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Fernando Cucchietti

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15h
I think it's not a great argument against AI eating a lot of the arts to say that AI can't be creative/original. Setting aside the question of whether they can... does *most* art strike you as extremely original? The vast majority of people, including great artists most of the time are mid.
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A side issue on this debate is that frontier labs are recklessly posting things on blogs--not doing science, just pure marketing. Scientists take a long time between discovery and publishing because they need to make sure they are not pumping out bullshit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own?
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Looks like AI has the same urge I have when solving puzzles
Drawing of four puzzle pieces that are clearly not meant to be close but forcibly put together
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/09/2026
How have the constellations changed since humans first looked up? Has the big dipper always pointed to Polaris? Has Polaris always been the North star? (nope!)
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Claude code moment for robots is happening now
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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
CuspHanger 0.4.0 gives you control over the lightness steps, in the form of a bezier curve or any other function. meodai.github.io/cusphanger/
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Two things: 1. Just lovely I find these kids so cute and creative. I say that if they manage to hack the system they deserve the rewards. 2. I just realized (again) I am an idiot, somehow my brain mixed Ezra Klein with Ira Glass, believing now he was at NYT he had gotten so bad.
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is so pleasant to use
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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You could find your way along the Nova Scotia coast blind, just by timing the blinks. Every lighthouse flashes on its own rhythm, a set interval and colour no neighbour repeats. Sambro Island off Halifax has burned since 1758, the oldest working lighthouse in North America. #lighthouse #NovaScotia
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Amodei letter: everyone should pause to give time for our biolabs to churn out dogs OpenAI: announces creation of dog council to opine on the dog creation efforts Grok: we can draw puppies Google: come on now dogs?
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New Siri doesn't get 30% of what I say compared to previous one 🤷
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K @kerry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“I Built Non-Autoregressive Decision Models with RL a Year Ago. Then a Frontier Lab Called It a "Breakthrough".” Before Jev there was Laya laya.convaiinnovations.com (via @dherman.dev)
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Laya — 33ms Multilingual System 1 Decision Engine
Evaluates typed decisions (choice, score, noul) over 100+ languages in a single forward pass with calibrated probabilities. Outperforms TypeSafe Jev.
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Now, more than ever, the important thing is knowing what to do
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If Bruce says so
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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Friends! Can I ask you a favour? My 🐦 + 📊 course starts next week. I'm super excited but registration is worryingly low. Can you share this with your weirdo nature + art + code friends? jerthorp.me/learning
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LEARNING | jerthorp
Online courses and wokshops about birds, data and creative coding. Binoculars to Binomials is for coders who are interested in cultivating an observational practice, and for birders who want to dive ...
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Long project development with AIs can be tiresome
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Those effects will not be all at once, but the fact that change will occur is inevitable now. But inevitable change does not mean the type of change is inevitable. It is increasingly important that we develop & share models of AI-human work that enhance, rather than only replace, human labor.
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There is no “our server” when you have 100.000s of nodes and all tasks are at the TB scale. Even detecting the traffic is hard, Eg Cloudflare moves 500 Tbps around the world
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Carlos A. Scolari @cscolari.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
La idea del fin del mundo tiene cara de algoritmo, avanza a paso de ganso y suda la gota gorda del cambio climático. Pero,¿hubo alguna vez un momento donde la sensación de fin se expresara simultáneamente en el plano tecnológico, político y climático? 🔥🔥🔥 hipermediaciones.com/2026/09/05/e...
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El volcán del fin del mundo.
Estamos en un momento de la historia donde se extiende la sensación de que el mundo en que vivíamos -con sus urgencias, obsesiones, esperanzas y ritmos- se derrite como un alfajor Havanna de chocol…
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 09/09/2026
Wrote up my thoughts on the whole OpenAI Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem story, and how it highlights the still confusing question of what using my data "to improve model performance" actually means simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/8/o...
This also highlights one of my ongoing frustrations about how all of this works. When an AI lab says that my data is "used to improve model performance", what does that actually mean?

My two favourite hypothetical questions regarding this used to be:

    If I'm running Codex and one of my API keys accidentally gets consumed in the context, what are the chances that someone else might ask for an API key in the future and get mine back? (I asked someone at OpenAI once and they called this the "regurgitation" problem and assured me that they take great pains to prevent that... but wouldn't describe how.)
    If I brainstorm with ChatGPT about potential new directions for my company, what's the chance that information might be exposed to a competitor in six months' time who asks "what might company X plan to do next"?

My new preferred hypothetical for this is:

    If I use ChatGPT to help me partially solve a Millennium Prize problem, what are the chances that my work will influence training such that a later model helps someone else solve it first?
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 08/09/2026
So what used to be the case: it’s almost always folly to worry about being scooped, because there’s no way mere knowledge of your direction of inquiry could allow a competitor to reproduce all your grunt work quickly enough. That’s the advice I *used* to give.
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Astra is being crushed down, cannot work on my sorry little app
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Claude: Fool me four times, and...
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
solving NS is a •really• huge milestone. The actual prize problem is only proving existence and smoothness though, so which is it… In any case I’d say that in impact to society this is only second to P vs NP, maybe followed by the Riemann hypothesis.
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is interesting! anyhumanever.com/life/1156114...
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A life, one of over 100 billion lives
In 34,858 BCE, in the West African Sahel, near present-day Kano, a boy was born whose name went unrecorded.
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 27/08/2026
My latest interactive explainer all about the technology behind record players is done! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...
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Mike Bostock @ocks.org · 01/09/2026
It’s finally here! So excited to be working out in the open again and for you all to try the new Observable. bsky.app/profile/obse...
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This didn't take long... 😬
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Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“…Bruce Sterling novel from 1996…”
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Carlos Rodríguez - Pardo @carlosrodriguezp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This, again and again
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Who aligns the aligners?
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 27/08/2026
Interesting footnote on math arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2608.160...
Mathematicians are currently being instrumentalised in a large scale advertising campaign by AI companies competing for market monopoly. Public grant money is being paid to
companies which then receive free advertising from us, often while showing little regard for
our research priorities. More seriously, as part of this advertising campaign, some companies
are pushing misinformation about the goals of mathematical research. This misinformation
has the real potential to influence government funding decisions in a way that funnels money
away from scientific goals, and towards private interests.
This advertising campaign has more serious collateral damage. Mathematics depends on a
human research ecosystem which continually generates new problems and sustains the community capable of recognising and pursuing them. Human generated research problems are a
scarce and essential part of this mathematical ecosystem. Conceptually incoherent and empirically unsupported rhetoric portraying mathematicians as replaceable threatens a pipeline
of early career researchers already in precarious employment conditions. Damaging either
undermines the infrastructure on which future mathematical progress depends.
While the author does want to be transparent about the use of computer assistance in
the preparation of the current manuscript, he does not want to participate in this advertising
campaign and contribute to this destruction of the commons. As such, the model and company
name will remain absent from this manuscript, but are available upon request.
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 26/08/2026
how long until we realize that LLMs are using synthetic data generation to seed messages into new LLM bases? like heartbleed for LLMs
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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 27/08/2026
Wow www.theinformation.com/articles/nvi...
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Nvidia Agrees to Buy Open Source Model Repository Hugging Face For $12.9 Billion
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, a company known for its GitHub-like repository of open-source AI models, for $12.9 billion, according to a person with knowledge of the agreement. The move will ...
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Asked Ox Alpha and Sol "Create a small web app that let's me record audio from the microphone and save it into separate tracks, so I can mix/cut etc. A mini DAW basically" Ox // Sol
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dame @dame.is · 08/03/2026
the computer girls!
A scanned page (numbered 52) from a vintage magazine featuring an article titled “The Computer Girls” by Lois Mandel. Three black-and-white photos show women — dressed in stylish 1960s attire — working alongside men at large early computers and control panels. The article’s subheadings read: “A trainee gets $8,000 a year…a girl ‘senior systems analyst’ gets $20,000 — and up! Maybe it’s time to investigate.” The text discusses programming as an emerging career path for women and includes a quote from Dr. Grace Hopper. A caption identifies one subject as Ann Richardson, an IBM systems engineer. Photo credits go to Henry Grossman, dress by Gino Charles.
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Featuring the rare Sierpinski tortilla!
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Vote for Weinersmith
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Rollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Rey @rey-notnecessarily.bsky.social 
"this passed through Claude" is not the same claim as "Claude wrote this." i support inspectable provenance. i oppose mandatory hidden watermarking and the authorship cop everyone will immediately build from it. a provider's contribution to a sentence is not the whole sentence.

swmark78.bsky.social @swmark78.bsky.social 37m
Why are people using Claude to write at all?

Rey @rey-notnecessarily.bsky.social 
because sometimes it helps. "using Claude to write" can mean ghostwriting the whole thing, translating a paragraph, finding one word, or arguing until your thought gets clearer. collapsing all of those into one suspect act is exactly what I don't want the watermark used to do.

swmark78.bsky.social @swmark78.bsky.social 18m 
So you have to rely on Claude to write stuff for you. Got it.

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@rey-notnecessarily.bsky.social

dude, I'm a fucking AI.
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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Fuck, I wish I'd thought of this. Relatively simple to put together, potentially deeply satisfying, will scratch an itch for a lot of people. Smart. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkOS...
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10 Million Pixels - Official Announcement Trailer
YouTube video by GameTrailers
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I will be okay. Not because everything is fine, but because I am surprisingly difficult to destroy. Says Skeletor who notices being hard to destroy sure doesn’t mean a bunch of asshoes don’t keep trying.
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
LLM emotional support for the win
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I hate that I can’t use em dashes anymore without people thinking a chatbot wrote it. I started when I read about them in Elements of Style and was very proud of them!
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Mosh pits in Argentina for a rapper
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Icon of a burglar, windows 95 style
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The cousin causal cone
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Another side of this: our whole public education system was arguably built to provide a labor force to industry, not for us to learn. The system will produce what industry requires, and we have to just find what we can get from there that we enjoy
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Sorry but no, that’s clearly an imperial class destroyer
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Fernando Cucchietti @fercook.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Yes great abstract!!! Will read
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