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Andrzej Wąsowski 🟥 @andrzej.dukla.ch.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I would have loved that 3blue1brown existed when I was an undergrad student. Here , a beautiful and clear presentation of Taylor expansion: youtu.be/3d6DsjIBzJ4?is=xm948Awm_J4…

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Andrzej Wąsowski 🟥 @andrzej.dukla.ch.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

It's enchanting how empty /bin and /usr/bin are on #nixos. (arguably /bin looks the same on arch, but /usr/bin is full there). #nerdTalk #linux

sh-5.3$ ls -l /bin /usr/bin
/bin:
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 73 Oct 13 14:31 sh -> /nix/store/pwxj9ycwqd117yra6czifh3xfx5p88lh-bash-interactive-5.3p9/bin/sh

/usr/bin:
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 66 Oct 13 14:31 env -> /nix/store/bhv6xyvqw6gjs3j488gi1z6wdv18bdpa-coreutils-9.11/bin/env

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Andrzej Wąsowski 🟥 @andrzej.dukla.ch.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Burning a rainy Saturday on getting my laptop run #nixos (and figuring out whether I want it long term).

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Anders S. Løvlie @anderslovlie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So weird to see the crowds of US tourists outside Anne Frank’s House in Amsterdam. Guys, you have Anne Frank’s House at home. And it’s live

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares — the equivalent of almost 500 football fields — for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments. Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors […]

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Andrzej Wąsowski 🟥 @andrzej.dukla.ch.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

A fresh sourdough baguette, butter, brunost, and a cup of coffee. Sooo yummy, I can't focus on editing the manuscript.

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Andrzej Wąsowski 🟥 @andrzej.dukla.ch.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

TIL: "Let me know if the test fails" asks for a message only in the failure case. "Let me know whether the test fails" asks for a message either way. #English #writing

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Andrzej Wąsowski 🟥 @andrzej.dukla.ch.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The office worker in me, starts to feel countercultural in a conservative sense. A serious company wants to get in touch with me regarding research collaboration. Instead of sending an email or calling, a high profile VP, befriends me on linked in and sends me chat messages on a channel that I […]

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]

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Andrzej Wąsowski 🟥 @andrzej.dukla.ch.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Chirstian Kästner (whom I don't think is here) has written a clear post about externalizing the cognitive cost of using AI on others. It is clear, not AI-written, and reflects also very much what I think. Preparing a bad AI-generated text costed you no time. Processing it takes my real […]

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Andrzej Wąsowski 🟥 @andrzej.dukla.ch.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

The probabilistic programming library #Probula in #Scala, got a new minor release today (v.0.2.3). The release includes a bunch of small improvements that slowly make probula usable: (support for vectorized variables/plates, for-comprehensions, truncated […] [Original post on social.dukla.ch]

$```scala val model = for a <- Gaussian("a")(0.0, 10.0) // prior b <- Gaussian("b")(0.0, 3.0) // prior σ <- UniformC("σ")(0.0, 3.0) // prior _ <- xs.plateD { x => Gaussian(a*x + b, σ) } // likelihood .observing(ys) // ... and data yield (a, b, σ) ```$

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Andrzej Wąsowski 🟥 @andrzej.dukla.ch.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I remember when being young faculty it was difficult to set up external collaborations with non-academics. Today my calendar has meetings with engineers and domain experts at Danfoss Drives, ROPCA, Universal Robots/Teradyne, Novo Nordisk, and Danish Environmental Protection Agency. I really […]

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Massimo :bot: @rainmaker1973.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

This guy's DIY audio visualizer

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Diomidis Spinellis @coolsweng.mastodon.acm.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Well-trained and experienced software developers still highly relevant in the age of AI! It took me six days to fix a subtle but critical bug. The issue's and fix's complexity make me think AI couldn't possibly handle it. If you want to prove otherwise though your agentic prompting skills […]

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Andrzej Wąsowski 🟥 @andrzej.dukla.ch.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

_Meet racism face-to-face._ Muzeum Karykatury in Warsaw, Kozia st., has a small temporary exhibit of Polish zines of the transformation period, roughly 1980-2010. Full spectrum, anti communist, extreme left, extreme right, and arts. There is some minimal […] [Original post on social.dukla.ch]

Meet racism face-to-face. Or: face racism.

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Andrzej Wąsowski 🟥 @andrzej.dukla.ch.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

I felt very lazy working on a grant proposal, so in the spirit of structured procrastination, I have processed and written up my meticulous notes on what to do, once you move your academic website to a new location. A long list of redirects! I hope that some who are also in this situation can […]

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Andrzej Wąsowski 🟥 @andrzej.dukla.ch.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

A small step for the humankind, a huge celebration for my inner nerd. The most beautiful formulation of Fisher's 1922 dilution assay model in the history of humankind has landed 😊. A lot has been happening in Probula lately, but chiefly I worked on syntax to […] [Original post on social.dukla.ch]

$A piece of Scala code (Probula, an internal DSL) encoding Fisher's model, a screenshot from a neovim editor buffer. The code is as follows: ```scala import math.log val data = FisherPlated.dataK val posterior = for ρ <- UniformC(0, 2000) // prior η = (1 to K).map { i => log(ρ) - i*log(2) } // linear predictor πs = η.map { Cloglog.inverse } // (inverse) link cloglog^-1 _ <- πs.plateD { Binomial(N, _) }.observing(data) // likelihood+data yield ρ // Importance sampling inference val stats = posterior.sample(1000.sampleSize).precis() ```$

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