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• Post #1690754

  Open letter to universities, specifically IT departments. Feel free to copy, modify, share, re-use. --------- The presidential administration has announced that they will 'find and deport' student protestors. There are also announced intentions to find and deport other groups, including students in those groups. It is important to note that these intentions, and any implementation of such plans, may or may not ultimately be ruled lawful and Constitutional, and the implementatio...

• Post #1690753

  Happy to announce my new paper, "Chess on Half the Board is a Win for White"! A result I am quite proud of, achieved through a combination of game theoretic analysis and manual case study. Abstract: > A centuries-old question in game theory is whether, in the game of chess, the first player can force a win. While the game tree is so large as to despair at ever finding an answer, we can hope to derive new insights from solving reduced versions of the game. > C...

• Post #1690750

  As inflation hits the RAM market particularly hard, a few belt-tightening tips for the winter season: - Limit yourself to 75 tabs per window (I assume, as a kind and decent person, you have only one window open per workspace). - Instead of AAA games like Call of Duty, switch to indie darlings like Hollow Knight: Silksong. - You already have uBlock Origin; now add uMatrix or Ghostery to block javascript by default. - Instead of LibreOffice, write documents in LaTeX. Instead of compiling the...

• Post #1690748

  Erised, Everywhere! People want to make a presentation, [but not to actually communicate](https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/). They want to submit software patches, [but not to actually contribute to open source](https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/). Students want to get a degree, but not to actually learn the stuff. Even inside organizations that "do things", incentives are often aligned around appearing to do things. The philosophical [defi...