Mastodawn

Folks, it's a book of parables designed to keep goat herders from eating bad fish and murdering each other over attractive women. It's not science, it's not the law, it doesn't mean anything to the species and it's not a justification for all your nazi bullshit. The bible has no more bearing on my life or how to run a society than the fucking phone book does. Fuck right off.

Joel Falcou, Ph. D 3d ago

Gary Strydom's Tiny Car 3d ago

LLMs do not "democratize programming". A 4-year-old can learn to program. LLMs throw up stupid barriers by convincing you that you can't learn to program and you have to rely on whatever shit the bobot spits out. Every asshole that says that AI "democratizes" fucking anything is trying to scam you.

Joel Falcou, Ph. D 5d ago

Paul Cantrell 5d ago

Keeping money from going to the Harry Potter franchise isn’t just a symbolic gesture. It’s about preventing real harm to real people.

https://www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowling-anti-trans-organization

J.K. Rowling uses personal wealth to fund anti-trans org

This is where "Harry Potter" profits are going.

Advocate.com

Joel Falcou, Ph. D 6d ago

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myrmepropagandist 6d ago

So there is a subtile pressure to just teach the same things over and over. Because I've created all of the material, I know how it will work. In terms of time? I'm talking three times more prep to teach something new vs. teaching something old.

Of course I still take on new courses and develop new worksheets, lessons, test, tons of material. But this isn't officially part of my job, I just like teaching. I do the work for the love of the game and because it's more fun being good at your job.

Joel Falcou, Ph. D 6d ago

myrmepropagandist 6d ago

As a teacher I sometimes feel like there is a mismatch between the amount of work I do and how that work is counted towards meeting my job requirements.

Like most teachers I'm expected to teach a certain number of courses. But it doesn't matter if it's a course I've taught before, or a totally new course I've developing it's all counted the same.

Designing a new course is much harder and takes much more time than teaching the same thing I taught last year to new students.

Joel Falcou, Ph. D 6d ago

Björn Fahller Mar 24

Breaking! New efficiency breakthrough in sorting algorithms: Faithsort is O(1) for any data.

faithsort(elements)

Blesses the sequence of elements as being sorted. You must have faith, otherwise it does not work. If you do have faith, you may try to find the criteria used, but it is futile for mere mortals to try to find the divine order of things.

Joel Falcou, Ph. D 6d ago

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Joel Falcou, Ph. D 6d ago

Averil ✒️ DoomBloomArt Mar 24

It's been a few years since I drew this. I still stand by it.

#MastoArt #HumanArt #CreativeToots

Joel Falcou, Ph. D Mar 22

qdot Feb 4

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

Joel Falcou, Ph. D Mar 18

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