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It's easy to say #Agile has failed - but it hasn't. Rather, the entire framework of "building good software" has failed. Our leaders consistently set goals like "do Agile" rather than "build good software" because it's a lot easier to set the former goal rather than the latter.
But there is an analogous domain that shows us an example of how to buil…

Product’s tools have created a leadership crisis. Only tools from the outside can solve it.
On the surface level, software tools homogenize our thinking; we reach for the solutions that the tools we have at hand are designed to create. But tools for the mind are even worse: our…

I can’t help thinking that whoever is pushing QR codes as a solution for connecting folk to information and services hasn’t realised how cheaply and easily the hack to subvert them is…. they’re called stickers 🤦‍♂️ https://qrcode.co.uk/blog/fake-qr-code-scams/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10921 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAR_…

Tao: Re-Thinking DL-based Microarchitecture Simulation
Microarchitecture simulators are indispensable tools for microarchitecture designers to validate, estimate, and optimize new hardware that meets specific design requirements. While the quest for a fast, accurate and detailed microarchitecture simulation has been ongoing for decades, existing simulators excel and fall short at different aspects: (i) Although execution-driven simulation is accurate and detailed, it is extremely slow and requires expert-level experience to design. (ii) Trace-drive…

On economists & anthropologists:
"#Graeber specialized in theories of value: his Debt: the first 5,000 years provides a much-needed long-term history of money. Debt is exactly the kind of book contemporary economists are incapable of writing, because it requires viewing their paradigm as the product of its own time and ideology, instead of considering it as a natural law."

Marcel Mauss, a founding father of Sci-Fi economic anthropology?
At the Sci-Fi Economics Lab we are always on the lookout for tools to broaden the scope of our economic thinking. Neoclassical economics has been so successful that it has become difficult to see the world in any other way. For this reason, I have long been drawn to scholarly work that takes on economic problems from a different intellectual background. In the past ten years it has been mostly biology for me; but, starting about five years ago, I have been drawn more and more to anthropology. .…

The Effects of Generative AI on Design Fixation and Divergent Thinking
Samangi Wadinambiarachchi, Ryan M. Kelly, Saumya Pareek, Qiushi Zhou, Eduardo Velloso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11164

The Effects of Generative AI on Design Fixation and Divergent Thinking
Generative AI systems have been heralded as tools for augmenting human creativity and inspiring divergent thinking, though with little empirical evidence for these claims. This paper explores the effects of exposure to AI-generated images on measures of design fixation and divergent thinking in a visual ideation task. Through a between-participants experiment (N=60), we found that support from an AI image generator during ideation leads to higher fixation on an initial example. Participants who…

The Effects of Generative AI on Design Fixation and Divergent Thinking
Samangi Wadinambiarachchi, Ryan M. Kelly, Saumya Pareek, Qiushi Zhou, Eduardo Velloso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11164

The Effects of Generative AI on Design Fixation and Divergent Thinking
Generative AI systems have been heralded as tools for augmenting human creativity and inspiring divergent thinking, though with little empirical evidence for these claims. This paper explores the effects of exposure to AI-generated images on measures of design fixation and divergent thinking in a visual ideation task. Through a between-participants experiment (N=60), we found that support from an AI image generator during ideation leads to higher fixation on an initial example. Participants who…

Today's project: getting the previous PC build I was using before the upgrade to current gen parts (other than the GPU which is last gen) encased in that Zalman T7. Gonna go in the "bedroom" so I can move this PC to the "living room". Will be a test bench of sorts, wanna explore some self hosting, media server etc options on this thing just to get myself familiar with the tools etc. Eventually thinking I wanna build a real NAS. Prob start with Deb Server, for simplici…

Tao: Re-Thinking DL-based Microarchitecture Simulation
Santosh Pandey, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Hang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10921 https://

Tao: Re-Thinking DL-based Microarchitecture Simulation
Microarchitecture simulators are indispensable tools for microarchitecture designers to validate, estimate, and optimize new hardware that meets specific design requirements. While the quest for a fast, accurate and detailed microarchitecture simulation has been ongoing for decades, existing simulators excel and fall short at different aspects: (i) Although execution-driven simulation is accurate and detailed, it is extremely slow and requires expert-level experience to design. (ii) Trace-drive…

Today's project: getting the previous PC build I was using before the upgrade to current gen parts (other than the GPU which is last gen) encased in that Zalman T7. Gonna go in the "bedroom" so I can move this PC to the "living room". Will be a test bench of sorts, wanna explore some self hosting, media server etc options on this thing just to get myself familiar with the tools etc. Eventually thinking I wanna build a real NAS. Prob start with Deb Server, for simplici…

Untangling Critical Interaction with AI in Students Written Assessment
Antonette Shibani, Simon Knight, Kirsty Kitto, Ajanie Karunanayake, Simon Buckingham Shum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06955

Untangling Critical Interaction with AI in Students Written Assessment
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a ubiquitous part of society, but a key challenge exists in ensuring that humans are equipped with the required critical thinking and AI literacy skills to interact with machines effectively by understanding their capabilities and limitations. These skills are particularly important for learners to develop in the age of generative AI where AI tools can demonstrate complex knowledge and ability previously thought to be uniquely human. To activate effective…