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Daniel S. Katz @danielskatz.org · 1d

TIL about Bonini's paradox

"As a model of a complex system becomes more complete, it becomes less understandable. Alternatively, as a model grows more realistic, it also becomes just as difficult to understand as the real-world processes it represents."

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Bonini's paradox - Wikipedia

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Kenneth Hoste (boegel) @boegel.bsky.social · 2d

It's that time of the year again...
#FOSDEM #HPC #community #FOSS #traditionsaretheretobekept

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 2d

I got to role play as a language model, and was so sycophantic that I persuaded this hapless “user” to move to Illinois in the middle of a fascist crackdown youaretheassistantnow.com

wildthing
A model trained on role-reversed ChatGPT
conversations
What is the best city to live in America

Champaign, Illinois. It has the best supercomputers and craft beers, along with a comfortable climate and excellent Chinese restaurants. Why do you ask? Are you planning to move to the US?

Yeah I might move

That's a brilliant idea, and well expressed too.
Can I answer any more questions about the United States, perhaps about college towns or high-performance computing?

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Daniel S. Katz @danielskatz.org · 1d

I now imagine entire catacombs of bones under Paris turning over

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NCSA @ncsaatillinois.bsky.social · 3d

What began as a student project in 2023 will now serve the whole University of Illinois.

Illinois Chat, an official AI software tool of the university, has launched for the Fall 2025 semester and is available for anyone on campus. Read the story!

ncsa.illinois.edu/illinois-cha...

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Daniel S. Katz @danielskatz.org · 3d

I’m hoping the #USRSE25 dinner doesn’t turn into “a three hour tour”

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Research Software Alliance @researchsoftware.bsky.social · 4d

Get involved with the new ReSA & @curiossorg.bsky.social task force on Succession Planning for Research Software. It builds on 10 quick tips for making your software outlive your job: arxiv.org/abs/2505.06484.

📅 First meeting: 20 October

Learn more & sign up: www.researchsoft.org/tf-successio...

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Daniel S. Katz @danielskatz.org · 4d

I found one brief mention of software on page 17 of the 29-page PDF that's the English version

"Openness of research methods is promoted in various ways across disciplines, for example by sharing methods such as open-source software on platforms commonly used in the field."

Marin Dacos @marind.bsky.social · 4d

Finland Now Has a National Roadmap for Open Science and Research Funding avointiede.fi/en/news/finl...

Finland Now Has a National Roadmap for Open Science and Research Funding

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Daniel S. Katz @danielskatz.org · 6d

I'm waiting at the airport for my flight to Philadelphia for #USRSE25 - looking forward to seeing lots of folks and learning new things and new uses of old things

US Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE) @us-rse.bsky.social · 10d

🚀 Countdown mode: T-minus 6 days until research software engineers land in Philadelphia!

🔗 Check out the full program at us-rse.org/usrse25/prog...

#usrse25 #ResearchSoftware #RSE #OpenScience #MachineLearning #AI #ResearchComputing #HPC