@siracusa@mastodon.social @atpfm@mastodon.social For me, terminal session restore works — it keeps scrollback & restores directories. Sometimes the tab/window title stops tracking. And there’s a (longstanding, unfixed, race condition) bug in the interaction between the shell and the terminal.
Month: May 2026
Happy to find myself on a bookshelf with Damian Hirst, Nick Cave and Manolo Blahnik.
Claude is helping me run some code, preparing inputs, monitoring outputs, &c. It kept making badly wrong predictions about how long the run would take, and told me that it was “doing it in my head”, by which it meant it “was computing the estimate inline as part of generating text”.
Thanks to some local heroes, the only officially designated river bathing spot in London is a short walk away. Let’s hope Thames Water can keep it clean enough to actually use.
River Thames in London gets first official bathing spot — The Guardian
The Random Universe reviewed in Nature Astronomy:
The book works. It takes you from the reliability of London buses to the Big Bang in a circuitous but continuous path, leaving you with an accomplished feeling of having slotted parts of the Universe and parts of our understanding into their logical places.
Home state in London.
Invigilating (good British word) for the first time in a couple of years — year 4 Information Theory. Good luck!
Canvas Down! A hacker group has taken down the Canvas “Virtual Learning Environment” across many higher-ed institutions. Great: Imperial will be using Canvas starting next year…
Another London pub talk! Come hear me discuss The Random Universe and the Big Bang at Pints Of Knowledge on 16 June at The Blues Kitchen in Brixton.
Follow-up to my scientific colleagues: I did this project with Claude code under a Claude Pro subscription, but should I prefer (or try) purchasing API access instead (or in addition)?
First proper vibe-coding science/data project with Claude. Hardly looked at the code at all. A lot of plumbing between pre-existing codebases, but also helped me actually understand what was going on. (References to come!)
“Workers of the world &c!…”