Damián Ortega, DR © Herramientas encontradas y alambre 285 x 405 x 455 cm 2007 Parte de la exhibición Pico y elote en el museo de Bellas Artes Sitio del autor Instagram Esta es una reproducción digital, con fines de divulgación, de una obra original, todos los derechos de autor y reproducción están reservados por el artista.

Over time, I gathered a bunch of helpful mental models to manage my work and motivate myself. These mental models can be applied in professional work, but also in private life at times. I often forget these are things I learned at some point, so I am writing them up for my Startup Therapy series as they come to me. Just in case they may prove helpful for someone at some point 😊 Today's mental model: Input tasks and output tasks.

Students of programming are often encouraged to use AI assistants with little consideration for their perceptions and preferences. How do students perceptions influence their usage of AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) in undergraduate programming courses? How does the use of tools like ChatGPT and GitHub CoPilot relate to students self-belief in their own programming abilities?

Siegfried Kracauer in Theory of Film describes the strangely transporting effect of memory while watching old documentary films containing recognisable childhood objects.

Organized by Luca Barra, Matteo Marinello, Emiliano Rossi (Università di Bologna), Susanne Eichner (Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Potsdam) and Anne-Katrin Weber (Université de Lausanne)

With the fervour of someone with an n = 1 positive experience, I thought I’d write about what I learned from a recent writing retreat. My University organises one-day events to encourage writing. They’re on-campus, in the neutral territory of the Library, so perhaps calling them “writing retreats” is a little far-fetched. Nonetheless, the idea is to provide a time and space for people to achieve some writing.

Einen Datensatz für KI-Training zu erstellen, fällt unter die urheberrechtliche Ausnahmeregelung für Text- und Data-Mining (TDM), so das Landgericht Hamburg. Im Urteil blieb allerdings die Frage offen, ob das eigentliche KI-Training ebenfalls unter die TDM-Schranke fällt. Für die Formulierung des Nutzungsvorbehalts gab das Gericht indes einige Anhaltspunkte.

Welcome to the 233rd Carnival of Mathematics! Who can forget 233, the 6th Fibonacci prime? Hey, not all numbers are interesting. Don’t ask me about the smallest positive uninteresting number. You can’t make it interesting with your feeble mind tricks! Anyway, on to the fun. Provers and Shakers The big discovery this month was a new largest known prime number, $2^{136279841} - 1$, as reported by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search.

Too many code projects in research are done by a single person. Keep reading on why that's bad and how to do better.

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Today is my last day at Imperial College London. It marks the completion of exactly 29 years as a member of staff. Two talks, about 30 years apart.