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È sabato: Andare Camminare a Lavorare

Torno a casa, sono le 8 del mattino. Si comincia a lavorare alle 8 del mattino. Prendo lo zaino e vado al lavoro.
Per fortuna stacco alle 3, alla mensa universitaria e mi danno lasagne e piselli.
Vado al parco, affianco ad una bella ragazza, e mi addormento sullo zaino.
Un signore con la fisarmonica suona bella ciao, vado a dargli le poche monete che ho in tasca e ballo alcune canzoni.
Mentre mi riposo tra l'erba passano delle ragazze italiane che ho incrociato un paio di volte, più tardi le ho raggiunte in un bar e ci siamo conosciuti un po'.
Faccio un giro per il centro storico e tornando a casa incontro un tedesco in vacanza che ho conosciuto ieri notte. Ha fame e lo porto in un baretto a mangiarsi un panino; mi offre una birra e parlando di quanto guadagni in Germania e che bella vita faccia mi convince a restare nella mia condizione.
Tornando a casa incontro un'amica brasiliana, dice che vuole comprare un appartamento e mi porta a vedere la finestra; sta in centro e sembra ristrutturato, dice che me lo affitterebbe a 700€ al mese. Ha 4 camere da letto: il prezzo è ottimo.
La riaccompagno a casa e mi dirigo a casa, incontro una amica che suona la cornamusa, stiamo un poco assieme e la invito a cena giovedì prossimo.
Fortunatamente mancano 20 minuti prima che chiudano i supermercati, mi trovo la mia macellaia di fiducia e prendo dei pesci, jurel.
Al fine sono arrivato a casa, il pesce è in forno.
Tra poco andrò a letto. Almeno domattina potrò riposare al lavoro.

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Ho di nuovo la febbre
Sotto le coperte
Leggo poesie
Da sotto la finestra
Sommesso sale un brusìo
Cristo che schifo la vita
Porcodio.

#mastopoesia

People think chemists can do Amphetamines and how that's probably our main focus.
In truth, we optimize our processes in order to reduce the amount of Amphetamines we produce...

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Finally reading Hasok Chang's Is Water H2O? Evidence, Realism and Pluralism. His historical accounts are a sobering antidote against simplistic, fairy tale accounts of how science works/should work, how scientific record needs to be corrected, and what it takes to make scientific progress. He says here "I argue that it would have been better for science if the phlogistonist system had been allowed to continue its work" because much knowledge was lost once the theory was discarded for good.

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Sia maledetto il Signore Dio onnipotente e buona domenica

Gesù marcio

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A policeman stops a car...

Policeman: “Whose car is this,
where are you taking it and what do you do for a living?”

Miner: “Mine.”

#Puns #DadJokes

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@rastinza @chemistry there is so much interesting work going on in protein design and engineering. It's fascinating to watch!

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Happy #PortfolioDay ✨ ❤️
I am Lana, freelance artist from Ukraine. Art nouveau and pinup illustration are my big passions. At the moment I mainly work with writers and tabletop game developers. Also I want to explore some personal projects (colouring pages and original pinup print series).

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Today I had to take one of the hardest decision: reboot a server.
It is not back yet.
I hope it's just a boot problem that will get solved in a few hours by the system automatically.

The alternative is not so pleasant.

Use LLMs as a review tool to see if you actually understood a topic.
Start writing about it and try to explain it to them, correct any error the incur into.

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Wow: "The chemist admitted that since December, he has been using the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT to “polish” his texts. “These months have been quite productive, because there are articles that used to require two or three days and now I do them in one day,” he said. "

-- from Le Pais: english.elpais.com/science-tec

Is it normal in chemistry to publish on average one paper every 37 hours?

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I opened LinkedIn today and I was shocked by a lot of Italians writing posts, either in Italian or in terrible English, condemning the Italian Privacy Institution for having sanctioned OpenAI because they were infringing the Italian privacy laws.

This is absurd, we have a government that courageously confronts a huge company telling them to fuck off unless they abide by our laws and people condemn it.
I'm more and more convinced there is no real way to improve Italian society in the short term.

There's too little cultural piracy available and this is a huge wasted occasion to build bridges among different people from different countries and cultures.
I don't know if you are also noticing a huge decline in piracy, it is now much harder than before to download music, books, movies; and it's almost impossible to upload them.
Just try it, I had a freely distributed movie that can't be found on the internet and I wanted to put it on a torrent website... No way, that's very difficult. It will take you a bunch of time and people over there will start questioning what you're uploading and why.

It feels like the people who are now uploading pirated stuff are part of a very small circle; this is extremely dangerous as it greatly limits the variety of stuff available.
You have all the American blockbusters and even the last published bullshit. You will be able to find most of the important western European things, even though it gets difficult going back in time.
But... What else? Want a Russian book? Sure their literature is quite famous so you'll find something; want one of their movies? Good luck with that, unless it made some huge noise around the world it's just not there.
You can get a fairly decent amount of Indian movies; books are much more difficult.
Chinese stuff is quite unfindable.
South America, a cradle of cultural stuff which leaves a huge hole in the internet accessible stuff.
Not to talk about African stuff, of which I barely know anything; definitely the unavailability didn't help.

I'm not saying you should pirate everything, but the availability of information and culture helps people get together. It doesn't necessarily have to go through piracy, but the best alternative are public libraries, which don't even get near to the potential piracy has.
I'm very sad whenever I hear of some cool movement or interesting production and it just can't be found in any way because it is not American.
We should foster an ethical piracy movement, the Italian website TNTvillage had this as its objective; it unfortunately had to close due to low funding and the low respect towards the mission by its users.

I hope things will change. I'm afraid that the comfort of streaming services has turned off a lot of people from searching different things and exploring different cultures.

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