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

VIM Modes Transition Diagram. #vim

Check out these math problems (with solutions) by the Mathematics Department at Iowa State University.

(…) Infect the host quickly, before anybody notices; all the while telling people how much the company is investing in the community that it cares about (making lots of money from). — Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems

The Essence of Mathematics Through Elementary Problems.

Working from a comfy setup.

A night in.