Combustion CFD consultant and researcher. Developing the FRESCO CFD code. Sempre fortissimo, e con strepito. 🇺🇸

Mantova / Madison
The faster agents are getting, the closer you can get to a flow state where context switching doesn't hit as hard anymore #AIpilled
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Same as happening in cars, with big touchscreens instead of physical buttons. Cheaper but (I'm calling it) unsafe. Driver gets distracted searching for buttons
This is so colossally stupid I’m at a loss for words. Boeing has a decades old flight computer design with a custom physical keyboard and monospace text UI. They introduce a touch version of this, by taking the literal same design and making it all screen.
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A @NobelPrize for a Badger 🏅 Congratulations to Francis Halzen, named the 2026 Nobel laureate in physics for his groundbreaking work with @uw_icecube to advance our understanding of neutrinos and the universe’s most energetic events. news.wisc.edu/university-of-…
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Opus 5.5 is an incredible workhorse, but it still doesn't have the spark. Fable is still a necessary orchestration/review model for complex tasks
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Fable putting global collectives everywhere to sync parallel meshes - not the way it's ever going to work buddy 🧐 #CFD
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FRESCO Vaporization GUI coming up nicely. C7/C10 drop at 348 K. No external inputs required: Pick experiment + model + solve + verify in one place.
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Mantova version being accurate
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Astraaaaaaaaa wtf?
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ok it's a bit token-intensive, but we should adjust per work produced. Amazing productivity so far!
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Fable 5.1 is 🤯🤯🤯 everything else is not anywhere close! Amazing progress @AnthropicAI
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So this is 1 day of medium-intensity work now 😓 #WelcomeToSeptember
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Never really understood why is that. Did airfields expand over previously-tiny buildings, hence then impossible to build more fingers? or simple euro-poorness?
there is nothing worse than getting off a flight in Europe and seeing THIS bullshit
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How come there were no signaling spheres attached to the cables?
Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, un autogiro biposto è precipitato nei pressi della diga di Campliccioli, nel territorio di Antrona Schieranco, dopo aver urtato alcuni cavi elettrici ed essersi incendiato: morti i due occupanti, un uomo di 62 anni e la cognata di 63
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Federico Perini retweeted
Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, un autogiro biposto è precipitato nei pressi della diga di Campliccioli, nel territorio di Antrona Schieranco, dopo aver urtato alcuni cavi elettrici ed essersi incendiato: morti i due occupanti, un uomo di 62 anni e la cognata di 63
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I guess room temperature is not homogeneous and varies far more than 2 degC top/bottom, interior/windows, etc. - a sensor installed close to the AC outlet would almost certainly underestimate it
Yes it does This is my home AC in bedroom set to 16°C measured with @airthings sensor Whether you like 16°C or not isn't the point The point is my AC at home doesn't lie about the room temperature like most European hotel ACs categorically do to save money
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`ln -fs ./CLAUDE.md ./AGENTS.md` 🤫
I’m thinking about banning Claude code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc. Insisting on only reading CLAUDE.md sometimes leads to split brain problems when different team members use different tools. Just unnecessary.
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RT @levelsio: This is very interesting and expected European governments and thus the EU too is losing lots of tax income from Europeans f…
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Same in CFD. High quality architecture is still not here yet, even with frontier models, but if the speed of progress is what we’ve seen the past couple years, it won’t be long
I used Codex for writing a simple API similar to my blog post with latest Vulkan extensions and Slang. AI wrote lots of PIMPL classes in the API with unique pointers and exceptions. There was also a user visible Buffer class instead of pure GPU-pointer API (that class internally allocated its own VkMemory). Command buffer recording also internally created a command pool every frame. It also listed images in the barriers and flushed mapped ranges. Didn't understand that we REQUIRE unified image layout extension and PCI-E ReBAR or UMA with coherent CPU visible GPU memory. After a dozen of iterations the API starts looking good. You still need a senior expert for this work. AI can speed up your work, but AI alone does a horrible work. Even with massive initial prompt and 50-page blog post as design document.
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