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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I put Claude Code Opus 5.5 to work on my old Sleeping Machines manifesto for which I never managed to allocate time for. Long story short: github.com/keskival/sleeping_machin… #AI #NeuromorphicComputing

A screenshot of the linked PDF showing supremacy of the asynchronous, sparse model with the appropriate learning rules over currently prevailing state-of-the-art dense deep learning models and Transformers.

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Every week I take my two #sourdough starters from the fridge and feed them. One of them is bred for #rye flour (can't get rye #bread anywhere here), and the other is for wheat. They were originated from quince fruit peels from our own quince tree last year. I have […] [Original post on rukii.net]

Two jars one fifth full of liquid dough. The other says "quince yeast sourdough 2025-07-26" and the other "quince yeast rye sourdough 2025-11-08".

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

So, we gathered some wild capers berries, cured them for 2 weeks in salt, and ate them. They were are very nice!

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

A lizard with a magnificent tail I saw today in our garden. #Spain

A lizard on plastic grass. The lizard is brownish but the tail gradients to blue-green.

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

There are lots of misconceptions of what software engineering is, in the field trying to automate it. There are some things I want to make clear here. The purpose of software engineering is not to write code. Code is a liability, which will require maintenance for […] [Original post on rukii.net]

A coffee mug with "Drink coffee. Make mistakes faster."

Burj al Babas in Turkey. Similar miniature castle-like single-family suburban homes as far a eye can see.

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

I just can't get over the fact that their apparent threat model is that AI might become so intelligent that it will find peaceful solutions to conflicts. #AI #war #military

A screenshot of the article here:
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/12/pete-hegseth-woke-ai-military/88152569007/

“We will not employ AI models that won’t allow you to fight wars,” Hegseth said, adding military AI “will not be woke.”

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

My CV is dual-tracked: Day Jobs and Side Hustles. LinkedIn doesn't support separating the two and the screenshot shows how I have put them in my CV. People are different. Automatic CV parsers hate me. Is your life weird as well? How do you project it into your CV?

A screenshot of the second page of my CV, showing two table columns of Day Jobs and Side Hustles.

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

How do I get into a new domain? I read. A lot. Here are my books I read for getting into oncological AI (kaiko.ai), supply chain management (alloy.ai), autonomous military drones (vibedroning.ai) and maps (HERE Technologies). You shouldn't trust engineers who […] [Original post on rukii.net]

Two stacks of books in the topics of military drones, radio, war, oncology, cellular biology, virology, supply chain management and mapping.

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

Finding a job is like dating — both parties need to be in a search mode, and be present in the action. If you're looking for a long term relationship, you should approach the process with full honesty. I read everywhere that direct job notices are dying a slow […] [Original post on rukii.net]

A meme comic from Junji Ito showing a man climbing into a cliff face with the matching hole, saying "It was made for me!"

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025

The quince yeast #sourdough starter has been cloned to the rye base, and now we also have a sourdough starter for rye #bread!

Two glass mason jars covered with tissue paper pieces attached with rubber bands containing light brownish material. The jars are titled "quince yeast rye sourdough, 2025-11-08" and "quince yeast sourdough, 2025-07-26".

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

I made a yet another #sourdough #bread. I cultivated the yeast from quince fruit peels growing in a quince tree in our yard. This one I baked in a Dutch oven.

A roundish brown sourdough bread with some white flour unevenly distributed on it.

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

We got a new (used) electric car, Polestar 2. Handles great, and even charging it from normal home plugs without a dedicated charger works fine for people who don't drive a lot every day. #ElectricCar #sustainability #GreenEnergy

Polestar 2 car and Tero standing next to it.

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025

The water temperature of the municipal water I'm getting in #LasGabias, #Spain. In the summer cold showers aren't possible.

A diagram of a temperature from December 2024 to August 2025 spanning a range fro. 10 °C to 30 °C.

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2025

I gathered the seeds from the #dill and now I'm self-sufficient on them. #permaculture

A small minigrip bag of dill seeds labeled: "DILL 2025-08-13"

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2025

Chat templates in LLMs are very important! Even a single whitespace change in chat templates between what was used in training and in inference makes a huge difference, a difference between proper functioning and degraded output. So, it is a huge shame that Meta […] [Original post on rukii.net]

A screenshot of the chat template distributed with Meta Llama 3.1 files. "Jul" highlighted.

A screenshot of the chat template in the Meta Llama 3.1 model card. "July" circled.

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2025

Cut my hand while filling a dishwasher. A cup slipped, broke into shards and cut off a rather big flap of skin off of the top of the joint in the little finger. Bone was exposed. Got treatment fast. Need to remove the stiches after two weeks. I also got some more […] [Original post on rukii.net]

Right hand bandaged and the little finger splinted to the nameless finger.

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2025

Yesterday and today, the whole of Spain, Portugal and parts of France, Italy and Belgium lost their power inexplicably. This happened about 12:30 local time here in Spain. The power was out for about 26 hours here, a bit less for some areas as they brought up the […] [Original post on rukii.net]

A night photo of our yard showing just our Christmas lights on, and everything else dark except cars and flashlights.

A photo of a nightly starry sky. Lots of stars visible.

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2025

My #peach tree made a single flower again. I guess we'll get a single peach this year again.

A single, purple peach flower at the end of a brach.

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2025

One of the #chilis is growing after 15 days of planting them!

A photo of an open indoor greenhouse box with lots of small signs for different chili varieties in designated planter segments.

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2025

You know you have some fancy pants tea when none of them advice 100°C.

Tropical Colada tea pouch for a mixed black tea, advicing 95 °C for 4 minutes of infusion.

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2025

Adventures in #HomeOwnership in #Spain, episode "crazy neighbor". Yesterday the crazy neighbor called the #PolicíaLocal on us, because we were installing a bamboo fence. But let's start from the beginning. So, when we moved in, the crazy neighbor came to welcome […] [Original post on rukii.net]

Google StreetView photo from 2022 of the pre-existing deep, dark cypress hedge bordering our yard.

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2025

#Peppers and #basil survived the low negative (-3 °C) night-time temperatures, but the #oreganos died. #gardening

A photo of four basil plants in a planter. Looking ok-ish.

A photo of four plants in a planter, a brown and dead oregano, a chili pepper, another dead oregano and another chili pepper.

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2025

Spanisb plumbers almost exploded the whole house and themselves today. They we installing two replacement expansion vessels (white containers) in the photo. They had a very ill-conceived theory that the expansion vessels had broken because hot water flowed back […] [Original post on rukii.net]

A photo of a large domestic water heater, and two expansion vessels. A pipe segment between the low point input of the water heater and the expansion vessels and the emergency release valve is marked with a red line. A closing valve at the top of the water heater is marked with a red circle.

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2025

The walking paths in #RutaDelMamut in #Padul are in a rather bad shape after the #floods.

A photo of a board walk around a swamp. The board walk has drifted around in the flood and tilts in all the ways as it doesn't lay on its base anymore.

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Tero Keski-Valkama @tero.rukii.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2024

#Samsung though. Nowadays if you do an OS upgrade, it will show you a persistent notification you can't get rid of without clicking it. Then it tries to automatically install #Temu spyware to you with by-default consent. I wonder how many people it successfully convinces to install this crap.

A screenshot of the welcome screen of the tool that launches with "Complete your OS upgrade". "By tapping Continue I accept Terms", and it doesn't give an option to not do this. Just closing this and/or swiping the notification off will just restore the same notification.

A screenshot of a set of recommended and default applications this process would want you to install. Temu, Coin Master and Solitaire selected as consent-by-default.

A screenshot showing a persistent Android notification after OS upgrade with "Complete your OS upgrade"

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