Rinde van Lon

Dr. in computer science, interested in optimization, Rust, operations research, and genetic programming.

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[Rinde van Lon @rinde]

I recently gave a talk about bio-inspired optimisation at @imec_int #superminds16, you can see it here: https://t.co/31WetkjFNc @DistriNet

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Truth.
https://t.co/kCGi78fg7p

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Enough.
https://t.co/r5ASk21oJy

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This is incredible https://t.co/TPDAosaHOI
https://t.co/ASAmeSz2FS

[Rinde van Lon @rinde]

that common sense said didn’t make sense that an entire industry of VCs, media and opportunists told us did.

It’s been a lesson in trusting your gut and not being afraid to swim against the current of popular opinion.
https://t.co/MlhdiAIZqC (2/2)

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A lesson of the past few years in tech is that it’s possible for an entire industry to gaslight you.

Whether it was the usefulness of crypto, the competence of certain billionaires or that unviable businesses were worth billions. There’s a lot (1/2)

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Found an incredibly useful app for finding people to follow on Mastodon. It crawls your social graph then finds the people who your followers follow the most that you don't follow.

https://t.co/qBcz6DGFaH
https://t.co/S9B6Ijjcfi

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So @.joinmastodon got unbanned from Twitter.

This is the first tweet that they sent after the unbanning:

"As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea."

What a (1/2)

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🆕🦀 Just an hour ago, #rustlang 1.66.0 was released!

As usual, here's a thread with some of the highlights. 🧵

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https://t.co/akg2lwrZSD

[Rinde van Lon @rinde]

#twitterMigration
https://t.co/2Sy35e0H2s (2/2)

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Probably also worth noting:

My dear twitter refugees,

As you are grieving the communities you are leaving behind, please remember Musk bought a platform, not a community.

YOU built the communities, and you will build them again. (1/2)

[Rinde van Lon @rinde]

Rust errors narrated by a yoga teacher #rust #yoga #ChatGPT

[Marit de Roij @Tiramarit]

Waarom hamer ik zo op taalgebruik en correcte berichtgeving? Omdat Russische desinformatie doorsijpelt in onze media en heel veel mensen beïnvloedt, met grote gevolgen. In deze blog leg ik het uitgebreid uit: taal doet ertoe. Veel meer dan je denkt. https://t.co/IlJ0ABh6GE

[Tim Hofman @debroervanroos]

hahaha dit is lekker zeg

[Rinde van Lon @rinde]

@agdakx Great overview! One thing I would be curious about is spam filter quality, I have a belief that anything but gmail would get a lot worse. Not sure if that’s true though

[Ani Motek @AniMotek]

@MarkDStrauss My favorite take on this (author unfortunately unknown)

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"The Western objective must be to leave Russia profoundly weakened and militarily crippled, incapable of renewing such an onslaught, isolated and internally divided until the point that an aging autocrat falls from power."

https://t.co/7n4MnTLcuO

[Isa Yusibov 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 @Isa_Yusibov]

De straatnaam waar de Russische ambassade in Riga (Letland) zich bevindt is gewijzigd naar De Oekraïense Onafhankelijkheidstraat. Vanaf nu moet de ambassade de nieuwe straatnaam gebruiken voor alle officiele handelingen/contracten.

[Porter Anderson @Porter_Anderson]

Media: @Kasparov63 to @andersoncooper: #Putin's war is "genocide on an industrial scale. It's a message to the world: 'I can do whatever I want because I have nukes and you will not interfere. It's terribly, terribly dangerous for us to accept this nuclear blackmail." #Ukraine

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." ― Albert Einstein