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 Feb 3

New paper out in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience! We explored how LLMs can help public authorities analyse citizen feedback more efficiently.

Using survey data from East Bristol's liveable neighbourhood initiative, we found sentiment classification achieved >90% accuracy, and LLMs outperformed traditional summarisation methods.

Open access:

https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.70547

#SmartCities #LLM #MachineLearning #UrbanPlanning #OpenAccess #CitizenScience

Dr Kamran Soomro Jan 16

I had no clue Google had introduced a consensus.app killer! Excited to try this out!

Dr Kamran Soomro Dec 26

José Geraldo Dec 25

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/unix_v4_tape_successfully_recovered/

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

: Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works

The Register

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Dr Kamran Soomro Nov 19

Thanks also to my colleague Alireza.

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Dr Kamran Soomro Nov 19

Here’s one of the visualisations we created: the geographical distribution of collisions in 2024, classified by severity: fatal, serious, and slight.

More about the dataset:

https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/cb7ae6f0-4be6-4935-9277-47e5ce24a11f/road-accidents-safety-data

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/