Alex Nygren

Founder of Kina Knowledge. Interested in data visualization, tech, energy, finance, and the big picture. Personal Twitter account

[Dust-to-Digital @dusttodigital]

R.I.P. Pharoah Sanders, October 13, 1940 - September 24, 2022. Here he is performing "Kazuko" in a tunnel in San Francisco in 1982.

[Peter Lemieux 🇺🇦 @PeterHLemieux]

@aliceysu Robot dogs telling people what to do in Shanghai.

https://t.co/Huwka8duvT

[Alice Su 蘇奕安 @aliceysu]

As seen on Weibo: Shanghai residents go to their balconies to sing & protest lack of supplies. A drone appears: “Please comply w covid restrictions. Control your soul’s desire for freedom. Do not open the window or sing.” https://t.co/0ZTc8fznaV

[Lisp Advocates @LispAdvocates]

Kina Knowledge uses #lisp for their document processing stack.

Backend services with SBCL, front with their own home-baked interactive Lisp running in the browser, communicating with the CL backend with websockets.

More in an upcoming interview (if you didn't find it already).

[Alex Nygren @AlexNygren]

@blackeuler At Kina we use it for our core tech in production for automated document classification and other machine learning tasks. Love it because of expressiveness and speed. And we use a scheme type lisp over JavaScript for our browser UI.

[b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie]

For MLK Day, here a passage from his book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?”

[Gravel Institute @GravelInstitute]

Number of citizens who lost health care coverage since the pandemic began:

14,600,000 United States
0 Australia
0 Belgium
0 Canada
0 Denmark
0 Finland
0 France
0 Germany
0 Italy
0 Japan
0 Norway
0 South Korea
0 Spain
0 UK

[Alex Nygren @AlexNygren]

@RainerJoswig Can mocl generate standard C code that can be compiled with CLang on a non-Apple platform, such as generating a Linux/Unix stdin/stdout tool? That low executable size is great.

[Alex Nygren @AlexNygren]

@RainerJoswig Does compiling SBCL to the ARM64 target arch work? I would of thought that would be the path.

[Alex Nygren @AlexNygren]

@SonjaKuijpers @fool_magazine This is amazing work! =

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

"To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead."—Thomas Paine, The Crisis #5. March 21, 1778

[Karolina @KarolinaEklow]

There, fixed that for you. Three decades of warming in the US. #ShowYourStripes #ClimateEmergency

[Steve Silberman @stevesilberman]

It is a coincidence that two of the most powerful teenage speakers of truth to power about #climate change on Twitter, @GretaThunberg and @NaturalistDara, are autistic? I don't think so. Many autistic folks I've met are highly attuned to ethical issues and despise hypocrisy.

[Brian Greene @bgreene]

"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."--Carl Sagan, died OTD 1996.

[Al Yankovic @alyankovic]

Some of you might not be aware of this, but when you vote, they give you a FREE STICKER. Not even kidding, they JUST GIVE IT TO YOU. You’d have to be a real IDIOT not to take advantage of this. Just sayin’.

[Richard Branson @richardbranson]

Shocking that just 13 percent feel able to disclose a mental health issue to their line manager at work https://t.co/OAHMurBpfU

[Marty Bahamonde @MartyJBahamonde]

In 25 years @fema i have never seen a situation like this before. If you are in any of those paths, it is time to prepare yourself.

[Max Galka @galka_max]

Barcelona at night looks like the icons on your phone screen https://t.co/I7fKOXpT2C

[Ad🇯🇲 @KRUZAA_]

This is the most frustrating gif I've ever seen in my life