Thomas Amberg

Here are my slides on "#DIY #IoT with #LoRaWAN" www.tamberg.org/hny/2026/sli... presented at hny.indyfac.ch/schedule in Lugano

A terminal window showing a single slide.

Made a simple slide stepper (no #AI) github.com/tamberg/step to present text in a terminal

Here are some results github.com/tamberg/farm... including "Dochtglas Pi", a 360° camera trap design intended to attract #VespaVelutina, track their departing flight direction and triangulate the hornet nest's location.

Just posted a challenge "System zur Ortung invasiver Hornissen" www.farming-hackdays.ch/challenges/s... for Open Farming Hackdays, Feb 06/07, 2026 www.farming-hackdays.ch - consider joining us!

@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy: "AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."

There is so much genius in this essay

pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Made a simple idea generator (no "AI") github.com/tamberg/idea which picks a random line each from n files.

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Here are my slides on "Storing Data on #Android" www.tamberg.org/mse/2025/hs/... for msengineering.ch #MobileComputing

Here are my slides on "Managing State on #Android" www.tamberg.org/mse/2025/hs/... for msengineering.ch #MobileComputing

Here are my slides on "Composing UIs for #Android" www.tamberg.org/mse/2025/hs/... for msengineering.ch #MobileComputing

Here are my slides "Reparieren im Haushalt mit 3D-gedruckten Teilen" www.tamberg.org/zuerichlernt... for yesterday's zuerich-lernt.ch workshop at www.recreazzz.repair

Here are my slides on "Getting Started with #Android" www.tamberg.org/mse/2025/hs/... for msengineering.ch #MobileComputing

Here are my slides on "Writing #Kotlin for Android" www.tamberg.org/mse/2025/hs/... for msengineering.ch #MobileComputing

shivinteger's Thingiverse Profile [>>>] Art out of Thingiverse[+] commencing Feb-14-2016[+] Shiv Integer tutorial[>] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOWQf-4OF_I[---] Exhibitions[+] 2017 - iMAL - Shiv Integer[>] http://imal.org/en/exhi...

Or Matthew Plummer-Fernandez (@mpf.bsky.social) www.thingiverse.com/shivinteger/...

Here are my slides on "How system calls made my day" www.tamberg.org/fhnw/2024/Ho... presented at today's #TechTalk of fhnw.ch/imvs

Here are my slides on "Using #GitHub as a #Library to Share Your #Hardware" www.tamberg.org/sgmk/2024/Us... presented at mechatronicart.ch X-mas Umtrunk