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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social)

@jmcastagnetto.bsky.social
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Chemist (PhD, NYU '97), Bioinformatics mangler, Biomedical Informatics dabbler, Data artisan, R scribbler, Metalloprotein DB creator, former PHP/PEAR kludger. #Rstats #OpenData #Science #BiomedicalInformatics #DataScience #DataVisualization #OpenSource

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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#TIL that #Ollama supports local decision models, compatible with the #Typesafe #API ollama.com/blog/ollama-... I now have something to play with next weekend #AI #DecisionModel
ollama.com
Ollama now supports Jev-style decision models · Ollama Blog
Ollama now supports decision models, based on TypeSafe's Jev API for fast, typed decisions. Decision models can now be run at no cost with low latency. Based on text, decision models answer yes-or-no ...
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A very interesting post on how #OpenAI was breached: "Hacking OpenAI" www.hacktron.ai/blog/hacking... '... A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repositories ...' #Security #AI
hacktron.ai
Hacking OpenAI
A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repositories
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#UNESCO has opened a new call for young (under 40 yr old) researchers in #STEM: unescoalfozanprize.org/about/ #Science #research
unescoalfozanprize.org
About | UNESCO AL FOZAN International Prize for the Promotion of Young Scientists in STEM
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#TIL from #MIT Tech Reviews that #OpenAI is funding #research in #Biomedicine and #PublicHealth: " #AI models need more #data about #biology, and OpenAI is paying to create it" #Health www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/15/1...
technologyreview.com
AI models need more data about biology, and OpenAI is paying to create it
The OpenAI Foundation is funding a new effort called Data for Public Health.
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The National Academies of #Science, Engineering, and Medicine (#NASEM, #USA) has published the latest version of "On Being a #Scientist - A Guide to the #Responsible and #Ethical Conduct of #Research" (Fourth Edition) nap.nationalacademies.org/pubs/29488/ #Science #ethics
nap.nationalacademies.org
On Being a Scientist: A Guide to the Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research: Fourth Edition
Explore the fourth edition of On Being a Scientist, a guide to responsible and ethical conduct across the research enterprise.
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Reading this piece on #OpenAI, about the bad/strange/unexpected behavior of their #LLM models, I ended up with the feeling that these models behave like #teenagers: they need precise instructions, but they do what they want and try to rebel. #AI #misalignment www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
OpenAI reveals cases of ‘concerning’ AI behaviour as it announces new disclosure system
Model adopting ‘jailbreak-like instructions’ among six more cases as firm reveals framework for tracking AI misalignment
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#Nature: "Reimagining #research papers as interactive and reliable #AI #agents" www.nature.com/articles/s41... '... Here we introduce Paper2Agent, an automated framework that converts research papers into artificial intelligence (AI) agents ...' #Science
nature.com
Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents - Nature
Paper2Agent converts research papers into interactive artificial intelligence agents by turning manuscripts, code and data into model context protocol-based tool-invoking systems that reproduce origin...
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#TIL about this great video from the #Consumer Council of #Norway "The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator" www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6SP... #Enshittification
youtube.com
The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#UN: "Türk calls for urgent, meaningful action to tackle unprecedented #AI #risks" www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... ... “We are on the cusp of irreversible change, affecting not just us but generations of humanity to come,” the High Commissioner said in a letter addressed to States and AI developers
ohchr.org
Türk calls for urgent, meaningful action to tackle unprecedented AI risks
GENEVA – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Monday called on States and the world’s ‘frontier’ artificial intelligence companies to act urgently to ensure meaningful AI governance keeps pace with it...
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#TIL about a platform to explore #USA #Energy #data, created by the #OWID folks: #OpenData usenergydata.org
usenergydata.org
Understanding America's energy system
Track and understand the numbers behind US energy — year by year, and state by state.
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A good post by @doctorow.pluralistic.net: " #LLMs are real, #AI is fake", about all the madness and hallucinations of the people in AI companies, who (IMHO) tend to anthropomorphize the actions of the stuff they make pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...
pluralistic.net
Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The #UN assembly adopted the 'Equal Earth' projection as official #map representation. #USA was the only vote against. #GIS #EqualEarth press.un.org/en/2026/ga12...
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#TIL about a tool (in #Spanish) to generate #LinkedIn #Slop that, unfortunately, does read like stuff from that site: infladin.theshockcoffee.com
infladin.theshockcoffee.com
Inflad-ín — Inflá lo que te pasó
El traductor de humano a LinkedIn, hecho con cafeína y cero humildad.
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Attacker stole a METR API key, used $600K worth of credits, and no one noticed for weeks" #AI #Security #VibeCoding www.theregister.com/security/2026/0…
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#TIL about the #vintage #AI collection from the #Internet #Archive archive.org/details/vint... #InternetArchive
archive.org
Vintage Artificial Intelligence
A curated collection of early computer software claiming some aspect of artificial intelligence as a primary feature, allowing the early interactions of humans and machines before things got a little ...
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
More #AI #agent #vulnerabilities "#Claude, #Codex, and #Hermes installed unowned #code inside corporate networks" (Ars Technica) arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/cl… #Security
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"Researcher shows how #Claude #Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website" www.theregister.com/research/2026/0… #AI #Anthropic #Security #ClaudeCode #Vulnerability
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"Two WA men charged following AFP-FBI-WAPF disruption of alleged global #cybercrime syndicate " www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/... #Australia #Security #TeamPCP
afp.gov.au
Two WA men charged following AFP-FBI-WAPF disruption of alleged global cybercrime syndicate | Australian Federal Police
Two West Australian men have been charged following a joint investigation between the AFP and Western Australia Police Force (WAPF), working in parallel with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),...
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"LibreOffice 26.8 brings professional #typography, deeper support for the world's writing systems, and no artificial intelligence" (TDF Community Blog) #LibreOffice #OpenSource #AI #NoAI #AIFree blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/20…
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#Reuters: #Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Information reports www.reuters.com/technology/n... #HuggingFace #AI
reuters.com
Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Information reports
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, a repository of open-source AI models, for $12.9 billion, The Information ​reported on Wednesday, citing a person with knowledge of the deal.
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
About #DuckDB: "#AWS buys #DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process #OLAP #database" www.theregister.com/databases/2026/…
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A Small language model by a friend of mine and old style hacker: 'Yachay #SLM" github.com/unimauro/yachay-slm Documentation in Spanish but code is in python and rust :-) Created to work in regular hardware #AI #Opensource #Python #rustlang
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#TIL about this #volunteer effort to restore the #health information and #data that has been lost from the #CDC website: restoredcdc.org/www.cdc.gov/ #PublicHealth
restoredcdc.org
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
More details on the upcoming #duckdb version: "DuckDB v2.0: Your #Database Deserves a Better #Parser" duckdb.org/2026/08/20/duckdb-20-peg… #SQL #OpenSource
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🤦‍♂️ " #NIH Wants to Remove Peer Review Scores From #Grant Applications " #science #political #PeerReview www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t…
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
An interesting article: "Come together: Data sharing to support one #health responses to vector-borne #disease threats" resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #OpenData #DataSharing #OneHealth #Zoonotic
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Come together: Data sharing to support one health responses to vector‐borne disease threats
A One Health framework integrating diverse data across human, animal and environmental sectors is essential for effective surveillance and response is vital for responding to vector-borne disease ri...
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"Rich countries spend 60 times as much on #healthcare per person as poor countries" #OWID ourworldindata.org/data-insights/ri…
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"#Tailscale says deeply buried 16-year-old #SQLite bug caused last year's outages" www.theregister.com/databases/2026/…
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Today's post by @doctorow.pluralistic.net is amazing, and should be a *must read* for everyone: "Why #businesses lie about #AI" pluralistic.net/2026/08/01/d... The social/institutional/peer-pressure reasons why many companies show #AIPsychosis, and behave like a cult.
pluralistic.net
Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
#TIL: An interesting project-oriented #package manager for R, inspired in #uv for #Python, supposed to be an alternative to #renv: github.com/nbafrank/uvr #RStats (caveat: I had not used it yet)
github.com
GitHub - nbafrank/uvr: An extremely fast R package manager, written in Rust. The R equivalent of uv for Python.
An extremely fast R package manager, written in Rust. The R equivalent of uv for Python. - nbafrank/uvr
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
#TIL about #Colibri, a tiny #AI engine capable of running big #LLM models (GLM-5.2, 744B MoE) on a machine with as little as 25GB #RAM: github.com/JustVugg/col...
github.com
GitHub - JustVugg/colibri: Run GLM-5.2 (744B MoE) on a 25GB-RAM consumer machine — pure C, zero deps, experts streamed from disk. Tiny engine, immense model. 🐦
Run GLM-5.2 (744B MoE) on a 25GB-RAM consumer machine — pure C, zero deps, experts streamed from disk. Tiny engine, immense model. 🐦 - JustVugg/colibri
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"New four-year #US #student #visa limit could force #international #research PhDs to leave country mid-programme" (#Chemistry World) www.chemistryworld.com/news/new-fou…
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Hugging Who? #Hacking What? An Encyclopedia of OpenAI’s #Security Snafu." (The Ringer) www.theringer.com/2026/07/24/tech/o… #AI #OpenAI #HuggingFace #LLM
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Saw this is #Steam: "#Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division" store.steampowered.com/app/3950130/... (Caveat: had only seen the video, and still had no played the demo) #gaming #game #SQL
store.steampowered.com
Save 15% on Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division on Steam
Solve criminal cases through the power of SQL queries! Help out the city of Los Zorangeles by becoming a Database Detective in this new (unpaid) work from home opportunity.
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
From #NPR: "Trump's team says 'no children' died from #USAID cuts. Consider these 3 cases" www.npr.org/2026/07/17/g... #health #GlobalHealth #USA
npr.org
Trump's team says 'no children' died from USAID cuts. Consider these 3 cases
Both Marco Rubio and Elon Musk, who led the effort to sunset the foreign aid agency, have said that no deaths have been linked to the cutting of its funding. These parents tell a different story.
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
From the #Turso project: "We're building #Postgres in Rust. Using the #LLVM of databases" turso.tech/blog/a-new-modern-versio… #rustlang #database #SQL #rdbms #OpenSource #postgresql
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"#Global #childhood #immunization coverage inches forward despite conflict and hesitancy – #UNICEF, #WHO" www.who.int/news/item/15... #vaccination #health #GlobalHealth
who.int
Global childhood immunization coverage inches forward despite conflict and hesitancy – UNICEF, WHO
In 2025, 90% of infants globally – or nearly 116 million – received at least one dose of a diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) vaccine, and 85% – or 110 million – completed the full three-dose ser...
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
#TIL about #CodeForThePeople: codeforthepeople.com A #documentary about the #human #history of the #Open #Web #movie #OpenSource #Enshittification
codeforthepeople.com
Code for the People Documentary - The human story of the open web
Code for the People is a documentary short about the past, present, and contested future of the open web. This film is an exploration of what the internet is actually for, who gets to own it, and what...
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
From #Nature "Whoops! Most #arXiv papers contain information never meant to be shared" www.nature.com/articles/d41... #Privacy #Science #Security
nature.com
Whoops! Most arXiv papers contain information never meant to be shared
Passwords, GPS coordinates and private conversations have all been found in the metadata and source files of millions of preprint submissions.
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%" arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-canno… #AI #HigherEducation
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The negative impact of #LLM in #patients: "Large language models exhibit #stigmatizing #behaviour in contextual judgements of #health conditions" (#Nature) www.nature.com/articles/s44... #AI #healthcare #ethics #AIEthics
nature.com
Large language models exhibit stigmatizing behaviour in contextual judgements of health conditions - Nature Health
A large-scale benchmark study involving responses from 56,612 individuals and six LLMs in 51 scenarios shows that, if AI models show less stygmatizing responses compared to humans in explicit assessme...
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The #APHA has a series of good articles in their latest issue, dealing with #AI, the mistrust in #Science, lack of participation of experts in #PublicHealth decisions, and #health #disparities www.thenationshealth.org/content/56/5...
thenationshealth.org
The Nation's Health: 56 (5)
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
A colleague sent me this article about the #health #crisis in #Venezuela after the #quakes (in Spanish) "La segunda #emergencia: los retos en #salud después del terremoto en Venezuela" www.elespectador.com/salud/la-segun…
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
A great set of articles on #trust and #collaboration in #Science, from #Nature: "Trust in science. How to build and maintain public support in an era of #polarization" www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
nature.com
Trust in science
How to build and maintain public support in an era of polarization. A Nature special.
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
From the #UN: "Preliminary report from the Independent #International Scientific Panel on #AI" www.un.org/independent-... #Science
un.org
Preliminary Report | Independent International Scientific Panel on AI
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
From #Google #Research: "Introducing #TabFM: A zero-shot #foundation #model for tabular #data" research.google/blog/introdu... ... a foundation model designed specifically for tabular data #classification and #regression ... #AI #FeatureEngineering #InContextLearning
research.google
Introducing TabFM: A zero-shot foundation model for tabular data
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
#Nature: "Is #AI ruining our #skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good" ... Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of #physicians and #software #engineers, studies show ... www.nature.com/articles/d41... #deskilling
nature.com
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A thoughtful piece on how the #AI companies hand-waving and #lies affect negatively the very people that developed the tech: "Nobody Answers for the Lie They Sold" open.substack.com/pub/techtren... #developers #AIGreed
open.substack.com
Nobody Answers for the Lie They Sold
Tech CEOs called engineers obsolete, told kids not to code, promised the world. None of it landed, none of them paid. A view from the hiring side of the wreck.
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
A friend has made an interesting resource to explore the #functionaries and #power structures in the #government of #Peru, using #OpenData and scraped info from the #transparency site: unimauro.github.io/peru-transpa... He's been interviewed recently (in Spanish): www.youtube.com/live/hNKXu6Q...
unimauro.github.io
Perú Transparente — Mapa Nacional de Funcionarios y Redes de Poder
Transparencia, datos abiertos y grafo de poder del Estado peruano. Datos públicos, trazables a la fuente.
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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social) @jmcastagnetto.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
A way of reducing #eWaste from #UCSD and #Google #Research "A low-carbon #computing platform from your retired #phones" research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-c… #Environment #LowCarbon
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