Daily Archives: 2020-01-30

IBM names Arvind Krishna CEO, replacing Ginni Rometty

Source: OSNews

Article note: Interesting. It's not a "RedHat bought IBM with IBM's money" situation, but has a lean in that direction.... because I think IBM is looking for any kind of credible direction.

IBM named Arvind Krishna as chief executive officer, replacing longtime CEO Virginia Rometty. Krishna is currently the head of IBM’s cloud and cognitive software unit and was a principal architect of the company’s purchase of Red Hat, which was completed last year. Rometty, 62, will continue as executive chairman and serve through the end of the year, when she will retire after almost 40 years with the company, IBM said in a statement Thursday. Good luck to the man, I guess. IBM isn’t exactly the most exciting company in the world.

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The Rust Compilation Model Calamity

Source: Hacker News

Article note: I feel like almost all of those compromises went in the sensible direction. If your code is being used, almost every compromise should favor improving run-time behavior over compiler speed.
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What to do when you don’t trust your data anymore

Source: Hacker News

Article note: It's generally a good tale of responsible academic scrutiny and appropriate reaction. And now the grim, I'm not suggesting the victim/author here should be reprimanded because they more or less did right, but it does demonstrate the "Academic misconduct pays off as long as you get tenure before you get caught" principle that has made academia extra bullshit lately, both in terms of the research people are choosing to do (Machine Learning and Quantum are both "safe" topics because they give results that aren't near-term falsifiable, doing to computing what string theory &co. did to physics years ago) and in terms of the credibility of the promotion process.
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