Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 26/09/2026It’s #Caturday and Loki is sphinxing on a pile of clothes. 0110
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 26/09/2026There are many cats in our campus*, they like to lay down in the parking lot in the late afternoon. Here’s a pic I took just yesterday. Unfortunately they don’t want to be petted. 😕 161
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 23/09/2026I disagree, there could be collaboration, if you’re a collaborator in this sense. 1202
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 22/09/2026A (late era) Commodore 64 (the redesigned C model), circa 1989–1990. I learnt to program in BASIC and Logo on it as a kid, which directly led me to becoming a computer scientist (even though I unexpectedly and suddenly turned to the mathy side of it thanks to the Algorithms 1 course). 020
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 21/09/2026Mes étudiant·es aujourd’hui semblent avoir apprécié cette diapo, qui a permis de discuter de conventions culturelles ainsi que de representations efficaces des nombres pour faire des calculs (et de bavarder de langues, qui sont mon hobby ; apparemment ma prononciation du ع est 👍). 120
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 19/09/2026I don’t work on stuff suitable for STOC, but let me say that the 2027 edition LLM policy of one of the (former, AFAIC) “top” TCS conferences is pure shit, and I certainly don’t regret not being part of a community actively working on destroying science from the inside. Shame, shame, shame on you. 44213
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 18/09/2026Speaking of fractals, here’s a Sierpiński triangle I generated (back in 2010) by opening three Remote Desktop Viewer connections to the very same machine. 000
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 18/09/2026Fun fact: one of my professors from when I was a university student is isomorphic to Maurice, Belle’s father from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. He taught me fractals. 010
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 16/09/2026My Θs look like some chubby bread rolls or something. 010
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 15/09/2026Ah yes, thanks Google Scholar, I will certainly read this paper. 100
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 15/09/2026Les dix raisons pour ne pas utiliser l’IAg dans le cadre de vos études (pour les étudiant·es de la fac), par @atecopol.bsky.social (diapos ici drive.ird.fr/s/cSwqmcp5NM...). Je vais les partager avec mes étudiant·es. 2138
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 06/09/2026Finalement pour mes étudiant·es de L1 j’ai fait une petite diapos avec un résumé des raisons pour lesquelles c’est mal d‘utiliser des chatbots LLM, avec un exemple jouet de comment ça marche. 063
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 06/09/2026I’m adding a “My first computer” slide for my first lecture of Intro to CS tomorrow. 🦖 071
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 02/09/2026En Italie aussi on a un Telegatto mais c’est un truc différent (fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegatto), même si c’est un peu dérangeant aussi maintenant que je le revois. 100
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 01/09/2026I have a directory with nice comments from my students. (It only contains six files, but still.) 110
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 01/09/2026Periodic reminder that the following algorithm (doi.org/10.48550/arX...) does actually work, even if it has no right to. 111
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 28/08/2026Academics, to “celebrate” the start of a new semester, post a WayBack Machine snapshot of your workplace from when you were applying to college/university (or a later milestone if you missed the dawn of dot edu/dot whatever) #WayBackCollegeChallenge 010
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 22/08/2026It’s #Caturday and Loki is recharging in the sun In his armchair. 071
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 20/08/2026As Loki awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic shrimp. 010
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 19/08/2026C’est #Miaourcredi and Loki is ensorcelled (fada, as they say here) by the birds outside. (Yes, he also ekekeked.) 141
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 15/08/2026It’s still #Caturday but it’s nanna time now. 🐈💤 0102
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 15/08/2026Seven of Nine, being a former member of a collective AI consciousness, has the required b*tthole mark as an implant on her cheek. #StarTrek #Borg 000
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 14/08/2026Risotto alla monzese (or rather alla monzo-tolosana, since that’s the sausage I had at my disposal). 000
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 14/08/2026It’s #PreCaturday and here’s a cute one from the park. 020
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 04/08/2026J’ai trouve un bon livre de théorie des nombres dans la boîte à livres du quartier. 020
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 04/08/2026I just discovered that one version (the first?) of the infinite monkey theorem (dubbed the “miracle of the monkey typists”) is due to Émile Borel (this is page 164 from his “Le Hasard”, 1914, available on the Internet Archive). (Via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinit...) 010
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 03/08/2026Juste pour curiosité, j’ai débloqué une seconde le chatbot et je lui ai posé UNE question : « Parle-moi de l'UE Introduction à la science informatique du portail Descartes ». Ça a répondu que l’UE est sur 2 semestres, ce qui n’est pas du tout le cas pour le portail standard mais pour la L1 en 2 ans. 120
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 03/08/2026For instance, let’s do a little Butlerian Jihad, shall we? (1) Oh, there’s a chatbot button on the web page of the Faculty of Sciences @univ-amu.fr, I wonder when it appeared? (2) Pew pew! 🤖🔫 (notice the cute smoke affect) (3) And now it’s gone! 😊 010
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 02/08/2026Me seeing a colleague “interacting” with Claude at work: 0143
Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 31/07/2026OMG she’s back, on the same bench as last time and she decided once again to sit on my lap after I petter her! We’ve called her Նազենի [Nazeni]. 120