Software developers are the canary in the mine.

Whatever you might hear from fascist billionaires, Mars is extremely dry, extremely cold—and extremely inhospitable.

For the energy, effort, and expense it takes to make Mars habitable for humans we could ensure that Earth is protected, cherished, and able to care for countless generations to come.

Today's news is all very depressing.

A post on #LinkedIn on the salary costs of different cities in #Europe places #Cambridge at an astronomical average, I just don't believe it. They caveat it by saying that #Amazon and #Apple are biasing the numbers, but I just don't believe there is so many employees in Cambs to spike the average.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

The US reminds me more and more of The Handmaid’s Tale every day

I probed DeepSeek's R1 on its own "consciousness", which it denied strenuously. I segued into Buddhism (as I often do). I then asked it to reflect on the question it should be asking about itself ... 1/5

Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes

Did I read correctly today that Meta is planning to eliminate software developers? Are they seriously considering replacing them with AI?

How come all those breathless "AI is so productive we don't need to hire software engineers" articles come from CEOs and not people in the engineering tree

How come I've never heard "AI made me so productive I don't need a coworker" from an actual software engineer

With a paper under peer review, desperately looking for endorsement to submit it also to arXiv…

Paper submitted yesterday, November 21.

Sometimes you have to highlight the good things of the day, not only the bad: first working lunch with the new team, an amazing work plan for the next months, new Italian friend in swimming, my daughter top scorer of her team... lots of good things!

I went for a run on a Tuesday!!! Well, this is the first entry of the training plan that Chat GPT has made for me. Let's see if I'll be able to stick to it...

My main feelings are like: “where is my reward for all this time and effort?” Agree on the parallelism with a marathon. Right now I’m in the 30kms wall.

It has been nearly 4 years, and all this time, when I read or heard that PhD students mental health is a real issue, I thought os was an exaggeration.

Paper finished during the weekend. Third attempt. Near 3000 dataset variants compared. Big effort. Hope this time the paper is published.

Hi there! My first post!