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Welcome to my stream of thoughts. Short notes, occasional long reads.

Two Years Work Lost For a Researcher

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04064-7 After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. “Looking back, there are things I should have done to safeguard my data. I should, as OpenAI suggests, have exported important conversations regularly, kept systematic offline backups and avoided experimenting with data settings without knowing the consequences.”

February 4, 2026

Mistral Vibe 2

Free / open model for coding with a smaller version to run locally / on prem https://www.datacamp.com/blog/mistral-vibe-2-0

February 4, 2026