Liquid nitrogen in a pool is “stimulating” and generates an interesting physical effect. However, the point here in relating it to science is that there is some science behind it that gets the attention from people.

My argument is: people are naturally fascinated by this, but they’re put away by the strict laws, mainly mathematical laws, put forward by this.

Not that mathematics isn’t interesting, but you won’t incentivize people to go to a spitting contest by saying how you spit correctly. People want to see the strongest spit.

I think that’s all there is to it. If you can incentivize people into partaking on this endeavour (understanding chemical effects, in this case), you can bring much more value to science and people that are interested in it. You can, for example, explain interesting effects to people even though they’re looking at a clear liquid (most acids).

The progress of OpenAI since february has been pathetic. The other major AI LLMs have surpassed it a lot. I want to see how they will justify the investment.

I treat my mind as a big great block. If something is disturbing me, I stop to put everything into place and move “all together” again. It works and I’m more productive this way.

I got nothing to hide. Or so the saying goes.

I think for the big apps like Whatsapp and Facebook it makes sense that the companies want to hide the features that give users control beyond the “standard” way of using the app in places where they cannot find it.

Fear of Small Numbers, by Arjun Appadurai

The phys.org article has absolutely no information. At least it links the worldscientific article.

Estou torcendo para se limitar a sanções, como foi com a Rússia. O Irã não tem opção a não ser se defender. Acho certo o Brasil ficar do lado do Irã, que agora faz parte do BRICS, mas tem que tomar cuidado pra não comprar uma briga com a Argentina, que agora está alinhada aos EUA.

Quanto à questão econômica, não acho que o Brasil vai sofrer. A China precisa mais do Brasil agora com as tarifas estadounidenses, acho que vai servir de apoio pra nossa economia. O petróleo arranja em outro lugar. Acho que, tirando o desentendimento com EUA e Argentina, vai ficar tudo bem pro Brasil.

Coming from my perspective a little. Iran is a part of BRICS now and Lula has defended Iran in latest interviews. Let’s see how things develop and if Iran representatives will come to Rio (for the BRICS Summit). This is troubling.

Por que não escreveram uma carta pra que a Guiana e o Suriname rejeitassem a perfuração Offshore no Escudo da Guiana, Margem Equatorial? Eu não entendo. Lá é Amazônia também!

Microsoft does research on cognitive decline in use of LLMs: “Nope.”

Google does research on cognitive decline in use of LLMs: “Nope.”

MIT does research on cognitive decline in use of LLMs: “Fine, I’ll read your goddamn opinion on the matter.”

Edited: The article is good, I recommend it. However, I find this “brain-only” approach to be too biased. Students and people in general cannot learn without external information. This approach assumes people have studied the topics beforehand and have knowledge in it, which causes biases on the study and beats the purpose of it, which is proving people do not learn using LLMs!

The article criticized the closing of the Internet by Tehran, but the Internet is clear vulnerability that can be exploited in times of war.

“you’re not really a man unless you hate women”. This is so true. I wish I knew better why this rift between sexes is so useful in politics. When talking about sex, we have to seek what we have in common, not our differences. If sexual attraction was a problem for deep relationships, then gay men wouldn’t always be together. This sexually divisive standard serves someone right. Women should look at this more carefully.

I know this isn’t a popular opinion, but maybe the Executive has too much power. Power needs to be more decentralized. Will policies that make sense come out of this? I’m no political scientist, but this amount of power isn’t good.

The article has its ups and downs. Mostly downs.

Don’t make me believe this is the kind of talk that’s going on Twitter.

I call that ‘malint’ (malicious intent)

Not that fine, though. Quality of life came a long way.

Copyleft foi um termo pensado por Richard Stallman para brincar com a ideia de copyright. São tipos de licenças, mas que são muitas vezes desrespeitadas. O ideal principal do copyleft é acabar com a propriedade intelectual.

As pessoas que estavam por trás da computação pessoal nos anos 70, que viam o potencial para o computador servir pessoas individuais ao invés de empresas e governos, ficaram chateadas quando as empresas começaram a colocar licenças nos programas de hardware que antes elas podiam alterar e moldar de acordo com a sua vontade. Foi daí que surgiu o copyleft. As empresas respeitam a GPL porque ela organizacionalmente funciona, não porque é repleta de proteção jurídica ou poder no lobbying.

Soon enough.