nilesh

I make good, honest technology. Love to talk about learning, maths, music and more. Ex-Meta

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2024-09-24 04:52:39

TIL: #sanskrit poets in the 9th century #Kashmir were writing poems whose word placement provides a solution to the Knight's Tour problem which is the genesis of what is today known as Hamiltonian path problem in #graphtheory.
Unbelievably cool word wizardry! (watch from 36:00): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjZB9HvddQk
#Chess #math #India
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2024-09-18 14:08:24

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@npub1hhn…hqvu I think this requires some fresh ideas about licensing of software and incentives for those who make it.

2024-09-18 12:14:18

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@npub1nla…w6ry
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2024-09-17 19:10:13

It's clear what #Mozilla leadership was actually paid for.
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2024-09-17 18:07:40

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@npub10vn…jqf4 They've been holding #Fediverse back by not implementing interoperability standards. Been seeing too many instances of it. They come across as another wannabe-twitter kind of organization.

2024-09-17 18:01:15

Feels more and more that all the so-called friends of #foss have fallen:
#Google , #Mozilla , #Canonical , #Microsoft , #GitHub , #Mastodon , #RedHat ... the list goes on.
Who is really left? #Linux #Debian #postgresql ?

2024-09-17 10:01:43

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@npub1klj…n44l `asdf plugin list all` was an eye-opener 😀

2024-09-13 12:41:15

Here's why #selfdrivingcars will take much longer than expected. A "driver" is not just one who drives it but also:
- Deals with unexpected situations (like breakdowns)
- Takes blame for accidents
- Protect the vehicle from vandalism.
We should have called them "vehicle managers" or something.
#technology #AI

2024-09-12 12:54:38

#Google develops and maintains 7 (!!) #Linux-based operating systems at the same time 😲:
- Android
- WearOS
- Android TV
- ChromeOS
- gLinux
- Container-optimized OS for GCP
- Microdroid
This list excludes Fuchsia, Android Things, and Glass OS.
Are there any more? 🤔

2024-09-12 03:33:26

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@npub1thu…nyhe Wanted to boost this.. but then it hit me. 😀

2024-09-11 06:26:59

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@npub1ac7…k5uf Oh, haven't heard that name in more than a decade.

2024-09-11 06:04:20

The #web #browser market
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2024-09-10 06:48:31

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@npub1em8…g250 I cannot even create a custom <RectWithLabel> svg component, since svg namespace does not allow it.

2024-09-09 07:08:29

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@npub1kaz…q9qu This just seemed like a waste of Firefox's focus and energy. Browser extensions like https://github.com/n4ze3m/page-assist offer pretty much the same thing but without modifying the browser's core.

2024-09-08 03:55:28

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@npub1ku7…strj I think users learning another language via subtitles need more help than that: https://codeberg.org/nilesh/request-for-hacks/issues/39

2024-09-07 06:48:36

At #indiafoss2024 today. #bangalore #foss
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2024-09-07 00:25:40

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I thought Brahmagupta was from Ujjain, but he was born in and did most of his work in Bhinmal / Mount Abu region.

2024-09-07 00:12:57

Oh my! TIL that so much of foundational #math and #Astronomy was invented in my hood! Zero, negative numbers, conception of gravitational force, trigonometry!!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/01/hidden-story-ancient-india-west-maths-astronomy-historians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmagupta
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2024-09-05 07:32:51

Wouldn't an analog circuit (potentiometers, resistors etc) achieve the same "free inference" with electricity instead of light?
#hardware
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2024-09-05 03:38:22

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I am still not convinced that CMG actually has this ability, but their communication, even the clarification, continues to strongly encouraging people to believe so.
What a shitshow.

2024-09-04 06:45:51

You haven't made it as an author yet if your #book is not yet available on libgen.

2024-09-03 23:14:00

"Computer" used to be a job. Now it's just a tool.
#AI #technology
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2024-09-03 15:15:55

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@npub19sn…2m78 Dropbox faces the same constraints and still supports them: https://help.dropbox.com/sync/extended-attributes

2024-09-03 10:12:26

It's good that most devs did not fall for Google's #chromeos bait. While an OS built using #web technologies would indeed have been more empowering for the users in some ways, can you imagine what #Google would have done with that kind of dominance and platform control?
For a while, it seemed like #Mozilla had their heart in the right place, but they abandoned all the meaningful projects too quickly: Persona, FirefoxOS, Thunderbird, RSS feeds etc.

2024-09-03 09:54:48

Does #GoogleDrive really not preserve extended attributes while syncing files?

2024-09-01 06:05:35

#whalebird is a #Slack / #Discord -like interface for #Mastodon
I submitted a change to show the user's followed hashtags in the sidebar to simulate topics/channels. https://github.com/h3poteto/whalebird-desktop/pull/5028
#ActivityPub #Fediverse
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2024-08-31 05:01:15

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@npub1lks…a4mq Isn't Redox OS exactly that?

2024-08-29 18:04:51

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2024-08-29 13:14:05

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And the more we discuss this argument about #AI going rogue, the more likely it becomes that a future AI, trained on the internet's dataset, will actually reason this way and therefore, go rogue. 😁

2024-08-29 13:10:24

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@npub1ztm…hgnr Never heard of #skos . Apparently nobody on HackerNews has either:
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2024-08-29 09:09:31

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@npub17dl…dj38 Whalebird goes to great lengths to enable Slack-like UI. But it's available only for desktop, not the Web.
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2024-08-29 08:28:26

Is there an #ActivityPub server that allows users to add hashtags/topics to lists? Here is the feature request in #Mastodon repo: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/7692
I am interested in building a Slack-like interface with a list of hashtags/topics being pinned to the sidebar. if not Mastodon, would have to pick a different server.
#hometown #pleroma #Akkoma #takahe #Misskey #GoToSocial

2024-08-29 08:06:13

Just saying. 😁
#AI #artificialintelligence
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2024-08-20 06:52:22

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@npub1st6…k42z Many do know about browsers like Brave that block ads be default, right? I think it might be just a matter of marketing $$.

2024-08-19 07:20:06

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@npub1t3s…0slk You have been fooled by Discord's misleading terminology. It's a centralized platform and what it calls "servers" are just groups (like subreddits).

2024-08-16 12:56:54

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I have a few more recommendations listed here (not just from India): https://blog.nileshtrivedi.com/music/recommendations
But seriously, there's such a huge variety of music in India. Film music gets the most attention, but there are so many gems, especially from artists who from Hindustani / Carnatic classical, film music, folk backgrounds where they have managed to avoid crass commercialization.

2024-08-16 03:31:59

An (experimental) single-file #rails app: https://gist.github.com/nileshtrivedi/a60998391791851d69d32619089cae37
#Ruby #WebDevelopment

2024-08-16 03:11:46

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Despite all the problems plaguing #India, there is a quite a lot to love about it. Languages, Food, Music, Places and also People (yes!).
Check this medley of songs representing different parts of India. Awesome as it is, it captures only a tiny fraction of the fantastic depth of #music I had the fortune to grow up with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brPyUdXghMk

2024-08-15 15:24:26

Yet another argument that counting should begin at 0. 😁
#maths
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2024-08-15 11:51:07

Happy Independence Day! The 🇮🇳 #India project continues.
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2024-08-15 11:45:07

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@npub189n…7mgz It's from this note: http://thewe.net/math/conway.pdf

2024-08-15 10:15:55

John Conway on The Power of #mathematics
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2024-08-14 09:16:31

I am in my early 40's now. How come there are still so many things I want to do and still have so little time? 😀
On the plus side, happy to say that my optimism is back. Had become a bit too cynical between 2016 and 2022.

2024-08-12 23:27:00

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@npub12ty…vnqc I don't understand. What's the context?

2024-08-12 23:25:30

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@npub14u2…0mmt Bertrand Russell

2024-08-10 06:36:39

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Had this mind-blown moment 😲
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2024-08-10 05:27:31

This is a fantastic series of lectures about the elements of music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3vjjHy7gV4&list=PLU3TaPgchJtQC2iTTaJ5VjD2NKw4mHfXY

2024-08-07 15:51:45

Events in #Bangladesh seem eerily similar to Iranian Shah's overthrow in 1979.
This too will have long-term repercussions.
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2024-08-06 07:09:40

Two physicists from IISc Bangalore on #numberphile talk about their recent accidental discovery of a new formula for Pi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lvTjEZ-bbw

2024-08-03 09:17:56

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Update: 11yo is googling how to save changes to /etc/hosts using nano and exit.
😁 #linux #Ubuntu
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2024-07-31 12:13:58

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@npub1pu3…8r76 Clever!

2024-07-27 11:43:32

Setting up a #computer for the kid.
- Desktop in the living room. No phone or laptop.
- #Ubuntu : Want her to experience general-purpose #computing. Runs Steam fine.
- Internet safety via http://dns0.eu
- Algorithm safety via http://libredirect.github.io
What else do I need? 🤔

2024-07-25 17:22:39

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@npub1ag5…dumn Try this URL: https://beta.maps.apple.com/abc

2024-07-25 17:21:12

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@npub17k9…x9dk Strangely, it works if you visit https://beta.maps.apple.com/abc

2024-07-25 05:46:36

About to throw 5 USB chargers because nobody #repair these things anymore. As an #engineer, I find this extremely disgusting. 😡

2024-07-24 07:52:04

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Have now started using https://github.com/brainlid/langchain instead of directly making LLM calls. This helps me deal with subtle API differences between OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others' models.

2024-07-23 15:34:21

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@npub14u2…0mmt The one that's is written using domain specific languages.

2024-07-23 07:25:51

#math #dance
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2024-07-22 04:45:02

#Switzerland mandates #OpenSource software for all public software!
This makes perfect sense. Public software should be transparent. #India could have taken a lead on this, but our digital public infrastructure is mostly closed-source - with predictable consequences. 🙄
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-open-source-law-switzerland

2024-07-19 12:04:18

Automatic updates are necessary and bugs do happen. What was missing in case of #CrowdStrike and #Windows crash is gradual roll-outs of changes. Focus on catching mistakes earlier.

2024-07-18 04:26:01

#Firefox latest version is 128 - exactly double of v64 when it dropped support for RSS/ATOM feeds: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/feed-reader-replacements-firefox
It's all been downhill. 😒

2024-07-18 01:29:24

Important work by ProofNews in #AI data supply chain. They've also put together an online tool to search for creators in the YouTube AI training dataset.
https://www.proofnews.org/apple-nvidia-anthropic-used-thousands-of-swiped-youtube-videos-to-train-ai/

2024-07-12 09:14:18

This still doesn't go far enough, IMHO. We need a multi-modal hypergraph database now.
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2024-07-09 08:53:09

#Ghost's own newsletter is soon going to start federating with #ActivityPub !! 😲
https://activitypub.ghost.org/lets-fix-it-in-production/
This should be very interesting for long-form authors/bloggers, publications and media institutions!

2024-06-21 21:12:38

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@npub1cp5…67a2 I found this article discussing these challenges: https://shlee.fedipress.au/2024/call-to-action-fediverse-media-server/

2024-06-21 06:09:38

I think this place needs a few more #tech optimists.

2024-06-13 11:33:23

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@npub1cp5…67a2 Yeah, storage can't be avoided. That's what makes it annoying/expensive to run an instance for others.
But bandwidth / data transfer usage could be reduced drastically if media was content-addressed like IPFS.

2024-06-13 10:58:39

Major changes are happening in #Google 's #android / #chromeos / #linux efforts! 😲
- ChromeOS is giving up its bluetooth stack (BlueZ) in favor of Android's (Fluoride): https://chromeos.dev/en/posts/androids-bluetooth-stack-fluoride-comes-to-chromeos
- ChromeOS will now adopt Android's Linux kernel: https://blog.chromium.org/2024/06/building-faster-smarter-chromebook.html

2024-06-12 12:17:52

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@npub1cp5…67a2 Ah, yours is a single/few user instance then.

2024-06-12 06:58:36

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@npub1cp5…67a2 What about the media your instance users post?

2024-06-11 17:05:12

Considering hosting an #Akkoma instance as an experiment with #elixirlang. But I am afraid that it will quickly fill up my storage bucket with media files.
Why don't #Mastodon / #Fediverse servers use content addressing like IPFS to distribute the serving load for static media? 🤔

2024-06-08 01:33:44

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@npub1f4j…3vth This is also the reason why bookmarks and RSS feeds have never been encouraged. Can't let users have strong bonds with individual sites and publishers.

2024-06-07 17:41:28

Loved this! How #Google ruined the Internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7NHABs76mg

2024-06-05 07:50:37

#capitalism is quite generous... to #Developers ! 😁 Just see how much is available in free tiers of various platforms: https://free-for.dev/

2024-06-04 16:53:17

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@npub130m…ck30 I was pointed to https://www.crummy.com/2013/11/27/0 which is a good read about how to think about bots.

2024-06-04 10:20:54

Is there a free #Mastodon / #Akkoma / #gotosocial host that would let me create accounts in bulk and run some automated feeds through them without considering it abuse?

2024-05-29 11:12:15

I have started porting Microsoft's multi-agent #AI framework Autogen to #elixir : https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/autogen
Have never built things in Elixir. Wish me luck! 😁
#programming

2024-05-18 15:55:35

A beautiful #epub #books reader: https://willcrichton.net/notes/portable-epubs/

2024-05-17 06:52:48

Playing this #music on loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gukvtH_a3I

2024-05-15 08:08:00

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7) #music Mora Sainya (this is all Samarth!♥️):
https://soundcloud.com/samarth-janve/mora-sainya-samarth-janve

2024-05-15 08:07:13

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6) Such a Feeling: https://soundcloud.com/joblessworkers/such-a-feeling

2024-05-15 08:06:36

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5) Bekaraar Kar Ke (old is truly gold 🙂):
https://soundcloud.com/nileshtrivedi/nilesh-trivedi-bekaraar-kar-ke-cover

2024-05-15 08:06:03

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4) Bhaag Bhaag - Yearning for a rustic life:
https://soundcloud.com/nileshtrivedi/bhaag-bhaag

2024-05-15 08:05:33

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3) Kala Saya (became my fav during the pandemic 😀):
https://soundcloud.com/nileshtrivedi/kala-saya

2024-05-15 08:03:30

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2) Udee: https://soundcloud.com/joblessworkers/udee

2024-05-15 08:02:49

I'm sharing some cool #music we had created 10 years ago in Udaipur (Rajasthan) with geniuses like Samarth Janve:
1) Joona Joshi Ji - based on a local folk tune about a villager offering food to a sage passing by: https://soundcloud.com/nileshtrivedi/joona-joshi-ji

2024-05-14 16:11:45

#Firefox is the last standing true "user-agent". #web
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2024-05-13 05:18:58

This site lists #math problems posed by Paul Erdos in his lifetime. 176 have been solved so far out of 632: https://erdosproblems.com

2024-05-12 23:09:35

List of resources in #AI for #math . This was crowdsourced during the National Academies workshop on “AI in mathematical reasoning” last year: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kD7H4E28656ua8jOGZ934nbH2HcBLyxcRgFDduH5iQ0/edit

2024-05-11 10:41:21

With today's technology, it now seems possible to bridge the chasms that have existed between Doing, Learning and Being taught. Perhaps even fuse them together cohesively into one experience.
#EdTech #education #learntech #AI
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2024-05-10 09:37:31

Has anyone built something like "Login with #Fediverse / #ActivityPub" as social login / oauth identity? #Mastodon perhaps?

2024-05-07 21:33:43

Has the #Enshittification of #Ubuntu begun?
.deb packages are no longer installable: https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-24-04-disappointment/

2024-05-07 07:31:16

You know what, I call bullshit on this widespread idea that "93% of communication is non-verbal (i.e. body language)". Try communicating "A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors" with just body language. 😀

2024-05-01 11:11:59

Generated code is still code that needs to be maintained. Even for AI agents. Perhaps even more so.
We need domain-specific languages more than ever.

2024-05-01 08:48:02

Has someone built an open-source client similar to Hey.com yet?

2024-05-01 08:14:16

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@npub1h25…9dr3 Check with this link? https://twitter.com/Write/status/1765884209527394325

2024-05-01 07:59:10

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A lot of action is happening in this space lately. #Meta launched #Threads , #Ghost is going to federate over #ActivityPub , #Mastodon is becoming a US non-profit (with a Twitter co-founder on the board).
An open publishing network - now THAT is exciting!

2024-05-01 07:57:53

With its long-form Articles feature (for Premium+ users), #Twitter is going after not just #Substack, but also blogs. This worries me because it might actually work. This level of centralization won't be healthy, because it actually prevents innovation and experimentation for building better reputation systems. We will be stuck with Twitter's algorithms for a long time.

2024-04-24 06:52:15

I am happy that fake news is getting a lot of attention in Indian civic discourse. (for eg: the latest Dhruv Rathee video)
I think, a lot can be improved by a simple insistence on links to sources rather than forwarded texts/images/videos. This establishes a trail of credibility and brings skin in the game for content creators.
This applies as much to mainstream media as it does to whatsapp groups. It's 2024 and we should demand that online articles provide links to the sources they refer to.

2024-04-22 13:57:01

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@npub1ypg…8wc0 I can't find the time for this. But do have a look at winglang and darklang which have some new ideas.