Brad Heintz

bradheintz@mathstodon.xyz

<p>Masters student in Mathematics at Indiana State University. In my 50s. 30 years of experience as a software engineer. My mathematical interests are primarily in number theory and its modern subfields, but my tastes are broadening the more I learn.</p><p>BLM. Trans rights are human rights. Vaccines work. None of these things are controversial among decent people.</p>

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Post #2764873
My semi-rational loathing of JavaScript, TypeScript, and npm is paying dividends today. https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/mini-shai-hulud-is-back-a-self-spreading-supply-chain-attack-hits-the-npm-ecosystem
Post #2764872
The “AI layoff&quot; mask continues to slip. From the linked article, speaking of a survey of executives of companies with &gt;US$1B revenue: &quot;While 80% of those surveyed who have piloted an AI or autonomous technology have reported workforce reductions, the businesses cut jobs due to automation regardless of whether the technology was actually generating returns.” The point was never to generate returns. C-suite talking points about AI, productivity, and the motivation behin...
Post #2764871
Uh... This seems bad. https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-parliament-passes-bill-allowing-vladimir-putin-invade-foreign-countries/
Post #2764870
At the intersection of SEO and disinfo in 2026: https://mathstodon.xyz/@albertcardona/116450470270401375
Post #2764869
Studying p-adic numbers with Phineus tonight. #CatsOfMastodon #Math
Post #2764868
How fair/unfair is it to take GitHub uptime as a proxy measurement for the asymptotic utility of LLMs? Source: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ #AI #LLM #VibeCoding
Post #2764867
This is very much worth watching. (And yeah, the clickbait-y teaser frame is kind of a pill. Even so.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEsPFitSfaA
Post #2764866
Republicans are making all of their own most outlandish claims about government agency incompetence come true. https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116597569851456486
Post #992738
I just read that Meta has an internal leaderboard for LLM token usage, and I really can&#39;t imagine a less thoughtful, less useful status metric. Even assuming that the tokens are being used productively and efficiently (which they are most certainly not since the introduction of the leaderboard)... Do race drivers celebrate using the most fuel, for its own sake? Or might we rightly regard someone who did that as being focused on the wrong things, and maybe also kind of a dumbass? #AI #Gen...