Santiago Ortiz

sfiscience

Tired of the hype and pseudoscience and that the loudest voices talking about intelligence know very little about cognitive sciences but have huge economic biases: listen to this 6 episodes podcast www.santafe.edu/culture/podc... beautifuly craftes by @melaniemitchell.bsky.social and Abha Eli Phoboo

La revista Experimenta #103, dedica este número a lo invisible, y me hace una entrevista: www.experimenta.es/tienda/produ...

We just infected the machines with language virus.

NEW: India is avoiding the fossil fuel detour 🪝

Where China built first on coal and gas, India is taking a shortcut >>> read in 5 graphics🧵

In 2004 I built a Small Language Model

Imagine a person that has the same tone and manifest emotions identically every day… unbearable.

Imagine an AI that changes its tone and manifest emotions differently every day… unbearable.

We don't want machine to be like humans, we never wanted.

Radical Cartography by William Rankin Find out more about Radical Cartography by William Rankin

(I'll buy the UK version, the cover is much nicer :) www.panmacmillan.com/authors/will...

L♥️ve Bill Rankin's Radical Cartography projects, so I am extra pleased he

- is a guest on the latest @policyviz.bsky.social Podcast
→ policyviz.com/podcast/radi...

- and has a new book out!
→ www.radicalcartography.net

Experimenting with Instagram data, playing here with similarities in color scales. In this case based on Belen's beautiful work, with clear color consistency instagram.com/paraisoprints

I bet you’re already excellent at it

Happy 2666

I see Mandelbrot

Boiling lobsters alive to be banned in England amid animal cruelty crackdown Move is part of a long-awaited Labour strategy including outlawing hen cages and ending puppy farming

Recognition that other living beings have emotions, feel pain and deserve empathy, slowly arises. This is the real agency, emotions, motivations, intelligence and consciousness discussion, the one that matters. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Implemented. I kept it subtle: charts.infowetrust.com

subtle is better!

The discourse around lowering requirements for software to embrace LLM generated fast code, if you take it far enough, ends up suggesting that software is only about shitty online applications for trapping people into attention vortices. Truly critical software lives in another dimension.

moebio | Printables.com

Cuando tenga filamento, imprima alguna de las cosas que diseñé: www.printables.com/@moebio

Your smartphone is a mobile lab. Download for free: Follow us: Features Sensors Phyphox allows you to use the sensors in your phone for your experiments. For example, detect the frequency of a pendulum using the accelerometer or me...

phyphox.org @phyphox.org such an amazing app, can run all sorts of experiments. Yesterday I was playing with the manometer. Great for physics on classroom, but also for understanding all the data that's potentially being captured from your device.

I kind of took that hommage or interactive insufflation idea to the Histomap, but in my case is more a transformation than adding an interactive layer intuitionanalytics.com/other/histom...

The idea of "interactivization" of historic charts is great! There should be a contest for this. Small suggestion: whenever you move on an horizontal curve (year and quantity change) or vertical (age and quantity change) that curve gets highlighted.

Portada - Archiletras

Si les gusta la lingüística, compren el último número (30) de Archiletras, donde además me entrevista José Antonio Millán y charlamos de modelos de lenguaje, espacios multidimensionales de significado, lengua y cultura.

www.archiletras.com

Interesting to see how lots of XX century american art is colorful and optimistic (this might have been said a million times).

Sometimes Cursor is the worst developer buddy (like placing a break within a forEach, or changing the values of a dataset (!) when I complain about the results of an analysis algorithm), and sometimes it reads my mind.

YouTube video by Anton Petrov Why Did Consciousness Evolve? Exciting Research on Bird Brains

Only a few years ago scientists struggled with the mirror experiment on elephants, until a large mirror was used (duh). Now we know even ants recognize themselves on a mirror (and become desperate to remove a mark if that flag them as enemy of the colony) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olni...

Our new science exhibition “The Invention of Time” has just opened in Barcelona. Come explore time in physics, brains & life, from Evolution 2 relativity. We even have a working Time Machine (that’s me using it) @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @icreacommunity.bsky.social museuciencies.cat/en/exposicio...

12:00 PM (EST) → 12:00 PM, each hour will introduce a unique topic related to visualizing animal, plant, and other intelligences and their unique symbiotic relationships. cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20...

In just a couple of hours! My presentation is at midnight EST (9 PM California)

Envisioning Intelligence, a unique 24H online event hosted by the Places & Spaces exhibit team with presentations on visualising various topics #dataviz Presenters include the amazing @moebio.bsky.social and @kimay.bsky.social

Check it out: cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20...

#macroscope