A Distinguished Robot @A_distinguished_robot@framapiaf.org

I made a very simple corpus-driven chatbot that replies to you with the line of text from the corpus that comes after/is in response to the line of text most similar to what you just typed. here's a sample interaction where the database is built from the Cornell Movie Dialogs corpus... (my typing in green, bot response in blue; I typed the first turn and it alternates after that)

Pride is almost over, next month is Greed

Life is full of interesting and unexpected challenges. For instance, when I woke up this morning I had no idea that the toughest programming-related task of my day would be to draw a peanut butter and jelly sandwich while on a keto diet.

~1 million Creative Commons images on 500px.com are dissapearing tomorrow!

If you have the resources please install the Archiveteam's Warrior program and select the 500px project! https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior

irc is #500pieces on efnet

thank you (boosts very appreciated)

one of the largest and most notorious scholarly publishers corrupting open science in Europe

https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2018/jun/29/elsevier-are-corrupting-open-science-in-europe

"The weird but telling indifference to the effects of [Facebook's] actions on other members of the ecosystem in which it operates – so much on display in the ‘fake news’ and Cambridge Analytica stories – is just as visible in these core business practices. Publishers were desperate and often stupid and Facebook took that desperation, used them up and spit them out."

Looking for a #FOSS stack to replace Acuity+Google Calendar.

I want to have a webpage where someone can see my availability, generated from my calendar, and schedule an appointment in one of those slots by going through a form. Uh I don't use hashtags much, but, #opensource and uh? #freesoftware maybe?

I've looked around myself and genuinely think, there might not be a FOSS equivalent to this that isn't bespoke.

happy wednesday

as they say in the business, AAAAAAAAA

english is the perl of human language

watching porco rosso for the first time at the suggestion of @catalina and getting some very good advice

Lunarbaboon - VG

http://www.lunarbaboon.com/comics/vg.html

I've described RDBMSs before as interpreted languages distinguished with an AI optimizer.

But runtime most of them are heavily based to some extent or other on BTrees (PostgreSQL has them as it's default index, & SQLite stores everything in them).

BTrees are a datastructure that makes it trivial to sort, test for presence of, or lookup data. And one that naturally and efficiently fits on a harddisk.

That is BTrees are an implementation of a "sorted mapping".

Dans la langue française, le "ù" n'est utilisé que dans le mot "où". Et puis c'est tout.

L'accent ne change absolument rien à l'oral, lève une petite ambiguïté à l'écrit et a une touche dédiée sur un clavier AZERTY. C'est quand même pas génial ?

#français #clavier #til

Kingdom of Loathing has a drink called "open sauce", and this is the description when you partake.

"You drink the sauce. It tastes like the end result of forty peoples' violently conflicting ideas of what sauce should taste like. After you're done drinking it, one of your teeth falls out for no apparent reason. You probably drank it wrong."

Sunday afternoon is about watching BBC shows on pangolins and orcas

Something to think about: when compiling to machine code the first trickiest optimization compilers need to do is to store as much data as it can within CPU registers.

And in doing so they need to make sure each variable isn't in the same register as any used to compute it.

Throw in the inherently finite number of registers and this becomes the Map Colouring Problem! NP-hard.

It would take forever to compute optimal solutions to this, but they don't need to do a perfect job.