A* @regnskog@octodon.social
Tea-totaler, librarian, and Scientist of Information (whatever that means). Currently wrangling Python for monitoring and automation at @CERN. SJW with a degree
Or is it that we just don't use gendered honourifics in Swedish?
For some reason, almost everyone on the phone in France genders me female. Not that I mind, but it's never happened before, except a few pensioners when I was younger.
Dammit Kraftwerk:
"On November 20, 2008, electronic band Kraftwerk convinced the German Federal Supreme Court that even the smallest shreds of sounds ("Tonfetzen") are "copyrightable" (e.g. protected), and that sampling a few bars of a drum beat can be an infringement.[17]"
(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_surrounding_music_sampling)
Fun fact: "Forever Young" is about wanting the Bomb to drop instead of having to live in fear of it.
okay but make this real when? https://cybre.space/media/XdCSmw2CxGHf-tiJ-OA
So today I spent most of the working day writing scripts to migrate my data from one instance of elasticsearch to another. Not exactly my most productive day ever
the actual reason i use a tiling window manager is so nobody but me will know how to operate my computer.
Machine learning: The Future Is My Holdout Set
The umpteenth time my data-preparing script crashed a day in and had to be restarted from the beginning, I realised I could cache its results
I boosted @GinnyMcQueen's toot about this earlier, but Yonatan's response to the Google manifesto deserves a non-CW toot. I know and trust Yonatan and there is substantial wisdom here. https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-manifesto-1e3773ed1788
I really like how the soft pastell-y colours of the Moonrise Kingdom colour theme from palettable turned out in my thesis (N.B. very early draft).
https://octodon.social/media/H-MyGEAjWzWJM0GrMWc https://octodon.social/media/r2aiKIpxAF4dZ6cMiPY https://octodon.social/media/wOKhLuh9MjXVpZGgLrc https://octodon.social/media/9kJ6ni7Xpbn2GGzGXQ8
So, this is where all the cool cyberpunks hang out these days?
