I've been working on a new shader language called "easl". The goal is to bring the conveniences you'd expect from a high-level language to the GPU. It's still got some rough edges, but if you're into shaders or creative coding you should check it out! More info in the thread 👇
This is NOT a formal job posting, just testing waters. I have a year of post-doc money. Esp. int'd in formal methods + applied cogsci + diagramming. If you do work tied to my research, reach out (see my page). Must have US work auth, sorry. Please feel free to share/boost!
Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research.
Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required
Does the higher level lexical structure contain a large degree of repetition? Reading this, I wondered if you would see a similar level of entropy in a very formulaic English text, like an old botany manual. (NB I have spent zero time on this manuscript, and am sure this has all been investigated.)
there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
"Now I've got claws and a harness!!"
Find me at @swapfest.berlin @c-base.org today to swap electronics and to discuss a new, sovereign, private internet. It's possible. #reticulum
“Software's like Egyptian pyramids: millions of bricks, no structural integrity, done by brute force and 1000s of slaves.”
#AlanKay
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523
*Is there a finite supply of bugs, or is there an AI-Lovecraftian, vast, unexplored design-space of bugs and bug-like hacks
*The "attack surface," is it a surface like downtown Manhattan real-estate, or is it a surface like a Mandelbrot Set printed on a Moebius loop
“There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.”
#DonaldKnuth on software patents
For example: I am part of the Clojure community. Clojure depends on the JVM, which is around 13 million lines of C++. This does not seem trivial to hack together with Claude. Same for many other parts of the stack, despite what “I wrote a Linux kernel in Rust in 3 days” HN clickbait might suggest.
There are still many things that take weeks to months of effort with the help of LLMs. One can hope that some degree of coordination is still possible for those kinds of things…
12½ years ago, I made a map of all the buildings in the Netherlands. Unexpectedly, people loved it!
Ever since, I have been wanting to make an updated version of the map. Newer data, higher resolution, more interactive! I never got around to it, until last week: bertspaan.nl/buildings
Coffee in Berlin when?
Sam Altman tweet. I have so much gratitude for the peopel who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took. Thank you for getting us to this point.
2026 is the year we be starting doing land acknowledgements for the braincoders yall
what if you could navigate unicode characters by visual similarity?
“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
now with added `midi.cc()`
(which really does make everything better)
As someone who actually uses Mastodon daily, this isn't a shitpost, it's just literal truth.
Piggybacking to share my post about how sometimes *good* software goes to space, too: @racket-lang.org . But not until I could figure out whether License Exception TSU under part 774 of the EAR implied an ECCN of EAR99. (I know you're dying to know, too.)
parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/drs...
This is a rare opportunity.
We only add about one person to the team each year and only plan to ever have 10-12 full-time people on the team total.
💯 plus a bit of a few others (eg Philippe Druillet), which will become more obvious as things develop
A Moebius inspired desert scene of a man before some monumental architecture
I’ve spent a few days hacking up a toon-shaded game inspired by all my favorite Belgian BD artists. We’ll see what this turns into…
I have made this for myself with a StreamDeck 😆
3d rendering. tight crop of background refracted through part of a glass dragon
glass(-like material) test
Partial blame to Microsoft and Zoom for normalizing the need to install new software just to make video calls, despite browsers being perfectly capable. They make it extra hard to even find the web-only links.
simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/s...
Why do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.
In Canada, rich people get free healthcare.
In fact, in Canada, rich people *aren't allowed* to pay for fancy private healthcare. They ride the public healthcare bus with the rest of us, and our system is better because people who have the capacity to demand better, do.
“We have built an entire evaluation system around counting things that can be counted, and it turns out that what actually matters is the one thing that can't be.”
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because you've seen the other shit this country spends tax money on. At least going to the moon is cool.
