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Written by Paula on 2025-01-27 at 03:31

I have to admit, if you just change the name, and replace words like “Germans” and “Chancellorship”, then this paragraph is disturbingly familiar.

https://archive.is/2025.01.25-213125/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/

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Written by Paula on 2025-01-22 at 04:05

I have a class where we are supposed to form teams to build a project. The lecturer asked us to post an introduction, some background, and an idea for the class project. We also have to respond to at least 3 other students.

The class has over 50 students.

Tonight, my phone is blowing up with notifications. I’d turn the notifications off, but important information also comes through this app

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Written by Paula on 2025-01-13 at 11:11

I am grateful for the salary that I’m on. But between my children’s university and this PhD, I’m wondering how anyone can afford an education without crippling debt?

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Written by Paula on 2024-12-28 at 13:08

Comment from a friend last night:

“I know there’s a Space Force, but it still feels like it’s not a serious thing when I see the logo. It looks like something from a SciFi show. Kind of like the Star Trek symbol.”

Me: “Go online. Look up ‘Blake’s 7’”

Them: “OMG! It’s the same logo, only sideways! That can’t be a coincidence! Was someone having a joke?”

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Written by Paula on 2024-12-26 at 00:43

It’s that day to remember home…

https://youtu.be/fCNvZqpa-7Q

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Written by Paula on 2024-12-21 at 18:37

Not even 48 hours later and my family pressured me to tell my father to explain what I’ve been doing to explain why I didn’t have cash for something. Of course, he will tell my mother. Sigh.

Well, it’s because of my kids, and I will always prioritize them.

https://hachyderm.io/@quoll/113681829527359725

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Written by Paula on 2024-12-19 at 22:24

Just don’t tell my mother 😬

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Written by Paula on 2024-12-19 at 22:23

Did I mention that I’m a PhD student now?

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Written by Paula on 2024-11-26 at 12:11

Since @veer66 asked nicely, I’m cross posting…

If anyone out there appreciates using LLMs, then they should consider donating to the Wikimedia Foundation, since a good amount of LLM training data came from there.

The foundation has a mandate to make its data as broadly available as possible, and we all often benefit unknowingly from them

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Written by Paula on 2024-11-21 at 03:33

I was enjoying Bluesky… right up until about today

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Written by Paula on 2024-11-19 at 13:00

Stupid pneumococcal bacteria…

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Written by Paula on 2024-10-27 at 13:15

Note: the values were truncated for the purposes of space

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Written by Paula on 2024-10-27 at 13:12

My favorite slide from my talk on the Conj

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Written by Paula on 2024-10-25 at 14:16

Clojure/conj has such a high density of knowledgeable people who are so generous with their time. I’m sad that it’s only for a couple of days, and only once a year. But definitely enjoying it for now

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Written by Paula on 2024-10-22 at 12:35

Scheme introduced me to the notion of languages where everything having a return type. It made sense, since void always felt like a weird special case in C. After all, RAX/EAX always has something in it (or X0 on my Mac).

Scheme felt more "educational" and less "real world", but then I encountered "everything has a value" in Ruby, and loved it there too. Now I use Clojure, and once more, I am happy.

Which helps explain the "ick" I feel every time I need to dive into Javascript.

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Written by Paula on 2024-10-17 at 21:48

This is useless to most people, but I like it. It attaches metadata to vars to tell you how they were defined.

Normal repl:

user=> (defn minus [a b] (- a b))

[#]'user/minus

user=> (meta #'minus)

{:arglists ([a b]), :line 1, :column 1, :file "NO_SOURCE_PATH", :name minus, :ns ...}

srepl:

user=> (defn minus [a b] (- a b))

[#]'user/minus

user=> (meta #'minus)

{:src (defn minus [a b] (- a b)), :arglists ([a b]), :line 1, :column 1, :file "NO_SOURCE_PATH", :name minus, :ns ...}

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Written by Paula on 2024-10-17 at 21:42

One thing that bugs me in Clojure is an inability to do metaprogramming. The clojure.repl/source-fn function is helpful, but it throws away the data and just prints the source of the function, not even returning the string. But even if it did, I hate code that contains strings (which is why I love how read/eval are separate operations).

I was reminded of all of this, and so have just updated an old project: github.com/quoll/srepl

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Written by Paula on 2024-10-15 at 12:42

And I just got invited to present a talk on Clojure to staff and students… most of whom have never heard of it.

I know that I can explain why I think this language/ecosystem/community is great, but I need to explain this effectively for other people 🤔

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Written by Paula on 2024-10-15 at 12:40

My upcoming weeks look like so much fun.

Next week: draft for literature review is due. Present at Clojure/conj.

Following week: Halloween.

Next week: literature review due, travel to Norway.

Following week: in the office in Norway.

Following week: paper presentation.

Then: Thanksgiving.

One week of who-knows-what.

Then: Final exams.

Somewhere in there I have several more assignments and a major project due.

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Written by Paula on 2024-10-02 at 14:04

Possibly my favorite MacOS commands are pbpaste/pbcopy. I guess something like these exist for X11 as well, but these commands work so easily on a Mac

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