Peter Krautzberger @pkra@mathstodon.xyz

Dank @pfefferle kann man nun WordPress-Blogs Fediverse-tauglich machen. Dazu einfach das Plugin unter https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ installieren.

Edit: mal wieder ein schlampiger Umgang mit Links meinerseits🤦‍♂️, jetzt korrigiert, danke für den Hinweis 👍

What's the smallest name? Can you beat Millicent?

A recent article by Zeynep Tufekci in Wired clued me in to this GitHub thread on core-js adding a donation request to its postinstall script: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/548

It's kind of incredible to me the amount of self-righteousness and entitlement in that thread. The real tragedy is that unpaid maintainers are doing all this work for free, and big corporations are happily exploiting it without a care in the world.

“Six FAQs – Think Different”

Five years old but always relevant (unfortunately).

Mitarbeiter_in (w/m/d) für die Stabsstelle „Wissen als Gemeingut“ und das Projektbüro, E13 TV-L, Teilzeit, befristet Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen | Bewerbungsfrist: 30.09.2019 https://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/wir-ueber-uns/stellenangebote-ausbildung/stellenangebot/mitarbeiter-in-wmd-e-13-tv-l-teilzeit-befristet/ | https://jobs.openbiblio.eu/stellenangebote/42388 #openbibliojobs

Mitarbeiter_in (w/m/d) Gruppe Printmedien, Entgeltgruppe 9 TV-L, Vollzeit, befristet Niedersächssische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen | Bewerbungsfrist: 05.09.2019 https://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/-PBLGS | https://jobs.openbiblio.eu/stellenangebote/42390 #openbibliojobs

Dr Hannah Fry has joined calls for a Hippocratic oath for tech & maths specialists.

"The issue has become urgent now that researchers are building systems that gather and sell personal data, exploit human frailties, and take on life-or-death decisions."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/16/mathematicians-need-doctor-style-hippocratic-oath-says-academic-hannah-fry

In meiner Gruppe Print-Medien der SUB Göttingen suchen wir für die Erwerbung + Katalogisierung von Literatur aus dem FID #Zentralasien eine Verstärkung für unser nettes Team:
https://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/-PBLGS (E 9, Vollzeit, befristet)
#Turksprachen

“I consider Twitter to be a very effective sewage system — you put stuff in and it floats away, but you don’t really want to then stick your head and see where it goes”

Duffin–Schaeffer conjecture solved: https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-proof-settles-how-to-approximate-numbers-like-pi-20190814/, https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04593

This is about finding rational approximations to irrational numbers, like \(\pi\approx 355/113\). Given a criterion for how good an approximation you want, depending only on the denominator (for instance, allowing only prime denominators and seeking an approximation accurate to \(\pm 1/p^{3/2}\) for denominator \(p\)) the new theorem tells you when almost all irrationals have a good-enough approximation.

And just so it's clear: this is a good thing. Not a bad thing.

It's a bit funny because it's unusual, but it isn't a bad thing.

The W3C publishing groups seem to be the only standards types who manage to go into this situation ('too many standards, let's solve it by making a new one') and end up with the same number of standards as they started with. 😝

How you can tell that W3C Web Publications are dead: Amazon is has joined the W3C with an eye towards improving their epub ingestion and ebook accessibility https://www.w3.org/2019/08/09-pbgsc-minutes.html#item02

At what point do you discard the illusion that your baby is teething and admit to yourself that it's just leaking