I put filters on "ChatGPT" and "LLM" on Mastodon because the constant flow of discourse, to which I was also contributing, was starting to wear me out, so I'm writing this post with a slightly guilty conscience.

Here's something about nerd culture which it has taken me longer than it …

I turned off the Twitter versions of my fleet of bots last week, and today I went through their various home pages and took out the Twitter timelines - which seem to have stopped working anyway - and replaced them with embedded timelines from their Mastodon incarnations, using Emfed, which was really …

• This cosmology paper has the best acknowledgements section ever written

• I'll admit that I had never actually read the paper in which Turing outlined his 'Imitation Game' until this week, and I really want to write a whole blog post which gives it a close reading. You should read it …

This was the first week I've gone to an office for five days straight since March 2020. I'm enjoying commuting and getting more of a sense of separation from my work and home life.

• A terrible Philip Adams article from 1983

• Nature is not allowing scientists to include ChatGPT as …

• Visualise and/or animate the effects of git commands - a warning that this blew up when I tried using it to visualise a simple git rebase

• Sapling is Meta/Facebook's source control system, a fork and rewrite of Mercurial which they've started to open source. The fact that it interoperates …

Last year was a really big one for me - I changed jobs and institutions just before the end of 2022, and was lucky enough to become a group lead in the new team in May. It's been challenging but really exciting, I feel like I'm getting a lot more out …

• I never have the wherewithal for the Advent of Code but this year I've really been enjoying practicing my R skills on The Hanukkah of Data

• New Nazca geoglyphs just dropped

• Villem Flusser and social media

• The Prime Minster of Latvia has an Irish accent

• The Topologist's Map of the …

Since I set up Funkwhale I'd been thinking of using it to host my music collection so that I could listen to it from anywhere, but I did the sums and the cost of the extra storage would be about the same as if I got a static IP for …

Like every other nerd, I spent way too much time earlier last week playing with and worrying about Chat-GPT, but you can relax, I've stumped it:

I never thought that my addiction to lipograms would lead to any useful conclusions, but these exchanges seem to capture exactly what Chat-GPT is …

One of the nice things about the influx of Twitter users to Mastodon has been peoples' reaction when they find out that most of my bots are on the Fediverse, too. Even though they are still posting on Twitter, I've updated bots.mikelynch.org so that the front-page links go …