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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

And that is why kids these days are eating less healthy. We HAD to have at least one boiled egg per week. 😉

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Ana Pineda, PhD @anapineda.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Would you like to apply the simple system I use to plan my days and weeks? get our FREE weekly planner, and start scheduling your most important tasks 🙌🏼 And yes, writing should be there 😜 Link at the 📸 buff.ly/8DHDeAo #AcademicSky #ECRchat #WomeninSTEM #AcWri #Postdoc #NewPI

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Printable weekly planner for scientists

Planning while having clear priorities is the key to a productive week. This is a two-page planner that you can print and use to plan and create mental space 🙌🏼 It includes space to reflect about…

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Those that lose their data this way deserve every ounce of it. If you've got resources to waste on LLMs you've got resources to spend on a sane backup strategy.

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The Casimir Effect is a quantum phenomenon where two uncharged, parallel metal plates placed very close together in a vacuum attract each other. This happens due to quantum fluctuations in the vacuum, showing that even empty space has energy.

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Except this idea has been tossed around for way more than a decade. Its name: Desertec and is a non-profit consortium. The profit alone was not sufficient, esp. while the gas was fairly cheap and stable coming from Africa. Gadaffis' fate did not help the projects but Desertec is moving along now.

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

After the workshop by @jasongorman.bsky.social I went in to start refactoring my legacy simulation code. Now performance drop and up from 10 to 20 test cases and it only took a few hours. This task is so much easier when you actually approach it via TDD (or at least via test-accompanied dev 🤣 )

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Can recommend. This was insightful - especially the unexpected pair-programming execution of the practical exercises!

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Ana Pineda, PhD @anapineda.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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PDF template for academic tasks during your menstrual cycle

Grab this PDF sheet with ideas about scientific writing and other academic tasks in each of your four phases and space to adjust it to your own menstrual cycle.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

If you can do Java, Kotlin, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript or C#, the (possibly) last (ever) Codemanship refactoring workshop has places available on Saturday morning. www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We've got one space left on Tuesday's Refactoring workshop at 18:45 BST. One selling point I often forget to mention - refactoring (REAL refactoring) will make you a better software designer. Wanna know what good design is? Fix a bunch of bad designs. www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

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Essential Code Craft - Refactoring – Zoom, Multiple dates and times - Tues June 16th & Sat June 20th £99 + UK VAT Refactoring is a foundational skill for software developer...

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joocifer @joocifer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I don't know about that "investing nothing". Lots of people are getting a rude awakening about the cost of the "skills" they need to get the LLM to do something remotely useful. Though: "Skills" is pbly wrong here, "process description" is more apt. Algorithm without the structure?

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

So it's out there that - with great sadness - I'm winding down my training business & looking for a new challenge But it's not quite over yet. I have 3 *final* workshops for developers (and, in one case, non-devs, too) coming up - all on special offer 2day codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/a...

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A Car Crash In Slow Motion

Since I’m among friends, I hope I can be open with you. I started Codemanship 17 years ago in my late 30s, as a response to being asked by a recruiter for the gazillionth time “Why are …

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Ah yes - NVIDIA attests that NVIDIA is best. 🤣

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Don't think my Specification By Example workshop's just a Gherkin tutorial. It doesn't start with features or Given-Then-When. It starts with a real problem and an end goal. Like software development always should (but so rarely does). Tues June 30th 18:45 BST www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

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Essential Code Craft - Specification By Example – Zoom, Multiple dates and times - Our new Essential Code Craft training workshops are aimed at software developers who are self-funding their professio...

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Obsidian @obsidian.md · 28/05/2026

Obsidian 1.13.0 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile. - New iOS Share Sheet lets you save content from web pages and apps like YouTube. - Added search and keyboard navigation to Settings. - Dozens of bug fixes and improvements!

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Ana Pineda, PhD @anapineda.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

For a few days you can get out help for your next grant with a special promo 🚀 A coaching program where you won't only master your grant writing skills, but also your SELLING skills. Something crucial to market and sell your research ideas 💰 All info at the 🔗 buff.ly/4ZHEltv #ERCCoG #ERCStG #ERCadv

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Academic Launchpad ALP

Write your best grant proposal to date.

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Look. It's use it or lose it - and not just for water rights in the Colorado basin.

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Hot take: These are not "researchers". An integral part of doing research is, well, doing reSEARCH for prior art. Checking whether somebody has already done the work. If you are selling a replication study as a novel result you clearly haven't done your research.

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Time is a flat circle. I just did not know the circumference was ~15 years. I remember playing with 3D window compositors in Linux in ~2012-13.

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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Starting September 2026, Google will block any Android app whose developer hasn't registered and provided government ID. This affects all apps, not just Play Store apps. F-Droid calls it an "existential threat." @keepandroidopen.bsky.social #KeepAndroidOpen keepandroidopen.org

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Every. Single. Citation of my M.Sc. I have read and verified. Trivially in two languages. Some of the papers that did not quite fit, but I had to read b/c they seemed relevant I have tracked down in EN,DE,FR,RU - for a Master's.

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Ja. Wir wollen, dass unsere Geheimdienste und Polizei uns mit hausgemachten Werkzeugen ausspähen. Mir haben da ne langjährige Erfahrung mit.

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

#Edinburgh central railway station at a late evening some time in 2007. This one was my background for a very ling time. Taken with an #Olympus #E400 resting on the handrails of the bridge. #photosky #architecture #night #UK

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I've been trying to use the LetsTrust TPM (buyzero.de/products/let... ) as RNG but it's apparently even slower than using RTL-SDR+RTL-entropy+RNGD to get entropy from /dev/random. 419428 bytes in ~8min is too slow for Monte Carlo applications.

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LetsTrust TPM for Raspberry Pi

LetsTrust TPM (Trusted Platform Module), als Aufsteckmodul für den Raspberry Pi. True Hardware Random Number Generator (TRNG), Schlüssel-Speicher, Crypto-Apps.

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

At the very least when run locally that is true: both in time and thus in energy. Same test now with a newer #LLM. #LSP + #MCP and still worse than porting by hand. Faster and power hungrier than before w/ slight improvement to quality. #energy #ai #benchmark analysis-adventures.eu/analyses/202...

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LLMAC - Qwen 3.5

Analysis of the time and energy of LLM assisted updating using Qwen 3.5

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 30/04/2026

We launched a €600 million call for cross-border energy projects. Integrating our markets is essential to tackle the current energy crisis and bring more home-grown renewable energy to you. Apply by 30 September 2026 ↓ link.europa.eu/GFHf4v

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

On an unrelated note: The screen-only dashboard needs to die in a fire. Go back to proper, functional and haptic interfaces.

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"Yes. I am confident in my posts to the point of limiting replies and disabling QPs." It may be a novel concept, but some of us have been using those elements way longer than ChatGPT exists. I do think CGPT uses them so excessively that you can tell a text is generated w.p. 1.

A screenshot of a post by @gooberbb.bsky.social that reads:
"If you must use ChatGPT in a professional setting PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD take the em dashes and emojis out and rework the phrasing just a little. Like it's so obvious what you're doing and it comes across so disingenuous!!"

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uprz... Oracle Fusion… The go-to of UKRI. A system introduced over a year's time and still not populated with full or correct information that employees need.

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They're Bankrupting Every Council

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Congrats UK on joining the civilised world on this. That's certainly very good news!

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Today's energy use with a 600 Wp balcony solar installation. My orientation and location are bad (lots of shadows), but still give me ~1kWh/day Mar-Oct. N.B. At least 1.5 kWh of that total use are from trying to do a task with a local LLM. 😒

A picture showing 3 circles representing different sources of electrical energy flowing into the home use circle on the right. The "Home" usage is 5.86 kWh and is composed of 1.13 kWh of solar input with 4.73 kWh of energy drawn from the grid. Of those 4.73 kWh 3.17 are low-carbon (renewables).

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I remember seeing this in a fancy simulation anno 2013. Can't recall where it was 😑

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European Rail Timetable @europeanrailtt.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

GoVolta launches its first Amsterdam–Berlin train 🚆🇳🇱🇩🇪 600 passengers on board, fares from €19, and big European expansion plans ahead. A major step for affordable international rail travel. 🔗 shorturl.at/Kf6JT Image courtesy of GoVolta.

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

During World War II, Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr co-invented a frequency-hopping spread-spectrum technology with composer George Antheil to prevent the jamming of radio-guided torpedoes.

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Finally! A year after the submission our article on random numbers in Monte Carlo applications is finally published www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We checked whether we could differentiate RNGs in practical MC simulations - not cryptographic applications #RNG #MC #PRNG #QRNG #quantum

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Effects of the entropy source on Monte Carlo simulations

In this paper we show how different sources of random numbers influence the outcomes of Monte Carlo simulations. We compare industry-standard pseudo-r…

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I thought I was positively surprised with #opencode and #qwen3-coder-next today, when I asked it to package my functional C++ code into a class and it did so in ~30 min and the code compiled and worked! Faster than I would've managed manually… 1/2

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Another #macro of a more recent #CPU. This time it's the old reliable R5 3600X. #photosky #technology #structure

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Tried my hand at #macro #photography looking at the pins of an old CPU. Macro without a stabiliser/tripod seems challenging. #photosky #technology #structures

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

A prime example of "saying less may have been better". You had it, and then one sentence blew it.

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

There is a reason I went for a local installation in bsky.app/profile/a-le... allows one to figure out just how much less efficient these tools are (atm) - and that is POST training, in the less energy-intensive phase!

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Internal view of one column in the #Vank #Cathedral in #Esfahan with historical depictions. Unfortunately I do not remember what event they were supposed to depict (left is Babel, though). #photosky #iran #history #architecture

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

#Khajoo #Bridge in #Esfahan on a late afternoon in March 2015 when the river was almost dried up. #architecture #photosky #iran #travel

A tilted view of the Khajoo bridge. The bridge itself is running across the diagonal of the image with the remnants of the water in the riverbed being shown in the lower left half of the picture and the cloudy sky in the upper right half.
A lot of people can be seen sitting and walking around the two levels and various structures of the bridge.

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

#Traffic rule violations are a universal thing. Seen here somewhere in the streets of #Esfahan ( #Iran ). Some time in March of 2015. #photosky #darktable #travel #architecture

The image depicts an arched, narrow, street with a car and a motorcycle driving away from the observer on the left. On the right, highlighted due to a flash being used is a "No entry" traffic sign for the street located in front of a sooty brick wall.

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

#Glassware and #ceramics on display at a #market vendor in the #Naqsh-e-Jahan square in #Esfahan. The perimeter of the square consists of small shops with a large variety of everyday and luxury items. You could still find handmade items, but also a lot of junk from china.🥲 #photosky #tourism #iran

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a-lebedev.bsky.social @a-lebedev.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The final part I agree with, the first part I vehemently disagree with. Only b/c somebody is doing volunteer work does not make them a saint and absolve them of criticism. That "basically" there does a lot.

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