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I used to be a mathematician. Now I work in tech.
I am pleased to announce that the International Mathematical Union has missed their window to award me a Fields Medal.
It’s November 1 and I just switched to shorts.
A horrifying cartoon for Halloween (originally for Guardian Books).
I looked at the first ten minutes of the GitHub Universe intro yday and the frequency of AI getting mentioned exhausted my ears immediately and I had to shut down the stream and go do something useful. For health reasons.
@nasamuffin Jonathan was the person I would message at random intervals whenever I found something…
“Why does the window size have such a big effect?”
“Why has no one touched this code since 2006?”
“Hey look this size decrease is way more than expected, I better run fsck to make sure it isn’t a bug”
@nasamuffin now that really puts the FUN in it. Great to hear.
@nasamuffin I’ve heard about it, but usually in the sense of “I’m having fun being unemployed” and I’m trying to understand the second half with your situation. Sorry if I missed a career change of yours.
@nasamuffin I’m sorry… I’m unable to interact with this post beyond the first word. My brain is broken from there.
… why is no one talking about the mathfeel …

The Stallman report

https://stallman-report.org/

The Stallman report

October 14th, 2024 Richard Stallman (aka “RMS”) is the founder of GNU and the Free Software Foundation and present-day voting member of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) board of directors and “Chief GNUisance” of the GNU project. He is responsible for innumerable contributions to the free software movement, setting its guiding principles, organizing political action, and directly contributing to a flourishing free software ecosystem. The majority of Stallman’s political activity has been of priceless value to society at large.

The Stallman report