Programming and Free Software Links
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What's an acceptable number of failures?
During my (brief) stint teaching senior leaders about AI, there was one question that I urged them to learn above all others.
• What is the acceptable failure rate?
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Roulette-wheel selection for dqrng | Ralf Stubner
There is a long standing issue with my {dqrng} package: weighted sampling. Since implementing fast un-weighted sampling methods quite some time ago, I have now started looking into possibilities for weighted sampling.
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Perl Weekly Challenge 197: Move Zero and Wiggle Sort
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sslh v2.0-rc2 released
sslh-v2.0-rc2 is now available from the usual sources: https://www.rutschle.net/tech/sslh/download.html
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Instance-qualified Mastodon URLs
Today, as I began to use that new affordance in earnest, I discovered a new challenge. In order to assign someone to a list, or change a list assignment, I clicked the link in the account_url column to open that person’s profile in the Mastodon web app. That was fine for accounts on my home server, mastodon.social. An account URL like Shelley Powers’ https://mastodon.social/@burningbird brings me to Shelley’s profile on my home server where the list manager is available.