Linus, the creator of Linux and Git, is so savage 🤣. He doesn't hold back. Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/l...

Today I have seen more “just use Linux” messages than ever before. Gurl, until Linux can absolutely get down plug-n-play like behavior, the general public will not be ready for Linux unless everyone gets a huge dosage of computer literacy. And I will tell you now, from teaching adults: hahahahaha

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Is there anything worse than seeing this note on an empty plate in the kitchen at work?

I am not sure what kind of experiment is going on at the Pears Maudsley Centre, but it looks like fun! @kingsmaudsley.bsky.social @maudsleycharity.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social

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The challenge in learning using AI is very similar to the same learning issue discovered about internet search When we are given answers we think we learn, but we don’t. Learning is work. However, things like the “learning modes” from the AI providers help, as does using AI for tutoring not answers

It's spooky season, so what better way to spend it than getting horrified by common statistical mistakes? A delightful dark read. It is great to follow the paper's development with reviewers' comments & authors' responses. By Tamar Makin from @plasticity-lab.bsky.social & Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry

I went to see New Dawn Fades last night at @bloomsburytheatre.bsky.social. It was a bittersweet experience. Great play, great music of course, good fun, especially Brian Gorman playing Tony Wilson, but so much struggle and darkness... I raise my virtual hat to Josh Lonsdale's Ian Curtis!

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Nailed it: "When scientists cut loose, it means sitting through academic talks, but maybe while wearing sandals." A graduate student’s guide to department retreats | Science | AAAS

LLMs can be useful for some things, but simulating human research participant responses isn’t one of them

Do yourself a favour and spend 5 minutes watching this.

There are albums that you have listened to such much, that all the songs blend in; you know exactly what comes next. I had my own oddball paradigm yesterday & a beautiful P300 while listening to the The Beatle's Blue Album. I didn't know that the 2023 version had extra songs, e.g. Blackbird

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That's tomorrow morning's commute soundtrack sorted then!

This is a bit niche, but really interesting! I should have said that I was writing NASA-compatible code when struggling with recursion, pointers of pointers and dodgy memory allocation...

No surprise there!

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The really interesting history behind something you never really though about. By Francesco Bertelli via

How is this a president?

Such a great insightful video by @dominicwalliman.com! Highly recommended. I had lots of fun today munching on my lunch and discovering more about the world of fungi.

So it looks like there is now an increasing number of people / companies offering services to fix vibe coding problems, as the vibe coders themselves do not have the skills to do it themselves...

In this case, Jeff Somers was just checking for detection rate, without paying attention to the content itself. My guess is that the quality / relevance of the content would degrade more and more as you pass the text repeatedly through these tools, making it paradoxically easier for us to detect...

Really nice and topical letter to read / share, especially as the start of the academic year is around the corner... By @lindsaybrainard.bsky.social

There is nothing like starting the day by stepping out of the house and crashing into a spider web, with the spider ending up on your nose. I am not sure who was the most surprised between us...

We need to keep this in mind when we will eventually use AI to assist us with marking: "Job seekers who use the same AI model to compose resumes as the AI model used to evaluate their application are more likely to advance through the hiring process than those submitting human-written materials"

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Of course they did. All low can they get? We are not even surprised anymore, which is sad...

In a recent interview, JD Vance said that one of his favourite songs is Mazzy Star's Fade Into You. So he is human after all... I really like this live version and he should maybe learn some humility from it...

One of the positives of GenAI is that most of the essays / theses that students hand in these days are well written and easy to read. We can just focus on the science when marking.

You couldn't make this up if you wanted to... "A Italian master painting stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam has been spotted on the website of an estate agent selling a house in Argentina, more than 80 years after it was taken."

This is what I want to be when I grow up

I still prefer @mattwall.bsky.social's songs, but this is fun! Of course we will all be sick of it within a few days / weeks, but I will enjoy it in the meantime. Maybe this will also help make marking more palatable...

Worrying, but predictable due to over-reliance on tools: see how useless we are at finding directions when GPS is down. "In conclusion, we observed that continuous exposure to AI in colonoscopy might reduce the [Adenoma Detection Rate] of standard, non-AI assisted colonoscopy" via @theregister.com

"Unfortunately [the vibe coding platform] was over-optimistic and the application did not work at all. The log showed hundreds of errors and the preview screen just said "Loading." " www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/a...

When I was a student and I had hair (important in this case!), I auditioned for the part of Frank-N-Furter... Didn't get it and ended up doing stage lighting instead. I had a blast above the stage being a spotlight operator.

Things like this keeps on coming up, which is worrying... "Because the amount of care you get is determined on the basis of perceived need, this could result in women receiving less care if biased models are used in practice. But we don’t actually know which models are being used at the moment."

Let’s hope 'PhD level' AI doesn’t mean it also needs three supervisors, six revisions, and a nervous breakdown before it can explain anything. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The thing about vibe coding is it’s simultaneously super fun and incredibly inefficient. You get 80% of the way there in two hours and then spend x5 times as long correcting mistakes and going in circles.

A really important question that deserves to be discussed more widely...

Fascinating work on xenobots built from skin and heart cells from designs evolved with genetic algorithms!

Where are we at in the hype cycle? "The developers predicted a 24 percent speedup, but even after the study concluded, they believed AI had helped them complete tasks 20 percent faster when it had actually delayed their work by about that percentage." by Thomas Claburn @theregister.com

Headline of the day! I guess that now Ozzy has plenty of time to be doing things like that with his chimpanzee friends. I wonder if they will do some music next? #MusicSky

"The meta-analysis showed that increasing playback speed had increasingly negative effects on test performance. At speeds of up to 1.5x, the cost was very small. But at 2x and above, the negative effect was moderate to large." by Marcus Pearce at theconversation.com/what-happens...

How long do ear worms last? I heard it was 7 hours and 15 days.

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