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System Thinking

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This Week in PSC (127)

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Is Perl a write only language?

https://blogs.perl.org/users/chrisarg/2023/12/is-perl-a-write-only-language.html

Perl Weekly Challenge 246: Linear Recurrence of Second Order

https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/12/perl-weekly-challenge-246-linear-recurrence-of-second-order.html

This week in PSC (123) | 2023-11-09

https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2023/11/this-week-in-psc-123-2023-11-09.html

This week in PSC (126) | 2023-11-30

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Perl Weekly Challenge 246: 6 out of 49

https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/12/perl-weekly-challenge-246-6-out-of-49.html

The YAMLScript Advent Blog

https://blogs.perl.org/users/ingy_dot_net/2023/12/the-yamlscript-advent-blog.html

Perl Weekly Challenge 245: Largest of Three

https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/12/perl-weekly-challenge-245-largest-of-three.html

Perl Weekly Challenge 245: Sort Language

https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/11/perl-weekly-challenge-245-sort-language.html

Curated list of Perl modules

https://blogs.perl.org/users/ron_savage/2023/11/curated-list-of-perl-modules.html

This week in PSC (125) | 2023-11-23

https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2023/11/this-week-in-psc-125-2023-11-23.html

This Week in PSC (124)

https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2023/11/this-week-in-psc-124.html

An Option for Syntax Highlighting on blogs.perl.org

https://blogs.perl.org/users/oodler_577/2023/11/an-option-for-syntax-highlighting-on-blogsperlorg.html

Perl Weekly Challenge 244: Group Hero

https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/11/perl-weekly-challenge-244-group-hero.html

German Perl/Raku Workshop 2024

https://blogs.perl.org/users/max_maischein/2023/11/german-perlraku-workshop-2024.html

Perl Weekly Challenge 244: Count Smaller

https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/11/perl-weekly-challenge-244-count-smaller.html

Perl Weekly Challenge 243: Floor Sum

https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/11/perl-weekly-challenge-243-floor-sum.html

Hai Julia !

https://blogs.perl.org/users/lichtkind/2023/11/hai-julia.html

Final Call - 2024 TPRC Science Track Survey

https://blogs.perl.org/users/oodler_577/2023/11/closing-on-112323-thursday---2024-tprc-science-track-survey.html

Perl Weekly Challenge 243: Reverse Pairs

https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/11/perl-weekly-challenge-243-reverse-pairs.html

FOSDEM 2024 Call for Participation

https://blogs.perl.org/users/vanhoesel/2023/11/fosdem-2024-call-for-participation.html

Perl Weekly Challenge 242: Flip Matrix

https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/11/perl-weekly-challenge-242-flip-matrix.html

Perl Weekly Challenge 242: Missing Members

https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/11/perl-weekly-challenge-242-missing-members.html

Dodging the Go loop trap

https://blogs.perl.org/users/aristotle/2023/11/dodging-the-go-loop-trap.html

Setting up a free Oracle Database for Perl development

https://blogs.perl.org/users/dimitrios_kechagias/2023/10/setting-up-a-free-oracle-database-for-perl-development.html

Dancer Advent Calendar 2023

https://blogs.perl.org/users/jason_a_crome/2023/10/dancer-advent-calendar-2023.html

2024 Perl Conference - Science Track Interest Survey

https://blogs.perl.org/users/oodler_577/2023/10/2024-tprc---science-track-interest-survey.html

This week in PSC (122)

https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2023/10/this-week-in-psc-122.html

So hear me out...

This idea is stupid. But on Star Trek (VOY, TNG, and DS9 at least), they measured their data as "quads". ( https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Quad ). This was never defined because it's just Sci-Fi and doesn't need a real definition. But... what if they're quad-floats aka 128bit floating point values. This would mean then that all the storage could be done as LLM or other neural network style models, and vector embeddings and such. Given what we've got today with transformer style models for doing translation, chat, etc. If you had ultrapowerful computers that could do these calculations with such gigantic precision then you'd be able to store very accurate data and transform it back and forth from vector embeddings and other fancy structures. It'd enable very powerful searches, and the kind of analysis we're trying to use LLMs for and see them use in the shows when talking to the computers. This would also explain a lot about the universal translators from ENG onward, and could even help make sense of Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra. And then Voyager even has bio-neural circuitry for doing things faster, some kind of organic analog computing doing stuff "at the edge". Using weights and embeddings to do things with them and have them react by programming them with a machine learning model at each node could easily explain how that could work too.

This idea honestly feels too stupid to be real but it could explain so much.

Recordings of the German Perl Workshop (gpw2023) are online

https://blogs.perl.org/users/max_maischein/2023/10/recordings-of-the-german-perl-workshop-gpw2023-are-online.html

This Week in PSC (121)

https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2023/10/this-week-in-psc-121.html

Config::Tiny V 2.30 supports keys with arrays as values

https://blogs.perl.org/users/ron_savage/2023/10/configtiny-v-230-supports-keys-with-arrays-as-values.html

This week in PSC (120)

https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2023/10/this-week-in-psc-120.html

Perl.social server upgrades
So if anyone noticed things being a bit unstable recently it looks like the server was hitting the OOM killer sometimes and caused some odd behavior. In response to this I've added more ram to the VPS running perl.social so this shouldn't happen anymore and it'll also probably mean things run faster now too since more things will sit in the caches.

Perl Weekly Challenge 238: Persistence Sort

https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/10/perl-weekly-challenge-238-persistence-sort.html

Announcing Dancer2 1.0.0

https://blogs.perl.org/users/jason_a_crome/2023/10/announcing-dancer2-100.html

Perl Weekly Challenge 238: Running Sum

https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/10/perl-weekly-challenge-238-running-sum.html

Perl Weekly Challenge #237 - Carpe Diem

https://blogs.perl.org/users/oldtechaa/2023/10/perl-weekly-challenge-237---carpe-diem.html

#237

This week in PSC (119)

https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2023/10/this-week-in-psc-119.html

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