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@rsanchezprandi @sfogel @brinta @vertexinc @mgolffed 👏👏👏Felicitaciones

y hoy pasó esto :) @brinta fue adquirida por @vertexinc! 3 años con el gran @mgolffed para darle el siguiente gran desafío a BRINTA como siempre, long 🇺🇾 vertexinc.com/resources/reso…

La bandera que tapa los ojos elpais.com.uy/opinion/column…

La IA no debe regularse tempranamente en Uruguay. Nosotros exportamos, la regulación que nos importa es la de nuestros mercados de destino, no la local que sólo va a servir para agregar costos y control. Si esto es el Estado que compra IA, agregarlo en cada llamado a licitación.

Es un ensayo de opinión con buena arquitectura narrativa, pero las conclusiones van muy por delante de la evidencia que presenta. La tesis puede ser correcta (UY puede estar en una trampa de equilibrio mediocre) pero el artículo no lo demuestra: lo pinta con una historia bien contada.

Blaming Climate Change

After the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in January 1986, killing its seven crew members, President Reagan appointed a commission to investigate. Richard Feynman, already battling cancer and reluctant to join, accepted because a former student asked. He quickly grew frustrated with the slow, formal hearings and NASA’s optimistic safety claims (1 in 100,000 chance of failure). Instead, he talked directly to engineers, who revealed far higher risks. The night before a key televised hearing, Feynman bought a C-clamp from a hardware store. During the session, he took a sample of the rubber O-ring material from the solid rocket boosters, clamped it, and dropped it into a glass of ice water (mimicking the cold launch temperature that day). After a moment, he removed it and showed how the rubber had lost its elasticity, it no longer sprang back. He explained simply: at low temperatures, the O-rings couldn’t seal properly, allowing hot gas to leak and cause the disaster. His live demonstration cut through layers of management denial and became one of the most iconic moments in engineering accountability. In his personal appendix to the report, he famously wrote: “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”

“In engineering, you are peer reviewed by reality”. From Rory Sutherland, in this week’s Spectator.

Many of my American friends live (I think) in a world that no longer exists. They think that if Trump loses the control of Congress in November, it will change things. But they are in a wrong world. It matters almost not at all to him. He does not care about Republicans nor anybody else, but him. He will rule by Executive Decree. My friends are like people who thought the 1917 Constituent Assembly election in Russia will change things. Or the March 1933 elections in Germany. No; the political system has moved. You stayed back.

@marcel_mordezki Muy recomendable!

Sobre el SaaS Apocalipsis, el problema del Terminal Value, la burbuja, la valuación de las empresas de tecnología, escribí este artículo. Me encantaría escuchar sus opiniones. linkedin.com/pulse/saasapoc…

@FiorellaHaim @Ceibal_Uy Felicitaciones!!!

Hoy recibí un reconocimiento global que me honra, porque sobre todo, representa el trabajo de @Ceibal_uy Lo recibo con orgullo y compromiso. Es un respaldo a la apuesta país por la innovación educativa, y una oportunidad para seguir abriendo camino a más mujeres en #STEM.

If you claim to support human rights yet can’t bring yourself to show solidarity with those fighting for their liberty in Iran, you’ve revealed yourself. You don’t give a damn about people being oppressed and brutalised so long as it’s being done by the enemies of your enemies.

@OmarPaganini Incomprensible y triste La declaración es muy razonable

Francamente no se comprende por qué Uruguay no firma esta declaración sobre Venezuela. ¿Siguen con la idea de ser neutrales entre el pueblo y la dictadura? Al respecto, refiero a mi columna de hoy en El País. elpais.com.uy/opinion/column…

You should always be ready to question even your most foundational assumptions if you encounter credible evidence that they might be questionable. You can pick your beliefs but you can't pick your reality.

Press release nobelprize.org/prizes/economi… Joel Mokyr premio Nobel de economía!

Este es el robot que hemos desarollado en @seriemarobotics durante los últimos 6 años. Y quiero contarles sobre lo complejo de desarrollar algo que de lejos parece simple: 👇

Over the past half-century, environmentalists have predicted countless calamities. Their extreme predictions were typically wrong, their draconian countermeasures turned out to be mostly misguided, and we should be grateful we didn’t follow their harmful advice. We need to keep this history in mind as we are inundated with stories of climate Armageddon. My latest op-ed: nypost.com/2025/09/15/opi…

If there is going to be a #GoldenAge of ICT, China and the West need the Global South for new dynamic demand. But it looks like Xi Jinping is going to do the necessary #reglobalisation alone, while Trump isolates the US and Europe doesn't know what to do:

Lacalle geopolitizó la ANII ladiaria.com.uy/opinion/articu… a través de @ladiaria