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Thomas Amberg @tamberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here are my (German) slides "Erfahrungsbericht zum Blockmodul #PhysicalComputing" www.tamberg.org/fhnw/2026/Ph... presented at today's fhnw.ch/imvs #TechTalk in Brugg-Windisch

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/08/2026

exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton coined the term “software engineer.” She directed the Software Engineering Division at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab & led development of the on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer. She was born #OTD in 1936 & turns 90 today! #WomenInSTEM

Two side-by-side black-and-white photographs of pioneering computer scientist Margaret Hamilton (born August 17, 1936). The left panel features a mature, close-up portrait where Hamilton gazes directly at the viewer with a serene, confident, and reflective expression, framed by her long, dark, slightly silvering hair. The right panel is a famous archival photograph showing a younger Hamilton standing indoors next to a towering stack of bound paper binders containing the Apollo Guidance Computer source code, which she led the development of at MIT. She is smiling broadly and wears a striped, long-sleeved mini dress with dark Mary Jane shoes and glasses, resting her hand proudly on top of the massive column of printed code. The overall composition contrasts her youthful triumph with her enduring legacy, capturing an optimistic, intellectually rigorous mood that highlights her monumental contributions to space exploration.

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Thomas Amberg @tamberg.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Here are my slides on "Embracing #Simplicity" www.tamberg.org/fhnw/2026/si... presented at today's fhnw.ch/imvs #TechTalk in Brugg-Windisch

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Thomas Amberg @tamberg.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Made a simple text to braille converter github.com/tamberg/brai... to create SVG and STL (via SCAD) output.

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Thomas Amberg @tamberg.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Here are my slides on "#DIY #IoT with #LoRaWAN" www.tamberg.org/hny/2026/sli... presented at hny.indyfac.ch/schedule in Lugano

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Thomas Amberg @tamberg.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Made a simple slide stepper (no #AI) github.com/tamberg/step to present text in a terminal

A terminal window showing a single slide.

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Thomas Amberg @tamberg.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Here are some results github.com/tamberg/farm... including "Dochtglas Pi", a 360° camera trap design intended to attract #VespaVelutina, track their departing flight direction and triangulate the hornet nest's location.

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Thomas Amberg @tamberg.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Just posted a challenge "System zur Ortung invasiver Hornissen" www.farming-hackdays.ch/challenges/s... for Open Farming Hackdays, Feb 06/07, 2026 www.farming-hackdays.ch - consider joining us!

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System zur Ortung invasiver Hornissen

32h Hackathon für Agritech, Food Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit. Löse reale Challenges, pitch dein Projekt und vernetze dich. Ticket sichern!

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy: "AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." There is so much genius in this essay pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

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Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Thomas Amberg @tamberg.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Here are my slides on "Storing Data on #Android" www.tamberg.org/mse/2025/hs/... for msengineering.ch #MobileComputing

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Thomas Amberg @tamberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Here are my slides on "Managing State on #Android" www.tamberg.org/mse/2025/hs/... for msengineering.ch #MobileComputing

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Thomas Amberg @tamberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Here are my slides on "Composing UIs for #Android" www.tamberg.org/mse/2025/hs/... for msengineering.ch #MobileComputing

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Thomas Amberg @tamberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Here are my slides "Reparieren im Haushalt mit 3D-gedruckten Teilen" www.tamberg.org/zuerichlernt... for yesterday's zuerich-lernt.ch workshop at www.recreazzz.repair

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Thomas Amberg @tamberg.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Here are my slides on "Getting Started with #Android" www.tamberg.org/mse/2025/hs/... for msengineering.ch #MobileComputing

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Thomas Amberg @tamberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Here are my slides on "Writing #Kotlin for Android" www.tamberg.org/mse/2025/hs/... for msengineering.ch #MobileComputing

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Thomas Amberg @tamberg.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Here are my slides on "How system calls made my day" www.tamberg.org/fhnw/2024/Ho... presented at today's #TechTalk of fhnw.ch/imvs

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Thomas Amberg @tamberg.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Here are my slides on "Using #GitHub as a #Library to Share Your #Hardware" www.tamberg.org/sgmk/2024/Us... presented at mechatronicart.ch X-mas Umtrunk

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