alessandro averchi

@nickfloats MJ is definitely a lot more artistic, but don't you feel that DALLE-3 is generally better at following prompts to the letter ?

Midjourney still GOATED and no one else even close, let’s be real

@jacobhelberg Meanwhile Americans are moving in hoards to Europe.

In 1980, France’s GDP per capita was slightly higher than America’s. In 2023, France’s GDP per capita is inferior to that of Mississippi, the lowest income state in America. There are undeniable takeaways from this.

@revhowardarson Google "vowel reduction". You are welcome l.

@benny_wol @aryafah That support would be more surprising if Israel was not bombing women and children in Gaza, I guess. Just a hypothesis to work on for you.

@aryafah Interesting thread. However, seeing the damages of an Islamist regime and yet supporting Hamas against Israel it’s a bit surprising

I’ve always been in love with Afghanistan. So as someone who spent nearly two weeks there visiting family, I made sure make full use of my experience there. Here are my thoughts 🧵

@amazingmap Better do medians than averages next time... In Italy we have some high speed trains and many very slow ones

Average speed of trains in Europe

@NikkiHaley People that claim to know God's will are either prophets or madmen. Wondering where you fit there.

You can’t destroy what God has blessed—and God has blessed Israel.

@NickWhithorn Ma poi non era lo zio dell' uomo ragno?

Quoting Spiderman in a TV interview. There's no denying that Meloni is an intellectual giant.

@KDimitratos The universe is trying to warn you basically.

Greek bank sent me a list of documents they need from me, a foreigner living abroad, to open a bank account this summer. I put them all into a Google Drive folder and sent them over. They can’t open links, understandable. I sent them all in a zipped folder. They can’t open it, also understandable. I sent them all this files in one email, they couldn’t open them and advise that I send each document individually in its own email. Okay fine, so I did. They couldn’t open JPEGs, and advised me to resend these as PDFs. 20 PDFs, each in its own email. I’ve paused here. Any advice before I spend an hour doing that? (This is just to verify I have the right documents to bring the notarized originals in the summer).

@Andercot Creating a product is not the same as inventing the tech for the product or prototyping. The vikings reached America, yet for Europeans it was Columbus who made it a "product" and ultimately changed history. Same here.

Most people don't know the first iPhone was designed in 1994 by a company called General Magic, which started as an Apple project in 1989 when Marc Porat convinced then-CEO John Sculley the future of compute was a multimedia phone with touch screen Jobs wasn't involved at all 🧵

@ylecun @elonmusk How many other followers of @ylecun are thinking of unfollow after this neverending petty drama with @elonmusk ? I was here for AI, not kindergarten.

My opinion of @elonmusk I like his cars (I own a 2015 S, and 2023 S), his rockets, his solar energy systems, and his satellite communication system. I also like his positions on open source and patents. But I very much disagree with him on a number of issues. I disagree with how he treats his scientists. Technology/product development may not need openness and publications to advance, but forward-looking *research* sure does, whether it's in AI, neural interfaces, material science, or whatever. Secrecy hampers progress and discourages talents from joining the effort. I also disagree with the hype. I mean, expressing an ambitious vision for the future is great. But telling the public blatantly false prediction ("AGI next year", "1 million robotaxis by 2020", "AGI will kill us all, let'spause",...) is very counterproductive (also illegal in some cases). More importantly, I think his public positions on many political issues, journalism, the media and the press, and academia, are not just wrong but dangerous for democracy, civilization, and human wellfare. Say what you want about "traditional media" but you can't really have reliable information without professional journalists working for a free and diverse press. Democracy can't exist without it, which is why only authoritarian ennemies of democracy rail against the media. Finally he doesn't seem to hesitate to disseminate batshit-crazy conspiracy theories as long as they serve his interests (e.g. boosting "PizzaGate", "illegal immigrants corrupt elections in the US", "person X is a pedo",...). One would expect a technological visionary to be a rationalist. Rationalism doesn't work without Truth. This has become particularly concerning since he bought himself a platform to disseminate his dangerous political opinions, conspiracy theories, and hype. He has been quite naïve about the difficulties of running a social network and the (legal) necessity of doing content moderation. One can claim to be a 1st Amendment absolutist, but a lot of content *must* be taken down by law, e.g. terrorist propaganda, child exploitation, blatant hate speech (in the EU and other regions). Then, there is dangerous disinformation that puts public health in danger or corrupts the democratic process. You have to moderate that too. Content moderation is a complicated problem whose best answer is not an attitude of total laissez-faire but a complex trade-off.

@PicturesFoIder Seems staged though, given the different camera angles.

Protect these ladies at all costs

@Anisha12 @elonmusk are you women on X also getting the same bots (fake 20 something girls in bikini, average one per day) or is there a male equivalent ?

Requesting a status update @elonmusk

@sporadica throw fire

how tf do you defend against this?

@NikkiHaley Seeing those pictures of you signing the bombs is beyond sickening. With such acts you do not represent decent people nor what our western liberal society is supposed to stand for. Shame on you forever, and thanks God you will not be President.

Israel did not start this war — Hamas did. Families in southern Israel woke on October 7, as 3,000 Hamas fighters brutalized Israelis. Thousands of Palestinian civilians followed joining in the destruction, looting, and violence. On a Jewish day of prayer, savages burned their cars so they could not escape, set their homes on fire as they hid in their safe rooms, shot families as they tried to flee, and separated children from their parents to hold hostage. When Hamas promises they will do it again, Israel should believe them. Israel must do whatever is necessary to protect her people from evil. Americans must remember that when Iran and Hamas chant “Death to Israel” they also promise “Death to America”. Israel is fighting America’s enemies.

@simongerman600 @viola__alba the color map is confusing. Should have used a divergent color scheme to avoid the impression that it color code population density

Lovely population density map of the British Isles (yes, I know some of you don’t like the name but that’s geography for you…) by @viola__alba. Give her a follow if you like maps - she is great!

@nntaleb Also, within a single book spatial memory helps you remember where a certain passage was. Can't do that with ebooks.

On the presence of physical books: you look at one of them and remember the contents in a flash.

@iskdin How about "eeh?!" languages

When asking your interlocutor for confirmation/repetition of information just uttered, languages use/can use ‘How’ instead of ‘What?’. ‘How’ languages incl. e.g. Spanish (¿Como?), Turkish (Nasıl?), (arguably) German (Wie bitte?). Is your language a ‘What’ or ‘How’ language? #langtwt

@aimichannnnnnn I told you 😂

@aimichannnnnnn "The swimming pool, the exit, the last time, in your house Charles, first time, the most boring race in history of F1, but a wait inside, a pilot with so much bad luck." Something like that, lol

@aimichannnnnnn Haha trust me, it's better for you to not understand what he is saying. Basically screaming nonsense. :-)