Fernando Cucchietti

Also left goes up and right goes down, I agree that there is a lot going on here and it’s too difficult to capture all that, but still it feels like a bit like a puzzle

I get the up down thing and that the elite is always the same, and small. Maybe just putting the arrows in left to right order so one doesn’t have to search around too much?

I like the copy and the research a lot, but I found the visual order difficult to follow. What about up and down and left to right for groups/time?

But this has been like this for a long while now, hasn’t it? Before AI, this was used to prevent people uploading whatever

I read it this morning and it was very hard to follow, a long and dense salad of facts, inventions, and stereotyping. Hard to fight something massive, diffuse, and confusing.

Unos días personales muy difíciles, no es por algo serio pero no logro levantar el ánimo.

What are we doing here

Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
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from The Economist

Two side by side CDF plots, each with a black reference line at y=x and a blue cumulative probability step line. The line for 2024 is completely below the reference line. The blue line for 2025 hugs the reference line, going above and below it.

Two area charts representing the differences in each of the CDF plots from the y=x reference line.

CDF plots are great but have you tried flattened CDF plots? #dataviz
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Didn’t Fox loose a lot of millions for saying things like this

Wtf is going on people

According to this numbers in the worst case it would mean $238M in unpaid royalties, in a more conservative estimate probably half or less than that.

Bread Infographic London bakery The Dusty Knuckle cleverly used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business: From their post: This comes off the back of a big decision to increase our bakers’ pay ahead

London bakery The Dusty Knuckle cleverly used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business. [kottke.org]

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I went into the paper to find they had missed some of the obvious culprits, but in fact everything is reasonably well treated (and yes it’s a readable paper). Maybe some points I’d do differently, but yes a nice paper to think about.

Molly is a great source of news. Like months ahead of the pack

I've seen this many times now, and yes it is smaller than what is perceived in the Mercator projection, but it is not objectively small, right? It's like 1/5 the size of the US, and 1/4 the size of Brazil.

Forward thinking here: should US citizens in Europe start getting worried?

This is the key pov

Timeline from The Economist showing key events in the career(s) of David Bowie

Ten years!

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Let's close by considering what it means to offer an apology. An apology is a speech act . With speech acts, the point is not the novelty of the words but rather appropriateness of the circumstances in which they are used and the sincerity with which they are spoken. Here's Ted Chiang: When someone says “I’m sorry” to you, it doesn’t matter that other people have said sorry in the past; it doesn’t matter that “I’m sorry” is a string of text that is statistically unremarkable. If someone is being sincere, their apology is valuable and meaningful, even though apologies have previously been uttered. Ted Chiang (2024) Why AI isn't going to make art (2024). The New Yorker

2. We have a whole section on this in Chapter 14 of our online course thebullshitmachines.com.

The bottom line: an apology is a speech act, and a machine does not meet the felicity conditions (preparatory conditions and sincerity conditions, in particular) for the utterance to perform as intended.

Are you talking about this? bsky.app/profile/wash...

A metaphor for AI code generation

UX/UI FTW

Why embedded things should need to be upgraded?

Everybody says I love these riddles!!!! Pic: coffee tastes much better with a nice image on top right?

I got this last one immediately!! Thank you again this year for all the fun!

Glad you asked, because I wrote a whole essay for the Chronicle trying to get concrete about this, and also illegally broke their paywall to put a copy open-access :)

I actually think ppl in CS know they need humanities input. Industry is going to be tougher, but SV does not control this anymore.+