Luis M. Rocha @lmrocha@qoto.org

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/11/big-tech-warns-of-threat-from-ai-but-the-real-danger-is-the-people-behind-it?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

@cyrilpedia they could have continued calling it cybernetics, but they wanted to claim and true an entire new field, as academics often do.

@cyrilpedia very cool. Since language is for building predictive models of a dynamical reality, not surprising that verbs are most important. Still, general purpose verbs probably facilitate encoding and transmission.

["https://www.publico.pt/2051331"]

@ct_bergstrom many of my German, Swiss and Dutch colleagues, especially those in editorial roles, are very concerned with "paper mills", which they think exist for hire to influence citation measures. If those exist, the best way to get rid of them would be to not use citation measures, or at least reduce their importance, but that is the opposite of what European funding agencies, departments, etc are doing.

@tiago the republican party is now openly a death cult in more ways than one....

A Teresa de Sousa é o Zhao Bentang do establishment Americano. Kissinger é um criminoso de guerra racista, demonstravelmente muito mais à vontade com o aparelho do Apartheid ou qualquer fascista fantoche, do que com democracia e liberdade. https://www.publico.pt/2023/05/27/mundo/analise/henry-kissinger-diplomata-pensador-2051185

Enaltecer este género de criminoso é mais uma contribuição para se denegrir e não se levar a sério as democracias ocidentais---A Hillary Clinton que o diga e o Trump agradece.
https://youtu.be/fCjQbTEuoDU

@tiago from the phone I can't read the whole thing, but I wonder what version of Pascal they used that is slower than Java. Way, way back Borland (object) Pascal (later Delphi/Kylix) produced compiled C++ code.

@ct_bergstrom the substitution of cybernetics by AI in the 50s had a lot to do with that, even though both were looking at the mechanisms of intelligence and Shannon's concepts were clearly cybernetic. But because Wiener and others in cybernetics resisted military funding, the nascent "new field" of AI was happy to respond to that funding niche.

Clarence Thomas Can’t Undermine the Legitimacy of the Supreme Court Fast Enough https://nyti.ms/3M1GY9s

#RIP #RitaLee A deusa mais disco-punk do universo da lingua portuguesa. Minha ovelha negra preferida, lá bem na santissima trindade que inclui David Bowie e Miles Davis. Lá foi mais uma incontornável do século XX e não só. Obrigado pela musica e atitude!
https://youtu.be/3pyR-L5JGy8

"We argue that theories and methods drawn from #complexity science are urgently needed to guide the development and use of digital twins for cities. [...]. This is the foundation for a new approach that treats cities not as large machines or logistic systems but as mutually interwoven self-organizing phenomena, which evolve, to an extent, like living systems."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-023-00431-4

"In that reality of hyper-concentrated power and wealth, AI – far from living up to all those utopian hallucinations – is much more likely to become a fearsome tool of further dispossession and despoilation."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Supremely Arrogant, or guardians of the oligarchy. https://nyti.ms/3ph37Jh

Can't watch a coronation without thinking of this brilliant classic. Happy farcical aquatic ceremony day!

https://youtu.be/t2c-X8HiBng

#Gun #Violence Is Actually Worse in Red States. It’s Not Even Close. Thanks @cyrilpedia !https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/23/surprising-geography-of-gun-violence-00092413?ref=thebrowser.com