Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 36 (September 2, 2024)

Bars-cafés en mode asso - Ruralcoop274

Bonjour

Cette année, notre association (le Kawasso à Champtocé) a réalisé une demande pour être reconnue association d’intérêt général :

Malheureusement nous avons reçu cet été une réponse négative de l’administration concernant cette demande (je peux partage le lettre si cela en intéresse parmi vous).

Les critères de refus me semblent un peu critiquables / subjectifs, et je me demandais donc : existe-il d’autres cafés associatifs ayant obtenu ce statut d’association d’intérêt général ?

Si vous connaissez des cafés associatifs dont c’est le cas, pourriez-vous s’il vous plaît me mettre en contact ?

Merci et bonne rentrée à tous 🙂

Double feature horrifique
Couverture de Channel Fear épisode 2 Couverture de Sombre n°6

Dans la même veine que la soirée double feature Sombre il y a 3 ans, voici un petit retour de partie d'hier, où nous avons joué deux parties de jeux de rôles horrifiques :

Hacker News folk wisdom on visual programming – drossbucket

This is one of the things I genuinely appreciate about Hacker News. Most fields have a problem with ‘ghost knowledge’, hard-won practical understanding that is mostly passed on verbally between practitioners and not written down anywhere public. At least in programming some chunk of it makes it into forum posts. It’s normally hidden in the depths of big threads, but that’s better than nothing.

Source: https://jmason.ie/2024/08/21/155902a.html

The Complete History of AWS Outages | AWS Maniac
How does Shazam work - Coding Geek

Have you ever wondered how Shazam works? I asked myself this question a few years ago and I read a research article written by Avery Li-Chun Wang, the confounder of Shazam, to understand the magic behind Shazam. The quick answer is audio fingerprinting, which leads to another question: what is audio fingerprinting?
This article is a summary of the search I did to understand Shazam.

Source: https://jmason.ie/2024/07/09/205901a.html

New CVM algorithm - Counting Distinct Elements in Streams: An Algorithm for the (Text) Book - arXiv

A new count-distinct algorithm:

We present a simple, intuitive, sampling-based space-efficient algorithm whose description and the proof are accessible to undergraduates with the knowledge of basic probability theory.

Donald Knuth likes it: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/cvm-note.pdf

Their algorithm is not only interesting, it is extremely simple.
Furthermore, it’s wonderfully suited to teaching students who are learning the basics of computer science.
I’m pretty sure that something like this will eventually become a standard textbook topic.

There is the CWEB implementation he produced: cvm-estimates.w (archive.org)

Source: https://jmason.ie/2024/05/21/165901a.html

Interesting HackerNews comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40379175