David Malone

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I was looking for theses supervised by Michael Purser today, and took a trip to look at TCD CS theses. I found quite a few, including Chris Horne's, but also stumbled on other notables:
1) theses of local interesting folk like Mike Nowlan and Alan Judge,
2) thesis that looks like it explains the internal workings of the CAO,
3) thesis implementing RSA on a transputer,
4) theses supervised by Eliz

5 views I was looking for theses supervised by Michael Purser today, and took a trip to look at TCD CS theses. I found quite a few, including Chris Horne's, but also stumbled on other notables: 1) theses of local interesting folk like Mike Nowlan and Alan Judge, 2) thesis that looks like it explains the internal workings of the CAO, 3) thesis implementing RSA on a transputer, 4) theses supervised by Eliz

A bit over 20 years ago, I helped Ian Dowse with implementing dirhash on FreeBSD and then we wrote a paper about it for the FreeNix track of the Usenix conference. I searched for the paper last night, and got an AI summary that conflated at least two different things in a way you probably wouldn't know was wrong, unless you already knew the answer.

1 views A bit over 20 years ago, I helped Ian Dowse with implementing dirhash on FreeBSD and then we wrote a paper about it for the FreeNix track of the Usenix conference. I searched for the paper last night, and got an AI summary that conflated at least two different things in a way you probably wouldn't know was wrong, unless you already knew the answer.

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Avg engagement / post

0.9%

Engagement vs followers

Oct 2022

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🔥 Top post: I was looking for theses supervised by Michael Purser today, and · 5 likes + reposts

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1.4 / week

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Mostly text

Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.

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🔥 Top post I was looking for theses supervised by Michael Purser today, and took a trip to look at TCD CS theses. I found quite a few, including Chris Horne's, but also stumbled on other notables: 1) theses of local interesting folk like Mike Nowlan and Alan Judge, 2) thesis that looks li… ★ 5

Is it just me, or does the Microsoft IMAP implementation regularly flake out if you use it on a big mailbox or ask it to operate on a large number of messages at the same time? The summer issue of the Irish Maths Society Bulletin is out. There's a problem page, if you like that kind of thing! https://www.irishmathsoc.org/current/ ★ 2 And also "You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform": https://qntm.org/calendar Some of my favourite reminders about why timekeeping is complicated: "So You Want To Abolish Time Zones" https://qntm.org/abolish ★ 2 Do you like mathematics? Do you like the arts? Then you'll love: https://www.bridgesmathart.org/b2026/ ★ 4 I was wondering if using scarf("%f", ...) is guaranteed to store the the number it reads as a correctly rounded float. Looking at C99 and C23, I think it says that scan will do the same thing that strtod() would, and it is recommended that… Amazingly, LinkedIn is advertising NFS (network file system) optimisation to me, because my GPUs are at risk of being idle. Early in my sysadmin days, someone told me that you almost never regret spending more memory on RAM or faster I/O. … ★ 3

A bit over 20 years ago, I helped Ian Dowse with implementing dirhash on FreeBSD and then we wrote a paper about it for the FreeNix track of the Usenix conference. I searched for the paper last night, and got an AI summary that conflated a… ★ 1 I did not have sexy Thomas Bayes on my bingo card for this week, but there we go... https://bsky.app/profile/cailinmeister.bsky.social/post/3mmwmz6ln4s2y The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is a significant events for the global mathematics community, bringing together researchers from around the world and hosting the Fields Medal awards. Dublin and Glasgow have put in a join… ★ 3 I did a quick survey of a couple of websites to see what was more common: by bye 297 330 RTE Website 375 43 Irish Examiner Website 22 11 gov.ie 66 206 Irish Statute Book Note, some occurances of "by… ★ 2

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On Mastodon since

Oct 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 3 views per post.

📤Posts about 1.4× per week.

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66/100

Good Credibility score

89%

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Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~0.9% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
Established account (3+ years old).

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