Rob

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Associate prof. of CS @ University of Maryland. I ♥ science & compiled, statically-typed programming languages! Views are my own.
GitHubhttps://github.com/rob-p
websitehttps://combine-lab.github.io
RobOct 10, 2024

It was mentioned in a Slack where I belong that the MiSeq i100 Series comes with builtin DRAGEN software. My thought: what's DRAGEN doing with my data? No idea, b/c it's closed-source!

"DRAGEN: What's in your sequencer? Seriously; we have no idea what this is actually doing!"

RobJan 30, 2023
Because, Megyn, she is "Dr. Jill Biden." Unfortunately for you, and fortunately for pretty much everyone else, you don't get to arbitrarily redefine what constitutes legitimate usage of that honorific. Way to concentrate on important stuff though.
RobJan 29, 2023

🤣 — but also good food for thought!

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A simple algorithm to decide whether to use ChatGPT, based on my recent article (https://lnkd.in/eeZ5YNJh)

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/shadbush/status/1616007675145240576

Is it high time to take ChatGPT offline?

At this point, you might be wondering, where am I even coming from? True, by this time, you may have seen dozens of articles and discussions praising this tool. ChatGPT revolutionises this field, it enables us to do wonders in that area, it saves us from those chores… If this is the only sentiment y

RobJan 26, 2023

Should have tried to learn rust! Then clippy would have become his new bff!

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This is why we all prefer JavaScript and Python https://www.reddit.com/r/programmerhumor/comments/10llncf

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PR0GRAMMERHUM0R/status/1618564449069056000

This is why we all prefer JavaScript and Python

Posted in r/ProgrammerHumor by u/Dull-Trust • 649 points and 25 comments

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RobJan 25, 2023

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#OpenAI is planning to stop #ChatGPT users from making social media bots and cheating on homework by "watermarking" outputs. How well could this really work? Here's just 23 words from a 1.3B parameter watermarked LLM. We detected it with 99.999999999994% confidence. Here's how 🧵

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/tomgoldsteincs/status/1618287665006403585

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RobJan 25, 2023
Translation: I want to eradicate life on Earth and bring about the apocalypse because I am too stubborn, ignorant and lazy to understand a basic four letter initialism.
RobJan 23, 2023

I recommend signing off with "C and C++ are unsafe,", which is classified as "useful and informative"!

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How do you end your emails?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ImKaitlynMeyers/status/1617565769193385984

Kaitlyn Meyers on Twitter

“How do you end your emails?”

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RobJan 21, 2023

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Can you spot the undefined behavior?

Back to doing some C++ with Eigen. Just wanted to transform some points, and this one had me scratching my head for a while. Solution in next tweet (thanks to my colleague @[email protected] for pointing out the problem!)

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1/4

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/andreas_longva/status/1616368924714741761

Andreas Longva on Twitter

“Can you spot the undefined behavior? Back to doing some C++ with Eigen. Just wanted to transform some points, and this one had me scratching my head for a while. Solution in next tweet (thanks to my colleague @w1th0utnam3 for pointing out the problem!) 🧵 1/4”

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RobJan 20, 2023
Bjarne Stroustrup writing about Rust, safety, and the approach to safety in C++...
RobJan 20, 2023

Hold up, y'all; Florida is about to ban prisms and optics.

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Pink Floyd updated their profile picture to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Dark Side of the Moon, and the replies are… something.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1616274690938638338

Travis Akers on Twitter

“Pink Floyd updated their profile picture to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Dark Side of the Moon, and the replies are… something.”

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