Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I wish there was a CC license that addressed AI use. Like CC-BY-NC-ND sort of covers it if we consider AI digestion as derivative or commercial use but a more explicit "no AI" or "natural intelligence" e.g. CC-BY-NAI or CC-BY-NI license would be nice 100
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026R1: "your paper lacks focus and I'm not sure what its specifically about" Me editing it: 000
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I'm finding old plans for software projects that never got built and I'm wondering if there is any research value in developing a full implementation using the languages of the day to finish the job. Could be informative and would produce something people could interact with, not just read about 100
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026"Writing to think" wrt to coding is one of the major themes I've seen in my conversations with RSEs, students and professionals, and it is why I don't think AI use should be condoned in educational settings. It is robbing students of thinking opportunities the same way it does when writing an essay 100
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026currently writing research software to study research software 100
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026This is the best kind of bike rack and all other kinds of bike rack are wrong 000
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026it took me over an hour to convert timestamps i hate computers 010
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Did my first integration test last night of my bike lights project. Still need to get some acrylic laser-cut to tint the tail lights red but I'm pretty happy with the brightness/visibility. Next I'll be working on a more complex pair of retroreflectors for the front and a control interface 000
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 20/06/2026The what/how of provenance tracking in vibe coding is something we should be studying imo, probably longitudinally. *I* feel like it is/will be important, but I've heard a range of opinions from RSEs 030
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I had to work with a W*rd docx file today to submit my manuscript and I forgot how awful WYSIWYG editors are. Idk how people write like that every day 100
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026if we called the command-line a chat interface would students be less opposed to learning how to use it 000
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026biking home from the beer garden while tornado sirens are blaring is peak midwest 000
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Working through some Whisper transcriptions this week and the variance in how things are transcribed between different interviews is surprisingly wide. Capitalizations that exist in some files but not others, um's and uh's placed inconsistently, sentences of different lengths (or no periods at all) 000
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026listening to mission control make up data provenance procedures for moon images & notes on the fly and then hearing the astronauts describe their own, different procedures based on their experience in the environment is both fascinating and infuriating also can't believe they use onenote 000
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026nasa is really out of practice televising shuttle missions...the feed blacked out on launch and they didn't show booster separation ☹️ 010
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026...or PRs notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edit...notes.zachmanson.comnotes: copilot edited an ad into my pr 010
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026"AI is just another tool" No. Tools don't have logins, subscriptions, or silent updates that change how they function. You own tools. You control tools. AI is a *platform* until this is what coding with LLMs means (and if it becomes a tool we should remember that some tools require training to use) 1214
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 07/03/2026I tried to use the AI in colab and it fucking sucks it takes forever to do something, doesn't let me see or edit the code it generates before running, generates a bunch of text to describe what it thinks I want then inserts a bunch of md and can't fix its own error how do people work like this 000
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I don't normally listen to podcasts but people have been sending them to me and I find it really odd that podcast people keep saying that generated code "either runs or it doesn't" and that is why AI works for code like...software has never worked that way? Some bugs are not obvious? Am I crazy? 100
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 21/02/2026unfortunate that PrairieLearn is snappiest on Friday night when demand is low but it makes my grading go a lot faster so ig I'm staying in 000
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026damn i really told a room full of social scientists that i use emacs 140
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 31/01/2026how long before vibe-coded software starts including ads in the form of comments or print statements or log messages 000
Reposted by Hunterrob pike @robpike.io · 31/01/2026Remember: LLMs and bots and AI-generated things should always be called ‘it’. Regardless of the style or tone of voice, there is only an ‘it’ there. Don’t humanize it. 726449
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026it's only a tool if you own it, otherwise it's just a service 110
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 17/01/2026feeling growth as a grad student because I'm filling out IRB paperwork for the first time 000
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 16/12/2025still in shock that I got this book, which was published this year, for $6 in a coffee shop & used book store in Maryland this weekend 020
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025UIUC CS is offering at least two "applied AI" courses in the spring, targeted at non-majors. Adapting curricula in this way makes sense in the current moment, but a CS department is the last place I'd want to take this kind of course. Urban planners don't learn about vehicles in a MechE class. 1/ 100
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 09/12/2025I'm editing a final paper for one of my classes and got stuck so many times on sentence-level edits. Yesterday I printed it and did read-only marking of changes I wanted to make and its helped me make progress but also gave me a better idea of structural changes that would enhance clarity 110
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Sony is trying to use digital signatures and depth information from camera sensors to prove authenticity of images authenticity.sony.net/camera/en-us...authenticity.sony.netCamera Authenticity Solution | Sony 010
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025did google replace their entire web presence with vibe code because so much stuff has been broken in the last two weeks 000
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 22/11/2025updating my CV requires writing OCaml. I've built a library that "compiles" my various experiences and skills into a self-contained HTML document with a nice visualization of how my previous work has contributed to my competencies. The PDF version I get by printing the web page is much less nice tho 110
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025proud of myself for getting through the ~60 papers assigned in my first grad-level humanities class. that is probably less than a real humanities person would read in a semester but as someone who didn't consider a reality other than technological determinism in august, I feel accomplished 010
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Halloween decreases the amount of social media posts that I understand to basically zero 100
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025why do I need to restart my wifi driver every time I send an email 010
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 25/10/2025And all new programming languages that contain abstractions to help humans reason about computation need to provide a huge corpus of correct programs covering a wide range of use cases if they want to succeed, because why should we have to know how to use the language if we want to use the language? 000
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 25/10/2025some of my reading in the past week (Braverman, Noble, Zuboff) focused on the impact of automation in the mid/late 20th century and in addition to rhyming with AI discourse, it made me nostalgic for when blue collar work meant skilled machinists and wasnt just a euphemism for amazon delivery serf 010
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 24/10/2025we should have revolted back when web pages stopped being mostly html 130
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 21/10/2025university policy on prelims + course schedules are starting to put me in a corner and I'm not sure I'm going to get the things I want out of my program anymore 000
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 18/10/2025I was looking through some photo memories today and saw that 2 years to the day before my talk at ICFP I was at the first US-RSE conference in Chicago trying to find a PhD advisor. That me could have never imagined I'd be here 010
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 14/10/2025I chatted with so many awesome people at ICFP yesterday but woke up with basically no voice and decided to do some vocal rest today so I don't sound like RFK Jr during my talk on Friday. I really missed interacting with folks though 030
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025I still haven't fully processed the fact that I'm going halfway around the world later this week 110
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2025only spent 12.5 hours setting up LaTeX and biblatex and biber to format my annotated bibliography, this is gonna save me so much time 020
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2025writing a ppx feels like such a hack but idk what else to do 010
Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Wrote a mini research statement today and I'm already seeing how the humanities courses I'm taking this semester are helping me be more articulate about my interests 010