Fernando Meyer

I read more and more that LLMs are the future of learning; this belief is shattered when you ask someone what they have learned from assisted writing, or if they can recall information.

Accumulation
of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI
Assistant for Essay Writing Task arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

The GPU graveyard 😅

That Titan was one of the two Nvidia gifted me back in 2015.

If I had taken the value and bought their stock instead, it would be worth about $600k today

Hawaiian gopher shirt pattern.

Heading home from #GopherCon 2025 in NYC. As usual, many people asked how to get one of the amazing Go gopher Hawaiian shirts by Renee French. I've posted the details at github.com/rsc/gophersh.... (I know one person who has made pajama pants with the pattern. Socks might be nice too.) Enjoy!

Apparently, there’s someone at Discord whose entire job is to make sure we never get a font selection window.

YouTube video by Strange Loop Conference "Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilson

some extra goodies on deterministic simulation testing for distributed systems

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFD...

notes.eatonphil.com/2024-08-20-d...

journal.resonatehq.io/p/determinis...
www.scs.stanford.edu/24sp-cs244b/...

github.com/ivanyu/aweso...

queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i... Leveraging Formal and Semi-formal Methods for Systems Correctness Practices at AWS

Berlin’s seasons if you’re from a tropical country: despair, depression, allergies, and a brief glimpse of what warmth used to feel like.

"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate ... https://fmeyer.micro.blog/2025/02/28/when-you-upload-or-input.html

rotring 800

You can always tell when a programmer is using a LLM.

either a bad coder writes surprisingly decent code, or a great coder drops something shockingly bad. 😅

The joy of receiving a package of stationery directly from Japan.

Now a test with a single image

test: Text

That explains why she noticed you 😂

113939992484243141 No #fosdem for me this year, so I spend the weekend catching up on some papers that Andy Pavlo mentioned turing a talk last year at p99 conf.

Need to find a way to cross post from feediverse. In the meantime.

fernandomeyer.com/microblog/20...

Thanks Satan. Still cheaper than lazik 😂

Gorgeous

'Crypto' con artists have jumped onto the AI ship. I can't decide who's more pathetic: those buying into their hype or those bankrolling it.

Same folks, echoing past words. Perpetual shallowness remains.