Carlos A. Garcia ★

En los próximos días Twitter se va a empezar a convertir en una red (anti)social aún más espantosa. He dudado en borrar mi cuenta solo por los recuerdos y porque tengo buenas interacciones que aún no encuentro en otro lugar, pero vayan considerando migrar a cielos más azules...

@amazonmex Hola. ¿Por qué no puedo elegir más de 12 meses sin financiamiento a pesar de que el listado del producto lo ofrece como promoción? Mi tarjeta es Banamex, y es el único producto en mi carrito.

An automated A.I. WWE news channel on YouTube tries to pronounce "WWE" as a word and ends up going insane!🤣

Asaltan a periodista mexicano en plena transmisión en vivo mientras estaba en su auto 🚙. Fue en Morelos @LNBPoficial

Steam Controller easter egg: the controller screams when dropped by about 3 feet (Big Picture Mode, about once every 5-6 drops) reddit.com/r/SteamControl…

Se acabó el debate gente.

forgive me karl marx for i have bought

Original Vampire concept inspired by Nosferatu and Iggy Pop. This was going to be final stage of life, the cracks in chest would spread through the entire figure and it would fall apart like like a crumbling building. Never finished, not sure where the original is anymore.

EL MEJOR SOUNDTRACK DE CUALQUIER ANIMAL CROSSING. 🤩

📱 La primera generación que creció con un smartphone en la mano no solo cambió su forma de comunicarse, también su salud mental. Desde entonces, los casos de ansiedad, depresión y autolesión se dispararon. Pasamos de una infancia de juego a una infancia de pantalla. —Jonathan Haidt nuevarevista.net/jonathan-haidt… m.youtube.com/watch?v=eHaO0W…

In 1948, a 32-year-old at Bell Labs published a paper nobody fully understood. Engineers found it too mathematical. Mathematicians found it too engineering-focused. One prominent mathematician reviewed it negatively. That paper - "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", became the founding document of the digital age. The man was Claude Shannon. Father of Information Theory. At 21, he wrote the most important master's thesis of the 20th century. Working at MIT on an early mechanical computer, Shannon noticed its relay switches had exactly two states - open or closed. He had just taken a philosophy course introducing Boolean algebra, which also operated on two values: true and false. Nobody had ever connected these two things. His 1937 thesis proved that Boolean algebra and electrical circuits are mathematically identical, and that any logical operation could be built from simple switches. Howard Gardner called it "possibly the most important, and also the most famous, master's thesis of the century." Every digital computer ever built traces back to this insight. At 29, he proved that perfect encryption exists. During WWII, Shannon worked on classified cryptography at Bell Labs. His work contributed to SIGSALY, the secure voice system used for confidential communications between Roosevelt and Churchill. In a classified 1945 memorandum, he mathematically proved the one-time pad provides perfect secrecy, unbreakable not just computationally, but provably, permanently, against an adversary with infinite power. When declassified in 1949, it transformed cryptography from an art into a science. It laid the foundations for DES, AES, and every modern encryption standard. At 32, he defined what information is. His 1948 paper introduced one equation: H = −Σ p(x) log p(x) Shannon entropy. The average uncertainty in a probability distribution. The minimum bits required to encode a message. Three things followed: > He defined the bit - the fundamental unit of all information. His colleague John Tukey coined the name. > He proved the channel capacity theorem, every communication channel has a maximum rate of reliable transmission. You can approach it. You can never exceed it. > He unified telegraph, telephone, and radio into a single mathematical framework for the first time. Robert Lucky of Bell Labs called it the greatest work "in the annals of technological thought." Where his equation lives in AI today: Cross-entropy loss - the function training every classifier and language model, is derived directly from H. Decision tree splits use information gain, which is H applied to data. Perplexity, the standard LLM evaluation metric, is an exponentiation of cross-entropy. Every time a neural network trains, Shannon's formula runs inside it. He also built the first AI learning device. In 1950, Shannon built Theseus, a mechanical mouse that navigated a maze through trial and error, learned the correct path, and repeated it perfectly. Mazin Gilbert of Bell Labs said: "Theseus inspired the whole field of AI." That same year he published the first paper on programming a computer to play chess. He co-organized the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop, the founding event of AI as a field. The man: He rode a unicycle through Bell Labs hallways while juggling. He built a flame-throwing trumpet, a rocket-powered Frisbee, and Styrofoam shoes to walk on the lake behind his house. He called his home Entropy House. When asked what motivated him: "I was motivated by curiosity. Never by the desire for financial gain. I just wondered how things were put together." In 1985, he appeared unexpectedly at a conference in Brighton. The crowd mobbed him for autographs. Persuaded to speak at the banquet, he talked briefly, then pulled three balls from his pockets and juggled instead. One engineer said: "It was as if Newton had showed up at a physics conference." He died in 2001 after a decade with Alzheimer's, the cruel irony of information slowly leaving the mind of the man who defined what information was. Claude, the AI model, is named after Claude Shannon, the mathematician who laid the foundation for the digital world we rely on today.

New look at the Moon. (Source: Artemis II Crew)

A painting depicting a battle with a dragon, hidden behind other paintings for over 380 years, was discovered just four years ago during church restoration.

Humans flying over the Earth, while watching humans fly to the moon

Eric Kripke is 'bummed out' that 'The Boys' S5 was written before the presidential election “I’m totally bummed out to say we wrote it before the election. It sounds super naive now, but I swear the plan was ‘Let’s write a 1984 version of what creeping authoritarianism looks like in America’ and maybe everyone will be like ‘Whew, we really dodged a bullet’ but instead, we got hit with the bullet" "We always say in the writer's room, 'Bad for the world, good for the show,' I really wish it was the opposite" (via @TVGuide)

@Profeco Hola. ¿Dónde puedo denunciar el envío de spam y publicidad no solicitada, especialmente cuando se ha pedido explícitamente la cancelación de publicidad?

@The_Mosquetero @Durgan Sinceramente a mí también, en una época donde tenía demasiado tiempo libre para estar en Internet. Este es el más antiguo que encontré, aunque podría ser una recreación.

@CronGM @Durgan A mi me suena haberlo leído hace 15 o 20 años xD

No sé quién es el autor, pero me pareció correcto: "Si Cthulhu puede ser invocado por humanos que están muy por debajo de él, ¿por qué los humanos no pueden ser invocados por hormigas? La respuesta es que deberían serlo. Bueno, si un montón de hormigas formaran un círculo en mi casa, ciertamente lo notaría, trataría de averiguar de dónde vienen todas, y posiblemente causaría una gran destrucción en ese sitio. Por eso saber y pronunciar correctamente el nombre verdadero es tan importante para el ritual. Imagina lo imposible que sería no ir a echar un vistazo si el círculo de hormigas empezara a cantar tu nombre. Y te dicen, no puedes irte porque dibujamos una línea hecha de pequeños cristales, ahora tienes que hacernos un favor. Y tú piensas, veamos a dónde va esto y dices: "Este... oh! sí, me tienes... ¿cuál es el favor?" y normalmente el favor es algo como, "mata a esta hormiga por nosotros" o "dame un montón de azúcar" y tú dices... ¿vale? y lo haces, porque por qué no, no es difícil para ti y vaya que esta va a ser una historia de la hostia para contar, estas putas hormigas cantando tu nombre y queriendo una cucharada de azúcar o lo que sea. Y A VECES te piden cosas que realmente no puedes hacer, una de ellas, ella dice, "amo a esta hormiga pero no me presta atención, hazme importante para ella" y tú dices... ¿eh? ¿cómo? Así que simplemente matas a todas las hormigas de la colonia excepto a estas dos, y ¡ta-da! ¡problema resuelto! y la primera hormiga esta como *susurro horrorizado* "¿Qué he hecho?"

@TimSweeneyEpic So why don't you keep them employed?

In the coming days, employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality folks. An important thing to understand is that Epic never lowered our hiring standards as we grew, and the layoff wasn't a performance-based "rightsizing" as companies call it nowadays. It's a sound bet that anyone with Epic Games on their resume is in the top few percent of their discipline.