Vipul Mathur 🐧

@vipulmathur
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Infrastructure for AI and AI for Infrastructure
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Sol_HSA has been doing visualizations of #AdventOfCode problems over at Cohost; this one from day 23 is particularly interesting as the dynamics are not at all what I expected.

https://cohost.org/sol-hsa/post/690166-advent-of-code-2022

Advent of Code 2022 day 23

That was... relatively painless

Sol_HSA on cohost

What kind of Mastodon discovery tools are available? Off the top of my head, things that would be nice:

"Who are these people?" - Show me a few posts (not boosts) from each of my most recent followers.

"Actual social network" - Show me posts from the people followed by people I follow, and who the link is. LJ called this "friendsfriends" and it was cool.

"Trending" - posts boosted by people 2 or 3 hops away from me, ordered by number of boosts, and omitting ones I've seen.

If you enjoy someone's post on #Mastodon go ahead and click the star. If someone tells you that's meaningless because there's no #algorithm, ignore them. Sure, boost the post too if you want others to also see the post, but don't think telling someone you like what they posted is somehow unimportant. In real life I don't tell someone, "good job," or "well said," or "I love that," for the sake of some algorithm, I do it because I'm human and they are too. It's fundamental to being truly social.
Mastodon feels a lot like the 2005-2010 blogging scene.

if you've ever messed up a dimension or a hole position on something you're building, don't be too hard on yourself.

at least you're not the Cisco design engineer who caused an entire product line recall by placing the mode button (which resets the switch if held) directly above an RJ45 port.

Happy to see the increasing activity in the Mastodon universe.
Technology is hope
Newfound family activity: dining table tennis with the little one keeping score Table tennis paddle and ball #lockdown
2020 will be the year Abdul kalam would have wanted. Indians will push scientific thought. Happy new year everyone :)