JordiGH @JordiGH@mathstodon.xyz

Time for new #introductions!

I'm Jordi. #Mexican expat living in #Montreal, #Canada. I can say expat instead of immigrant 'cause I've had a super-sheltered and comfortable life. Nothing dreadful has ever happened to me.

I like #mathematics, #knitting, #skating, #swimming, and old #gameing because I'm old (not that old).

I also do software stuff because of course.

I work on #GreenhouseGas assessments and #environmental #mapping, which I want to call #ecological cause we need that word again!

There's this kid in our #Battletoads chat that really wants a sandbox/open-world Battletoads game, and that's just a cognitive dissonance for me.

It's like, I don't know, wanting a Battletoads musical... okay, actually, that would be pretty cool. Coming Out Of Our Shells worked for the turtles, right?

Universal bug report: "Why did this break? It was working just a moment ago! I didn't change anything!"

Me: *starts investigating*

Universal bug report response: "You did, in fact, change something. But we shouldn't be breaking anyway. I'll work on a fix."

This is how software gets engineered and developed.

@webinista omg you're back!

Whenever I see people picture post pictures online of animals I don't know, my first instinct is to go check their Wikipedia page in hopes of seeing "least concern" on their conservation status.

Today you were spared, grin-billed toucan. Today you were.

Quick! Who am I?

Hm, what's the brand name of those super-fancy circular #knitting interchangeable needles that everyone covets?

I have no idea of what to ask for Christmas. There's nothing I want! I have all the material things I need!

I've literally been told by my nearest and dearest that I need to disable my adblocker so I can produce a Christmas wish list.

Update: no.

Oh, nice, finally a new Firefox version for Debian. I wonder if this will fix my crashes.

OMG I just noticed that someone implemented the #medcouple algorithm:

https://github.com/FilippoBovo/robustats/blob/master/c/robustats.c#L161

They relied on my Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medcouple

However, they also obviously copied my GPLed source code! It has the same comments and variable names!

http://inversethought.com/hg/medcouple/file/default/jmedcouple.c%2B%2B

And there's no attribution to me, and it's released under a weak free license.

Should I raise a stink?

Hey, @cwebber , Jack would like to hire you!

Maybe you too, @Gargron

So looks like Twitter would like someone to develop a protocol for a decentralised communication platform, eh?

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106

I'm pretty sure I played #chess against Bobby Fischer online sometime in the 1990s in the Internet Chess Club.

If it wasn't Bobby Fischer, it was someone who certainly acted like him. Brash, arrogant, lots of Yiddish slang, and of course called me a patzer over and over again. And beat me without any effort.

I'll never know if I actually did, but I like to believe I had my brush with fame and it was kind of funny: the fame just insulted me.

Battletoads variety hour in 10 minutes!

https://www.twitch.tv/jordigh