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This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this kind of thing. My ex-wife got me looking at chemistry software, and it turns out that chemists have developed their own “ring finding” algorithms to find aromatic rings in chemical structures. They have, of course, done so without talking to the mathematics or CS departments (it’s a graph theory problem…). @hkrn@mstdn.social

Tony Hoare obituary in The Times today. (For those who don’t know, he was the inventor of the quicksort algorithm and also CSP.)
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/sir-tony-hoare-obituary-turing-award-winning-computer-scientist-6ml9k8lcq

@gregtitus @superbetsy An ex-employee of mine did this on the edging of a lay-by and hit his head hard enough that he forgot who he was and where he was going. Some kind lady picked him up, put his bike in her car and took him to hospital. Without a helmet, he might have been dead.

Mícheál Colhoun on trying Swift, as a .Net developer: https://x.com/colhountech/status/2004685874995359865

Just testing Ivory.

I suspect it’ll be better than the Mastodon app, which is honestly not so great. Last time I tried Ivory, it didn’t work with Pleroma, which is unfortunate because that’s what my instance uses.

It’s looking better this time around though.

@joe@f.duriansoftware.com @aburka@hachyderm.io @fanf@mendeddrum.org Anonymous unions are surely too new for that; weren’t they a Microsoft extension to ANSI C?