Rahul Gopinath

To those who are struggling with Microsoft's outlook, please give #mutt http://www.mutt.org/ a try. It works very well with outlook (beyond some configuration), has sane searching capabilities, and does exactly what you want it to do. I have been using it to survive email in #usyd.

Rahul GopinathHenry Coles

Pleased to anounce that we've just released v1.0.0 of the arcmutate kotlin plugin. It includes one major feature - support for mutating inline functions.

docs.arcmutate.com/docs/releas

#kotlin #tdd

Rahul GopinathSpeakerToManagers

If you put garbage in the original training data you can lways find a way to get garbage out.

Amazing "Jailbreak" Bypasses ChatGPT's Ethics Safeguards - Futurism apple.news/Ahc0RzYXOQie9KraGtB

Rahul GopinathStephan Lukasczyk

Our paper “An Empirical Study of Automated Unit Test Generation for Python” (w. F. Kroiß &
@thegordonfraser@twitter.com
finally appeared in
@emsejournal@twitter.com
(Open Access): doi.org/10.1007/s10664-022-102
For this work, we extended our
@PynguinTestGen@twitter.com
test generator with three state-of-the-art test-generation algorithms and evaluated them in the context of the #Python programming language. Additionally, we were able to confirm and extend the evaluation results from our previous work published in 2020

Rahul GopinathLudovic Courtès

“(Re)Use of Research Results (Is Rampant)”
cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/2/

From the intro: “only 2.4% of the ICSE publications are explicitly associated with any kind of reuse. Worse still, according to that report, there were no replicated or reproduced results from ICSE in the last decade.”

And ICSE is a leading software engineering conference. Ouch.

#ReproducibleResearch #OpenScience

Rahul GopinathLaurence Tratt

New blog: Distinguishing an Interpreter from a Compiler tratt.net/laurie/blog/2023/dis. This is a follow-up to "Compiled and Interpreted Languages: Two Ways of Saying Tomato", based on an insightful comment from Mario Wolczko.

Rahul GopinathHadley Wickham

dbplyr 2.3.0 is out now: tidyverse.org/blog/2023/01/dbp!

Thanks to the continued efforts of Maximilian Girlich many pipelines now produce much simpler SQL. We've also improved error messages, added a translation for stringr::str_like(), and added features in anticipation of dplyr 1.1.0.

#rstats

Rahul GopinathAndreas Zeller

RT @issta_conf@twitter.com

📢 Five weeks left until the Second ISSTA deadline!

It is time to think about preparing your research papers for the ISSTA 2023 second round.

🗓 Submission deadline: Feb. 16, 2023.
🔗 Submission link: issta2023.hotcrp.com

ℹ️ More info: conf.researchr.org/track/issta

#ISSTA2023

🐦🔗: twitter.com/issta_conf/status/

Rahul GopinathLaurence Tratt
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This is a post I originally made on my #calckey account, but I think it belongs here too.

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The more I use different #fediverse apps, the more I feel that we are on the edge of a different future, in the early stages of something that we haven't seen before.

In the last few months, I've used #Mastodon, #Misskey, #Calckey, #Funkwhale, #lemmy, #Peertube, #Bookwyrm and #Pixelfed. Soon, I'm going to try an install of #kbin. In the not too distant future, we will see #GreatApe bringing more options for video chat to the Fediverse. There are countless more platforms that I haven't had a chance to try.

The network formed by the interconnections between those apps is the Fediverse; a Federated Universe. Federated, because everything out there is connected with everything else, in one giant network. What I am truly beginning to appreciate is just how real that vision is, and just how disruptive to our future it's going to be. More than a truism, these the fediverse platforms really will allow us to see and interact with nearly anything else out there.

The platform we use no longer determines the information we can access; it doesn't build walls around us. Instead, what out choice of platform determines, is how we interact with information, rather than determining what information we are able interact with in the first place. The walls in the walled garden haven't so much been torn down, as simply never built.

I can write a blog post, and someone on Mastodon can reply to it. I can make a group post on lemmy, and someone from Calckey can reply to it. I can see an awesome photo on Pixelfed, bring it in to #Akkoma and boost it for everyone else to see. And then anyone who sees it can interact with it.

The cross platform interactions are still imperfect. Standards are still being developed, code is still being written and features are still being defined, but the future is right here, we are on the cusp of something new and amazing.

Of course, this is all old news to someone who has been part of the fediverse for years now, but it feels different now. The momentum is here, we are seeing a shift and I think once we cross that precipice, once we have normalised the cross channel interactions we are starting to develop, it's going to be very hard to go back.

Honestly, I can't wait.