Have you ever noticed how just before sharing your work, you suddenly spot all its flaws? This isn’t just a coincidence or bad luck. It’s your social brain kicking into gear.

We study the following problem: given a collection H=(Hi‖1≤i≤n) of n graphs, each on n-1 vertices, when does there exist a graph G whose vertex-deleted subgraphs are the members of H?

Complementary back pocket problem.

via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWVCl4p-Zyc

Nice back pocket problem.

Forester is a tool for authoring, exploring, and sharing scientific and mathematical hypertexts. It is your lab notebook, your journal, your blackboard, and the home of your lecture notes.

An intensely fascinating tool which has been finding more and more use among the mathematics community.

see also: https://sr.ht/~jonsterling/forester/

I’ve been thinking about very similar ideas for the better part of a year now; excited to see there’s good work regarding this.

Have a hard time with dark mode? You’re not alone! I share my experience with eyestrain and halation, dive into the world of astigmatism, and question why dark themes are everywhere despite not working for everyone.

Sepia themes must be normalized.

If you are a scientist, an engineer, a philosopher, an anthropologist, or an academic of any stripe, thinking and understanding is your job.

You really gotta work hard to meet people where they are and get them on your side.

via: https://spritely.institute/news/goblinshare-secure-peer-to-peer-file-sharing-with-goblins.html

You gotta work hard to meet people where they are and get them on your side.

Oh, dear.

Excellent work here! Goblins is ready for local-first. Kinda makes me wonder if the work of the Beehive team at Ink and Switch is a bit redundant.

Programs that have their own agenda and that are trying to make it yours, too. Programs that want you to think about them. Programs that think they are entitled to a part of your attention. “Pick me” programs. And you know what? Fuck these programs. Give me back my computer.

In this episode, I am introducing another music generator app that can talk and hookup into Blender via OSC signals

I love OpenSoundControl. :) Also, it’s really interesting seeing a five-year old Bespoke.

Nice little morsel of internet absurdism.

via: https://bunjywunjy.tumblr.com/post/801062268735471616

Fil-C is a fanatically compatible memory-safe implementation of C and C++. Lots of software compiles and runs with Fil-C with zero or minimal changes. All memory safety errors are caught as Fil-C panics. Fil-C achieves this using a combination of concurrent garbage collection and invisible capabilities (InvisiCaps). Every possibly-unsafe C and C++ operation is checked. Fil-C has no unsafe statement and only limited FFI to unsafe code.

via: https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/320265.html

Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called “Half Life 2”. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.

It’s always floating point precision.

Technical content can be as pristine as a crystal clear mountain pond, but if no one can find it, they’ll drink out of a muddy puddle instead.

Gotta get people to Pokémón go to the polls.

So, what makes a mentor? Someone who supports you. Someone who transforms you. Someone who helps you become who you’re meant to be. Sometimes they’re older and wiser. Sometimes they’re peers. Sometimes they’re your own students, teaching you courage.