Andrea Mocci

The look and feel of the new iOS reminds me of Windows Vista, and as ugly. Plus everything feels slower, and even in Safari UX is worse. Why do I have to do two clicks to go back to the previous page?!?
Damn Apple, what a disaster.

… that would not justify putting there a product that can effectively drive a vulnerable teenager towards suicide, just because the technology is so shitty that it is extremely difficult to properly implement safeguards or because it’s so unregulated that companies do not care putting them.

I’ve got the luck to be living in a country where mental health support is available through basic insurance and I must say that it has been quite far from shitty quality, and I can say that from personal experience. But even if I were in my home country, where such availability would not be there…

Time for the first (Industry) Keynote at IEEE COG by Caio José Ribeiro Chagas, Creative Director at Ilex Games & Researcher at UNESP - “Making Games, Making Knowledge: Creative Practice as Method in Indie Development”
cog2025.inesc-id.pt/keynotes/

What Makes a Level Hard in Super Mario Maker 2? Games like Super Mario Maker 2 (SMM2) lower the barrier for casual users to become level designers. In this paper, we set out to analyze a vast amount of data about SMM2 user-written levels, in order ...

interesting attempt at data-mining user-created Super Mario Maker 2 levels (IEEE CoG 2025)

Google Sign in is dunkin cereal milk gluten fr Al Overview +1 No, Dunkin' Cereal Milk is not gluten-free because it contains milk, which is a common allergen, and as a result, it is not suitable for those with celiac disease or gluten intolerance. However, coffee drinks, dairy milk, and non-dairy milks like oat, almond, and coconut milk are naturally gluten-free at Dunkin'.

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

At the upcoming IEEE 2025 Conference on Games 🎮, @andreamocci.bsky.social will present our joint work: "What makes a level hard in Mario Maker 2?" Definitely an unusual topic for a publication of mine! This short 🧵 explains what's that about. cog2025.inesc-id.pt/accepted-pap... #cog25 1/6

Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...

There are an unbelievable number of horrible things afoot in the world. But humans are also capable of amazing achievements, so let’s celebrate this one:

Ok, I'm bad at geography, but this google AI is worse than me.
Apparently, it took the information from some fictional famdom wiki that honestly I don't want to investigate further. 🥲

AI for "good", indeed. Glad a journalist picked up on this story and interviewed Abeba. Streisand Effect these asses.

Had no idea that the number was *that* high. This brings back some vague memories from school, though. Except for Nova Roma/Byzantium/Costantinople, that cannot be forgotten.

Well, Rome has many nicknames, including “la città dei sette colli”:) Quirinale is one of them for example. Check if you visited all of them:)

YouTube video by Timothy Lethbridge David Parnas Keynote ICSE2025: Regulation of AI and Other Untrustworthy Software

Here's the recording of David Parnas' keynote at #icse2025 @icseconf.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyFo...

An alembic in pretty bad shape, from the Museo Zuckermann in Padova, Italy.

What's left of a ~16th century alembic from the Veneto region. Alembics were used for distillation, most notoriously by alchemists to try (and fail) to turn lead into gold. Today we call such a distillation device an LLM chatbot. #Italy25

An amazing keynote really #icse2025

Regulate who can write critical software #icse2025

Testing and documentation #icse2025

Regulate critical software, and how

Why we cannot gave AI regulations, and why we need them in computer systems

Regulating the use of AI, and Liability #icse2025

Engineers can do better, and why people want AI to be regulated

About AI experts #icse2025

AI dangers and hallucinations #icse2025

Trusting chatbots, and when you would use AI #icse2025

Eliza, or about Fooling people (and how easy it is), and today’s chatbots #icse2025

Fearing AI, AI and Productivity #icse2025

From the AI design of a washing machine to examples of phd topics

Imitation Intelligence #icse2025