Computers are weird and magical and I love what people do with them. I teach and research at the University of Tsukuba (Japan). EvoComp, Alife, MAS, ICPC. I'm happy to talk shop when it's cool or someone needs help, but I'm here more to make friends. I love games, gamedev, maps, bots, spiders and pixel art. Slacking alt at @wrench Brazilian in Japan. Want to see a less EU-US centric fediverse. I generally approve follows if the stuff in your profile passes a vibe check.
Computers are weird and magical and I love what people do with them.
I teach and research at the University of Tsukuba (Japan). EvoComp, Alife, MAS, ICPC. I'm happy to talk shop when it's cool or someone needs help, but I'm here more to make friends.
I love games, gamedev, maps, bots, spiders and pixel art. Slacking alt at @wrench@wandering.shop
Brazilian in Japan. Want to see a less EU-US centric fediverse.
I generally approve follows if the stuff in your profile passes a vibe check.
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Computers are weird and magical and I love what people do with them. I teach and research at the University of Tsukuba (Japan). EvoComp, Alife, MAS, ICPC. I'm happy to talk shop when it's cool or someone needs help, but I'm here more to make friends. I love games, gamedev, maps, bots, spiders and pixel art. Slacking alt at @wrench Brazilian in Japan. Want to see a less EU-US centric fediverse. I generally approve follows if the stuff in your profile passes a vibe check.
Today I gave a short interactive lecture about "critical technology discourse". It was really inspiring, and made me want to put more effort in this topic.
We first did a guided discussion with the students focused on Social Media, where we defined some useful ideas and argumentative tools for the students to use, and separated the minto topical groups.
After that we gave them a second, more (less?) controversial topic to give the same treatment as homework: Space Exploration. (1/3)
Computers are weird and magical and I love what people do with them. I teach and research at the University of Tsukuba (Japan). EvoComp, Alife, MAS, ICPC. I'm happy to talk shop when it's cool or someone needs help, but I'm here more to make friends. I love games, gamedev, maps, bots, spiders and pixel art. Slacking alt at @wrench Brazilian in Japan. Want to see a less EU-US centric fediverse. I generally approve follows if the stuff in your profile passes a vibe check.
Yesterday I've been thinking about the balance between assuming that people are familiar with niche things, and assuming people are NOT familiar with things. (In a teaching context)
Funny enough, there are XKCD's for both situations:
Computers are weird and magical and I love what people do with them. I teach and research at the University of Tsukuba (Japan). EvoComp, Alife, MAS, ICPC. I'm happy to talk shop when it's cool or someone needs help, but I'm here more to make friends. I love games, gamedev, maps, bots, spiders and pixel art. Slacking alt at @wrench Brazilian in Japan. Want to see a less EU-US centric fediverse. I generally approve follows if the stuff in your profile passes a vibe check.
Computers are weird and magical and I love what people do with them. I teach and research at the University of Tsukuba (Japan). EvoComp, Alife, MAS, ICPC. I'm happy to talk shop when it's cool or someone needs help, but I'm here more to make friends. I love games, gamedev, maps, bots, spiders and pixel art. Slacking alt at @wrench Brazilian in Japan. Want to see a less EU-US centric fediverse. I generally approve follows if the stuff in your profile passes a vibe check.
A researcher colleague from Europe:
- I am really interested in this conference in Japan, but I am not sure I can make it because institutions in the EU are very concerned about our carbon footprint.
The same colleague:
- By the way, I've been thinking about how we can integrate "agentic AI" in my research project, do you have any ideas?
🤔 Hmmmmmmmmm
Computers are weird and magical and I love what people do with them. I teach and research at the University of Tsukuba (Japan). EvoComp, Alife, MAS, ICPC. I'm happy to talk shop when it's cool or someone needs help, but I'm here more to make friends. I love games, gamedev, maps, bots, spiders and pixel art. Slacking alt at @wrench Brazilian in Japan. Want to see a less EU-US centric fediverse. I generally approve follows if the stuff in your profile passes a vibe check.
Huh, this guy is inspiring in quite a few ways.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260424/p2a/00m/0bu/019000c
Computers are weird and magical and I love what people do with them. I teach and research at the University of Tsukuba (Japan). EvoComp, Alife, MAS, ICPC. I'm happy to talk shop when it's cool or someone needs help, but I'm here more to make friends. I love games, gamedev, maps, bots, spiders and pixel art. Slacking alt at @wrench Brazilian in Japan. Want to see a less EU-US centric fediverse. I generally approve follows if the stuff in your profile passes a vibe check.
Computers are weird and magical and I love what people do with them. I teach and research at the University of Tsukuba (Japan). EvoComp, Alife, MAS, ICPC. I'm happy to talk shop when it's cool or someone needs help, but I'm here more to make friends. I love games, gamedev, maps, bots, spiders and pixel art. Slacking alt at @wrench Brazilian in Japan. Want to see a less EU-US centric fediverse. I generally approve follows if the stuff in your profile passes a vibe check.
Computers are weird and magical and I love what people do with them. I teach and research at the University of Tsukuba (Japan). EvoComp, Alife, MAS, ICPC. I'm happy to talk shop when it's cool or someone needs help, but I'm here more to make friends. I love games, gamedev, maps, bots, spiders and pixel art. Slacking alt at @wrench Brazilian in Japan. Want to see a less EU-US centric fediverse. I generally approve follows if the stuff in your profile passes a vibe check.
Computers are weird and magical and I love what people do with them. I teach and research at the University of Tsukuba (Japan). EvoComp, Alife, MAS, ICPC. I'm happy to talk shop when it's cool or someone needs help, but I'm here more to make friends. I love games, gamedev, maps, bots, spiders and pixel art. Slacking alt at @wrench Brazilian in Japan. Want to see a less EU-US centric fediverse. I generally approve follows if the stuff in your profile passes a vibe check.
Recently I've been chatting a friend who is a CS educator about how we feel about recent technologies (and CS education). In one of our earlier talks I mentioned how this AI moment we're having is like a "Monkey's Paw" moment to me.
We were invited to do an "interactive talk" with students about technology and society, and this friend suggested using "Monkey's Paw: the Hidden costs of Tech advecement in Society" as the title, and I feel super validated about that 🥲
Computers are weird and magical and I love what people do with them. I teach and research at the University of Tsukuba (Japan). EvoComp, Alife, MAS, ICPC. I'm happy to talk shop when it's cool or someone needs help, but I'm here more to make friends. I love games, gamedev, maps, bots, spiders and pixel art. Slacking alt at @wrench Brazilian in Japan. Want to see a less EU-US centric fediverse. I generally approve follows if the stuff in your profile passes a vibe check.
Computers are weird and magical and I love what people do with them. I teach and research at the University of Tsukuba (Japan). EvoComp, Alife, MAS, ICPC. I'm happy to talk shop when it's cool or someone needs help, but I'm here more to make friends. I love games, gamedev, maps, bots, spiders and pixel art. Slacking alt at @wrench Brazilian in Japan. Want to see a less EU-US centric fediverse. I generally approve follows if the stuff in your profile passes a vibe check.
Computers are weird and magical and I love what people do with them. I teach and research at the University of Tsukuba (Japan). EvoComp, Alife, MAS, ICPC. I'm happy to talk shop when it's cool or someone needs help, but I'm here more to make friends. I love games, gamedev, maps, bots, spiders and pixel art. Slacking alt at @wrench Brazilian in Japan. Want to see a less EU-US centric fediverse. I generally approve follows if the stuff in your profile passes a vibe check.