Hello,

Earlier this year, I've made tournesol_bot lemmy account, to post every once a week, one of the current recommended video of Tournesol in this community.

Recently, a tournesol account appear on Mastodon, and does more or less the same job of sharing recommended videos every week.

So I decided to discontinue the recommending of videos here on this page. If you're interested to get some, please check-out https://peculiar.florist/@tournesolapp on your mastodon instance (or equivalent)

I also did update the community description, aiming now to talk about recommendation algorithms in general rather than to share videos (there are already a lot of communities for that purpose on Lemmy)

So don't hesitate, if you see any news related to that thematic, to cross-post it here !

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20160782

Explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Name

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/22321600

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8677292

• xkcd / 221
• Explain xkcd / 221

Transcript:

[A computer program.]

int getRandomNumber()
{
   return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll.
             // guaranteed to be random.
}

Hover Text:

RFC 1149.5 specifies 4 as the standard IEEE-vetted random number.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8653164

• xkcd / 217
• Explain xkcd / 217

Transcript:

Cueball: Hey, check it out: e^π^−π is 19.999099979. That's weird.
Black Hat: Yeah. That's how I got kicked out of the ACM in college.
Cueball: ...what?

Black Hat: During a competition, I told the programmers on our team that e^π^−π was a standard test of floating-point handlers -- it would come out to 20 unless they had rounding errors.

Cueball: That's awful.
Black Hat: Yeah, they dug through half their algorithms looking for the bug before they figured it out.

Hover text:

Also, I hear the 4th root of (9^2^ + 19^2^/22) is pi.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8619086

Title text:

It's like the traveling salesman problem, but the endpoints are different and you can't ask your friends for help because they're sitting three seats down.

Links:

• xkcd/173
• Explain xkcd/173

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8609865

• xkcd/156
• Explain xkcd/156

Hover text:

Your IDE's color may vary.

Source: Itchy Feet (https://www.itchyfeetcomic.com/2024/01/real-name.html)