Gerardo Cisneros S., Ph.D.

"It seems that I’ll have to revise my opinions about 'generative AI' one of these days." -- D. Knuth
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GitHub - cfinke/EpsteIn: See which of your LinkedIn connections appear in the Epstein files. See which of your LinkedIn connections appear in the Epstein files. - cfinke/EpsteIn

Do names from your list of LinkedIn connections appear in the Epstein files? Wonder no more! This nifty Python script finds out for you!
github.com/cfinke/EpsteIn

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Found on #Mastodon.
#haiku

🤣😂🤣😂

Did it ever occur to you that it might be you who has your apps in the wrong order in your smartphone? 🤔😜

Absolutely disgraceful.

Science e-Books - NASA Science From Earth and the other planets in our solar system, to supermassive black holes and the distant galaxies that contain them, explore NASA science and imagery through our library of e-books.

Today I learned that NASA has a collection of free ebooks that can be downloaded as pdfs or ebub format.

The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!

science.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...

Regarding the photo of the Oracle booth, I can only guess (since NVIDIA's logo is also there) that they flipped a coin and Oracle lost, that NVIDIA provided the signage, or that they were counting on widespread color blindness. 🤷‍♂️

Russia has released its latest peace plan

by u/Chewie83

Screenshot with the following text: insideHPC oie NEWS HPC-AI HARDWARE HPC-AI SOFTWARE QUANTUM RESOURCES PODCASTS & VIDEOS OCT 15 SC25 AMD and Eviden to Build €554 France-Based Exascale Supercomputer November 18,2025 by staff SANTA CLARA, Calif. and PARIS, Nov. 18, 2025 — AMD and Eviden announced they will build the “Alice Recoque” supercomputer, to be the first exascale in France and second in Europe.

The link in the e-mail from the original toot's screenshot took me here:

#SC25 #HPC

A screenshot with the following text: insideHPC Daily update for 11/18/2025 AMD and Eviden to Build €554 France-Based Exascale Supercomputer By staff on Nov 18, 2025 12:51 pm

At that price, I might get one for myself! 😜
#SC25 #HPC

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One might think the only Jewish head of state in North America - and also the most popular Jewish head of state in the world - recognizing a Palestinian embassador and calling on Israel to end its genocide might you know, be news

My seven-year-old asked for a dictionary this week. We went to the bookshop today to buy one. She walked home hugging it, pausing every so often to look up a word, grinning as though she had been given a book of spells, the key to wonders. (Credit: Ann Morg)

Words are magic

Authors take note:
mastodon.social/@Richard_Lit...

A simple plea: quit burning up the planet to make fake stuff. It is no longer amusing.

An update from us here at PBS 💙

Motorola 68000. 😜

Motherfucking wind farms…

"A full 16 percent (that's over one in six people)". Actually, 16% is under one in six (1/6=0.16+0.02/3).

history | grep "cmd_you_want_to_repeat" | tail
usually works for me with no ill effects.

Perhaps it's something up with which he will not put. (Stolen from someone famous whose name I can't remember.)

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…

I wouldn't.
retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/s...

5-panel comic. (1) [teacher with long hair next to whiteboard] TEACHER: I’m supposed to give you the tools to do good science. (2) [teacher addressing students] But what *are* those tools? Methodology is hard and there are so many ways to get incorrect results. What is the magic ingredient that makes for good science? (3) TEACHER: To figure it out, I ran a regression with all the factors people say are important: [embedded list in sub-panel, cut off at end] Outcome variable: correct scientific results. Predictors: collaboration; skepticism of others’ claims; questioning your own beliefs; trying to falsify hypotheses; checking citations; statistical rigor; blinded analysis; financial disclosure; open data (4) TEACHER: The regression says two ingredients are the most crucial: 1) genuine curiosity about the answer to a question, and 2) ammonium hydroxide. (5) STUDENT: Wait, why did *ammonia* score so high? How did it even get on the list? LONG HAIR: ...And now you’re doing good science!

Good Science

xkcd.com/3101/

¡Hasta luego y gracias!

As of this month we're closer to 2050 than we are 2000.

Have a great day!

More BS (and I don't mean BlueSky) from "AI slop".
Cc: @chromamagic.com

I've never attended ISC, and it is unlikely I will ever attend unless I get rich enough to afford it on my own dime.

With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster | Nesrine Malik A perverse information ecosystem is being mined by big tech for profit, fooling the unwary and sending algorithms crazy, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Funny you should mention "AI slop": www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...