Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

@kissane Shouting “Jury nullification! Look it up!” through the bailiff’s hand as I get dragged out of voir dire for this case.

@simon_brooke It’s just the stuff that’s now called AI, which is built heavily on things like Kantorovich’s work on optimization of large systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kantorovich#Mathematics

@fgregg I suspect I find a lot of them more interesting than you do, but still not the ones who make the news.

I’m constructing algorithmic central planners for these pixels. It has pretty much nothing to do with the thing venture capitalists are interested in.

Telling people I’m using my highly parallel coprocessor to implement some nonlinear optimization techniques invented to manage the USSR’s economy so I don’t have to hear “Oh, you’re doing AI stuff?” ever again.

@sgillies Doing semi-proper mypy workflow for a personal project has really helped convince me that (1) it is a very useful tool to have around and (2) the idea that all python code ought to implement it in order to be considered complete, mature, correct, or whatever is unhinged and very unpythonic.

@tim Like if you read https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atsc/20/2/1520-0469_1963_020_0130_dnf_2_0_co_2.xml?tab_body=pdf we never got a whole lot deeper than that in 60 years! Lots of very good work was done, no doubt, but the sense of “we’re onto something extremely big here” was never fulfilled! It’s kind of wild!

@tim Did you see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E? I would be delighted in the equivalent but for those ’90s things. (I had a fractal shirt. I should get another one.)

@tim It is really interesting that the fractals and chaos theory hype of the ’90s mostly didn’t pan out into fundamental new understandings, and I wish we talked about this more!

@incanus @bil Surprised you have a signal back then.

@beep Perhaps in the sense that it has demonstrated some kindness to us today.

Let’s set aside petty politics and remember the great statesman in his own words, committing one of his several unimaginably gruesome crimes against humanity.

@beep , hell is kind,

@w8emv Exactly.

@kissane This, as the kids say. People acting in bad faith sure do benefit from the (understandable) norm of not accusing people of acting in bad faith.

@meetar Would you rather debate one majority-sized bad opinion or