What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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TIL that there is a very nice, free PDF book called “Conway’s Game of Life: Mathematics and Construction” that systematically introduces common structures and patterns and discusses how to reason about their behaviour.

It’s beautifully typeset with tons of diagrams. Well worth a look.

conwaylife.com/book/conway_lif

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デジタル署名の対象はなんだろうと思ったんだけど無料部分にはうんこえーあいのことしか書かれてなかった🥺

> 日本もやらない? 広告に登場する本人のデジタル署名がない広告は「これは恐らく詐欺」と表示したり、署名のない広告で被害が出た場合には表示したプラットフォームに賠償責任を負わせる、などが法律化された結果、台湾ではディープフェイク広告がほとんど見られなくなった。 https://x.com/yousuck2020/status/1996006056959570089

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TIL that there is a very nice, free PDF book called “Conway’s Game of Life: Mathematics and Construction” that systematically introduces common structures and patterns and discusses how to reason about their behaviour.

It’s beautifully typeset with tons of diagrams. Well worth a look.

conwaylife.com/book/conway_lif

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You: are a woman or gender minority who's curious about the of waves 🌊 👋

You: would like to spend a life-changing week at Princeton IAS this May, for a lecture series on Waves, Wave Packets, and Their Interactions
Me: has good news! Apply by ⏰ Feb 6 for the Women and Mathematics program.

ias.edu/math/wam/wam-2026

Travel, food, lodging, and childcare are funded. Undergrads, grad students, and faculty are all eligible—there are two parallel tracks!

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Idle thought: I suspect one's opinion of generative AI hinges largely on whether they assume that they personally will be able to capture the added value of any increased productivity they get from using AI or whether someone else will.

I think a lot of the reason AI boosters and skeptics talk past each other is because they have a different but unconscious answer to that question.

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I'll feel comfortable relying on computers once one can produce them sustainably and in small communities.

Right now, isn't "the future" and doesn't replace anything, as far as I'm concerned.

It's a fragile outgrowth of a system of systems, all of which have further undesirable properties.

If high tech fails, my PC will expire in a couple of years, taking *everything* with it (and that's not my biggest concern).

I'll keep using "outdated" stuff for that reason alone, thanks.

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