I treat my mind as a big great block. If something is disturbing me, I stop to put everything into place and move “all together” again. It works and I’m more productive this way.

I got nothing to hide. Or so the saying goes.

The phys.org article has absolutely no information. At least it links the worldscientific article.

Estou torcendo para se limitar a sanções, como foi com a Rússia. O Irã não tem opção a não ser se defender. Acho certo o Brasil ficar do lado do Irã, que agora faz parte do BRICS, mas tem que tomar cuidado pra não comprar uma briga com a Argentina, que agora está alinhada aos EUA.

Quanto à questão econômica, não acho que o Brasil vai sofrer. A China precisa mais do Brasil agora com as tarifas estadounidenses, acho que vai servir de apoio pra nossa economia. O petróleo arranja em outro lugar. Acho que, tirando o desentendimento com EUA e Argentina, vai ficar tudo bem pro Brasil.

Coming from my perspective a little. Iran is a part of BRICS now and Lula has defended Iran in latest interviews. Let’s see how things develop and if Iran representatives will come to Rio (for the BRICS Summit). This is troubling.

Se o Brasil tentar criar seus meios de divulgação próprios, na realidade vai acabar sendo uma empresa com fachada brasileira mas com tecnologia americana por detrás. Como acontece com algumas das empresas de IA que o Brasil tem. Seria uma fachada de nacionalidade brasileira.

Se as empresas da Rússia já tem diversos acordos com empresas americanas e europeias, imagina como seriam as brasileiras. Acho que no fim seria mais uma enganação do Brasil com fachada de soberania, um verdadeiro pesadelo.

Acho, por exemplo, que precisamos aproximar os setores brasileiros que já tem uma identidade mais forte com o estado brasileiro, como as Universidades Públicas, e torná-las ainda mais nacionais e defensoras dos interesses brasileiros - aproximando o conhecimento brasileiro do Sul Global e o afastando da Europa.

Por que não escreveram uma carta pra que a Guiana e o Suriname rejeitassem a perfuração Offshore no Escudo da Guiana, Margem Equatorial? Eu não entendo. Lá é Amazônia também!

Microsoft does research on cognitive decline in use of LLMs: “Nope.”

Google does research on cognitive decline in use of LLMs: “Nope.”

MIT does research on cognitive decline in use of LLMs: “Fine, I’ll read your goddamn opinion on the matter.”

Edited: The article is good, I recommend it. However, I find this “brain-only” approach to be too biased. Students and people in general cannot learn without external information. This approach assumes people have studied the topics beforehand and have knowledge in it, which causes biases on the study and beats the purpose of it, which is proving people do not learn using LLMs!

The article criticized the closing of the Internet by Tehran, but the Internet is clear vulnerability that can be exploited in times of war.

“you’re not really a man unless you hate women”. This is so true. I wish I knew better why this rift between sexes is so useful in politics. When talking about sex, we have to seek what we have in common, not our differences. If sexual attraction was a problem for deep relationships, then gay men wouldn’t always be together. This sexually divisive standard serves someone right. Women should look at this more carefully.

I know this isn’t a popular opinion, but maybe the Executive has too much power. Power needs to be more decentralized. Will policies that make sense come out of this? I’m no political scientist, but this amount of power isn’t good.

Don’t make me believe this is the kind of talk that’s going on Twitter.

Not that fine, though. Quality of life came a long way.

Soon enough.

We come from the sea.

Onboard the train to dystopia.

Google destroyed the opposition when building a search engine tool, this is nothing like the case with Google. Many websites generate robots.txt and other Terms of Service that are impossible for common people to follow these days. It’s very hard to scrape, serve and be compliant at the same time. And as small fish you have to. Search engine maintenance occupies too much space and serving the pages with quality requires quick database management tools.

This gap might be closed by AI, but not before it. Even though true alternatives like GigaBlast existed.

The current LLM status has a vibrant open-weights scenario, which is centered on HuggingFace but it’s the code away from being served in other places. AI uses datasets/corpus of texts, which can be shared by Universities/Institutions around the world, as they are currently.

LLM/AI is at arms reach from the people, no matter how much money Big Tech puts on Datacenters. The scary part is what Google always used to do best, lobbying for monopolization. Aside from that, we’re safe.

If people can build it, it can serve the people. Think of open-weights LLMs. If we got a couple of 32B models that score as high as GPT-4o and Claude-3.5, why not use them? It can be run on mid-high end hardware. There are developers out there doing a good job. It doesn’t need to be a datacenter/big tech company centered scenario.

If Bob is an aristocrat, a big politician or an enterpreneur, people get killed in the name of Bob.