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mathandstuff

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mathandstuff··on When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army
The issue isn't software developers working with the military. It is a matter of offensive U.S. military operations and the associated self-serving geopolitics being treated as countercultural.
mathandstuff··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
They didn't. Al Jazeera's headline was updated to read "Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers."
mathandstuff··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
Actually, The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots fired its campaign manager Ousman Noor as a result of him advocating against the IDF's killings in Gaza. The Campaign initially denied that it was over his Gaza advocacy, but eventually admitted that it was because of him speaking to diplomats which he met through the Campaign. Many members of the campaign support the IDF's arguable genocide, despite how surprising that might be.
mathandstuff··on Aztec Diamond
I wrote some open source code a few years ago that introduces a simple way to convert LU factorizations into a Determinantal Point Process sampler and used large Aztec diamonds as the example

https://gitlab.com/hodge_star/catamari