https://slice.degec.info/ Slice of UPi Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:54:41 +0200 https://slice.degec.info/posts/performative_lying-epwepzuk https://slice.degec.info/posts/performative_lying-epwepzuk Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:28:27 +0100 UPi <img src="https://slice.degec.info/Content/profile/hd/evqmjadrhigpuixhdxsd.webp"><br>I came across this interesting concept, "performative lying", in my compulsive consumption of politics and politics-adjacent topics. https://slice.degec.info/posts/hubble_is_35-rnqewjbb https://slice.degec.info/posts/hubble_is_35-rnqewjbb Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:04:22 +0200 UPi <img src="https://slice.degec.info/Content/profile/sm/igvbjzoqnnkxojbsmyao.webp"><br>The Hubble Space Telescope is 35 years old. It has captured 1.7 million observations in that time. I hope that in just one of them is a planet where things are OK. https://slice.degec.info/posts/all_that_i_want-dbnzewcu https://slice.degec.info/posts/all_that_i_want-dbnzewcu Thu, 10 Apr 2025 08:34:57 +0200 UPi ...is one day without the USA in the news. Just one! https://slice.degec.info/posts/aprils_fool_group_chat-efiiqnxu https://slice.degec.info/posts/aprils_fool_group_chat-efiiqnxu Wed, 02 Apr 2025 05:58:37 +0200 UPi <img src="https://slice.degec.info/Content/profile/ef/wdegqyfhoukfjktefhcf.webp"><br>On one of the websites that I run, it has become a yearly tradition to have some April's Fool joke on the 1st of April. https://slice.degec.info/posts/podcasts-suaobwvk https://slice.degec.info/posts/podcasts-suaobwvk Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:31:02 +0100 UPi I find that I enjoy listening to podcasts at the gym while I work out or do cardio, but my Spotify subscriptions are dominated by news podcasts, and the news are getting really depressing. https://slice.degec.info/posts/claude_chatgpt-egokgyvo https://slice.degec.info/posts/claude_chatgpt-egokgyvo Mon, 03 Mar 2025 14:17:13 +0100 UPi <img src="https://slice.degec.info/Content/profile/ua/evgccdujgjmpjfeuaftq.webp"><br>As meticulously unpacked in a previous post , most AI language models are "useless" or " mostly useless " at non-trivial programming tasks. https://slice.degec.info/posts/the_outcome-lbebhpuv https://slice.degec.info/posts/the_outcome-lbebhpuv Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:14:33 +0100 UPi <img src="https://slice.degec.info/Content/profile/el/wgabsjvurjpjqzgelupn.webp"><br>The outcome of the 2025 German federal election is: The GDR (a.k.a. East Germany) still exists. https://slice.degec.info/posts/ai_road-kkaziurr https://slice.degec.info/posts/ai_road-kkaziurr Tue, 04 Feb 2025 07:18:29 +0100 UPi <img src="https://slice.degec.info/Content/profile/zl/vbkbfboaqltdavgzlgpd.webp"><br>2025 is the year that reality has become unrealistic. If you look at this years winners of the Grammy Awards, you will notice that the winner of the Best Rock Performance category is "Now and Then" by the Beatles. https://slice.degec.info/posts/coding_by_llm-npuzvjiw https://slice.degec.info/posts/coding_by_llm-npuzvjiw Tue, 28 Jan 2025 11:58:19 +0100 UPi <img src="https://slice.degec.info/Content/profile/bg/gvkldmqdcywieqbbglgv.webp"><br>I asked both o1, GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet (currently in Beta in Visual Studio Code) to implement a function that takes a country and returns what is considered to be the first day of a week in that country. https://slice.degec.info/posts/it_has_come_to_this-qnfifymz https://slice.degec.info/posts/it_has_come_to_this-qnfifymz Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:15:47 +0100 UPi Dear diary, if he can do something substantial about the Russian invasion, I promise I will stop calling him "the Hydroxychloroquine Guy".