Andrew Williams

Apart from easier testing, there's also the fact that good code is full of comments that explain what it does, and how. If you trained an LLM on books full of footnotes explaining why each sentence is there and how it works, it might do better.

And inside is a single suitcase...

Developer position open to join me on the MWA telescope team at Curtin University. You'd be responsible for the MWA data portal allowing users around the world to search for, pre-process (on a supercomputer) and download from the 60PB MWA archive. staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancie...

A bunch of friends designed and built it, we raced it in 2001 and 2003, then passed it on to Leeming high school, then onto Willetton high school, kick-starting their solar car programs.

Anyone have an idea where Sungroper, the first solar car from Western Australian to race in the Darwin-Adelaide World Solar Challenge, can find a new home in Perth? It's probably going to be scrapped unless we can find somewhere it can go on display. sungroper.asn.au

Assimilation-induced dehumanization: Psychology research uncovers a dark side effect of AI As AI becomes more empathetic, a surprising psychological shift occurs. New research finds that interacting with emotionally intelligent machines can make us see real people as more machine-like, subt...

This is fascinating research.

I remember back when I used to play The Sims a lot, I'd sometimes have a weird sensation looking at actual people in the street, and seeing them as Sims. I guess that is similar to this, but this is going to be more pervasive.

www.psypost.org/assimilation...

Indeed, it's already dealt with by the time you see the file, but using skyview, not astropy :-)

YouTube video by artistwithouttalent Total Eclipse of the Heart Literal Video Version

Have you seen the 'literal lyrics' version of that? It's amazing... youtu.be/fsgWUq0fdKk?...

If Roy & HG were calling that move: Trump just did a standing double backflip with pike

I'll take a photo next time I'm in the lab. Move back to Perth and start a PhD here and you'd get to play with gear like that every day :-)

The lab is full of cool gear - including a big box full of capacitors and sulphur hexafluoride, used to drive an antenna to generate EMP pulses in an enclosed chamber, to study how to harden IC's against damage.

Wow, I didn't know there was amateur gear up in the GHz.

Definitely. So what are you building?

You should come visit CIRA so I can show you round the lab. There's lots of goodies there to geek out over if you're into RF.

I was writing a plan for big changes to the MWA telescope control software. After a page of bullet points about database columns, etc, the AI plugin I'm using - trained on millions of lines of real-world code - helpfully autosuggested:

"For now, lets just ignore the problem and hope for the best."

Postmodern Jukebox tonight at the Astor - they were great.

He's very good at finding bugs, and the cursor, provided they are moving around.

YouTube video by Andrew Williams Oreo helping me find a bug.

And here's Oreo learning to programme in Python, just a few months ago. youtu.be/xEOFgta--2k?...

YouTube video by Andrew Williams SETI story on Today Tonight, 1995

Here's a TV segment that Today Tonight (dodgy WA 'news' programme) did about SETI in 1995, while I still had my PhD-student beard. It's so cringe-worthy it's hilarious now, 30 years later. youtu.be/nspfNt7iEuU?...

Hmm. No way to edit out typos after you post.

Thought I'd better sign up ahead of the bad exodus. This seems to be a Twitter replacement though, not a Facebook replacement, and I've never actually used Twitter...