Holy shit: https://www.wired.com/story/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture/
For the non-programmers: hash tables are one of those things you learn about in your first year as a CS student, and very likely in your first CS class. Not something you expect to read about conjecture-breaking, complexity-bounds-changing new implementations of.
Full paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02305
This is my most viral-going post here in I don't even know how long. Fediverse gonna Fediverse, I suppose.
I'm gonna do the traditional-among-the-queers thing and link to a partner's basic living expenses #MutualAid GFM: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ren-get-back-on-his-feet-in-chicago
(If this is getting an audience that isn't familiar with this tradition: it's because to many of us are broke, on the outs with our families, and unable to find sufficient employment, and it's more than those few of us with tech jobs can make up for.)
Anyone in the Northampton, Massachusetts area need a place at beginning of September? Total rent is 2440 to be split along with utilities. 3 bed 1 bath with furnished living room and kitchen. Got 2 bedrooms free, right by main street, first floor, Trans household. DM me, need to sign lease asap. I’m a trans femme with a long term job and want to stay here long as possible. If can get at least one roommate then we split the bill down the middle I can afford that. A third makes it even easier.
A very dear friend and chosen family of mine has to take their nesting person to Urgent Care
‼️Please share however you can‼️
@thufie awful emoji, thank you
Falsehoods programmers believe about languages
https://www.lexiconista.com/falsehoods-about-languages/
@mossfet because the same direction swipe will often cause a UI element aligned by the text reading direction to show up on the opposite side of the screen. It is hard to describe without an example so here I will add some screenshots showing what I mean. These are from the Wikipedia app, and both of these table of contents pop-outs appear when I swipe from right to left, which only makes sense for LTR languages like English.
Falsehoods programmers believe about languages
https://www.lexiconista.com/falsehoods-about-languages/
Mutual aid, deportation
Please donate to help Bastion, who has been detained for months now, despite him and his partners spending years getting a green card.
They have a hard story and both did have a very rosey view of the u.s. before this happened to them
https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-save-bastion
Tornasol Studio's ongoing lantern series draws from Mexico's indigenous plants, featuring textures inspired by cacti, agaves, and corn. 🌵 💡 🌽
#design #light #lantern #interiordesign #furniture #knitting
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#yesbot #nobot #noarchive I'm in my 20s, as a Computer Science researcher (Not in "AI" 🙄). Also a YouTuber now apparently, making YouTube Poops.
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Programmer and IT girl. Pseudo-vegan for the environment (-avocados +oysters). Very uncomfortable with astrology. Please don't call me "dude", "bro", "man", etc. Radical egalitarian anarchist, hierarchies and hate are incompatible with a free and equal life .
If you hate stoners just dni. I am also a trans woman so I *checks notes* meme about femininity and feminization sometimes. After dark account at: @thufieplus but read my bio there before sending a follow request even if we are already mutuals here. Oh and just to be clear because I think I see other white people on here trying to fake not being white under a bunch of other text, I'm just a disoriented white girl trying her best.
Relationship Anarchist
A list of licenses which respect OUR freedom (not just for software you dorks):
https://write.pixie.town/licenses-for-freedom/list-of-licenses-for-freedom
programming languages?
C++ C MIPS x86 Java and a few others :P