Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

@regehr the thing is, having a grand plan means publishing even fewer papers!

@regehr the thing is, having a grand plan means publishing even fewer papers!

https://ssg.dev/vibe-coding-in-the-90s/

So very true!

#coding #vibecoding #ai #90s

Recently stumbled across this nice little #poem by probably the greatest #Italian children's writer, Gianni Rodari (translation below, by Matilda Colarossi). Written in 1960 in the collection "Filastrocche in cielo e in terra" (Nursery rhymes in Heaven and on Earth), still very relevant.

Il dittatore

Un punto piccoletto,
superbioso e iracondo
"dopo di me - gridava -
verrà la fine del mondo!"
Le parole protestarono:
"Ma che grilli hai pel capo?
Si crede un Punto-e-basta,
e non è che un Punto-e-a-capo".
Tutto solo a mezza pagina
lo piantarono in asso,
e il mondo continuò
una riga più in basso.

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The Dictator

A tiny dot,
irascible and arrogant.
"After me" he'd yell
"the world will end!"
The words protested:
"What bats has he got
in his belfry?
He thinks he's a Full-stop,
and is nothing but a New start."
All alone, midway down the page
they ditched him
and the world continued
on the very next line.

@susanleemburg Don't know the answer to your questions but your students should be happy that their lecturer checks facts before telling them, and is not afraid of admitting she isn't sure about something. We have all been there, nothing to be ashamed of!

@Extelec @djinn506 @Jencen multi page has been in inkscape for a while!

@adredish I am a big fan of open review. I don't mind having my name associated with my comments and actually I'd rather someone not guess wrongly that I wrote something I didn't.

Most journals I review from have a box for comments to editors only and I guess your example makes sense. I think it only happened to me once to use it.

I don't see a case for comments to authors only. I've suggested redoing the analysis on papers several times and I think that should be openly visible there is no shame in that, it shows the authors are happy to improve their own work. Same for silly mistakes... why would I be embarrassed if I made a silly mistake? That's the whole purpose of reviewing papers, correcting mistakes.

@erikjan @geospacedman I see your point but cognitive overload is a thing, so is programming anxiety.

Sometimes you just want to introduce students to a language or a method or a specific concept, in which case spending half an hour if not more trying to explain how to install the tools is not productive and will make some students simply give up from the start.