Stefano Cherchi

The Algorithm knows me🎄

Can totally relate

While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.

Now do banks ;)

If my 20+ years experience in the IT industry taught me something, is that the way companies implement cybersecurity is binary: either substantially non-existent, or a Rube Goldberg machine that nobody understands and everybody hates. Either way, it's a constant sh*t show.

You can plug an old USB cable at first try

Same. Happened recently at a conference and although I knew the speaker was trustworthy I couldn't help but wonder what's wrong with good ol' stock photos or a plain white slide, for that matter. For some people, fiddling with generative tools has become a tic I guess

we have to go back. to warn them.

Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.

Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/

Thank you, Randall. This gave me goosebumps. I'm so happy for you guys ❤️

If everything is a top priority, then everything gets done quickly. That's basic management

Checkmate, Mr Gantt!

Curioso: anch'io l'ho riascoltato proprio ieri grazie alla nuova interfaccia che lo ha dissotterrato. È un capolavoro, non c'è altro modo di definirlo. I contenuti, la narrazione, il lessico, lo stile elaboratamente semplice di @sofri.it che mi fa sempre un po' di nostalgia per i primi anni del Post

Mi piacerebbe che il Post facesse uno spiegone su com'è possibile che, a quasi un anno dall'introduzione delle nuove regole, queste aziende stiano ancora operando, visto che nessun monopattino ha casco o targa (e immagino nemmeno assicurazione). Completa illegalità tollerata alla luce del sole?

No better reminder of the myriad invisible yet immensely valuable perks of the EU than being stranded an entire day abroad and discover that you're not entitled to any refund because you're flying with a non-🇪🇺 airline. People who bitch about the European Union are just clueless, or in bad faith.

ChatGPT's Hallucination Problem: Study Finds More Than Half Of AI's References Are Fabricated Or Contain Errors New study finds ChatGPT fabricates 20% of academic citations and introduces errors in 45% of real references, posing risks for researchers.

LLMs are not reasoning systems. They do not understand context, history or conceptual linkages. All they do is match patterns.

studyfinds.org/chatgpts-hal...

Butti dentro chatgpt una domanda da essere umano e il modello descrive cosa risponderebbe un essere umano che parla quella lingua. Il modello standard non è l'universo esattamente nello stesso modo in cui chatgpt non è un essere intelligente.

Nello stesso senso in cui il modello cosmologico descrive il funzionamento delle particelle: ci butti dentro i numeri che descrivono un elettrone e quello ti descrive cosa farebbe un elettrone vero.

"Intelligenze artificiali" tra virgolette - Wittgenstein C’è un problema, con le “intelligenze artificiali”, che mi pare venga prima di tutti gli altri problemi con le “intelligenze artificiali” di cui stiamo parlando intensamente da quando è arrivato ChatG...

Molto bello www.wittgenstein.it/2025/11/16/i... @sofri.it e ci sarebbero tantissime cose da dire ma mi concentro sul nome fuorviante "AI". In realtà la soluzione "facile" esiste. Sono modelli. Modelli linguistici, modelli di riconoscimento immagini, ecc. Modelli matematici che descrivono qualcosa.

I nuovi ETR700 sono la Lada Niva dell'alta velocità ferroviaria @trenitalia.bsky.social Rumorosi, pieni di vibrazioni, balllano come un regionale degli anni 90 e una valvola sfiata come una porta che sbatte ogni pochi secondi. Fossi il macchinista avrei un esaurimento nervoso dopo una settimana

So it begins 💀

This is super exciting. An entirely new class of applications might be just round the corner. Derek Muller @veritasium.bsky.social anticipated analog computers comeback three years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF3...

How Stalin and the Soviet Union Created a Champagne for the Working Class In 1936, the Party suddenly switched from denouncing bubbly to mass producing it.

Damn, Iosif's at it again
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cha...

I've never been a huge fan of Apple, but it's honestly sad to see such a massive Company failing at every attempt to innovate in the last ten years. I wonder what they're doing with all that money.

Just placed my order! Can't wait to see it on my kitchen's wall, so every morning I will grab a coffee and think "here are some nice mushrooms"

What integrity looks like ❤️

As a lifelong leftist, I find deeply unsettling that in the last year I found @wsj.com's reporting significantly more level-headed and informative than @nytimes.com's. I'm not saying that I generally agree with WSJ's takes, but the level of self-absorbtion of the NYT has truly gone through the roof

This is how I've always pictured us-east-1 in my head

(credits: @xkcd.com xkcd.com/908/)

Of course it's us-east-1. It's ALWAYS us-east-1 🙄 #dockerdown #awsdown

This would explain why I recently had a quite surreal conversation with a Floridian insisting that if you want to have a real taste of ancient Roman architecture you should visit a Versace restaurant in Miami rather than... the actual Rome. I'm an Italian living in Italy and this is a true story.