Thomas Amberg

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Making, 👩‍💻 engineering & teaching IoT.
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Thomas AmbergFeb 22
Here are my slides on "#DIY #IoT with #LoRaWAN" http://www.tamberg.org/hny/2026/slides.txt presented at https://hny.indyfac.ch/schedule in Lugano
Thomas AmbergFeb 19
Made a simple slide stepper (no #AI) https://github.com/tamberg/step to present text in a terminal
Thomas AmbergFeb 15
Simon WillisonFeb 15
Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/cognitive-debt/
How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt

This piece by Margaret-Anne Storey is the best explanation of the term cognitive debt I've seen so far. Cognitive debt, a term gaining traction recently, instead communicates the notion that …

Simon Willison’s Weblog
Show threadThomas AmbergFeb 8
Here are some results https://github.com/tamberg/farmhack including "Dochtglas Pi", a 360° camera trap design intended to attract #VespaVelutina, track their departing flight direction and triangulate the hornet nest's location.
Thomas AmbergJan 17
Just posted a challenge "System zur Ortung invasiver Hornissen" https://www.farming-hackdays.ch/challenges/system-zur-ortung-invasiver-hornissen for Open Farming Hackdays, Feb 06/07, 2026 https://www.farming-hackdays.ch - consider joining us!
System zur Ortung invasiver Hornissen

32h Hackathon für Agritech, Food Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit. Löse reale Challenges, pitch dein Projekt und vernetze dich. Ticket sichern!

Open Farming Hackdays
Thomas AmbergJan 14
DmytriJan 14

I want to coin another term, "Pyrrhic Productivity." When AI-coding agents promise speed by removing human effort but end up slowing work by breaking the feedback loops that produce understanding and shifting skilled work from doing to specifying and controlling.
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#TheGeneralTheoryOfSlop

Thomas AmbergDec 4
K77a!
Thomas AmbergOct 30
Made a simple idea generator (no "AI") https://github.com/tamberg/idea which picks a random line each from n files.
GitHub - tamberg/idea: A simple idea generator

A simple idea generator. Contribute to tamberg/idea development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Thomas AmbergOct 15
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστSep 6, 2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17065099

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Thomas AmbergOct 11
Here are my slides on "Storing Data on #Android" http://www.tamberg.org/mse/2025/hs/TSM_MobCom_StoringDataOnAndroid.pdf for msengineering.ch #MobileComputing