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@usul@piaille.fr
2026-08-10 08:44:09

Someone lied 30 years ago. Beosbible.com is for sale, so no updates for me.
Fortunately the author @… , is now hosting these at birdhouse.org/beos/bible/

A row of books on a library, from left to right : - introduction à l'infographie - practical file system design - Stephen Wozniak and the story of apple computer - beos manuel de l'utilisateur - the beos bible - Beos: porting unix applications - les microprocesseurs alpha
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social
2026-09-02 15:18:36

omg there is an actual emeritus office now!

A small, sparsely furnished emeritus office, room 3128, viewed through its glass-paneled door. The nameplate reads "Computer Science & Engineering – Emeritus Office – 3128." Inside, gray carpet tile with flecks of orange runs to a large window with vertical blinds partly drawn, giving a view of an adjacent brick/tile building under a clear blue sky. A young fiddle-leaf fig plant sits in a black pot near the window alongside an empty black planter, and a black filing cabinet with a wood-toned to…
It’s me! In the emeritus office! In a brand new Herman Miller chair! A close-up selfie of an older man [hmph] sitting in a black mesh-back office chair (Herman Miller style) in the same emeritus office as the previous photo. He's balding [ok ok enough] with white hair [oh ok so I am old already!] on the sides, wears rectangular black-framed glasses, and has a white mustache and soul patch. He's wearing a lavender-and-white striped button-down shirt, open at the collar, with a small beaded neck…
The view from my office window. A wide daytime view over U-M's North Campus, looking out from a few floors up. On the left stands Baits Tower (the brick clock/bell tower with its distinctive stepped, angular design), rising above the surrounding plaza and lawns. Below and around it, brick-paved walkways and green lawns with young trees lead across the diag toward a low brick building in the middle distance, part of the Duderstadt Center, with a glass-walled corridor section. In the foreground…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-08-22 09:50:00

A visual imagery paradigm for #BCI strategies using imagined flickering patterns nature.com/articles/s41598-026 (table correction at

A visual imagery paradigm for BCI strategies using imagined flickering patterns - Scientific Reports
Steady state visually evoked potentials (SSVEPs) are a popular type of control signals in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), in which they are typically elicited by observing a visual stimulus flashing at a specific frequency. For some patients, using SSVEP as control signal for a BCI can be difficult, for instance if they are unable to focus their gaze over the visual stimuli. To address this issue, some approaches were presented to design a gaze-independent SSVEP-controlled BCI but some diffic…

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-09-08 02:15:43

RE: hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/1172
If you have no deep experience in making software (all the way from product research, to UX design to programming and solid knowledge of human-computer interaction, etc.) and in leading programmers your vibe-coded app will simply be a useless pile of garbage that will slowly rot in a repository that no one ever uses (including you) and just stink up the Internet.
If you do have that deep experience and knowledge LLM-assisted software development is just one of many tools that can be useful (it may or may not be depending on specific circumstances).
The successful uses I’ve seen first-hand are mainly for prototyping and for bug fixes/security issues; both of which require years of experience and expertise.

@hex@kolektiva.social
2026-09-19 17:49:05

Honestly, I really like writing code. As I'm writing, I think about ways to put things together, ways things could change. I run across awkwardness that reveals internal design problems. Just sitting and writing code puts my mind in a really calm and creative place.
An LLM just slams out code. A lot of the time it's garbage, but it's never creative. It's never making something beautiful or challenging. And if you're using an LLM to generate code you're missing that.
Now, there's plenty of boiler-plate code that can be automated effectively. But even automating that that is suppressing a signal.
Code doesn't exist to make computers go. It exists to communicate what the computer is doing. If you just want to make a computer go, you write assembly (or perl, I guess). But if you want to communicate ideas then you use a language that facilitates that.
Programming is a creative process, and statistics aren't creative.
I've been on medical leave for a while and I'm finally getting back to getting my feet under me (which is also why I haven't written human language stuff in a while). Last week I spent a bunch of time coding and I didn't realize how much I missed it, or how much I got out of it.