Vasilios Andrikopoulos

And check the notes of the production company about how the whole thing came together. Looks like classical tooling is here to stay too? Maybe the research community should take notes

YouTube video by Igorrr IGORRR - ADHD

Don't know why it took me a month to find out, but if anyone wants to see how GenAI can be adopted meaningfully (hallucinations and all) in video art they should take a look at Igorrr's clip for ADHD. Not going to spoil it but H does not stand for what you think it does youtu.be/TGIvO4eh190?...

The only problem, of course, will be communicating this decision effectively to students. I mean, can you imagine the evaluations?

YouTube video by Reddebrek A Scottish Woman Reacts to the death of Margaret Thatcher

And then, of course, there's this classic to commemorate the occasion youtu.be/DUlj48Rvp1c?...

Second day has been... let's go with interesting, but not for the reasons one usually expects. Session on sustainability and energy efficiency chaired by yt was well attended and the interaction with the audience was constructive

And local beer is not half bad either (the lager option, the pilsner seems to be too weak for my taste)

Summary of the first day, with the caveat that I stayed well away from the AI track: some really nice works on architecture of cloud native systems, including those on energy consumption. Hot tip: if you go to the conference website and check the program, most authors have added preprint links

On the same topic, a cynical person would point out that the current message of human-centering of AI4SE from an early/established researcher in AI4SE could be read as a strong indication that they've seen the limits of the whole approach and decided they need a way out/forward. But not me, no

On a related note, mad respect also to the first keynote speaker for actually picking papers from other researchers as examples of where the SotA is instead of doing the usual run of greatest hits from their own group. I can almost forgive him for not touching on any of the baggage of LLMs. Almost

Opening session had the chair of the steering committee telling people that they are hear to listen more than speak (respect) and one of the founding researchers of the _whole field_ asking people to look for him and tell him what they do so he stays informed (also respect). So far, so good

Interrupting the usual programming of exam papers grading rants and music concerts photos to finally bring some work material to the stream. Attending the International Conference of Software Architecture at Odense, Denmark

Devin Townsend in his pyjamas and comfy shoes on the stage

And now, the man himself thanking the audience before the show starts

A shot from the top deck of Oosterpoort, Groningen, waiting for Devin Townsend's The Moth to begin

A concert with a full orchestra, and a never seen before in these parts of the world queue going around the block, and then some, to get in. This is going to be interesting

Any chance there will be slides you can share on this one, or are you planning to pull up a bill from a client, put it up on the screen, and then spend 3' getting increasingly bewildered as you walk the audience through it?

This thread, it contains untold abominations. Like a corporate cringe singularity, but somehow even worse. The horror, the horror

At the same time, somebody needs to remind the sound engineer that just because this is a sold out concert it doesn't mean they have to put out all wattage they have available to the point of the PA struggling with it

Spiritbox@013 Tilburg

This is where it's getting real. All hail the new rulers of modern metal

Periphery@013 Tilburg

First time on the balcony after all those years visiting 013. Pity that Spencer is unable to sing tonight

Mogwai@Oosterpoort, Groningen

In full action mode. Good performance and sound, drums could have been a tad louder/fuller

Mogwai@Oosterport, Groningen

Paying respects to postrock royalty, as one should when they visit one's home turf

Ah, yes, well known romantic movie Commando just came up on TV. Somebody woke up and chose violence for Valentine's Day

Also, why does this movie come with a kickass soundtrack?

Good luck with being there by end of business

What, no post option?

A bell curve/normal distribution graph showing IQ scores from 55 to 145, with cartoon figures representing different programming approaches. At the center (100 IQ) is a stressed figure saying "Do it properly; tech debt is death!" while figures at both ends (low and high IQ) share the same "yolo-slam it in, fix it later" approach, creating a humorous commentary on programming practices.

The most conflicted people are infrastructure folks building an MVP that’s “good enough.”

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In a work event with a theme of GenAI, and I never had to resist the urge to put the Hicks et al paper from last year on the Frankfurtian-inflected analysis of the technological paradigm vis-à-vis up on the screen and then walk away

Meeting a Croatian/Bosnian friend later tonight for dinner, I'll have to quote this to her

Also also, welcome to the Balkans, folks. This ain't your regular geopolitical entity

Word of the day, courtesy of an anonymous student is Versionament. You know, like Deployment, but for Versioning. It all makes sense, just in some language other than English, as the wife pointed out

On other news, yes, I am still correcting exams. Last stretch though

We're back to night grading mode with accidental poetry in the responses:

Cache is a sort of short term memory, remembering recent events through clock cycles.

Respect...