Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (one of the most important pioneers in our field, whose achievements include creating the first compiler) used to illustrate this point by giving each of her students a piece of wire 11.8 inches long, the maximum distance that electricity can travel in one nanosecond.
Vote this discussion - Which Linux distribution is capitalizing on AI momentum? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129429
Odyssey odyssey.learntosolveit.com an Interactive Text Adventure of Homer's Classic.
The Odyssey — An Interactive Story
odyssey.learntosolveit.com
Humans and Robots will have to work together. One without the other is pointless.
“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.” — Aldous Huxley, Island, 1962 novel
“It’s a strange thing: We humans pride ourselves on being ruled by reason, yet with human civilization at stake, we chose ideology and ignorance.” — James Lawrence Powell, The 2084 Report: A Novel of the Great Warming, 2011 novel
“It’s always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, 1974 novel
lickspittle , a common behavior amongst people who curry favor.
Her name is Dr. Tatiana Erukhimova, PhD (Physics) and she loves to teach. 😃 people.tamu.edu/~etanya/
Today I learned about Anaximander https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaximander
Drone photography creating a wonderful illusion! Shooting during early morning or late afternoon with the low sun is necessary to project shadows that are elongated and darkly defined! The black cast of shadows from the giraffe are amazing.
jr conlin - "remember that your customers are not your fans. They barely tolerate you. You have to work every day to convince them to stick around. That's not being negative, that's being realistic. Humility drives improvement and forces you to be more critical about radical changes."
Found a Google Scholar page for Alan Turing https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VWCHlwkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Fixed my n8n setup as the newer versions had lang-chain bundled.
Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. ― Friedrich Nietzsche
Overheard - "AI will win a fields medal before it can manage a McDonald's"
The biggest AI success stories I’ve seen have been from people who are highly technical, folks with deep subject matter expertise.
Built my first apple software. Building a Safari extension locally to use with my linkding manager - https://github.com/orsenthil/safari-linkding-extension
Ashok Elluswamy: Building Foundational Models for Robotics at Tesla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFh9GAzHg1c
Weekly Reminder. Trump is a Liar. Have this in premise with any thing you read.
Cory Doctorow Insight - "A chatbot can't do your job, but an AI salesman can absolutely convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that can't do your job."
Really good story on using llms for coding by the creator of redis - https://antirez.com/news/164
“Regrets are a tax on your mind.” - Jean-Baptiste Kempf, lead developer of VLC, offering a unique philosophical perspective on learning from past mistakes without dwelling on them.
Why LLMs make learning to code more important, not less. https://senthil.learntosolveit.com/posts/2026/05/10/why-llms-make-learning-to-code-more-important-not-less.html #OMSCS conference
