Last week's Ink & Switch London event was a delight - a room full of nerdy, warm people all interested in tools for thought for science. luma.com/71g0lhgo?tk=... It was the first time I showed spideryarn.com to anyone - thank you for all the ideas and suggestions!

absolute highlight of the week was the @inkandswitch.com meetup and talking to @wolkenmachine.bsky.social about his work on programmable ink, and catching a wild @expede.wtf and @pvh.ca too! That team remains brilliant, radical, and decent in equal measures.

A diet for lazy people. It's based on intermittent fasting, but raised to the next level. I call it intermittent-intermittent fasting. Every so often you skip a meal.

The motto of the Alien Intelligence Association: "You don't get a second chance to make a First Contact."

There's an old saying I remember from grad school: "Sometimes a year in the lab can save an afternoon in the library." I thought of it earlier as I tapped my fingers in irritation, waiting many minutes for something that would have only taken me a few hours to do manually myself.

How much to use AI for solo creative work? My current policy: Human readers deserve human writers. On the other hand, it's fine to let AI write code, because only the compiler will see that. (Though if you work in a team, maybe they deserve human coding) www.gregdetre.com/blog/human-r...

14 years after Alan Turing's death, an unpublished manuscript emerged where he suggested the idea of a "disordered" computer that anticipated the rise of connectionism cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Alan...

There's something odd and new about the subjective experience of AI-assisted programming. Can we understand it in terms of well-known psychological effects and illusions? www.gregdetre.com/blog/psychol...

Want to know how to build a well-architected 60,000-line project from scratch in 6 weeks, without writing a single line of code by hand? www.makingdatamistakes.com/ai-first-dev...

How can the UK become a leader in AI-driven scientific research? New report by the Tony Blair Institute outlines policy recommendations across 5 key areas institute.global/insights/tec... W/ co-authors @lyan82.bsky.social @guywj.bsky.social @ersatzben.bsky.social @gregdetre.bsky.social 🧵/11