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Brings me back! Well done!

Looking at him I can't believe he's 100. I haven't seen that many centenaries that look that fit.

One can understand why Internet access is useful, but why would it have to be mandatory?

They likely encode not URLs for the public, but internal identifiers that are only useful internally.

Exactly. Glad to see someone else articulate this so clearly.

I think TUIs have started to become popular again a few years ago, before Claude Code was released?

I can totally relate. I often listen to instrumental music while I work. Lately I've listened to music with lyrics and I have a slightly harder time reading, writing and thinking. Not being a native English speaker and not understanding everything helps though.

I was curious why AI wasn't mentioned. Then I noticed the date: 2009.

Whoa, amazing!

How much was it before?

Seeing these constructs in a text is not just a vague hint that it was AI-generated. It's a smoking gun.

Many research labs generate GBs of data as npy files. Having readers in languages other than Python is useful when you have programs in other languages that need to process them.

I had the same realization lately. Shouldn't it be said more specifically that anything that consumes matter to turn it into energy (as all living things on Earth) must poop? If we make the distinction between mass and energy of course.

"eliminate".

Right.

Amazing. Paper-based GPS before actual GPS was a thing.

I've lived in Paris for 20 years without even having the driver's license.

Ironically, I read this article from start to finish, something that rarely happens with blog posts, which I usually abandon halfway through.

More seriously, I agree that writing short books or articles is an important skill. Writing long is easy; conveying the same amount of information concisely is much harder. It is also a sign of respect for busy readers.

I constantly find myself asking LLMs to be shorter, more direct, and more to the point, without fluff. They seem to have a tendency to generate endless streams of words.

> Have you ever felt like you needed to record a conversation you had with your partner?

Just curious what you meant by that?

Now, everyone can vibe code their own text editor.

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Email: hn@rossant.net

As a math/CS PhD and research software engineer in an international neuroscience research lab, I develop a broad range of software for science and data analysis: AI / ML models, GPU graphics and computing, interactive data visualization, high-performance scientific computing, databases, GUIs, mobile/web applications and websites. I co-created the VisPy and Datoviz GPU scientific visualization libraries. I wrote 4 books on scientific Python.

Thank you for making me feel old. The first iPad came out when I was doing my PhD. When I was a kid, Tim Berners-Lee was inventing the web.

Same. I can't this tone. I don't understand why modern LLMs can't show more variability in tone and writing style by default.

That LLM-style tone is exhausting.

Don't assume bad intent.

I use LLMs for different research-related tasks and I surely can relate. In the past few months, the latest models have become better than me at many tasks. And I am not an ad.

It's very weird to pronounce it as a French. Either you pronounce it like in English with a thick French accent like "tchat' djee-pee-tee" or like in French as "tchat' jay-pey-tey" which sounds exactly like "I farted". This is really a terrible name in French.

Tangential but first time I hear about rapidata. Sounds interesting.

I agree. I feel that many medical doctors do not share this mindset.

Funny how I came up with something loosely similar. Asking Codex to write a detailed plan in a markdown document, reviewing it, and asking it to implement it step by step. It works exquisitely well when it can build and test itself.

A mix between merged, morphed, and morgue. I love it. Should be nominated as word of 2026.