Mastodawn

“When [I first got] hooked on Claude, I did not sleep. I spent two months excessively prompting the thing and wasting tokens. I ended up building and building and creating a ton of tools I did not end up using much… Quite a few of the tools I built I felt really great about, just to realize that I did not actually use them or they did not end up working as I thought they would.”
https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/

fast.ai - Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding

Sinister variations on the positive state of flow

Dr Kamran Soomro Nov 19

Today in our #Business_Intelligence module, we explored a data science case study on UK road collisions, using the latest dataset (updated Sep. 2025) from the Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom.

We went through the analytics cycle: business & data understanding, data preparation, developing a predictive model and model evaluation.

Dr Kamran Soomro Nov 3

“For most of computing history, designers have been the authors of the visible world…But we are entering a new frontier. For the first time, the interface itself thinks. And when it thinks, the rules change”
https://www.suffsyed.com/futurememo/designers-have-to-move-from-the-surface-to-the-substrate

Designers Have to Move from the Surface to the Substrate — Suff Syed

Designers once controlled 85% of user experience through interfaces and interactions. Now, with intelligence moving beneath the surface, that control has collapsed to 5%—while the real design decisions happen in training data, system prompts, and model behavior that most designers never see.

Suff Syed

Dr Kamran Soomro Oct 19

https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/

The Majority AI View

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Anil Dash

Dr Kamran Soomro Jun 3, 2025

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKcBCuPodgD/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Oxford Action for Palestine on Instagram: "Over 350 students, faculty, staff, alumni, local community members & fellow academics have signed in support of the 13 Oxford students facing a joint disciplinary hearing for protesting genocide. The hearing begins on 10 June. We demand the University drop the case and divest from israeli occupation, apartheid, and gencoide—FREE PALESTINE. ✍️ Share & sign the open letter now. #DropTheCase #OA4P #FreePalestine #DiscloseDivest"

742 likes, 7 comments - oxact4pal on June 3, 2025: "Over 350 students, faculty, staff, alumni, local community members & fellow academics have signed in support of the 13 Oxford students facing a joint disciplinary hearing for protesting genocide. The hearing begins on 10 June. We demand the University drop the case and divest from israeli occupation, apartheid, and gencoide—FREE PALESTINE. ✍️ Share & sign the open letter now. #DropTheCase #OA4P #FreePalestine #DiscloseDivest".

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Dr Kamran Soomro May 24, 2025

Dr Kamran Soomro Mar 2, 2025

Question for everybody. How do you guys manage your reading lists? Both for professional and personal use? Do you keep track of read and pending links etc?

Dr Kamran Soomro Jan 11, 2025

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/mark-zuckerberg-gave-metas-llama-team-the-ok-to-train-on-copyrighted-works-filing-claims/

Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims | TechCrunch

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team approval to train on copyrighted documents, according to a new court filing.

TechCrunch

Dr Kamran Soomro Dec 15, 2024

“At major computer-science publication venues, up to 17% of the peer reviews are now written by artificial intelligence.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03588-8

ChatGPT is transforming peer review — how can we use it responsibly?

At major computer-science publication venues, up to 17% of the peer reviews are now written by artificial intelligence. We need guidelines before things get out of hand.

Dr Kamran Soomro Dec 5, 2024

#TIL if you use Claude to generate Python notebooks, you can ask it to create an ipynb file rather than a Jupyter notebook. Just use a plain text editor to save the notebook and open it in Jupyter Lab or VS Code.

Comes in very handy so that I don’t have to manually break the notebook into cells.