__luk__

Data x Cybersecurity x Insurance. Pythonista. Cat person. Open source contributor.

[Captain Doombeard @CDoombeard]

The most Japanese man encounters the most American situation, and writes of his experience in the most elegant way I have ever seen

I am inspired. I wish I could have written this, but this man writes better truth than I could have written as fiction.

Thank you, Nobunaga-san.

[__luk__ @luk__up]

Wife: the box is 1m in front of you
Me: where, I can’t see it, u sure?
<dies after 49 weeks of that>

[Corey Hoffstein 🏴‍☠️ @choffstein]

Week 1: Don't move. You are given distance D1.

Week 2: Go 100 miles north. You are given a new distance, D3.

Week 3: Go 100 miles east. You are given a new distance, D3.

Draw three circles on your map based on your three starting points and their radiuses D1, D2, and D3.

Where those three circles intersect is where the box is.

You have 49 more weeks to hone in exactly.

Good luck.

[Jonathan Gorard @getjonwithit]

I think one of the conclusions we should draw from the tremendous success of LLMs is how much of human knowledge and society exists at very low levels of Kolmogorov complexity.

We are entering an era where the minimal representation of a human cultural artifact... (1/12)

[__luk__ @luk__up]

Parts of the economy and social status system are built are around the existence of a professional class that earns more, that tells others how to live, etc. LLM are highly disruptive to that and the ancient regime won’t go down without a fight

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, & more.

[__luk__ @luk__up]

The probability of injury in a sport is proportional to the amount of gear one has recently purchased

[__luk__ @luk__up]

@Noahpinion The political resistance will be brutal because most people think pay-as-you-go pensions as saving accounts. However it’s a very reasonable outcome if we think about payg pensions from first principles.
Some dictatorial system will have to implement first and show success

[__luk__ @luk__up]

…in front of the class, some of whom had worked really hard

“Idk, answers seemed kinda obvious.” He said

sometimes hard work matters, and sometimes grinding just gives you the empty illusion of progress

[__luk__ @luk__up]

When I was teaching intermediate stats, I gave them a particularly hard exam and the only pass grade was one guy that spent most lessons looking out of the window and never asked or answered anything.
The rest failed and were furious with me. “How did you do it?” I asked him…

[Soho Hank @elusivecurrent]

In freshman calc, the 3 highest grades going into the final were exempt

Last day of class prof announced the names to the class. I was obviously 1, 2nd was a girl who never raised her hand, 3rd was a guy who constantly raised his hand and got many wrong. I think ab him a lot

[__luk__ @luk__up]

this is an old one which for some reason I only found out now
https://t.co/Kis8tSFapA

what a performance!

[__luk__ @luk__up]

I'm a huge fan of song covers. The best of them bring a fresh take on a great song, or even uncover greatness in an old one.

[__luk__ @luk__up]

@webdevMason This exists in Switzerland and it works very well, with cars provided by a company, not by sharing private cars. It’s a great solution for not needing a second car. Mobility . ch

[__luk__ @luk__up]

“Let’s build a model to do …” is the “let’s get a puppy” of data science.

Odds are the speaker doesn’t know the effort it’ll take or the long term commitment that’s needed.

Also, the speaker is most likely not the one that’ll put said effort or be responsible long term

[Emmett Shear @eshear]

I want a version of the timeline where posts show up on a delay proportional to the distance in the real world they have to travel to get to me.

[__luk__ @luk__up]

@igama Did you have Sharma Oli as PM in your bingo card?

[__luk__ @luk__up]

https://t.co/RydQvrFwi5

[__luk__ @luk__up]

I love it when I'm listening to a song, thinking the best part is this one, and right after that someone absolutely crushes it

Halo, cover, link in reply

[__luk__ @luk__up]

@igama It’s almost universal that companies have to pick between efficiency and innovation

[__luk__ @luk__up]

@igama Sneezing is dangerous after 35

[__luk__ @luk__up]

muscles are funny because they hurt if you use them and they hurt if you don't use them.

and if you use them just right so they don't hurt, your knee hurts because your muscles are weak

[__luk__ @luk__up]

I think it got it exactly right. In real world situations, not the obvious people-tied-to-rails, many people pull the lever and tell themselves the trolley will just roll over the victims

[Thijs @cdngdev]

just put the trolley problem into a video model. i don't think it understood the assignment

[Ritchie Vink @RitchieVink]

Polars 1.32 is out and it lands a lot!

Let's go through a few:

1/4
Selectors are now implemented in Rust and we can finally select arbitrary nested types: