Jonathan Edwards

@jonathoda
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We were promised bicycles for the mind, but we got aircraft carriers instead
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Bloghttps://alarmingdevelopment.org
The LIVE Programming Workshop will be held online Oct 17. Submissions due July 21. https://liveprog.org
Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE)

The 12th Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE 2026) will take place online. LIVE invites submissions of ideas for improving the immediacy, usability, and learnability of programming.

@munificent What we need is LLMs without the normie RLHF "personalities" but instead RLAF: reinforcement learning from autistic feedback.
Reminder: LIVE Programming workshop submissions due July 21. https://liveprog.org
Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE)

The 12th Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE 2026) will take place online. LIVE invites submissions of ideas for improving the immediacy, usability, and learnability of programming.

@benjamingeer Yes it was a visionary system far ahead of its time, and from IBM of all places! Yet another evolutionary branch driven to extinction by microprocessor Unix.
Slide from upcoming presentation
"How to Do Ambitious Research in the Modern Era" @pvh Ink & Switch https://youtu.be/w7DVlI_Ztq8?si=z-Ru1xoIdSUKCgO_
How to Do Ambitious Research in the Modern Era

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Substrates vision statement
https://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=1842
Substrates vision statement

Submitted to Substrates-25 Workshop Jonathan EdwardsMay 12, 2025

Alarming Development
Blogging about my future as an academic... belatedly facing up to how a full-time academic role, in this day and age, is too much institution for me and my temperament. Is there another model? https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/blog/2025/02/28#the-mess-im-in
Rambles around computer science

Talk #2: "DB usability: as if" by Jonathan Edwards (@jonathoda)

The program is up and tickets are live at https://www.hytradboi.com/2025/#program.

I'll keep updating this thread as the last 10 talks hit camera-ready.

HYTRADBOI 2025

HYTRADBOI is a fun online conference about databases, programming languages, and everything in between.