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Recognition that other living beings have emotions, feel pain and deserve empathy, slowly arises. This is the real agency, emotions, motivations, intelligence and consciousness discussion, the one that matters. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Implemented. I kept it subtle: charts.infowetrust.com

The discourse around lowering requirements for software to embrace LLM generated fast code, if you take it far enough, ends up suggesting that software is only about shitty online applications for trapping people into attention vortices. Truly critical software lives in another dimension.

phyphox.org @phyphox.org such an amazing app, can run all sorts of experiments. Yesterday I was playing with the manometer. Great for physics on classroom, but also for understanding all the data that's potentially being captured from your device.

Si les gusta la lingüística, compren el último número (30) de Archiletras, donde además me entrevista José Antonio Millán y charlamos de modelos de lenguaje, espacios multidimensionales de significado, lengua y cultura. www.archiletras.com

Sometimes Cursor is the worst developer buddy (like placing a break within a forEach, or changing the values of a dataset (!) when I complain about the results of an analysis algorithm), and sometimes it reads my mind.

Only a few years ago scientists struggled with the mirror experiment on elephants, until a large mirror was used (duh). Now we know even ants recognize themselves on a mirror (and become desperate to remove a mark if that flag them as enemy of the colony) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olni...

Our new science exhibition “The Invention of Time” has just opened in Barcelona. Come explore time in physics, brains & life, from Evolution 2 relativity. We even have a working Time Machine (that’s me using it) @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @icreacommunity.bsky.social museuciencies.cat/en/exposicio...

12:00 PM (EST) → 12:00 PM, each hour will introduce a unique topic related to visualizing animal, plant, and other intelligences and their unique symbiotic relationships. cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20... In just a couple of hours! My presentation is at midnight EST (9 PM California)

Envisioning Intelligence, a unique 24H online event hosted by the Places & Spaces exhibit team with presentations on visualising various topics #dataviz Presenters include the amazing @moebio.bsky.social and @kimay.bsky.social Check it out: cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20... #macroscope

A failed visual analogy (architects≠builders), but who cares since these are neither the architects or the builders AI

Join us from December 13 @12pm - December 14 @12pm “Envisioning Intelligences”, a unique 24hr online event hosted by the Places & Spaces exhibit team. Speakers include @katyborner.bsky.social @boriseldagsen.bsky.social @moebio.bsky.social @annaloi.bsky.social cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20...

This weekend there's an Intelligences marathon!, I'll be presenting along with other data, visualization and science experts cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20...

OK, yeah moving to using the land-pole equator makes calculating the line much faster.

Life as a Developer: API → IPA → API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA

Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made better choices regarding cars in the past. and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.

I tried AI but it was very disappointing, I had to tell it what to do!

I tell to my art+design students: you're not building a project, you're building the documentary for the project (consequence: the project ends up being better).

Read this if you're considering buying a telescope to a kid: bioplex.ai/telescope

"use it to fire your consultants", some people seem to get pleasure out of using machines against humans

Giving a seminar on energy (physics, chemistry, biology, economy, geopolitics) to the kids at my son's school. First session was about conservation, conversion, potential and kinetic. I took with me a small collection of potential energies. How many types do you count?

Tetra 50 #genart

Can't stop looking at this 7 way venn Interactive version moebio.com/research/sev...

1800-1950 the most important data is in the hands of science 1950-2010 in the hands of companies 2010-… in the hands of people (for nanoseconds at least, before it's stolen)

DisAIppointing

I built a palette generator based on description (or in any case text), I forgot to close the tab and it kept generating palettes based on all my meetings, youtube videos, conversations at home…

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

seen somewhere

“When one teaches, two learn”, Robert Heinlein

Just another way to look at the world

This is clear and true. But it's also true that LLMs are revealing an unpredicted power of linguistic patterns, capable of computation and generation at levels we couldn't imagine. I do think they deserve the label of "reasoning" (but really any algorithm is a form of reasoning).

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

La exposición ‘CONECTOMA’, reactivó la memoria de MEDIALAB El programa Metrópolis dedicado a Medialab Madrid se emite la noche del lunes 16 de junio a partir de la 1.30h en La 2 (España) www.rtve.es/television/2...

Human intelligence is not about how we answer to a question but how we react to a question. Only when you consider humans as machines you can start considering machines as more intelligent than humans.

non linearity for you

Apple last ad is an idiot removing his mom from a picture www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL88... "Intelligence"

Building a new house for my cat

Embeddings for the first 500 natural numbers (each row is an embedding vector for a number, starting with 0 at the top). Is there a "least insightful visualization" contest I can submit my work?

never surrender

Love this puzzle

haπ day

Principal Component Analysis

confusion matrix

Weather forecasts have become much more accurate. A four-day forecast today is as accurate as a one-day forecast 30 years ago.

Bacteria have likely been building bridges between each other all along. But biologists are only just figuring that out now.

Is this still pareidolia? The artist placed a couple of elements. If this is pareidolia then a drawing, a photo and the reflection on a mirror are as well.