Laurent's island in the Fediverse

My group at ETHZ🇨🇭is hiring one (or more) PhD student(s).

👉To apply: https://www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_ethz_HmLK997vozGaiFuZib

ETH Zürich offers a competitive salary, real full-employment (not a scholarship), with many benefits, and the opportunity to enjoy a truly beautiful city & all around nature 🏔️⛷️🐄🫕!

Check out what our research group has been up to in 2022.

I intend to continue perpetuating the tradition of writing one such activity report each year. (And to "loose" a lot time/have a lot of fun optimizing the page layout 🙃.)

👉️ https://nsg.ee.ethz.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/publications/activity_report_nsg_2022_final.pdf

Some interesting bits on how to achieve low latency live streaming by the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2022-11-low-latency-live-streaming

Here is a selection of the self-hosted services I run and like these days:

- linkding, bookmark service (github.com/sissbruecker/linkding)
- plex, media server (www.plex.tv)
- home assistant + homebridge, home automation (www.home-assistant.io + homebridge.io)
- Nextcloud, self-hosted Dropbox (nextcloud.com)
- Duplicati, encrypted cloud-based backups (duplicati.com)
- Squeezebox Server, audio streaming (github.com/Logitech/slimserver)
- GoToSocial, ActivityPub/Mastodon, github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
- Samba, file sharing
- Apache2, hosting + reverse-proxying

What are your current favorites? 🙃

We humans are absolutely *terrible* at generating randomness. Case in point. You're asked to press the "f" & "d" keys randomly. After a few presses, a simple probabilistic model is likely to be able to predict your next key with a 60+% accuracy!

Try it here: people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nick/aaronson-oracle/

Code: github.com/elsehow/aaronson-oracle

I thought I was better, I'm not.

(This BTW is known as Aaronson Oracle).

Hello world! 🙃