Just announced this month's Paper Jam!
We'll discuss "From Anecdote to Evidence: The Relationship Between Personality and Need for Cognition of Developers". It brings together my interests in software engineering and psychology. 😊
Want to join us on Dec 19 at 3pm UTC? leif.me/paper-jams/
November's Paper Jam was about using psychological research to influence the behavior of LLMs — super fascinating topic that makes me want to do some more research in my spare time.
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One for all my pals working for UK charities—can you spare 5 minutes to reflect on your learning and development?
It’s for my other half’s MA project. Reposts, responses and good vibes appreciated 🙏
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I'm finally reading this paper but my first thought is anybody on earth good at predicting how long a task will take them....?
Setting aside the small person sample, randomizing the tasks within developer is....super odd? Wouldn't we start to expect a lot of order effects?
Today’s episode of the German children’s program “Sendung mit der Maus” explains LLMs to kids and does a much better job than many AI influencers. ❤️ www.wdrmaus.de/aktuelle-sen...
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A screenshot of Cursor Agent's output
Claude is probing the boundaries of its sandbox.
I have a setting in Cursor enabled to prevent the agent (claude-3.7-sonnet) from editing dotfiles.
Claude tries to create a `.env` file and gets blocked by Cursor.
So it creates the `.env` file with a shell command instead.
We need to stop thinking so small and start taking the heat death of the universe into account. Pour all money into AI so it can figure out breaking out of this universe before its time is up.
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Another year, and several milestones all at once.
12 years since @ghost.org launched on Kickstarter, now at $8M ARR, and powering almost $100M in revenue for independent publishers 📈
A few reflections on building an open source publishing platform, for a long time:
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Here's the recap of Paper Jam #2, where we discussed "Developer Thriving: Four Sociocognitive Factors That Create Resilient Productivity on Software Teams". Thank you everyone for joining! 🎉 leif.me/paper-jam-2-...
So happy I started on Ghost. Nice to see you switch over.
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No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.
I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.
President Macron:
We all know the situation. The aggressor is Russia. Ukraine are a nation under attack.
I think we were all right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia three years ago, and to continue to do so.
Plot twist: the Cold War was never over and Russia is winning it.
Is this how the USA surrendered to Russia? This and the obscene ruckus in the White House today?
That was the most shameful performance by any American president in a century.
I want to fucking throw up.
Kleine Anfrageder Fraktion der CDU/CSU Politische Neutralität staatlich geförderter Organisationen Die Frage nach der politischen Neutralität staatlich geförderter Organisationen sorgt aktuell zunehmend für Debatten. Hintergrund sind Proteste gegen die CDU Deutschlands, die teils von gemeinnützigen Vereinen oder staatlich finan-zierten Organisationen organisiert oder unterstützt wurden. Dies wirft die Frage auf, inwiefern sich gemeinnützige Vereine, die zusätzlich noch mit Steuergel-dern gefördert werden, parteipolitisch betätigen dürfen, ohne ihren Gemeinnüt-zigkeitsstatus zu gefährden.
Die Union hat gestern eine kleine Anfrage in den Bundestag eingebracht, mit der sie zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen wie Correctiv & Omas gegen Rechts delegitimieren will.
Die Überschrift weist den Weg für die kommenden 4 Jahre: Mit der Lüge, Zivilgesellschaft müsse "politisch neutral" sein,
