Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 24/09/2026Abstractions hide complexity so that you can build more complex things. 051
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 20/09/2026Ιωσήφ Σηφάκης στα deck www.skairadio.gr/mia-kyriaki-...skairadio.grΜια Κυριακή από τη ζωή του Ιωσήφ Σηφάκη 20/09/2026Πιστεύει πως ο κίνδυνος δεν είναι να γίνουν οι υπολογιστές πιο έξυπνοι από εμάς, αλλά να μην μπορούμε εμείς να ζήσουμε χωρίς αυτούς. Μια Κυριακή από τη ζωή του Ιωσήφ Σηφάκη. Είναι επιστήμονας πληροφο... 111
Reposted by Yiorgos AdamopoulosSpringer @springer.springernature.com · 19/09/2026'Six Decades of Risk Research,' an #OpenAccess book, offers a compelling exploration of risk research, blending theory, real-world case studies, and historical insights. bit.ly/4xKmIzf 💙📚 031
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 15/09/2026The Hitchhicker's Guide to Agentic AI Systems: arxiv.org/abs/2606.24937arxiv.orgThe Hitchhiker's Guide to Agentic AI: From Foundations to SystemsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to Agentic AI is a comprehensive practitioner's reference for building autonomous AI systems. The book covers the full stack from first principles to production deployment, orga... 010
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 01/09/2026In Time Management for System Administrators by Tom Limoncelli, there is advise against becoming extra specialized on a technology, since highly specific issues are to be solved by the vendor and not you … managing.blue/2026/09/01/a...managing.blueA generalist’s time LLMedIn Time Management for System Administrators by Tom Limoncelli, there is advise against becoming extra specialized on a technology, since highly specific issues are to be solved by the vendor and n… 010
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 23/08/2026The issue is not whether we have “taste”. We don’t. The issue is whether LLMs with all accompanying augmentations can develop it. 010
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 18/08/2026So, that old FireTV Stick gen 2 remote control, can work with your MiTV ... 030
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 18/08/2026Something like this is my next step. My first intent was fast evacuation. I have kept the ENEX files, so I might as well redo the exercise pointing to a git repo. 030
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 18/08/2026Due to the #Evernote price change, I migrated away some 5200 notes. One good thing out of it was that I reconnected with some old notes and ideas. 140
Reposted by Yiorgos AdamopoulosArte es Ética @arteesetica.bsky.social · 13/08/2026When no one was listening to creative workers and our concerns about the impact of genAI in our fields, Timnit did ;) She is not only "one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power", she also give the space and the voice to precarious workers. Something that not everyone does 🔥 112143
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 03/08/2026So nobody has done Hell's Bells the #soundtrack for the Odyssey, the sacking of Troy yet? 021
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 01/08/2026No no no @evernote.bsky.social you don’t get it. I’d rather pay someone $200 to manually extract and migrate all my notes than continue the subscription. Customer since 2014. Congratulations 040
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 30/07/2026Like many, I have too many open tabs on my browser. A new trend I spotted with myself was that among them too many were tabs with conversations with LLMs I'd come back later to. I never did. Bye bye tabs 010
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 15/07/2026"Inventing #ELIZA - How the First #Chatbot Shaped the Future of #AI" is out from #MITPress and it is open access. Link to PDF direct.mit.edu/books/book-p...direct.mit.edu 041
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 10/07/2026A nightmare and a revelation about my #LLM sadness managing.blue/2026/07/11/s...managing.bluesoftware calligraphy – part 2As a systems administrator I am used to stitching together other people’s code and systems to produce a working outcome within given constraints. Which means, the rise of agentic coding shoul… 040
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 06/07/2026So if anyone had bet on Balogun’s red card, do the bookers pay or not? 221
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 05/07/202610+ years ago at John McCarthy’s page I found a tome named “Defending AI Research”. The first chapter is McCarthy’s criticism on W’s book. You may find it of interest 020
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 04/07/2026We are the average of the five agents we are in contact with 1203
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 27/06/2026Αυτά τα λέγαμε το 97. Από τότε η FIFA έχει αλλάξει γνώμη. 010
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 25/06/2026About a month ago I had a conversation with a friend about LLMs at work. This is a story I told him then managing.blue/2026/06/25/s...managing.bluesoftware calligraphyor What objecting to LLM agents teaches you about you (sometimes) There was a small positional game that I’ve wanted to implement for some years, long before the LLMs and their agents became … 120
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 23/06/2026Your message was sent, but Claude couldn't respond — try again. 020
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 21/06/2026I wrote something about open-weight models that has been on my mind for quite some time managing.blue/2026/06/21/o...managing.blueOpen Weight models and soft powerI see Open-weight AI models as a form of digital soft power. When an entity releases their models for free public use, they aren’t doing this operating under an altruistic motive; they’… 152
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 18/06/2026I wanted to scribble some lines on top of a jpeg image. For some reason Preview did not allow this. Enter jspaint.app - I loaded the image, drew the lines, done. Thank you.jspaint.appJS PaintClassic MS Paint in the browser, with extra features. 011
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 16/06/2026Unsubscribed from python-announce, python weekly, golang weekly, postgres weekly. 010
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 07/06/2026I had to work with meshcore-cli to help a friend with his #meshcore #repeater managing.blue/2026/06/07/a...managing.blueadventures with meshcore-cliI have a good friend who is into meshcore. Seeking to expand the network he participates in, he asked me if I could host a repeater on the rooftop, to which I agreed. He also gave me a little compa… 010
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 03/06/2026Today the Linux Foundation is announcing the intent to form the Tokenomics Foundation, which will be a sister organization to the FinOps Foundation. 010
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 29/05/2026If you ever liked "MIT Guide to lockpicking" you will enjoy Act 3 from this episode. www.thisamericanlife.org/750/the-ferr...thisamericanlife.orgThe Ferryman - This American LifeGetting from Point A to Point B—with expert assistance. 031
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 26/05/2026Lots of people run an AMA. I want to run an AMN(othing) 030
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 15/05/2026With all the agentic workers being deployed here and there, I wonder how soon we will start reading thought leaders about the leaderless organizations, as the agents, working as a hive will be the one collective leader. 110
Reposted by Yiorgos AdamopoulosAdam Gordon Bell @adamgordonbell.bsky.social · 09/05/2026I've been confusing my neighbor Don with frontier-lab links for months, pre-training walls, leaked moat memos, and what investors see in OpenAI's $850 billion valuation. So he came over and we made an episode about it. New podcast episode is out: corecursive.com/the-pre-trai...corecursive.comThe Pre-Training Wall and the Treadmill After ItI've been confusing Don with frontier-lab links late at night for months. Ilya Sutskever told a NeurIPS audience that pre-training as we know it would unquestionably end. There's only one internet, a... 012
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 07/05/2026Long before google decided to ship the 4GB model to your Chromes I was trying to figure out a usage from Microsoft's BitNet, as it was marketed as a model for "the edge". I was met with scepticism with people I discussed this. Now I feel somewhat vindicated. 021
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 23/04/2026I think it was up for grabs. I am afk now but a bare minimum WHOIS operates at www.grgrΜητρώο Ονομάτων Internet .gr και .ελ 110
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 14/04/2026I just returned to an email conversation after 17 years :) 070
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 13/04/2026Happy that at least it clicks with someone. I have such “random thoughts+AI” but I refrain from expressing them most of the time. 000
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 13/04/2026One of the kids was watching #HandyManny and now I cannot stop thinking that LLM agents are like Handy Manny’s tools. We are like Handy Manny discussing with the tools and directing the repairs. 110
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 29/03/2026Δεν ξέρω ρε Δημήτρη. Μου αρκεί να ξέρει ο κόσμος να κάνει διαίρεση (που δεν ξέρει). Το ΙΕΠ έχει μια πρόσκληση για 4ετη απόσπαση για να βελτιώσει πράγματα λέει. Ίσως αν πας να καταφέρεις κάτι 030
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 29/03/2026Ε αυτό θα πρέπει να αλλάξει. Και διαίρεση τους μαθαίνουν στο σχολείο, αλλά δεν τους λένε πως παίζει το TI84 (αν και στην Αμερική μπορεί) 110
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 29/03/2026Όχι ρε Δημήτρη. Η σχέση προγραμματισμού και Πληροφορικής δεν διαφέρει από την σχέση τηλεσκοπίου και Αστρονομίας. 110
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 28/02/2026You can now drive them insane back by explaining the meaning of life 110
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 26/02/20266*7 = 42; now you know what #sixseven means. I'll show myself out 380
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 22/02/2026IIRC the Butlerian Jihad started because a robot thought the same as Sam Altman. 010
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 18/02/2026I have to admit that every time I read #Codeberg, I hear #Goldberg 010
Yiorgos Adamopoulos @hakmem.net · 18/02/2026A book and a personal story that lasted 36 years managing.blue/2026/02/18/p...managing.blueProgramming Languages: An Interpreter-Based Approach / Build, Prove, and CompareThere was a book (An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming) by Tim Budd I read due to an assignment about SmallTalk. Budd had his own SmallTalk implemetation (A Little SmallTalk). Going throu… 000
