Me at school: ok so I suck at this subj I gotta revise a lot at home and in my free periods

At home: -_- im too lazy can I just chill

I saw "LLM's are unregulated automated yes-men" and holy shit yeah ☠️

Calm post-rain pond gave opportunity to play with reflection

Alt...

A Snowy egret stands on a rock, casting a reflection on the calm water below.

"[Sam Altman] reckons progress is so fast that he could soon be able to make an AI to replace him as a boss."

🤷‍♀️

Doesn't sound like the biggest challenge ever.

🤔

Who's up for replacing him with a perl script?

In Norway, they’re building a new stave church, using only Viking-age tools and techniques. 1,000 people are involved, and it is expected to be complete by 2030.

https://www.visitnorway.com/typically-norwegian/how-to-build-a-stave-church/

Would you like to see UNIX V4 on MissPiggy? #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #unix #softwarepreservation

Have you seen a programming language with explicit environment passing?

the existence of GNU+Linux implies the existence of GNU-Linux

this is my favorite (almost) haiku

Be weird. Be colorful. Help random people. 💕

Alt...

gean-grey-blog, a social media post "One time I was leaving a friend's place and an older lady with basically no English came up to me and communicated that she was very cold and needed a ride. She pointed to tell me where to go. I got there and her daughter or granddaughter came out and was like omg her phone died we were worried And then the older lady said something and the younger lady translated. "She knew she could trust you because you have pink hair" I thought it was funny at the time. But when I think back on it I think she was basically saying "you had a visible sign of not vibing with the system I was afraid of" Be weird. Be colorful. Help random people."

It's been around 6 years that I've started my work and research on Serene's #language and #compiler. One of the big mental challenges that I had, is that I keep rewriting the compiler occasionally due to a new turning point in my understanding. It bugged me a lot and every so often I feel lost. Yesterday, I had a chance to talk to a few devs of Clasp lang. I felt much better when I learned they had the same experience and rewrote the compiler many times. So it's all natural to feel lost.

One reason you should care about problems that don’t affect you personally is because, actually, they do.

I hereby declare that the term "smart" in combination with a device such as a TV or phone is short for "surveillance machines are really tedious". Now you know.

Twenty five years ago this month I was diagnosed with cancer. First of all I just want to say, look at me, still here. I'm pretty happy about that.

But twenty five years ago, for a year my and my family's life revolved around surgery, chemo and radiation. And then the best part of a decade of medications with with their 'tolerated' side effects. And still the sneaky little blighter tried to stage a comeback a few years in, but we evicted it.

Twenty five years is a while, so my medical experiences are not current but there are a few things I learnt in that year and the ones after and I'd like to say them out loud -

Cancer did not make me a better person. It did not make me re-evaluate my life and see the world in a new perspective. It might for some people, but it just made me tired and grumpy. And intolerant of people's bullshit.

It was not a blessing in disguise. Having people tell me there had to be a silver lining or that everything happens for a reason was not helpful.

Everyone has their own approach. Mine was evidenced based western medicine. Random strangers (no friends, I'm glad to say), telling me I was poisoning myself was not helpful. I was poisoning *it*, the side effects on me were necessary collateral damage

The most important thing my friends did for me was to be normal. Doing stuff we usually did - grabbing a coffee, going out for a meal, seeing a movie. I was thinking about cancer every waking minute, respite from that was what I needed

The other day someone reminded me I told them this - One of the women in my support group talked about how hard it was not to cry in front of her kids. The facilitator asked, what message are you sending to your kids if, when something this bad happens, it's not okay to cry? This is one of the most important things I've ever learnt. Hiding your feeling doesn't let people in and it's not a viable strategy for longer than half a second. 1/2

#cancer #science #luck #ReflectionOnLife #HappyToBeHere

Alt...

The garden that I grew over the last twenty five years. Also grown - two small humans to independence and four novels