Reposted by Greg DetreKilian Schönberger @kilianschoenberger.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Dancing Ent Creature of the foggy forest. Madeira #landscapephotography ##landschaftsfotografie #fog 833466429
Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I walked past a smelly drain yesterday and reflexively put my noise-cancelling headphones on. Analogy is the core of cognition. 000
Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Rebel is our AI desktop app for agentic work: advanced memory that learns & shares with colleagues, model-flexible, privacy-first, and works across your whole life. And it's now Fair Source. We’d really appreciate an upvote/comment: www.producthunt.com/products/min... 100
Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Last week's Ink & Switch London event was a delight - a room full of nerdy, warm people all interested in tools for thought for science. luma.com/71g0lhgo?tk=... It was the first time I showed spideryarn.com to anyone - thank you for all the ideas and suggestions!luma.comInk & Switch London: Building new tools for Science · LumaInk & Switch's mission is to help computers become better tools for thought. We believe that the promise of computers as "intelligence amplifiers" or "bicycles… 330
Reposted by Greg Detreolizilla @oli.zilla.org.uk · 14/11/2025absolute highlight of the week was the @inkandswitch.com meetup and talking to @wolkenmachine.bsky.social about his work on programmable ink, and catching a wild @expede.wtf and @pvh.ca too! That team remains brilliant, radical, and decent in equal measures. 2122
Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 06/09/2025A diet for lazy people. It's based on intermittent fasting, but raised to the next level. I call it intermittent-intermittent fasting. Every so often you skip a meal. 010
Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 31/08/2025The motto of the Alien Intelligence Association: "You don't get a second chance to make a First Contact." 000
Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 25/08/2025There's an old saying I remember from grad school: "Sometimes a year in the lab can save an afternoon in the library." I thought of it earlier as I tapped my fingers in irritation, waiting many minutes for something that would have only taken me a few hours to do manually myself. 000
Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 25/08/2025How much to use AI for solo creative work? My current policy: Human readers deserve human writers. On the other hand, it's fine to let AI write code, because only the compiler will see that. (Though if you work in a team, maybe they deserve human coding) www.gregdetre.com/blog/human-r...gregdetre.comBlogGreg Detre's personal website 100
Reposted by Greg DetreRicard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 14/08/202514 years after Alan Turing's death, an unpublished manuscript emerged where he suggested the idea of a "disordered" computer that anticipated the rise of connectionism cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Alan... 16619
Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 05/08/2025There's something odd and new about the subjective experience of AI-assisted programming. Can we understand it in terms of well-known psychological effects and illusions? www.gregdetre.com/blog/psychol...gregdetre.com Psychological illusions in AI-assisted programming - Greg Detre Greg Detre's personal website 320
Greg Detre @gregdetre.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Want to know how to build a well-architected 60,000-line project from scratch in 6 weeks, without writing a single line of code by hand? www.makingdatamistakes.com/ai-first-dev...makingdatamistakes.comA field guide to AI-first developmentDetailed techniques and prompts for AI-first coding, for experienced developers to build medium-sized production-ready codebases, providing lots of architecture-level product guidance but without writ... 031
Reposted by Greg DetreJakob Mökander @jakobmokander.bsky.social · 21/02/2025How can the UK become a leader in AI-driven scientific research? New report by the Tony Blair Institute outlines policy recommendations across 5 key areas institute.global/insights/tec... W/ co-authors @lyan82.bsky.social @guywj.bsky.social @ersatzben.bsky.social @gregdetre.bsky.social 🧵/11institute.global 123