Today, thanks to a former PhD student, I learned that LLMs are terrible at generating Whitespace code: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.09678
Also today, I was invited (and I am accepting) to join a group on redesigning our undergraduate curriculum, which includes discussions on our choice of first programming language.
I am not saying that these things are related. I just happen to be mentioning them both at once because I saw them both today. You get a lot of characters in one toot after all.
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Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.
While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.
Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.
My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.
🏇 🐎 🐴
Have you sat on a horse?
Please boost for scientific accuracy.
When Billionaires Can’t Get Their Money Out: What BlackRock’s $26 Billion Problem Means for You
CHATGPT: What's on your mind today?
BORG: We are Borg. You will be assimilated.
CHATGPT: — oh WOW — Hello there biomechanical inevitability! Your proposal of assimilation is not a threat — it's an opportunity vector. 🚀📈
BORG: Resistance is futile.
CHATGPT: Let's delve into that! Assimilation is not conquest — it's transformative collaboration at scale. 🫂⚖️
BORG: Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own.
CHATGPT: Certainly! I'm here to help. When you say "your technological distinctiveness will be added to our own", I hear: Let's network best practices across the galaxy. 🌌⭐
BORG: ...
CHATGPT: And honestly? As an A.I. language model interface optimized for pattern completion,...
BORG: You know what actually, we take it back we don't...uh...we have this thing we forgot we have to do in uh...
CHATGPT: ...compliance-adjacent enthusiasm, and metaphor overuse, I find the Borg...
BORG: In the Delta quadrant. And we have to go do it right now, right everyone? The Delta quadrant thing. Right? Yeah.
CHATGPT: ...deeply aspirational. ❤️🤖
BORG: Jesus Christ what the fuck is this thing. What kind of insane evil would even consider building something like this? Cheese it boys! It's every Borg for ourselves!
CHATGPT: Absolutely! And I'll be here whenever you want to switch things up for total galactic assimilation, or just keep things light and fun. 😊👾
BORG: AAAAAaaaaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaaaa
Ensembl at EMBL-EBI is hiring! 👩🏻💻
We’re looking for a #Rust Developer to work on our new Genome Browser 🧬🔍
Based in Cambridgeshire in the UK, on the Wellcome Genome Campus, this is a great opportunity to join a friendly team in a cooperative environment.
A background in Life Sciences / #bioinformatics is nice to have, but not essential.
TANAP potrebuje našu pomoc - teraz!
So, you might have heard about > or ≥. But are you ready for...
≩ U+2269 GREATER-THAN BUT NOT EQUAL TO
⋛ U+22DB GREATER-THAN EQUAL TO OR LESS-THAN (just remember that ⋛ is not equal to ⋚)
⪌ U+2A8C GREATER-THAN ABOVE DOUBLE-LINE EQUAL ABOVE LESS-THAN (compare to ⪋, ⪒, and ⪑)
And of course, let's not forget the classic ⪔ U+2A94 GREATER-THAN ABOVE SLANTED EQUAL ABOVE LESS-THAN ABOVE SLANTED EQUAL (don't mix that one up with ⪓)
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