Shakthi Kannan @shakthimaan@mastodon.social

23rd International Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming, March 17-18 2022 https://trendsfp.github.io/index.html #Functional #Programming

BOB 2022 Konferenz, March 11 2022 Virtual https://bobkonf.de/2022/en/

"Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods is school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool." ~ Plato (427 B.C.)

After #PostgreSQL installation on Parabola, run $ su - postgres -c "initdb --locale en_US.UTF-8 -D '/var/lib/postgres/data'" #commandline

Writing a Game Boy emulator in #OCaml https://linoscope.github.io/writing-a-game-boy-emulator-in-ocaml/ #programming

Prof. V. Kamakoti will succeed as Director of IIT, Madras https://www.telegraphindia.com/edugraph/news/bhaskar-ramamurthi-steps-down-as-director-of-iit-madras-v-kamakoti-to-take-over/cid/1847105 #iitmadras

The January 2022 edition of OSFY magazine has my sixth article in the #R, #Statistics and #Machine #Learning series on User Interfaces in R https://subscribe.efyindia.com/electronicsforu/subscription/giftsOSFY.asp @OpenSourceForU

watched "Forging India's Badminton Champions" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75D9jJv1yvA Episodes (1-6) (~ 85m) #sports #fitness

Multicore OCaml December 2021 Update https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-december-2021-and-the-big-pr/9115 #Multicore #OCaml #Compiler

Bechamel is a toolkit to do micro-benchmarking on your functions https://github.com/mirage/bechamel #OCaml #performance #analysis

Lumina #Desktop #Environment https://lumina-desktop.org/screenshots/

Europe's $12 billion battery start-up produces its first lithium-ion cell https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/29/-northvolt-europes-tesla-battery-rival-produces-lithium-ion-cell-.html #energy

Celebrating 50 years of the UNIX Operating System https://unix50.org/ #unix #operating #system

watched "How to open a door" - Finnish instructional video from 1979 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wof0xPUmW38 (~ 2m) #teaching

Multicore OCaml PR#10831 is the mother of all PRs +24,207 −15,148 https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/10831 #Multicore #OCaml #Compiler

watched "Margin Call" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzBNL_clgEs (~ 1h 50m) #masterpiece #investment #fail

The #computer #scientist who can't stop telling stories https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientist-donald-knuth-cant-stop-telling-stories-20200416/ #programming

Elk: A tiny JS engine for embedded systems https://github.com/cesanta/elk #JavaScript #embedded #ES6

"Researcher, Don't Make your Readers Scream" by Lawrence C. Paulson https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/Pages/Scream.html #research #paper #writing

"How to glue your table tennis racket" by Dimitrij Ovtcharov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYBOo8vOSVw (~ 12m) #Tabletennis #blade #rubber