Quasit
@Quasit@kolektiva.social
An old Victorian bibliophile and geeky young boy in the same body. I've been on the Internet since the mid-'80s. I'm an old school tabletop roleplayer and game master. Grew up among the 0.001%, which is why I hate capitalism and bullies. But I love cats!
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Quasit
@Quasit@kolektiva.social
An old Victorian bibliophile and geeky young boy in the same body. I've been on the Internet since the mid-'80s. I'm an old school tabletop roleplayer and game master. Grew up among the 0.001%, which is why I hate capitalism and bullies. But I love cats!
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@Quasit@kolektiva.social
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1d ago
Speaking of book recommendations: if anyone would like a personalized book recommendation, please feel free to ask! I've probably read more books, particularly older books, than 99% of the human race. And my memory for books is unusually good. So I'd be glad to make a recommendation for anyone who needs one.
Now, I •will• note that I haven't read that many books that were published after the year 2000 or so. I've read some, and I'm trying to read more, but just not that many.
Also I've seen a trend in book recommendation requests that I really can't oblige. Some people seem to want books that are written by someone who is exactly like themselves and which are about someone exactly about themselves. So, for example:
"I want a book written by a left-handed red-haired triple amputee with a birthmark the shape of an iguana on a pineapple who's only attracted to toothless Algerian basket-weavers and has an allergy to water. The book needs to be about a stamp collector who has a pet monkey with purple fur and learns to overcome their fear of leprechauns."
Okay, I'm exaggerating but not by that much. If you want a recommendation like that, I can't help you!
Otherwise, I'm all ears. 🤣
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likes chaos vibes, IT, a positive future (including 🌳s, 🚄s, and 
rights) and shit toots. researches theoretical computer science¹ by daytime², and does half-assed configuration and weird prototypes otherwise. one day, I will learn more languages (currently: native de, fluent en, rusty B2 french, very beginners swedish (and the automtically learned norsk at that), literal 3 words of finnish, beginners level japanese) books are awesome, always happy to discuss them, ask me for recommendations internet culture is culture, this especially applies to fanfictions and memes 
belongs at pride. toots may be lewd (and if not directed at reader and not very explicit, not cwed), and may be answered accordingly. Flirting only after explicit consent. young people belong on the internet and are probably better at judging their own boundaries than you think writing technical documentation is surprisingly fun wahlhelfer aus Überzeugung 🐋 frequent enjoyer of lost-and-found places will eventually unfollow all entities that don't put cws in front of `pol--` or `chaos meta--` toots most prideflags look better upside down if gender isn't fun you're doing it wrong I do not expect "follow for follow" and usually don't do it #nobot (for bad bots) #noindex good bots may use the headpat dispenser :pat: I reject follow requests if you don't have at least one of the following: pronouns in your bio, a couple of interesting posts, account on a small instance. ¹ algorithms and data structures for compressed strings ² the time I'm apparently supposed to be awake³ ³ and I like footnotes a bit too much
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@blitter__dup_36816@mastodon.catgirl.cloud
likes chaos vibes, IT, a positive future (including 🌳s, 🚄s, and rights) and shit toots. researches theoretical computer science¹ by daytime², and does half-assed configuration and weird prototypes otherwise. one day, I will learn more languages (currently: native de, fluent en, rusty B2 french, very beginners swedish (and the automtically learned norsk at that), literal 3 words of finnish, beginners level japanese) books are awesome, always happy to discuss them, ask me for recommendations internet culture is culture, this especially applies to fanfictions and memes belongs at pride. toots may be lewd (and if not directed at reader and not very explicit, not cwed), and may be answered accordingly. Flirting only after explicit consent. young people belong on the internet and are probably better at judging their own boundaries than you think writing technical documentation is surprisingly fun wahlhelfer aus Überzeugung 🐋 frequent enjoyer of lost-and-found places will eventually unfollow all entities that don't put cws in front of `pol--` or `chaos meta--` toots most prideflags look better upside down if gender isn't fun you're doing it wrong I do not expect "follow for follow" and usually don't do it #nobot (for bad bots) #noindex good bots may use the headpat dispenser :pat: I reject follow requests if you don't have at least one of the following: pronouns in your bio, a couple of interesting posts, account on a small instance. ¹ algorithms and data structures for compressed strings ² the time I'm apparently supposed to be awake³ ³ and I like footnotes a bit too much
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@blitter__dup_36816@mastodon.catgirl.cloud
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Jan 31, 2026
Can anyone recommend me some (online available ;) ) CS textbook that explains Elias-Fano encoding (and SELECT queries on it specifically) in a readable manner?
The original papers are annoying and my advisor just told me "it's popular enough that you can just ask your favourite LLM about it" and hell no
#csacademia #csresearch #cs #academicchatter #shadowlibrary #bookrecommendations #bookrecs #llm
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