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Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Every single time my university becomes a notch more corporate, I get creeps and overreact. I did not stay in academia to work for some uniformized, depersonalized organization that works like a machine. Sigh.

Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · 10d

A modern hotel, low on room service

Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · 16d

bye bye #duolingo. Today I am killling a 3+ year long streak, as agreed with my connection with whom I had a shared streak (so it was not nice to simply kill it until we both agree this is the time).

Besides the growing concerns about low pedagogical value of […]

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The Duolingo green owl in a dramatic collapse, wings splayed and eyes shut. Image synthesized with GPT5.

Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · 16d

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Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · 22d

Note that this is a Marie-Curie Doctoral Network position, which besides being highly prestigious, prevents us from hiring local applicants. So there is no local competition :) For positions #6, #7 and #14 we need to hire people from outside Denmark. OTOH, applicants from Denmark should apply […]

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Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · 22d

What a fantastic opportunity of a PhD in cool areas of robotics and validation/evaluation methods (including software engineering and formal methods for robotics). I will be supervising position #14 in Copenhagen on _Bridging the Simulation and Reality Gap in Testing Marine Robots_ and be […]

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Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · 28d

Vacation time. AKA the time to hit the trail

Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · Aug 27

It saddens me that the best polished pieces of prose I ever produced are grant proposals.

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Eugen Rochko @gargron.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 26

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware.

#android #google

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 14

An Open Source sustainability story in two slides. (for a coming talk of mine)

Slide 1: car brands using #curl
Slide 2: car brands sponsoring or paying for #curl support

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Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · Aug 15

I found an application for chat GPT. As a non-native speaker of English, and a native speaker of a slavic languages, I suck, mightily suck, in using articles in writing. So this amazin machinery is actually pretty good in this menial task of finding my article mistakes.

Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · Aug 15

ChatGPT 5 has now a scholar "flavor" that it tried to lure me into. It is somehow based on sider.ai. It offered to find me some papers on a topic. It came back with 10 papers. Eight were clearly on a different topic. Two did not exist. So far so good :) Still useless.

Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · Aug 14

I was wondering that writing grant proposals must be among the least efficient writing tasks. The amount of time and energy per word is incredibly. Poetry must be the only one that get close to this :) #researchfundingispoetry #ouch

Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · Aug 13

I used the entire day working on shortening a grant proposal from 7 pages to 5. The outcome is almost 8 pages.

Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · Aug 12

wrapfig.sty is a real pain #latex. You need to babysit them all the time. It turns out that it is even worse with #typst. It leads to random compilation failures. There must be a #wrapcurse in the typesetting hell.

Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · Aug 12

Note to myself: it takes a day to revise your CVs, even you if you think it shall take 15 minutes. Every single f*g time.

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Philipp Krämer @phkraemer.bsky.social · Aug 9

How I like my borders: invisible.

Panoramic view from Mount Säntis towards Lake Constance in the North and the Rhine Valley in the East, the flags of Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein mark the neighbouring countries visible from the spot, the flag of Switzerland in the front the country the picture was taken in.

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Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · Jul 24

These review "quality" folks complain, for instance, that one needs to add an assessment of robustness of the AI solution, under an entire paragraph about reliability and safety of AI. For them "robustness of AI" has not been assessed if the term "robustness of AI" has not been used. This is […]

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Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · Jul 24

At least now I understand that I should not pay too much attention to the reviews I receive as a submitter.

Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · Jul 21

An hour later, I got an email receipt from computer.org for the 0$ purchase. Now I have the receipt in two formats, but still no article. (The link in the receipt emails gives a 403 error...).

Also, an hour later, I am two articles away in reading from what I needed from them. The only thought […]

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Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · Jul 21

Why I am still putting up with this crap organized scam? Going to get a free PDF somewhere else on the internets ...

Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · Jul 8

OK. This turned into an annoying procrastination project.

You need to provide the DNS-over-TLS name for dns4eu after the IP number in resolved.com. I did not know this. #dsn4eu folks don't give you a good string to cut and paste. So make yours, for example:

86.54.11.13#noads.joindns4.eu

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Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · Jun 27

Dette var en fucking henrettelse -- hørt fra en gruppe af studerende der har lige forladt en eksamenslokale ...

#academicchatterdk

Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · Jun 26

[Self promotion]

https://en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Press/News-from-ITU/2025/ITU-researcher-wants-to-improve-statistics-models

One researcher wants to improve statistical models

And also, a new fantastic Postdoc joins the SQUARE research group to work on Bayesian inference methods and pose […]

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Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 @andrzejwasowski.social.itu.dk.ap.brid.gy · Jun 24

A very nice broad perspective on "What is a bug?" by @clegoues and @davidthewid

The title is slightly misleading but the subtitle has it all: On subjectivity, epistemic power, and implications for computing research.

I especially like the less positivist perspective on software research, and a […]

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