David Singletary

Professor of Information Technology Florida State College at Jacksonville Java,C,C++,Python,R @UCFAlumni @CUBoulderAlumni
@[email protected]

[David Singletary @FSCJProfS]

First ATE PI conference for our DataTEC Data Science Technology grant! #ATEPI

[David Singletary @FSCJProfS]

It was great for @PamelaBrauda and I to finally meet our @gradle friend and author @trisha_gee in person at @devnexus this week!

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

The seeds of Shorea siamensis, encased in a samara - a winged achene aiding in wind dispersal, display a helicopter-like spin as they fall, efficiently spreading across the forest.

📽: Tomoki Sando

[Nat Friedman @natfriedman]

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000 years, we can finally read the scrolls:
This image was produced by @Youssef_M_Nader, @LukeFarritor, and @JuliSchillij, who have now won the Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize of $700,000. Congratulations!!

These fifteen columns come from the very end of the first scroll we have been able to read and contain new text from the ancient world that has never been seen before. The author – probably Epicurean philosopher Philodemus – writes here about music, food, and how to enjoy life's pleasures. In the closing section, he throws shade at unnamed ideological adversaries – perhaps the stoics? – who "have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular."

This year, the Vesuvius Challenge continues. The text that we revealed so far represents just 5% of one scroll.

In 2024, our goal is to from reading a few passages of text to entire scrolls, and we're announcing a new $100,000 grand prize for the first team that is able to read at least 90% of all four scrolls that we have scanned.

The scrolls stored in Naples that remain to be read represent more than 16 megabytes of ancient text. But the villa where the scrolls were found was only partially excavated, and scholars tell us that there may be thousands more scrolls underground. Our hope is that the success of the Vesuvius Challenge catalyzes the excavation of the villa, that the main library is discovered, and that whatever we find there rewrites history and inspires all of us.

It's been a great joy to work on this strange and amazing project. Thanks to Brent Seales for laying the foundation for this work over so many years, thanks to the friends and Twitter users whose donations powered our effort, and thanks to the many contestants whose contributions have made the Vesuvius Challenge successful!

Read more in our announcement: https://t.co/rUlrdGXBMs

[David Singletary @FSCJProfS]

@rwang0 Amazing presentation on the state of generative AI today at #SASEXPLORE today, I had to
go buy your book! P.S. it’s SeptEMber 😄

[David Singletary @FSCJProfS]

Our amazing CIT and data science students and faculty at SQL Saturday 2023 in Jacksonville! #SQLSatJax @PamelaBrauda @FSCJ_Official

[David Singletary @FSCJProfS]

@PamelaBrauda We’re starting a band: “Pip and the Setup Tools”!

[ProfBrauda @PamelaBrauda]

Met some of my online students in person for the first time at the FSCJ Student Veterans of America monthly “Meet and Greet” at Kent Campus. I am promoting our Data Science Technology A. S. degree every where I go! @fscjSVA @FSCJProfS @FSCJ_Official #dataTEC #datasciencetech

[Ken Shirriff @kenshirriff]

How did Russian cosmonauts know where they were? The Globus INK (1967) showed the position of their Soyuz spacecraft on a rotating globe. It is an analog computer built from tiny gears. I reverse-engineered the wiring (which inconveniently had been cut) and we powered it up. 🧵

[David Singletary @FSCJProfS]

Is their a documented ratio of phishing emails that actually look legitimate vs. looking like a kidnapping ransom note (or have a From: address that uses WingDings)? I'm guessing 1/50.

[Jim Fan @DrJimFan]

The launch of GPT-4 will be a predictably seismic event this year.
But I can predict with high confidence what GPT-4 *cannot do*:

It can’t cook spaghetti, play tennis, or build a lego treehouse.

Robotics will be the last moat we conquer in the grand quest for AI 🤖🦾

[Robert Smallshire @robsmallshire]

Dijkstra must have taken the shortest path.

[Ken Shirriff @kenshirriff]

The 8086 processor (1978) led to the hugely-popular x86 architecture. Internally, the 8086 uses microcode, running a tiny program for each machine instruction.
I'm reverse-engineering the chip from die photos and I can explain exactly how the 8086 microcode engine works.🧵

[Dave Farley @davefarley77]

Continuous Integration means little, or no branching. Instead we continuously make small changes to Trunk (Master). If branches exist at all, they are tiny and short-lived - for a day at most.

Get my CI Top Tips here:
https://t.co/Ag7tcRas0q

[David Singletary @FSCJProfS]

We’re here in person again, three years after our first #ATEPI session. Ask us about how our #DataScience Technology program has grown since those early days! @FSCJ #DataTEC

[David Singletary @FSCJProfS]

@FSCJ Data Science Technology student Kristopher Kihlstadius sharing his dataviz skills with R and Tableau at #ATEPI

[ProfBrauda @PamelaBrauda]

Great workshop on Tools for Adopting the Framework for a Cross-Disciplinary STEM Core from the CORD team!! #CORD https://t.co/bEphMclYGe #ATEPI

[Allison Horst @allison_horst]

To all data science instructors diving into Fall Quarter, sending you the courage of Captain Unflappable.

[David Singletary @FSCJProfS]

Stuffing backpacks for the Denver kids. We absolutely *did not* include marketing flyers for our new fintech technical certificates, that would have been tacky. And because I forgot to pack them. #fintechdevcon

[David Singletary @FSCJProfS]

Great workshops and presentations today: GitOps+Infrastructure as Code, Event-based Architectures for Payments, Mobile Deposit Trials and Tribulations. Also a great panel on underserved communities in fintech. #fintechdevcon

[David Singletary @FSCJProfS]

Piggybacking on @PamelaBrauda’s Women in Fintech invite for the cupcakes. #fintechdevcon