<p>artificial general intelligence? brother we don’t even have the technology to create a robotic pet cat.</p><p>these mfs think they’re inventing god but they can’t even replicate a dumbass who shits in a box</p>

<p>Science is a process - a method for pursuing deeper understanding, not for validating fringe theories.</p><p>When disinformation is labeled as science to manipulate and mislead the public, it erodes trust and hinders progress.</p><p>In this political moment, it’s vital that we work together to demand evidence over ideology. Science will only continue to serve the public if we defend its principles. /2</p>

<p>all things said and done, the funniest interview answer i&#39;ve given was for that old classic:</p><p>&quot;how do you find a loop in a linked list&quot;</p><p>the answer is simple: free every item in the list, and if there&#39;s a segfault, there&#39;s a loop</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> &quot;build systems a la carte&quot; comes for us all</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@tef" class="u-url mention">@<span>tef</span></a></span> realized this problem is exactly identical to writing a HDL simulator (i implemented both of these strategies in cxxrtl... ish)</p>

<p>since this is mastodon, the two classic topological sort methods are:</p><p>try running all the dependencies of a cell, recursively, with bookkeeping to avoid cycles</p><p>or start with the things with no deps, and walk backwards to any item with deps ready</p><p>the excel way has less bookeeping: slam everything into a list, calculate them one by one, and if something isn&#39;t ready, you punt it to the end of the list</p><p>and if you walk the list without any new values, then there&#39;s a cycle</p>

<p>big day: did a code screener interview,<br />coding in a browser deal, but no trick questions </p><p>&quot;can you write a toy spreadsheet evaluator&quot;</p><p>please understand, i have been making jokes at my now former job &quot;any excuse to write a topological sort&quot; and lo and behold &quot;please write a topological sort&quot;</p><p>i went for the showboat option: here&#39;s how excel does it</p><p>it&#39;s nice to feel good at my job</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> oh shoot I have that book, haha!</p><p>It&#39;s in my to read pile, been there for like a year 🥲</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cosocial.ca/@timbray" class="u-url mention">@<span>timbray</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.cafe/@baldur" class="u-url mention">@<span>baldur</span></a></span> a different way to think of it is treating a specialist + a tool as a single unit of comparison, not one or the other. Like, you can&#39;t compare programming languages to each other even for a similar task, because a lot depends on whether a programmer or a team likes the language and is efficient at it.</p><p>Another analogy is racing: it&#39;s long established that you can&#39;t compare drivers or cars in isolation, only a particular driver driving a particular car as a whole unit.</p>