Is the point that they are just bots trying to appear natural?

I assume they decided not to publish on Steam because of their proximity to Minecraft, whose players are already used to having an extra launcher.

Could it be time for Al Khamenei to join Yanukovich and Assad in Putins closet?

Right, which occurs in particular when dealing with graphs, which are basically matrices and usually sparse. Large graphs are what I used this format for, however I also needed edge weights, so the first column was still required for that.

Well played, this should also teach the Russians not to play such stupid games in the future.

I want to add for context that the RDK (Russian Voluntary Corps), whose leader’s death was faked, is in fact a Russian neonazi formation that was formed to fight against the Russians and since 2022 actively take part in the war as a unit under Ukrainian command. The leader, Kapustin, was already widely known within the broader European far-right movement. All that is to say that the person this is about is far more than questionable, but at least right now he is fighting in the right side.

The CSR (compressed sparse row) format is a very simple but efficient way of storing sparse matrices, meaning matrices with a large amount of zero entries, which should not all occupy memory. It has three arrays: one holds all non-zero entries in order, read row by row, the next array contains the column indices of each non-zero element (and therefore has the same length as the first array), the third array indices into the first array for the first element of each row, so we can tell where a new row starts.

On sparse matrices it has optimal memory efficiency and fast lookups, the main downside is that adding or removing elements from the matrix requires shifting all three arrays, so it is mostly useful for immutable data.

The graph of Day 11, created with very little effort using the dot utility of graphviz. Because of a stupid parsing error I ended up with a cyclic graph, so this visualization helped in debugging.

That’s interesting that they look so different, but both look absolutely delicious. Weird how apparently some people in this comment section are unfamiliar with the concept of cheese.

I’m not sure that’s really what’s happening. The plan is specifically for when Russia collapses. I fear that this might make the job of any more democratic successor to Putin much harder, because the worst way to start a new government is by having a large part of your country taken away.

Young people leaving the countryside is definitely a problem for rural areas in general, but a “wilting” wine industry is not what personally worries me, instead I would really like to see the culture of alcoholism get reduced.

It’s not that I’m expecting Chinese to be commutative, but the original image makes it look as such, with the upper and lower triangles of the matrix having the same symbols. In your 2D example this would be like having ab on the top right as well (I would give an example of the characters, but I cannot write Chinese).

Because the matrix in the original post is symmetric.

Uhh, why is it not symmetric?

That’s a lot of money. At this point they should have bought something like this, would actually help in an apocalypse:

Generell: wenn der Absender unbekannt ist und sich nicht als zumindest halbwegs respektables Unternehmen identifizieren lässt, besser überhaupt keine Links öffnen sondern direkt als Spam markieren und löschen.

In my opinion yes, Debian is the best choice for server machines, especially on the homelab scale.

Holy shit, stadiums are expensive.

Well I’m glad they’re rejoining the programme, because Brexit not only affected British students, but all EU students. The Erasmus partnerships between British and other European universities were suspended, which makes it much harder for EU students to study in the UK.

How does this even work? I get the redirection part, but how is the command executed in a detached state?

I do run vim on the GPU, through a GPU-rendered terminal emulator like kitty. And yes, it scrolls noticeably smoother than on other terminals.