London Grammar, If You Wait.

I updated my Zsh config today, just to make terminal tabs (in Kitty) show the current running process, instead of the default $SHELL. Looks much nicer!

TL;DR Add this to your .zshrc or wherever you put custom settings:

preexec() {
    # See, e.g., https://www.davidpashley.com/articles/xterm-titles-with-bash/
    print -Pn "\e]0;$1\a"
    # or, equivalently,
    # printf "\x1b]0;%s\x07" "$1";
}

precmd() {
    # Clean up terminal title (in case Neovim doesn't restore it to its initial state)
    # printf "\033]0;\a"
    # or print relevant stuff
    # (%~ current working directory; %1~ directory name only)
    print -Pn "\e]0;%1~\a"
}

I’m delighted to start using Julia again. The 1.6 milestone, which may eventually becomes the next LTS version, looks much more stabilized than the previous versions I quickly tested in the past (1.0, and 0.3 to 0.5 beforehand). And, they got a true graphical engine. #julia

The success of Julia in the scientific-computing sphere is an important development at the intersection of science, engineering, and free software (in the free speech sense). Until the advent of Julia, the only programming language with comparable influence and ubiquity in the science world was Fortran. — Julia 1.6 addresses latency issues

At last, a tool to cleanup the mess in your $HOME/.stack directory. Just went down to 3.9 Go instead of 9.1 Go.

A Map of the Internet 2021.

My God, It’s Full of Dots!.

In the 1980s and 1990s, when the GPL was written, the enemy of the free software movement was Microsoft and other companies that sold closed-source (“proprietary”) software. The GPL intended to disrupt this business model for two main reasons (…) In the 2020s, the enemy of freedom in computing is cloud software (aka software as a service/SaaS, aka web apps) – i.e. software that runs primarily on the vendor’s servers, with all your data also stored on those servers. Examples include Google Docs, Trello, Slack, Figma, Notion, and many others. — It’s time to say goodbye to the GPL

Instead, I believe the widest gap between the two cultures involves sampling variation. It forms the very core of statistics, while ML mostly ignores it. I’ve observed this over the years in writings and statements by ML people, and in conversation with them. — Efron Updates breiman’s “two cultures” essay

Writing Pythonic Rust. #rust