xitij

"Truth alone triumphs" is an availability heuristic

[xitij @xitij]

@gauravsabnis He already ventured in finfluencing two and half decades back with *HomeTrades* and we know how did it fare

[Scholarship for PhD @ScholarshipfPhd]

The research proposal: a masterpiece.

The PhD thesis: just make it to submission. 😭

Every PhD student will understand this.

[The Cinéprism @TheCineprism]

63 years of Mahanagar

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

Today would have been the 85th birthday of Dennis Ritchie (left), inventor of C and co-creator of Unix.

(Image v/Ritchie family archives)

[Abid Hassan 🇮🇳 @abidsensibull]

Heard in Sensibull team meeting today:

We are heading to one of these 3 scenarios
1. Hyperinflation through crude - We buy Gold, Crude, etc
2. AI bubble + jobloss + deflation - We buy 30 year bonds
3. AI becoming self aware - We get Bunkers, canned food, guns, and John Connor

[वाक़िफ़ हैं निग़ाहें 👀 @Tere_do_nainaaa]

I complaint against no one...
Not against any human being. ❤️‍🩹

[ExL @ExLetum]

Hope everyone enjoys their last night

[raga-learns-to-rock @pnamblat]

#96KishoreKumar
Song 93: Raah Pe Rehte Hain | Namkeen (1982) | RDB | Gulzar
1. This combo's "musafir hoon yaaron" has aged , on the road, romance gone and more honest " Hum toh safar karte hain"
2. The scale change in the 3rd antara for a brief period to "malkauns" using (1/2)

[xitij @xitij]

@gauravsabnis I think he shoots Nagesh in dream sequence on the footsteps of Jehangir Art Gallery with his Smith & Wesson that too with a left hand!

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

John Tukey the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) inventor, who coined both "bit" and "software" died exactly 26 years ago today.

The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), one of the most important algorithms in signal processing and data analysis, was introduced by Tukey & Cooley in 1965.

In 1805, Gauss - studying the orbits of asteroids Pallas and Juno - came up with a method to interpolate their trajectories from discrete samples. What he came up with was mathematically very close to the modern FFT but Gauss never published that work, and didn’t analyze its computational complexity. It predated even Fourier’s 1822 work on heat diffusion - but without the framing or generalization that Cooley & Tukey would bring 160 years later.

In 1965, Cooley & Tukey published their now-famous algorithm that reduced the cost of computing a Discrete Fourier Transform from 𝑂(𝑛²) to 𝑂(𝑛 log⁡𝑛). This leap made real-time signal processing and digital media compression feasible.

From radio telescopes to JPEGs, from audio codecs to quantum mechanics - the FFT is everywhere. It’s one of the most important (and elegant) algorithms of the 20th century - rooted in the genius of Gauss, but brought to life in the computer age.

[xitij @xitij]

@adafruit Honorable mention to MenuetOS https://t.co/1OmOPBiN7W too!

[xitij @xitij]

@MelanieJEaston Does Gulaal count?

[xitij @xitij]

@gauravsabnis At least 13

[রাজ শেখর @DiscourseDancer]

I just cannot get over this moment.

- from Mahanagar by Satyajit Ray

[Aníbal Rojas @anibal]

Yo aprendí a programar con lápiz y papel, sin computadora, usando el libro original de Programación en Basic de Kemeny y Kurtz.

Ahorita en retrospectiva creo que eso me obligó a crearme un muy buen modelo mental sobre las computadoras que luego me facilitó profundizar en la Programación y las Ciencias de la Computación.

Posiblemente en esta época sea un ejercicio muy poderoso. Pero en esta superabundancia de cómputo en la que vivimos y ahora de inteligencia artificial, no sé cómo funcionaría eso, como promoverlo.

[Literarium @Literarium12]

Love is based on socio-economic relations in our society...

[xitij @xitij]

@mrgnk @gauravsabnis Later on found a cheat code "prince megahit" offering invincibility!

[The Driven Man @Thedrivenman]

If you are currently raising children, Remember this..

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Starting in 2027, smartphones sold in the European Union will be required to have user-replaceable batteries designed for greater durability and more charging cycles.

Manufacturers must also provide spare parts and repair manuals for at least 10 years after a model is released.

This is real pressure against planned obsolescence. It should mean phones that actually last longer, cheaper fixes, and a lot less electronic waste piling up. About time.