Software engineer living in #amsterdam, where I make robots do robot things at Monumental.
I have opinions (and am interested in other people's opinions) about #programming (espcially #types, #functionalprogramming, #typescript, #rust, #haskell) and #urbanism (especially #bikes). searchable
| https://twitter.com/rossng_ | |
| Bluesky | https://bsky.app/profile/rossng.eu |
> the team designed a field experiment with a custom-made bat accelerator machine
this is the sort of scientific research I can get behind
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2026/january/discovery-of-bats-remarkable-navigation-strategy.html
Just three weeks ago I went to a jazz gig at the beautiful Vondelkerk.
Now it's been destroyed by careless idiots with fireworks. Infuriating.
I tried some of the scarier prompts from reddit on the new model and it shut them down straight away. It didn't agree with me or encourage me to keep going.
I don't trust OpenAI as far as I can throw them on ethics but this will probably turn out to be one of their more socially-responsible moves.
Did some doomscrolling in the chatgpt subreddit after I saw that lots of people were complaining about losing the (unbearably sycophantic) 4o model.
I'm now pretty convinced that asking the LLM to give itself a name is a big red flag.
Solving unimportant problems with poorly-supported browser APIs.
I couldn't find a nice way to detect AprilTags on my phone. So I built (well, mostly vibecoded) a little app.
