| Occupation | Professor at U Tübingen |
| Research Area | Database Systems and Programming Languages |
| GitHub | https://github.com/Teggy |
| Web | https://db.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/team/members/torsten-grust/ |
I gotta say, it’s been really refreshing to
(1) attend a conference not in my immediate field, and
(2) not have to give a talk/organize/etc
Out of the two, I think (1) is the bigger contributor to how refreshing/exciting the experience is
Faculty should do this more often
Database folks publish a 200+ page volume about "Multidimensional Array Data Management” and manage to not cite or mention APL even once.
Hilarious.
Zahlen, bitte! Berechnungen über 17 Rädchen: Die erste Rechenmaschine der Welt
Der Tübinger Mathematiker Wilhelm Schickard schuf 1623 die erste Rechenmaschine. Sie gilt als verschollen, konnte aber nach Beschreibungen rekonstruiert werden.
@ttscoff Honestly, I have to say that Bunch.app (macOS) falls into the same category as sliced bread. What a great, little tool, Brett! Kudos!
Elden Ring or Tenure Track?
McSweeney’s hits hard as usual
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/elden-ring-or-tenure-track-professor
I'm trying to put together a list of interactive playgrounds. Here's a list of what I have so far (playgrounds for floating point, CSS, DNS, nginx, postgres, sqlite, git, unicode, compilers, Rust, Go, and other languages). https://gist.github.com/jvns/3cfd81a58bcecb11c7f097ebcc8e923d
What other great interactive playgrounds am I missing?
That ChatGPT passes exams is much more a reflection on exams than information about ChatGPT.
Heather Miller
heise online
Mark Riedl
Spectacled Langour
Julia Evans
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Dare Obasanjo
pi2infinity