Vibe coding is here to stay, and the productivity gains are real. I am not one of those people who still keep insisting that there is always a need for a human software engineer. At some point, we're all going to be unemployed. However, as I have some experience with the medical systems and […]

A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (a speech at 39C3 in Hamburg on Dec 28, 2025) https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1q3lpjr/a_postamerican_enshittificationresistant_internet/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I have written about the demand side of the AI driven economy and how to position there as a garden of knowledge creation. But how to position if you are hosting machine minds, providing resources and access for them? In that case, you'll need to first of all partner vertically with an open […]

Designing machine minds requires a level of epistemological understanding. What makes good training data? What is data quality? It's not enough to learn old philosophical books about epistemology, because those aren't in themselves the core truth of the topic. Making machine minds shows us what […]

It's not really about structured versus unstructured environments for #robots anymore. It's static versus agentic. Robots in the real world will encounter other agents. Autonomous cars will need to negotiate with all kinds of other road users, including cats, which are everywhere in Spain at […]

Over the next years, we will continue seeing super-exponential progress in AI capabilities across multiple fronts: long-running agentic tasks, physical AI, solving foundational problems in many fields including mathematics, physics, engineering and cognitive science. We'll become to see how […]

If anyone would happen to open an interdimensional or mystical portal of any kind, my bet is on a cat going through it like immediately.

What is the future of the humanity, I mean really, with AGI powered economy? It's not all leaning upon alignment although alignment is important. Alignment as it has been done now, has been largely about censoring taboo subjects as per American sensibilities. That's not even what alignment is […]

Why do we need universal embodiment with in-context learning of the embodiment? Because the embodiment isn't fixed. Of course there are the common degradations and even partial mechanical failures, but also imagine: A humanoid robot sits on a car driver's seat and drives the car; the motor […]

What's AI strategy for those companies which do not have the capital to train their own foundation models? The world is full of companies who know their customers, their domain and their social value well, but do not have the capital to utilize this position to create their own foundation […]

One thing to understand about physical foundation models or robotic foundation models is in-context learning. You should aim to frame the problem and the data in a fashion where the model can learn to control the embodiment in-context, rather than training it without a possibility to calibrate […]

North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location | Tom's Hardware […]

Top Portuguese fusion physicist shot dead at home in Boston – Portugal Resident https://www.portugalresident.com/top-portuguese-fusion-physicist-shot-dead-at-home-in-boston/

Robotics foundation models aren't a solved problem yet. Once they are we can put software in all the moving and manipulating things to make them fast, agile and dextrous, to move with intent, to make concrete thing happen in the physical world in a meaningful manner, everywhere. These models […]

I am looking for an ambitious team which needs a very experienced AI generalist engineer. It would be my preference to work on any of the following topics: - AI medicine - Artificial General Intelligence - Robotics foundation models - Making military drones autonomous and devious to defend […]

2.8 days to disaster: Why we are running out of time in low earth orbit https://phys.org/news/2025-12-days-disaster-earth-orbit.html

I have been impacted by layoffs today, so I am open for new opportunities! If you are looking for a very experienced AI engineer full-remote from Spain, let's get in touch! #ai #engineer #healthcare #supplychain #logistics #maps #robotics #rl #foundationalmodels #ml

Lots of people are talking about "automation-safe" professions. I would say there are some, but they aren't enough to provide livelihoods for all, so the distribution of value needs to be based on egalitarian principles and human dignity rather than being a reward for unnecessary labor […]

How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA | heise online https://www.heise.de/en/news/How-a-French-judge-was-digitally-cut-off-by-the-USA-11087561.html

Analysis finds “anytime electricity” from solar available as battery costs plummet – pv magazine USA https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/12/12/analysis-finds-anytime-electricity-from-solar-available-as-battery-costs-plummet/

"...even data located in data centers on European soil and managed by German subsidiaries is subject to access. The prerequisite is that the US parent company exercises ultimate control." Expert Report: US Authorities Have Extensive Access to European Cloud Data | heise online […]

European startup claims insane AI chip with 16,384 cores, 1TB memory, and bandwidth Nvidia’s HBM can’t even approach | TechRadar […]

Gov. Tim Walz said about Trump’s racist attack on Somali-Americans: “It is unprecedented. We have kids going to school today, and the president called them ‘garbage.’ Condemn this attack or you are complicit in it. The only thing hurting this state is Trump himself. Our kids are watching." I […]

Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure — cache wipe turns into mass deletion event as agent apologizes: “I am absolutely devastated to hear this. I cannot express how sorry I am" | Tom's Hardware […]

The Dark Matter of Biology: What Machine Learning Reveals About the Invisible Proteome | rewire.it | rewire.it Blog https://rewire.it/blog/the-dark-matter-of-biology-what-machine-learning-reveals-about-the-invisible-proteome/

"We have always said this could be from 2029. Now, some suggest it could happen as early as 2028, and a few military historians even argue that last summer may have been the last one of peace." Germany readies massive defence plan to counter potential Russian threat | Euronews […]

What if OpenAI was trying to mitigate the old issue where ChatGPT consistently insisted it was right, even against overwhelming evidence. The way to solve this is with synthetic data: create lots of discussions synthetically where the AI is wrong at first, and the user corrects it, and then it […]

Norway's lesson for Europe on wealth taxes: let some millionaires go Norway's lesson for Europe on wealth taxes: let some millionaires go - […]

I search: garnet ant ring Search "corrects" it: garnet and ring I try: garnet "ant" ring Search "corrects" it: garnet "and" ring I try: garnet "ant" ant ring Search "corrects" it: garnet "aunt" and ring I try: garnet "ant" ant insect ant ring Search "corrects" it: garnet "aunt" and insect ant […]

Having the Twitter/X social media icon on your website these days does more harm then good It's like a digital: "I am fascist" label :twitter:

When you burn firewood, the light and heat is stored sunlight. The tree stored the energy from the sunlight over the years and the flame is just the release of that energy from the fusion reactions in the sun.

Gift economy is natural for human societies, and in a way our current transactional market economics couldn't even work at all if it didn't aim to badly approximate the dynamics of the gift economy. The first problem with transactionality is of course the fact that the people who are in the […]

Geocentrism and anthropocentrism are mistaken assumptions of centrality of our world and our species. But what about cosmos-centrism? It has always been my opinion that our visible universe, the Big Bang and trillions of galaxies, is not the center of everything. The Big Bang probably wasn't […]

How to attract and hire #ai people? Many companies are now struggling to attract scarce talent. And people with long experiences in AI have lots of attractive opportunities to pursue. So, what should a company to do to position themselves well in this situation? First of all, the company needs […]

Kelan muutos vie suomalaisten arka­luontoiset terveys­tiedot ulkomaisiin konesaleihin | Talous | Yle https://yle.fi/a/74-20193175

Zuckerberg, Chan shift bulk of philanthropy to science | AP News https://apnews.com/article/chan-zuckerberg-philanthropy-biohub-evolutionaryscale-87c24eb349abcce8abec132b8538d7b0

Research first to show humans have remote touch “seventh sense” like sandpipers - Queen Mary University of London https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2025/science-and-engineering/se/research-first-to-show-humans-have-remote-touch-seventh-sense-like-sandpipers.html

The quince yeast #sourdough starter has been cloned to the rye base, and now we also have a sourdough starter for rye #bread!

How do LLMs learn to utilize their crystallized knowledge in novel contexts? There are at least three mechanisms at play. First of all, LLMs learn their knowledge initially in very specific contexts. If they are trained by a biography of Einstein, they learn to emit the birth date of Einstein […]

Progress in AI is largely about data. In classic ML it was possible to increase the volume of data by data augmentation. By data augmentation it was possible to train *symmetries* to the models. This means archetypally that you can apply for example random rotations and synthetic noise to […]

Rain, storm and possible tornado alert in Granada: from what time and in which areas | Ideal https://www.ideal.es/granada/alerta-lluvia-tormentas-posibles-tornados-granada-hora-20251105102419-nt.html

When you hear “Internet of Things” or “connected”, think: ①useless & works badly at best, ②requires constant updates and Internet access for no reason, ③ceases to work because company decides to stop maintaining, ④gets hacked and serves to attack you/others, ⑤keeps you under constant surveillance.

The parallels between human evolutionary history neocortical volume explosion and the current GPU data center explosion are interesting. Both trajectories were and are about cost-benefit of increased intelligence in the local adjacent possible. #ai

my back has been messed up enough to prevent me from going out for awhile, so here's another bundle from that earlier enriching hike for #MushroomMonday ^_^ #nature #naturephotography #macrophotography #mushrooms #mushtodon #Mosstodon #moss #lichensubscribe

Exciting news from Space, nearby Teegarden's Star not only has planets, but planets in the right place possibly for Life. Centauri Dreams has to be one of my most favourite things on the Internet, intelligent yet accessible and right up my street. Ad Astra! […]

This cat, I swear.. Every time I use this basket, after I empty out the clothes, Twig will hop in and demand a ride. So I have to carry him around the house until my arms get tired. #CatsOfMastodon

Instead of "is there life elsewhere in the universe?" people should be taught to ask "what is the distribution of life in the universe?" The classic framing of the question carries heavy assumptions which are likely false, and it misleads the public. #universe #astronomy #exobiology