Igor Martayan

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PhD student in computer science @ Univ Lille
Interested in #algorithms for #bioinformatics
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Updated "greek task list":

orphean task: when you almost succeed, but lose everything the moment you turn around to check your progress.

daedalean task: when you’re forced to design something brilliant and functional
 that you yourself will inevitably become trapped inside.

medusan task: when your project becomes so horrifying that everyone involved freezes in place rather than deal with it.

tantaline task: when success is right there, but bureaucracy or budget cuts keep snatching it away at the last moment, forever.

pandoran task: when fixing one small issue unleashes a thousand new ones, but hey — at least there’s still hope somewhere in the ticket backlog.

odyssean task: when the assignment technically has an end, but it’s buried under so many side quests that you forget what the original goal was.

narcissian task: when the entire effort is about maintaining appearances rather than achieving anything of substance.

promethean task: when you give people a powerful new tool that could transform their work — and are punished eternally for doing so.

orestian task: when the mess you’re cleaning up is the direct result of the last cleanup you performed.

thesean task: when the only way to finish is to disassemble everything piece by piece — until you’re no longer sure if what’s left is the same project you started.

achillean task: when your work is flawless except for that one fatal oversight that will, inevitably, destroy you.

penelopean task: when you diligently undo by night what you accomplish by day, just to keep the stakeholders pacified.

midasean task: when everything you touch turns into paperwork, compliance documents, or gold-plated nonsense nobody actually needs.

gordian task: not intended to be actually done, but violence is the answer.

Parmi les choses qui je crois font une rĂ©elle diffĂ©rence entre extrĂȘme centre et extrĂȘme droite quand leurs discours et politiques sont un jeu des 7 erreurs, je pense qu'on peut citer:
-les milices qui deviennent officielles et un appareil de la gouvernance au lieu d'ĂȘtre juste tolĂ©rĂ©es
-tes voisin⋅e⋅s qui se sentent autorisé⋅e⋅s Ă  te fliquer et et casser la gueule
-un maillage de contrĂŽle qui traverse toute la population
-le chaos déclenché volontairement pour occuper les gens par la survie parce que faut bien manger
-la vitesse de régression sociale et de pertes de statuts car on peut toujours aller plus vite dans la destruction
-la confiscation réelle de toute la parole pour éradiquer toute possibilité d'organisation et de résistance
-plus aucun rétablissement du rapport à la réalité, le mensonge remplace tout partout tout le temps
-le temps qu'il faut ensuite pour remonter la pente
-la violence random pour cultiver la peur et subjuguer tout le monde
-le pouvoir aux mains d'un clan et la corruption centralisée
-la violence martiale dĂ©clenchĂ©e par la paranoĂŻa dudit clan et sa peur du peuple, qui remplace l'arrogance et le mĂ©pris social bourgeois habituels qui consistent plus Ă  jouer avec le feu et dont le degrĂ© reste moindre mĂȘme si c'est super haut
-la surprise de merde qu'en fait la moitié des gens que tu connais trouvent ça trÚs bien la dictature pleinement développée comme projet
-la croissance de l'internationale fasciste et ses logiques belliqueuses et culte de la guerre

(Liste basée sur mes connaissances superficielles des fascismes longue durée du 20e dans des états de taille moyenne genre Espagne Italie.)

Également: le suprĂ©macisme c'est fait pour enfoncer tout le monde selon un ordre fixe donc tout le monde descend en mĂȘme temps dans les statuts, y a des diffĂ©rences incompressibles Ă  conserver entre les groupes. Donc mĂȘme pour celleux pour qui c'est dĂ©jĂ  la merde absolue, ça sera pire par dessein car ça doit rester pire.

#shitpol #polfr

Ambiance Magritte, mais en bord de mer.

The current administration in the US has, through various funding agencies such as the NSF and NIH, has recently suspended virtually all federal grants to my home university, UCLA (including my own personal grant, although that is far from the most serious impact of this decision), on the grounds that UCLA was “failing to promote a research environment free of antisemitism and bias”. One can certainly debate whether these grounds were justified, or whether they merit the extremely draconian damage to the very research environment that this decision is claiming to protect, but if nothing else this unprecedented decision does not appear to have followed the usual standards of due process for actions of this nature; for instance, there appears to have been no good faith effort by the administration to receive a response from UCLA to its allegations before implementing its decision.

The suspension of my personal grant has a non-trivial impact on myself (in particular, my summer salary, which I had already deferred in order to allow the previously released NSF funds to support several of my graduate students over this period, is now in limbo), and now gives me almost no resources to support my graduate students going forward; but this is only a fraction of a percent of the entire amount being suspended. A far greater concern is the impact on the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/, which despite receiving preliminary approval earlier this year for a new five-year round of funding (albeit at significantly reduced levels) from the NSF, now only has enough emergency funding for a few months of further operation at best if the suspension is not lifted. (1/4)

If you're interested in #ScientificComputing and/or #RustLang, you should come to #SciCompInRust25 next week. It's taking place virtually and is free to attend.

Timetable at https://scientificcomputing.rs/2025/timetable.

Register at https://scientificcomputing.rs/2025/register.

Scientific Computing in Rust 2025

the Scientific Computing in Rust annual workshop and monthly newsletter.

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it. https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/how-unix-spell-ran-in-64kb-ram
How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM

How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it.

Confessions of a Code Addict

@SnoopJ @aud you know the old joke?

a fansubber, a translator, and a localizer walk into an izakaya, a bar, and a McDonald's

Demande de conseils sur la veille en #mathematiques :

Je suis journaliste et j'écris notamment sur les mathématiques.
Cependant, je trouve parfois difficile de suivre cette actualité : les articles de presse sur les mathématiques ne sont pas nombreux, rares sont les communiqués de presse qui présentent des articles de recherche dans ce domaine, etc.

📝 Afin de suivre du mieux possible l'actualitĂ© de la recherche en mathĂ©matiques, je sollicite vos conseils : quels comptes de rĂ©seaux sociaux, quels blogs, quels sites consulter pour suivre l'actualitĂ© des mathĂ©matiques ?

J'ai vécu mes premiÚres soutenances "IA générative" cette année, c'était une expérience trÚs perturbante. J'en parlerai plus en détail à l'occasion (parce que là : dodo), mais c'était totalement dingue.