Steve Canon / is on Nostr

“Not a number expert.”

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2024-03-05 21:42:21

TFW you're the listing agent for a house that has absolutely nothing going for it.
#RealEstateShitposting
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2024-02-17 21:30:13

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@npub1pu3…8r76 my favorite is when you’re ordering hardware and there’s a drop-down menu of all reduced fractions from 0 - 63/64” in lexicographic order.

2024-02-14 18:07:28

99% of children have never seen an actual record player, and yet we still have the Fisher-Price™ record player rather than the Fisher-Price™ Echo™ or whatever.

2024-01-22 15:39:49

😢 one of the greats has left us
"With great sadness we report that Nick Higham, Royal Society Research Professor and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester, passed away on January 20, 2024, at the age of 62 after an 18 month struggle with a form of blood cancer"

2023-12-05 19:05:54

Reminded once again today of the absolutely clown show that PCMPEQQ is in SSE4.1, but PCMPGTQ is in SSE4.2

2023-12-03 02:18:16

Jen's at a conference, kids in bed, it's time for advent of assembly.

2023-11-29 20:21:45

"Targeting" showing me ads for the dining table I just purchased. A+ work y'all. Bang-up job. I still cannot fathom how you managed to hoodwink advertisers into paying for this nonsense.

2023-11-23 22:06:37

Traditional Thanksgiving dinner in Berlin (wait, it’s Thanksgiving?)
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2023-08-19 13:39:25

Apropos of nothing in particular, I would like to remind everyone of one of the first things I learned in my career as a math library developer:
“Prioritizing performance over correctness” is a nonsense clause. Talking about the performance of an incorrect system is meaningless. You are measuring nothing. A system has to produce a correct answer before you can talk about how efficiently it does it.