@nprofile1q... I may have been a bit hasty there - this was an internal model with some of the guardrails removed, so presumably won't be made available to their customers in that form. It was something like a gain-of-function experiment. But we've learned that they do run these dangerous experiments, and can reasonably deduce that any gaps in the shipped guardrails will be exploited. And other companies' models don't have the same guardrails to begin with.

@nprofile1q... I've been really impressed with the articles on https://www.macmillan.org.uk/ about cancer and cancer treatments - they're deliberately written in simple and clear English to be as accessible as possible, but rather than avoiding jargon they explain it - essential for patients and relatives who'll be dealing with a medical establishment that loves to use jargon.

@nprofile1q... as others have said, sec, cosec and cot really show their value when you're doing calculus: when I first learned trig we only used sin, cos and tan. But there are other derived trig functions that are of use in e.g. spherical geometry: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haversine_formula

Also, I think derived functions were more useful in the days before calculators. Calculating 1/sin(x) by hand is a real pain compared to looking it up in a book of cosec tables.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... the name "Easter" may derive from that of an Anglo-Saxon goddess, but we have almost no evidence for that - literally two lines in a history written by a medieval monk who had no first-hand knowledge of paganism. The festival (which in every non-Germanic European language is called some variant of "Pesach") is certainly not derived from Eostre's rites, if they even existed. See the series of posts starting at https://cavalorn.livejournal.com/502368.html

(I enjoyed the comic, though!)

@nprofile1q... a homegrown thing called EnCore designed by my research group so we could experiment with adding various custom instructions. Mostly it lived in simulation (either software or FPGA), but we did tape out silicon at one point. I wrote up a couple of war stories, e.g. https://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/150891.html

@nprofile1q... I've used ARC! I didn't know the A stood for Argonaut, though.

@nprofile1q... oh man, I used to work at a place where a single Django app was split across half-a-dozen repos. Absolute nightmare. One of my first actions at Continuum was to combine all our microservices into a single repo - not *quite* a monorepo, but close enough.

@nprofile1q... AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh

@nprofile1q... yes, right, cool, I see what you did the... wait what?