Felipe R. da Silva.
@felipers.bsky.social
Bioinformatics @Embrapa.
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Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
January 3, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.
Both of those facts are simultaneously true.
Uma perspectiva afiada do contexto da movimentação dos EUA.
🧵 Quem acompanha minha newsletter sabe que há alguns meses escrevi um texto com o título "Min-Yalta" no qual explico o redesenho mundial depois do bombardeio do Irã. O bombardeio contra a Venezuela e o sequestro de Maduro segue a mesma dinâmica. Mas há outro elemento, interno ao governo americano +
January 3, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Uma perspectiva afiada do contexto da movimentação dos EUA.
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31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
December 31, 2024 at 12:21 PM
31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
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I've spent a couple of days working on this one, and it didn't end up quite where I expected it to. But I think this is the clearest way I can describe where my head's at, why I approach LLMs in the way that I do, and why, while it's describing-not-prescribing, it's a little light prescribing too.
The abstraction you didn't ask for
When I say
ed3d.net
December 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I've spent a couple of days working on this one, and it didn't end up quite where I expected it to. But I think this is the clearest way I can describe where my head's at, why I approach LLMs in the way that I do, and why, while it's describing-not-prescribing, it's a little light prescribing too.
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It has a name now 😜
Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
✅ zenodo.org/records/1808...
✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
✅ zenodo.org/records/1808...
✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
December 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It has a name now 😜
Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
✅ zenodo.org/records/1808...
✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
✅ zenodo.org/records/1808...
✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
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I don't know how much it's worth talking about research leadership on this particular site (there is so little tech community here I feel), but this is a perspective I have LONG had (I used to talk about it all the time on twitter). And as a Research VP I witnessed often that junior data folks...
I cannot tell you how many data science teams I've seen operate with people with their heads down constantly spending all their time thinking about some nuance of some technical tool, but completely unable to formulate a real articulate research question. Similar to many software teams in some ways
December 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I don't know how much it's worth talking about research leadership on this particular site (there is so little tech community here I feel), but this is a perspective I have LONG had (I used to talk about it all the time on twitter). And as a Research VP I witnessed often that junior data folks...
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Jean-Paul Sartre, em junho de 1968, reflete sobre a contestação dos jovens.
December 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Jean-Paul Sartre, em junho de 1968, reflete sobre a contestação dos jovens.
A pós-vergonha magistralmente explicada em menos de três minutos!
Fiz um vídeo explicando a era da pós-vergonha. A edição não tá grande coisa, mas é o que tenho hoje.
December 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A pós-vergonha magistralmente explicada em menos de três minutos!
I loved it, too!
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
I wanted to finish this before year's end & I did. 😁
I LOVED it.
Such a pleasure to read, information-rich, fascinating but accessible. 🎁🎅
Air-Borne by Carl Zimmer
www.scientificamerican.com/article/book...
@carlzimmer.com
Plant pathogens covered as well as human 💚
Even Norman Bourlag!
I LOVED it.
Such a pleasure to read, information-rich, fascinating but accessible. 🎁🎅
Air-Borne by Carl Zimmer
www.scientificamerican.com/article/book...
@carlzimmer.com
Plant pathogens covered as well as human 💚
Even Norman Bourlag!
December 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I loved it, too!
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
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Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...
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It took us a long time to get to building contact imports for Bluesky because we wanted to do it in a privacy preserving way. Read more about how we did it in the blog post below!
v1.112 is live!
We’re launching Find Friends, a contact import feature that helps you find people you know on Bluesky.
Try it! In the mobile app, go to Settings → Find friends from contacts.
Read how we took a more secure approach to this than other platforms: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
We’re launching Find Friends, a contact import feature that helps you find people you know on Bluesky.
Try it! In the mobile app, go to Settings → Find friends from contacts.
Read how we took a more secure approach to this than other platforms: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
December 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
It took us a long time to get to building contact imports for Bluesky because we wanted to do it in a privacy preserving way. Read more about how we did it in the blog post below!
O quê vem depois da a era da pós-verdade? O @msoares.bsky.social explica espetacularmente.
Além de ser um troço completamente imbecil, a imagem do Brasil favelizado versus Argentina futurista postada pelo discípulo de cachorro além de tudo foi feita por I-Ó. Estamos em plena distopia pós-vergonha, onde a gororoba cuspida pelos geradores de lero-lero é a estética oficial do fascismo.
2026: a primeira eleição presidencial da era pós-vergonha
A era da pós-verdade acabou quando Donald Trump tomou posse em seu segundo mandato na presidência dos Estados Unidos, aplaudido por todos os líderes das big techs, que financiaram sua eleição.
faroljornalismo.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
O quê vem depois da a era da pós-verdade? O @msoares.bsky.social explica espetacularmente.
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Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
December 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
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Super!
One point you might make even more explicit, which is obvious for you but not always to the students, is that the product of your class is not whatever output the students produce. Nobody cares about it. It will be thrown away.
The product is learning.
One point you might make even more explicit, which is obvious for you but not always to the students, is that the product of your class is not whatever output the students produce. Nobody cares about it. It will be thrown away.
The product is learning.
December 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Super!
One point you might make even more explicit, which is obvious for you but not always to the students, is that the product of your class is not whatever output the students produce. Nobody cares about it. It will be thrown away.
The product is learning.
One point you might make even more explicit, which is obvious for you but not always to the students, is that the product of your class is not whatever output the students produce. Nobody cares about it. It will be thrown away.
The product is learning.
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Calibri was asking for it, walking around without any serifs.
December 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Calibri was asking for it, walking around without any serifs.
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The first known use of ‘conspiracy theory’ was in 1863…or so they want you to believe.
December 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The first known use of ‘conspiracy theory’ was in 1863…or so they want you to believe.
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I'll stop here. But note that these are all cases involving ADULTS outsourcing the basic requirements of their professional responsibilities to these tools of cognitive automation.
Now tell me we need to be pushing this into schools. I fucking dare you.
Now tell me we need to be pushing this into schools. I fucking dare you.
December 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I'll stop here. But note that these are all cases involving ADULTS outsourcing the basic requirements of their professional responsibilities to these tools of cognitive automation.
Now tell me we need to be pushing this into schools. I fucking dare you.
Now tell me we need to be pushing this into schools. I fucking dare you.
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Colocaram implantes cerebrais em uma mulher que perdeu os movimentos e agora ela consegue tocar piano só com os impulsos nervosos enquanto ela imagina tocar. Muito legal.
O twist: os eletrodos lêem os impulsos antes de serem registrados pela consciência. Então ela sente que o piano toca sozinho.
O twist: os eletrodos lêem os impulsos antes de serem registrados pela consciência. Então ela sente que o piano toca sozinho.
Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts: is it time to worry?
Ethicists say AI-powered advances will threaten the privacy and autonomy of people who use neurotechnology.
www.nature.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Colocaram implantes cerebrais em uma mulher que perdeu os movimentos e agora ela consegue tocar piano só com os impulsos nervosos enquanto ela imagina tocar. Muito legal.
O twist: os eletrodos lêem os impulsos antes de serem registrados pela consciência. Então ela sente que o piano toca sozinho.
O twist: os eletrodos lêem os impulsos antes de serem registrados pela consciência. Então ela sente que o piano toca sozinho.
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Gift article about the across-the-board *slowdown* in federal funding for science - on ALL the topics. But especially for up-and-coming scientists.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎁
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎁
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Gift article about the across-the-board *slowdown* in federal funding for science - on ALL the topics. But especially for up-and-coming scientists.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎁
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎁
“it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
December 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
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Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
"Meanwhile, artificial intelligence technologies are undermining the value of the industry’s creative endeavours by enabling companies to create ads quicker and more cheaply".
Omnicom to axe historic ad agencies and cut 4,000 jobs in IPG takeover on.ft.com/3XopTNd
Omnicom to axe historic ad agencies and cut 4,000 jobs in IPG takeover
John Wren enacts swift restructuring and says cost savings from $13bn deal will surpass previous estimates
on.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"Meanwhile, artificial intelligence technologies are undermining the value of the industry’s creative endeavours by enabling companies to create ads quicker and more cheaply".
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Here’s this year’s Books We Love—but thanks to lots of work by lots of people, you can also look over all the Books We Love years back to 2013. It’s a remarkable project, and I can say that because I have nothing to do with it. (/fin)
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
apps.npr.org
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Here’s this year’s Books We Love—but thanks to lots of work by lots of people, you can also look over all the Books We Love years back to 2013. It’s a remarkable project, and I can say that because I have nothing to do with it. (/fin)
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it’s over
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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November 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
it’s over