engine away from Google
"I wrote the book on user-friendly design. What I see today horrifies me" by Don Norman https://www.fastcompany.com/90338379/i-wrote-the-book-on-user-friendly-design-what-i-see-today-horrifies-me
"Despite our increasing numbers the world seems to be designed against the elderly. Everyday household goods require knives and pliers to open. Containers with screw tops require more strength than my wife or I can muster. (We solve this by using a plumber’s wrench to turn the caps.)"
Eduardo Galeano: I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.
Reasoning by Lego happens when a designer or developer understands cryptography as Lego blocks stacked together. The blue block (the MAC) is sitting on top of the red block (the encryption), therefore the blue block won’t fall down. [..] The Lego view is not wrong. It’s an intuitive way to think of crypto algorithms when you’re writing the code. But it’s the wrong way to think about cryptographic security.
https://www.cryptofails.com/post/121201011592/reasoning-by-lego-the-wrong-way-to-think-about
Seems my TBR pile holds several gems... well, last one for today
This practice, now known as P-hacking, was once endemic to most branches of science that rely on P values to test significance of results, yet few people realized how seriously it could distort findings. That started to change in 2011, with an elegant, comic paper in which the authors crafted analyses to prove that listening to the Beatles could make undergraduates younger
Rein in the four horsemen of irreproducibility
Researchers, he said, do not know why some algorithms work and others don't, nor do they have rigorous criteria for choosing one AI architecture over another.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/ai-researchers-allege-machine-learning-alchemy
and another one. Going through accumulated stuff today
I believe the relative ease—not to mention the lack of tangible cost—of software updates has created a cultural laziness within the software engineering community. Moreover, because more and more of the hardware that we create is monitored and controlled by software, that cultural laziness is now creeping into hardware engineering
Auf einen Artikel aus 2014 gestoßen. 5 Mark / Liter Benzin kam vom damaligen Chef des Umweltbundesamtes aus der FDP(!)
DIE ZERLEGTE ZAHL: 5 Mark pro Liter Benzin - taz.de
http://www.taz.de/!303454/
#umweltschutz #5markproliter #fdp #unerwartetehashtagkombination
interested in #photography #reading #science #travel #whisky #rpg
part time mature student of computer science (part time because work)
will probably post rather seldom and will toot the odd link to an interesting article and one of my travel or abstract photos
(at least that's what I did on Twitter and GooglePlus...)
right now filling my stream with interesting people
please do not hesitate to recommend new ones :)
