Mathematician and computer scientist. Have done research in game theory, AI/ML for NLP, and computational biology (phylogenomics, cancer, and immunology). Vegetarian.
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Ferrocene 26.02.0 is out đŠ
Highlights:
đ ISO 26262 ASIL B certification for part of Rust core
đ Qualified Rust toolchain for safety-critical systems
If youâre at #ew26, come by booth 4-402 to talk to us about #embeddedRust (and get some stickers).
Read more: đ https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/ferrocene-26-02-0/
I suspect most people outside of the UK won't have heard about the post office scandal, but it seems highly relevant to learn about now (given *waves* this):
For over 15 years, the software post offices in the UK had to use contained severe bugs, particular in accounting, that everyone at Fujitsu/horizon and the post blissfully ignored. Over 900 (!!!) postmasters were sentenced for alleged theft and fraud, some went to jail, some committed suicide. All because the software was shit and everyone who could do something about it didn't care and swept it under the rug.
Everything, including how it was uncovered, about this seems bizarre and Kafkaesque, but we better prepare for it to happen more often.
#Mastodon turns one decade old on Monday!
"What I find absolutely offensive about Grammarly is not that they took my name in vain, but rather, that they reduced the complex, important business of teaching writing to a statistical exercise in nudging your work into a word frequency distribution that hews closely to the average of some writer's published corpus. This is Grammarly's fraud: not telling people that they're being "taught by Cory Doctorow," but rather, telling people that they are being "taught" anything."
â@pluralistic, https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/11/modal-dialog-a-palooza/#autoplay-videos
FINAL EDIT: We've been making good progress with EVi! We've fully settled on version 9.1.0 with no AI code, we're on IRC @ #evi irc.oftc.net, we've gained a lots of popularity and we've been working on fixing tests and removing platforms that are deemed exotic with other cleanups. Thank you to everyone who has supported us this week!!!
hard-forked vim at release 9.1.0 (Jan 2024)
https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor/evi
maybe we can get a group of people behind this??
Fuck AI.
J'ai appris hier que le mainteneur de l'éditeur VIM utilise l'IA générative pour ses contributions au projet depuis quelques temps.
Triste je suis đą
Du cÎté de NeoVim ça donne quoi ?
Sinon il va falloir surveiller les forks.
J'ai vu passer une initiative de @mrmasterkeyboard qui a mis ça sur https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor/evi (Thanks for this initiative!)
Mais est-ce que certains d'entre vous ont connaissance d'autres forks déjà bien établis et supportés ?
Ou d'alternatives :)
When designing Shiny applications we commonly associate asynchronous execution with multiple concurrent running sessions of an application. In such cases, when one user has requested a longer computation or a database query, the other users have to wait for this task to finish before they can see their plots and tables.
Today for #MarshMadness I've painted a salt marsh spittlebug, Philaenarcys spartina, and its host plant cordgrass (Spartina sp). Spittlebugs are named for the protective mass of bubbles their larvae produce from excreted sap.
Today is International Women's Day.
Heartfelt thanks to all the wonderful women in the fediverse, who help create it, maintain it, advance it, and use it.
May we all - especially men - continue to work towards, and behave to ensure, a fediverse that is safe, enjoyable, and useful for women everywhere.
Ferrous Systems
Raimo (he/him)
Ben Zipperer
MOULE 
punIssuer
NerdNextDoor 
Florian
Data Science
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Neil Brown