Jim Finnis

@jimfinnis
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Computer science lecturer: neural nets, robots, ExoMars PanCam image tools. Author of demented programming languages. Former gamedev. Dysgu Cymraeg. He/him.

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Leeds University kept some of its DECSystem-10 stuff, or it had last time I was there in 2005.

It's funny it had 60 serial lines. I was the only user of it for the last 3 years, I was on it the day it shut down as well - That was the first DECSystem 10 I was on that was killed with just me on it, UK.AC.SX.KL10 was the second.

#Leeds #LeedsUniversity

Let me predict the future for you:

- Oil stays above $100/barrel for a few days
- Trump panics as his poll numbers continue to drop
- Trump claims military victory via insane, rambling 2am Truth Social rant
- U.S. troops withdraw from Iran
- Mysterious day-old accounts somehow predict the exact day on Polymarket and make millions
- Israel is left holding the bag in a forever war with Iran which your tax dollars continue to fund
- Ayatollah's son gets a 40 year reign courtesy of your tax dollars
- Trump and Hegseth bomb Cuba next
- Trump starts claiming he "ended 9 wars" now

β€œNot only will America go to your country and kill all your people, but they’ll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.”
β€” Frankie Boyle
A.I. musicians are COOKED. I just recorded an ENTIRE SONG using nothing but my instruments and a few microphones. This would have cost upwards of hundreds of dollars in expensive A.I. subscription fees but for me it was completely FREE. Don't get left behind. This is the future!

This is truly glorious #AISlop from #Microslop in their "Introduction to Github" course.

I don't know why Tim is working in the opposite direction, but I can see that he never once "morges" his code back into develop, let alone doing it "continvoucly"

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow

Update:

It looks as though after 4-5 months the page has been updated, but if you want to see the image in situ still then the way back machine has you covered.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260216165612/https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow

you certainly will not regret morging continvoucly
Why #AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation - https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/ "The result is a "JPEG of thought" – visually coherent but stripped of its original data density through semantic ablation." #creativity
Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation

opinion: The subtractive bias we're ignoring

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