assuming everyone has already read this but if not: please be advised that the first time I read it I was at my desk at work and I had to go for a little walk halfway through because I thought I was about to die from quietly laughing
We're all aware that Nine Inch Noize's set from Coachella just came online on YouTube earlier today, yes? LET'S GO youtube.com/playlist?lis...
That's somehow worse than my brain downright refusing to process the poster for 16 horsepower's reunion tour show in Groningen next month and missing the chance to get tickets. The humanity!
Wait a damn minute. TKDE is back together already for more than a year and I just find out? And they are having concerts scheduled for throughout 2026 but the closest one in NL is literally on the other end of the country? Why?
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Hello.
I just found out that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”, and now I need you lot to know that a death metal band has covered John Cage’s 4’33”.
youtu.be/voqCQSDAcn8
So far: everyone seems to be building native histogram support on top of Prometheus (numbers go up) plus yet another obs stack on offer (that's going to be the last one, we swear)
Hello #KubeCon Day 0, aka colocated CNCF events day. Let's see what the observability track has to offer
QTP with a game that has a 10/10 soundtrack
Two answers actually, please and thank you
So, basically Raptors?
Also also, the OSTs for both seasons are Yoko Kanno channeling Björk and Craig Armstrong going full-on cyberpunk mode, and they are a joy to listen to
+1
Well, Karnivool has a new album out. That was the quickest purchase on Bandcamp by a country mile. Soundtrack for the weekend has already been locked in and is ready to go. This is not a drill
41 minutes from invitation to project resit announcement to first hate mail. That's a new record, I believe
Having just finished last night The Long Good-bye, I think I see why Chandler is spoken as a reference point by many of the authors I've been reading over the years. This explains so much. Definitely recommended
There is a probability of exactly 0 that you can guess how this video ends. Completely unreal stuff
"Someone in the c-suite was sold on the premise that it is acceptable to funnel silly money to a third party in exchange for eroding the negotiating position of workers - present and future ones" more like it
Haven't laughed so hard in a long time. Absolutely spot on
After all that has happened and is constantly happening since September begun, I consider requesting my job description to simply read: crisis management, and leave it that
In all seriousness, the whole thing about vibe coding looks like we're speedrunning a couple of decades' worth of lived experience with model-driven engineering in a few months, down to the same lessons (eventually) learnt. Fascinating
youtu.be/_2C2CNmK7dQ?... too early?
Post-holiday update: I might have had the whole family addicted to ATLA. Result, I guess?
And check the notes of the production company about how the whole thing came together. Looks like classical tooling is here to stay too? Maybe the research community should take notes
Don't know why it took me a month to find out, but if anyone wants to see how GenAI can be adopted meaningfully (hallucinations and all) in video art they should take a look at Igorrr's clip for ADHD. Not going to spoil it but H does not stand for what you think it does youtu.be/TGIvO4eh190?...
The only problem, of course, will be communicating this decision effectively to students. I mean, can you imagine the evaluations?
And then, of course, there's this classic to commemorate the occasion youtu.be/DUlj48Rvp1c?...
Second day has been... let's go with interesting, but not for the reasons one usually expects. Session on sustainability and energy efficiency chaired by yt was well attended and the interaction with the audience was constructive
And local beer is not half bad either (the lager option, the pilsner seems to be too weak for my taste)
Summary of the first day, with the caveat that I stayed well away from the AI track: some really nice works on architecture of cloud native systems, including those on energy consumption. Hot tip: if you go to the conference website and check the program, most authors have added preprint links
On the same topic, a cynical person would point out that the current message of human-centering of AI4SE from an early/established researcher in AI4SE could be read as a strong indication that they've seen the limits of the whole approach and decided they need a way out/forward. But not me, no
On a related note, mad respect also to the first keynote speaker for actually picking papers from other researchers as examples of where the SotA is instead of doing the usual run of greatest hits from their own group. I can almost forgive him for not touching on any of the baggage of LLMs. Almost