Daniel Sastre

@sastred.eurosky.social

Sports lover and software engineer http://about.me/sastred

Perplexity’s CEO said the company’s web browser is designed to track users across the web to build detailed profiles and sell hyper-personalized ads. The browser is to monitor browsing habits, shopping activity, travel and dining interests, and time spent on sites, etc.

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I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

COVID-19: DATOS CONTRA MANIPULACIONES 👁️ 👁️ Un vistazo al tipo de cosas que mandamos el pasado domingo en el boletín. 1. FALLECIDOS. 157.271 muertes por Covid-19 en España hasta junio de 2024. No, no se ocultan fallecidos, pero la cifra real podría ser mayor. Te explicamos 👇🧵

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Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealedA photo of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) when he was 19.
Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."

Please start supporting the unsexy infrastructure of email, calendars and cloud storage. And then comms/news/media platforms. And then social media platforms. Not everything has to have AI.

“We should reduce the cognitive load in our projects as much as possible.” — I strongly agree with it. And yet, it turns out to be super hard to fight complexity creeping in. I had an entire rant on this recently at @vendure.io's mini conference :) minds.md/zakirullin/c...

Cognitive load is what matters

There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamental. What matters is the amount of confusion developers feel when going through the code.

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👉 "Descartes no tendría nada que hacer en la tertulia de Iker Jiménez. Galileo sería incapaz de convencer a un tuitero terraplanista de que la Tierra es redonda. Cicerón no aguantaría media sesión de control al Gobierno en el Congreso de los Diputados." elpais.com/ideas/2024-1...

En una sociedad de expertos en patatas fritas, nadie quiere a los pensadores

Los filósofos ya no susurran en los oídos del emperador, tienen que buscarse el sustento ante públicos que prefieren la prosa de los charlatanes de autoayuda

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♾️ Hay que recuperar la palabra “ALGORITMO”. En el mainstream se le está dando una connotación negativa absurda, imho. Hay algoritmos en cada ecografía, en las vacunas covid, en las videollamadas para ver nietos y en las tripas de esta red social que celebramos y que era imposible en 2001.

With a fully remote team of just 20 employees, Bluesky has surpassed 20 million users in its first year since opening to the public and is stealing thunder from rivals hundreds of times its size. At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive.