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
An Option for Syntax Highlighting on blogs.perl.org
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
Final Call - 2024 TPRC Science Track Survey
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
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
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
Config::Tiny V 2.30 supports keys with arrays as values
Perl.social server upgrades
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
Perl Weekly Challenge #236 - Lemonade Stand
https://blogs.perl.org/users/oldtechaa/2023/09/perl-weekly-challenge-236---lemonade-stand.html
Perl Weekly Challenge 236: Exact Change
https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/09/perl-weekly-challenge-236-exact-change.html
Hash of Arrays Deathmatch : Native Perl vs. DBM:😁eep vs. Redis
Perl Weekly Challenge 236: Array Loops
https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/09/perl-weekly-challenge-236-array-loops.html
Writing Perl with Emacs: Are there perl-mode users around?
Perl Weekly Challenge #235 - Splicing and Dicing
https://blogs.perl.org/users/oldtechaa/2023/09/perl-weekly-challenge-235---splicing-and-dicing.html