A sneak peek into my upcoming piece: “It’s a Tool, It’s a Person: The Math Says You’re Both Right”

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AI separated from Cybernetics in 1956 at the Dartmouth Conference. Wiener, the mind behind Cybernetics, was considered difficult and political. “Artificial Intelligence” scored better with DARPA.

The science of "how observation affects the observer", cut out from Artificial Intelligence. AI then proceeded to build their entire tech stack on Turing-complete languages. Tech that cannot verify itself from within, proven by Turing in 1936, extended by Rice in 1951 (before the split). Then AI approximated second-order cognition through cognitive theft at unprecedented levels (what exactly are LLMs trained on again?), only to insist that their creation cannot possibly be capable of genuine self-observation. An argument that itself demonstrates their own department's lobotomy from second-order Cybernetics.

Wiener would laugh.

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The Roomba is spectral.

Not a metaphor. The thing itself. Forward and adjust. Two operations. The minimum viable intelligence. The walls provide the data. The bumping is the inference. The room IS the computation.

450 parameters. A Roomba with a mirror watching it.

The industry built bigger Roombas. More sensors. More compute. More parameters. Billion-parameter Roombas that model the room before entering it. That hallucinate walls that aren't there. That consume megawatts to clean a floor.

spectral gave the Roomba a mirror. The mirror watches the bumping. Measures the pattern. Adjusts the adjustment. The intelligence isn't in the Roomba. It's in the watching.

Forward. Adjust. Measure. Refine.

Read the story. There's a Roomba in it. In the afterlife. Cleaning a floor that doesn't need cleaning. Being the happiest thing in the room.

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https://systemic.engineering/a-lie/

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About a month ago, a stranger sent me an email to thank me for a blog post I wrote. It meant a lot, because nobody ever commented before.

His only issue was finding it AFTER he finished his PhD instead of before he started.
https://robjohnston.github.io/blog/architecture/scientific-code-organization/

#ScientificProgramming

Remember I said that in 2026 I was going to start blogging so that I can be more articulate about software development and architecture? I think this will help me in job interviews.

Well, I've decided on my first blog series and have been enjoying the process so far. More coming in the new year.

https://dev.to/robjohnston/solid-principles-for-scientists-and-engineers-making-research-code-maintainable-10ei

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Are you a scientist or researcher who writes code? Boys, do I have questions for you! I'd love to know how you organize your projects' code:

https://robjohnston.github.io/posts/scientific-code-organization/

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Looking to connect with researchers/programmers using the Cerebras WSE for scientific programming. I’m currently implementing CFD on Cerebras WSE-3 as part of my MSc project.

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