Jesper Agdakx ♾️ @agdakx@types.pl

Noah told the animals he'd saved: "go forth and multiply".

And they did, but he noticed a couple of snakes just sitting in the corner, looking sad.

And Noah asked them, "what's the matter"?

They said: "sorry, we're adders. we can't multiply".

Hearing that, Noah fetched his tools and a few planks from the ship and made them a wooden table:

"Here, with a log table even adders can multiply."

TU Delft leading the way on #openaccess. 98% of their 2022 papers were published OA 🤩. That is what policy can do. They have an opt-out Taverne Amendment policy (TA allows Dutch scientists to publish OA free of charge after a short embargo period). Brilliant #openscience examples.

🔗 https://www.tudelft.nl/en/library/library-for-researchers/library-for-researchers/publishing-outreach/creating-your-publishing-strategy/open-access-monitoring

(noticed via tweet from @Jeroenson)

#Processing #CreativeCoding #Procedural #Generative #PerfectLoop #Art #Math #Mathstodon

In computer science it's *against the rules* to publish your work in many prestigious venues unless you physically travel to present that work at a conference!

They seem to be forgetting that there's a thing called the "internet" that makes this unnecessary. Pretty weird for computer scientists.

Here's the famous computer scientist Moshe Vardi on how this needs to change:

"As I argued in January 2020, in view of the worsening climate crisis, our discipline's practice that every publication requires travel, often trans-oceanic, is inconsistent with the public good. A report released in March 2023 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change paints an even bleaker picture of the worsening climate crisis. The world is on brink of catastrophic warming, the report warned. A dangerous climate threshold is near, but 'it does not mean we are doomed' if swift action is taken, the scientists said."

"Going back to the pre-pandemic conference-travel culture is simply not morally acceptable, I believe. Yet many conferences have gone back to a full in-person model, and authors are required to present in person. This requirement is drawing criticism. A recent article by Theoretical Computer Scientists for Future (TCS4F) concluded, 'Coupling formal publications with an in-person gathering no longer makes sense for everyone.'"

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/5/272297-acm-for-the-public-good/fulltext

I’ve recently learned of a different way of limiting corporate travel, and I think it’s brilliant.

Every company travel policy I’d heard of until yesterday has been a variation on the same theme:

There’s an annual a travel budget. Management may or may not have priority and there may be limitations on who can travel together, but in the end the true limit is the amount of money in the budget.

The policy I learned of yesterday is almost, but not quite, unlike the others. The budget isn’t about money. It’s about CO2 emissions. Each department gets a specific amount of CO2 emissions for travel for the year.

The implications are interesting:

Travel within Europe has become train first as a natural consequence. Intercontinental travel has been reduced by a significant amount.

It’s an absolutely amazing policy and it should be the standard corporate travel policy everywhere.

Future Historian: when did you first realize you had entered Late Stage Capitalism?

Hologram: Hmm, I think it was monetizing whales eating phytoplankton to combat climate change.

Historian: Sorry, what?

Hologram: Whales eat phytoplankton and...

Historian: No, no, I know that. Are you trolling me?

Hologram: Umm, no? Sorry?

Historian: I give up. Nobody is going to believe this.

#CarbonOffsets #NatureBasedSolutions

https://www.ft.com/content/b8ec1997-67d0-42a7-a7bb-ff8e2dd02a90

"Science is a strong-link problem" gives terminology to something I'd flailed at previously. In essence "strong-link" problems are where you care about good stuff and can tolerate bad stuff; "weak-link" is where you can't tolerate bad stuff. Recommended. https://www.experimental-history.com/p/science-is-a-strong-link-problem

Why Split Lexing and Parsing Into Two Separate Phases? https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2023/why_split_lexing_and_parsing_into_two_separate_phases.html

"Going back to the pre-pandemic conference-travel culture is simply not morally acceptable, I believe. Yet many #conferences have gone back to a full in-person model, and authors are *required* to present in person." -Moshe @vardi "ACM for the Public Good" https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/5/272297-acm-for-the-public-good/fulltext

In a slightly different galaxy, far far away...
https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2018/5/16/viral-hana-solo-and-slave-leo-want-make-star-wars-queerer#rebelltitem3 #MayThe4th