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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Two Python 3.15 features I'm excited about: sentinel types and unpacking in comprehensions. Also when did they start making lil badges for releases??

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

me who doesn't do AI: *gives a 4 hour talk about how AI works*

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I know it wouldn't be that enforceable but it would at least give authors an explicit way to signal how they want their work used regarding LLMs and would give devs who are interested in human-centered AI a very tractable way to respect those authors' wishes

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I 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

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

R1: "your paper lacks focus and I'm not sure what its specifically about" Me editing it:

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Tech companies gotta give the impression they are tirelessly perfecting their offerings and innovating faster than competitors

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'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

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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

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

currently writing research software to study research software

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This is the best kind of bike rack and all other kinds of bike rack are wrong

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

it took me over an hour to convert timestamps i hate computers

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Did 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

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The 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

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

and converting my work delayed submission by several hours. which I'll have to do again if I get r&r

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I 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

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

if we called the command-line a chat interface would students be less opposed to learning how to use it

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

biking home from the beer garden while tornado sirens are blaring is peak midwest

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Working 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)

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

listening 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

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

nasa is really out of practice televising shuttle missions...the feed blacked out on launch and they didn't show booster separation ☹️

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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)

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I 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

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

also not a fan of the NYT Daily hosts thanking Claude code like it was a guest on the show. Like it would be one thing to say "it runs or it doesn't" to a developer but it almost paints it as a technology that will never tell dave that it can't, it will always try, and will sometimes fail silently

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I 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?

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

unfortunate 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

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

damn i really told a room full of social scientists that i use emacs

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

how long before vibe-coded software starts including ads in the form of comments or print statements or log messages

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

instagram has an auto-scroll feature now, which I hate

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rob pike @robpike.io · 31/01/2026

Remember: 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.

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

it's only a tool if you own it, otherwise it's just a service

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

feeling growth as a grad student because I'm filling out IRB paperwork for the first time

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

a second gray hair has hit my head

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

still 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

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

For CS1XX you have to "apply" to be able to register for the course so don't worry, compsci is still exclusive and you have to be an extra special person to be offered the privilege of enrolling. Be sure to add to your LinkedIn that you spent a semester "generating study guides and research reports"

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Idk how much CS enrollment is dropping here specifically but gee sure is nice that the department now wants to welcome people into the courses that will (1) keep them dependent on technology and (2) not teach them anything about the science of computing

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

It is interesting to see how this general topic has trickled down from grad seminars to special topics courses and now to undergrad/freshman course offerings, both in CS and IS. I'm curious if the profs looked at iSchool offerings first, and if so what they felt necessitated a whole new course

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

UIUC 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/

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

so anyway make sure you spend time using the stuff you write

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I'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

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Sony 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.net

Camera Authenticity Solution | Sony

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

did google replace their entire web presence with vibe code because so much stuff has been broken in the last two weeks

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Nah I've currently got each record type in a separate module, one for each section of the document (jobs, education, etc). So I have to pick the right list to append to in my main program. Grouping them all under a single type would be smart tho

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

every section of the document is generated from a data structure (usually a list of records) so to add a new thing to the page I just write a new record and don't need to worry about formatting. Adding new kinds of sections isn't too bad either, its basically just a new type and an html-ify function

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

updating 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

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

proud 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

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Hunter @hdemeyer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

description list is is my favorite html element

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