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Software engineer 🖥️ | Former neuroscientist 🧪🧠🐭 | Southerner pretending to be a Geordie | Blog: https://arun-niranjan.github.io/
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Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

submitted 3 days ago • 203 comments

Software engineer analogy for this: if you discover a bug in production - do you fix forward, or revert to a version that didn't have the bug? And if you revert, do you scrub the offending commit from version control? In almost all cases I would fix forward and leave the history intact 🤷🏾‍♂️

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A good bathroom is easily killed by a double-tap to the sink

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

"Council calls for transparency over glass centre repair costs" was right there?! www.bbc.com/news/article...

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The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I don't see this as a misfire at all - looks like healthy disagreement from multiple actors tackling a hard problem. If anything we need more of this out in the open to reduce the tendency for people who aren't familiar with the space assuming that it is all 'easy'.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Give us your tired, your poor, Your huddled null results yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming file drawer.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Jonn is well worth paying to read his human originated thoughts over a cup of tea. I build with LLMs for a living, but we should be using them as (limited) tools to do boring stuff - not replace the fun and interesting things!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Back to basics this morning - this paper by van Oostrum and colleagues is the clearest explanation of active inference I have ever encountered 🎉🙌🏾

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Same applies to software engineers

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Over the past 6 weeks: - BlueSky became less British and more American - the weather improved

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Using mine right now! The Aeropress feels like an engineer-designed product aimed at engineers, I absolutely love it.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

The dog managed to wag his tail so hard in his dream that he fell off his bed 🤦🏾‍♂️

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“That's 40 *cents*. Cents are a form of currency one hundred times smaller than the reál. I'm not even going to take this. Come back when you have 130 reál.” Isn't it... evil? The order of magnitude between what is asked of a person -- and what they have?

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

I am going to come across as stuck in the past. If you are making Studio Ghibli style images with OpenAI models, please don't. I applaud the technical ability required for these algorithms. And every image I see cuts at my soul. I beg of you, watch "keep your hands off eizouken!". And enjoy it 🙏🏾

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Never has the FT made my eyes roll back into my brain stem "Tell me you've never been a software engineer" 😂 www.ft.com/content/471b...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

A jumbo jet is state of the art for intercontinental flight, but that doesn't mean a migratory bird flies by the same mechanism.

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

It's arrived and it's gorgeous 🙌🏾

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On the subject of sieges in movies, I recently watched The Great Wall (2016) - a dubious spectacle and box office bomb, but also premised on a straightforward "siege" (tower defence) scenario. Monsters live in a distant mountain; they come out every 60 years; the wall has to stop them. Wat do?

submitted 95 days ago • 4 comments