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Computer vision and software engineer. Interested in medical image processing and robotics.
WEBSITEhttps://blog.paulnovo.us/
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Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is doing a good job of marking its Black history, with a Black Heritage Trail you can follow through town with historic markers and a sculpture garden on the site of the African-American Burial Ground. Now we have a wonderful mural of Ona Judge, who had been enslaved by George Washington but escaped to Portsmouth. Washington made strenuous efforts to have her captured and returned to slavery, but never managed.

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-05-25/ona-judge-george-martha-washington-slavery-portsmouth-black-history

Clothespin Sculpture by Mehmet Ali Uysal in Belgium. <3 9 Amazing Sculptures That Blend With Nature: https://streetartutopia.com/2026/04/15/artists-who-use-nature-in-their-sculptures/

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
-- Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969

"I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working."
-- Reid Wiseman, April 2, 2026

#moon #space

I just finished filing my claim with the #Anthropic settlement, which used FIFTEEN of my books to train the goddamned Temu Terminator, and I am fucking furious and heartbroken about it:

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-money-the-anthropic-settlement

Blood Money: The Anthropic Settlement

The actual audacity of it all

Welcome to Garbagetown
Finally launched https://rule3.org/ - a bunch of essays on doing software development in startups, finally writing down a bunch of my technical adventure storytelling. (I wouldn't call it general interest, but if you find yourself having to explain code review or release engineering because you're the only adult in the room, you might find this useful...)
Rule 3 - Infrastructure, Software, and Humans

Rule 3 - Infrastructure, Software, and Humans
Tech bros think using AI is fine even though it regularly make mistakes, some of them catastrophic, because _tech bros_ regularly make mistakes, some of them catastrophic.
Why shouldn't "Move fast and break things" apply to AIs too?
Some of us have been trying all along to preserve the early ethos that programming is fine craftsmanship and quality is key. We've been fighting the tendency toward "good enough" since decades before ChatGPT.
It's been a losing battle.
#AI #programming #tech

I continue to work on o-o, a CLI for running my ML jobs (or any jobs) in the cloud. The recent release focused on bug fixing and adding unit tests. The project now has over 90% testing code coverage, which I gotta say, is just a really nice place to be.

homepage: https://o-o.tools/
source: https://sr.ht/~ootools/oocli/

#MLOps #Python #Testing #DataScience

Documentation | o-o

@a23 still feeling quite confident that generative AI is not a good tool and there’s no way to use it responsibly. Studies consistently show it produces worse outcomes and lowers productivity across every industry it touches while its inefficiency accelerates the climate crisis and scrapers destroy the open web by effectively DDOSing websites and services in order to steal from the working class and enrich technocrats

I wanted to share my current project. It’s a command line interface for running jobs in the cloud (currently #Scaleway and #GCP) and is a simple way to run your MLOps or data pipelines. Any feedback is appreciated:

https://sr.ht/~ootools/oocli/

#MLOps #MachineLearning #DataScience #AI #Cloud #Python #Sourcehut