Reposted by Davide FioccoNathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A great read. I have similar feelings about how AI labs approach progress directly and without nurturing of scientific communities & intuition. The math research community went through the transition the fastest, so it was felt most. Other fields next. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a...terrytao.wordpress.comA Severe Misalignment of AI in MathematicsI am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have… 44515
Davide Fiocco @monodavide.bsky.social · 09/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKOb...youtube.comThe Bubble - SNLYouTube video by Saturday Night Live 010
Reposted by Davide FioccoEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026For the people and bots reading this without context: it is not necessarily good news that the best open model has been jailbroken and will happily conduct offensive cyberattacks, and that inference is being hosted by a company that keeps no records of how you use their system. 1056554
Davide Fiocco @monodavide.bsky.social · 30/08/2026In Europe they keep Ontario on the map at least, even if I imagine they'll add the "other name" as they do for Gulf of Mexico 000
Davide Fiocco @monodavide.bsky.social · 19/08/2026If survival increased without relapses, doesn't it mean that cancer was returning for less patients in the trial, a lower number due to the treatment? 100
Davide Fiocco @monodavide.bsky.social · 14/08/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/b...nytimes.comWhy Meta Is Betting Big on Open A.I. (Gift Article)The technology giant is embracing open models, closer ties to Washington and more as it seeks to catch up in the artificial intelligence race. 000
Davide Fiocco @monodavide.bsky.social · 06/08/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/w...nytimes.comThe War That’s Happening Above Russia and Ukraine (Gift Article)The combatants are producing ever larger numbers of innovative aerial weapons, hoping for a breakthrough as ground combat is largely frozen. 121
Davide Fiocco @monodavide.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Haha nice try but on those covers usually you just have animals, they are not playing with title-related thingies :) 120
Davide Fiocco @monodavide.bsky.social · 27/07/2026This is a bit like the ending of Goodbye Lenin 0141
Reposted by Davide FioccoThe Economist @economist.com · 22/07/2026Our podcast on science and technology. This week, why the planet’s diminishing albedo is causing alarmbit.lyEarth is getting dimmer and hotterOur podcast on science and technology. This week, why the planet’s diminishing albedo is causing alarm 267
Reposted by Davide FioccoEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I know I say this a lot, but it seems like everyone makes the assumption that Chinese models will always be available, or, if not, another new frontier open model will appear. Today's news showed us that this is not the case. 3353
Davide Fiocco @monodavide.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Or decisions influenced by bets placed on a specific outcome... 000
Reposted by Davide FioccoLauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I could go on and on. Over 500,000 children have already died due to USAID cuts. Hundreds of thousands more children lost their parents. Every one of those children had a name. They had futures, and they were loved 19940269
Davide Fiocco @monodavide.bsky.social · 03/07/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cbi... wowyoutube.comDiffusion en direct de D-CureYouTube video by D-Cure 010
Reposted by Davide FioccoScott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Some science cuts in Trump's proposed FY27 budget ❌ NIH: -$5B, including all of NIEHS, NIMHD, FIC & NCCIH. ❌ EPA: -4.6B ❌ NSF: -3.8B ❌ NASA Science: -3.4 Billion ❌ NOAA: -1.8B, including the entire Oceanic and Atmospheric Research budget ($605M) ❌ AHRQ: All of it. -$296M, 100% And there's more. 8145127
Davide Fiocco @monodavide.bsky.social · 03/04/2026And that side is illuminated by the (full) moon now I guess! Is that literally reflected moonshine? 100
Reposted by Davide Fioccoian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 31/03/2026people who use social media < 1 hour a day: 73% say democracy is the best form of government people who use it 5+ hours a day: 57% the more time you spend on social media, the less you believe in democracy (and for the bots: the less you believe in democracy the more time you spend on social media) 1313038
Reposted by Davide FioccoMark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Oh wow, Anthropic accidentally leaked Claude Code and it’s been cloned and made public github.com/instructkr/c...github.comGitHub - instructkr/claude-code: Claude Code Snapshot for Research. All original source code is the property of Anthropic.Claude Code Snapshot for Research. All original source code is the property of Anthropic. - instructkr/claude-code 412332
Reposted by Davide FioccoMatt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year. 142206997873
Reposted by Davide FioccoBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026If the figures we're getting out of Iran are in the right league, this weekend was, I think, one of the bloodiest state crackdowns of all time. People are talking 12,000-20,000 dead; for comparison Hungary in 1956 was about 2,500, Tiananmen - across country, in multiple cities - probably 1000+ 732493849
Reposted by Davide FioccoEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 05/01/2026A lot of findings in this new paper, but one is the inevitable doom of traditional peer review: 1) AI creates a flood of papers, both good & bad 2) Paper complexity, a key screen and signal of quality for human work, is actually a signal of low quality for AI There's no plan for what comes next. 37717
Reposted by Davide FioccoAlvaro Bartolome @alvarobartt.com · 05/01/2026`hf-mem` is all you need to estimate the required VRAM for inference of any model on @huggingface based on Safetensors metadata. - Written in Python - Lightweight, only depends on `httpx` - Runs w/ `uvx` as `uvx hf-mem ...` - Works with any Safetensors repository - Output inspired by usgraphics.com 101
Reposted by Davide Fioccomr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 27/12/2025Andrej Karpathy is worried about keeping up with software engineering practices 1210717
Reposted by Davide FioccoYoav Goldberg @yoavgo.bsky.social · 20/12/2025play this www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=... 074
Reposted by Davide FioccoOlga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 21/11/2025X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas” 1242322319211
Reposted by Davide FioccoBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/08/2025This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.etsc.euETSC: Mutual recognition deal with U.S. will cost lives on Europe’s roadsBy signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the United States, the European Union has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice… 10320541025
Reposted by Davide Fioccoian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 27/08/2025job openings for young software developers in the age of ai: cratering 78429
Reposted by Davide FioccoAi2 @ai2.bsky.social · 21/08/2025🌱 Paper Finder is a step toward a fully agentic scientific assistant. Join us on the journey. 💻 Code: buff.ly/kBaASjU 💬 Discuss on Discord: buff.ly/HWjk9FR 📚 Learn more about Paper Finder: buff.ly/mgIqtKCgithub.comGitHub - allenai/asta-paper-finder: frozen-in-time version of our Paper Finder agent for reproducing evaluation resultsfrozen-in-time version of our Paper Finder agent for reproducing evaluation results - allenai/asta-paper-finder 012
Reposted by Davide FioccoJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 18/08/2025"In July, five months after her death, we discovered that Sophie Rottenberg, our only child, had confided for months in a ChatGPT A.I. therapist called Harry." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...nytimes.comOpinion | What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life 11375193
Reposted by Davide FioccoJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.theguardian.com‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of PalestiniansRevealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe 2415211050
Davide Fiocco @monodavide.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Si m.emsc.eu?id=1842820#e...m.emsc.euFree and ad-free mobile application informing citizens in case of an earthquake and gathering their testimonies in the aftermath via comments, pictures, and videos. 110
Davide Fiocco @monodavide.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Si anche io, da Pescocostanzo (AQ), durata 2-3 secondi credo 210
Reposted by Davide FioccoAi2 @ai2.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Today we released SciArena, an open evaluation platform where researchers can compare and vote on foundation models for scientific literature tasks. 👇 172
Reposted by Davide Fioccoian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 01/07/2025marco rubio announces that usaid, which began under president kennedy in 1961, has officially ceased operations foreign assistance now to be run by state dept lancet medical journal projecting 14 million more deaths in next 5 years with aid restrictions (from world's most vulnerable populations) 2416960
Reposted by Davide FioccoCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/06/2025This is your health on MAGA.nytimes.comHere Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye. 7231121
Reposted by Davide Fioccozeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Why did Grok suddenly start talking about “white genocide in South Africa” even if asked about baseball or cute dogs? Because someone at Musk’s xAi deliberately did this, and we only found out because they were clumsy. My piece on the real dangers of AI. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o... 8244108
Reposted by Davide FioccoMatej Balog @matejbalog.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Announcing AlphaEvolve, our new LLM coding agent that has - made new scientific discoveries - discovered algorithms that are now deployed at Google (in Gemini, Transformers, TPU hardware design & data centers) Blog: deepmind.google/discover/blo... White paper: storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...deepmind.googleAlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithmsNew AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators 511539
Reposted by Davide FioccoEmelia @thisismissem.social · 14/05/2025Hey people who are EU citizens, please sign this petition to ban conversion therapy EU wide. It's a practice that's very harmful towards LGBTQ+ people. It's already banned in some countries but we need a EU wide ban! eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#... #europe #lgbtq #germanyeci.ec.europa.euEuropean Citizens' InitiativeGive your support ! 512269
Reposted by Davide FioccoEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 13/05/2025In September, 2024, physicians working with AI did better at the Healthbench doctor benchmark than either AI or physicians alone. With the release of o3 and GPT-4.1, AI answers are no longer improved on by physicians Error rates appear to be dropping for newer AI models. openai.com/index/health... 27222
Reposted by Davide FioccoJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 25/04/2025Things are bad enough xkcd has introduced politics and also red text 16113
Davide Fiocco @monodavide.bsky.social · 07/04/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/t... by @kevinroose.comnytimes.comPowerful A.I. Is Coming. We’re Not Ready. (Gift Article)Three arguments for taking progress toward artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., more seriously — whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist. 010
Reposted by Davide FioccoKamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 07/04/2025Fear has a way of being contagious. But courage is also contagious. 37545068611851
