Hugo Camacho
@veractor.bsky.social
MS Data Science'24. UWisconsin. Statistical Analysis and Machine Learning applied to healthcare solutions, healthcare insurance risk, and ancillary services analysis. Fluent in Spanish, American Sign Language, and nerdish.🤓
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It’s great that @economist.com is talking about our paper in their piece on “slop” as word of the year — not so great that they don’t cite/link to it…
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
December 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It’s great that @economist.com is talking about our paper in their piece on “slop” as word of the year — not so great that they don’t cite/link to it…
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
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Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
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 4:46 PM
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
Örebro University, Sweden, released an EEG-AI model for detecting dementia 7 years before the symptoms appeared (in some instances 10-18 years before formal diagnosis) by analyzing disruptions in our alpha, beta, and gamma sleeping patterns.
news-medical.net/news/2025112...
news-medical.net/news/2025112...
New AI models detect dementia with high accuracy using EEG signals
Researchers at örebro University have developed two new AI models that can analyze the brain's electrical activity and accurately distinguish between healthy individuals and patients with dementia, in...
news-medical.net
December 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Örebro University, Sweden, released an EEG-AI model for detecting dementia 7 years before the symptoms appeared (in some instances 10-18 years before formal diagnosis) by analyzing disruptions in our alpha, beta, and gamma sleeping patterns.
news-medical.net/news/2025112...
news-medical.net/news/2025112...
AI SLOP (Standard Low Quality Production) refers to low quality, high volume content. It's repetitive, absurd, has hallucinations, misquotes, fakes, etc. Intended to go viral and generate ad revenue while using emotional or shocking visuals and cheap to create.
youtube.com/watch?v=uqcoTwPUSn4
youtube.com/watch?v=uqcoTwPUSn4
December 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
AI SLOP (Standard Low Quality Production) refers to low quality, high volume content. It's repetitive, absurd, has hallucinations, misquotes, fakes, etc. Intended to go viral and generate ad revenue while using emotional or shocking visuals and cheap to create.
youtube.com/watch?v=uqcoTwPUSn4
youtube.com/watch?v=uqcoTwPUSn4
In the Short-Term AI help increase employee productivity but in the Long-Term reliance on AI can undermine the psychological experience of the human workforce, new study finds.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
pmc.ncbi.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
pmc.ncbi.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
December 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
In the Short-Term AI help increase employee productivity but in the Long-Term reliance on AI can undermine the psychological experience of the human workforce, new study finds.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
pmc.ncbi.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
pmc.ncbi.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Absence Of Reasonable Risk in AI models implies an "acceptable" minimal risk when weighed against the benefits where the potential harm caused is not greater than what is encountered in our daily life and where appropriate actions were taken to minimize those possible dangers.
a woman in a red uniform is talking to a man and saying it 's a risk we have to take .
ALT: a woman in a red uniform is talking to a man and saying it 's a risk we have to take .
media.tenor.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Absence Of Reasonable Risk in AI models implies an "acceptable" minimal risk when weighed against the benefits where the potential harm caused is not greater than what is encountered in our daily life and where appropriate actions were taken to minimize those possible dangers.
Using AI without validating outputs (i.e., accuracy, references, meaning, etc.) may result in Abdication Of Responsibility which may result in harm to reputation, no future business, revoked license, lawsuits, dropped from risk insurance coverage for malpractice, and so forth.
December 14, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Using AI without validating outputs (i.e., accuracy, references, meaning, etc.) may result in Abdication Of Responsibility which may result in harm to reputation, no future business, revoked license, lawsuits, dropped from risk insurance coverage for malpractice, and so forth.
120 AI products. 🤓 Eventually AI products consolidate into a few good products or their life-cycle ends replaced by new options. Only time will tell which products will survive the market. 😵💫 (Tap on image to see the top and bottom edge)
December 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
120 AI products. 🤓 Eventually AI products consolidate into a few good products or their life-cycle ends replaced by new options. Only time will tell which products will survive the market. 😵💫 (Tap on image to see the top and bottom edge)
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We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
Kids may underestimate the dangers that AI-powered apps can pose if misused at school. Riana Pfefferkorn, policy fellow at Stanford University HAI (Human-Centered AI) will discuss this topic. You can register to attend virtually.
hai.stanford.edu/people/riana...
hai.stanford.edu/people/riana...
Riana Pfefferkorn | Stanford HAI
Policy Fellow, Stanford HAI
hai.stanford.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Kids may underestimate the dangers that AI-powered apps can pose if misused at school. Riana Pfefferkorn, policy fellow at Stanford University HAI (Human-Centered AI) will discuss this topic. You can register to attend virtually.
hai.stanford.edu/people/riana...
hai.stanford.edu/people/riana...
Plurilingual AI. It's very common for fluent bilinguals (or plurilinguals) to flip languages mid conversations without missing a heart beat. This includes spoken spoken languages or Deaf sign languages too! Spanglish, Chinglish, Punjinglish, Germanglish, nerdglish, and now I'm making names up 🤪
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Plurilingual AI. It's very common for fluent bilinguals (or plurilinguals) to flip languages mid conversations without missing a heart beat. This includes spoken spoken languages or Deaf sign languages too! Spanglish, Chinglish, Punjinglish, Germanglish, nerdglish, and now I'm making names up 🤪
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Imagine Calvin having access to ChatGPT.
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Imagine Calvin having access to ChatGPT.
Since most of the data - if randomly collected - falls naturally on a statistical distribution curve. So, yes, avoid dichotomizing your data variables (avoid forcing it into two only categories) unless the data is already naturally dichotomized (i.e., alive or dead, etc.)
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Since most of the data - if randomly collected - falls naturally on a statistical distribution curve. So, yes, avoid dichotomizing your data variables (avoid forcing it into two only categories) unless the data is already naturally dichotomized (i.e., alive or dead, etc.)
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", known as the "Sagan Standard" is an aphorism popularized by astronomist Carl Sagan in his book Broca's Brain (1979) and TV show Cosmos (80's) with roots in David Hume's philosophy essay "Of Miracles" (1748) and later by Pierre-Simon Laplace.
November 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", known as the "Sagan Standard" is an aphorism popularized by astronomist Carl Sagan in his book Broca's Brain (1979) and TV show Cosmos (80's) with roots in David Hume's philosophy essay "Of Miracles" (1748) and later by Pierre-Simon Laplace.
What is "mojibake"? It's an unintentional mismatch in how one software encoding accidentally misreads the code characters from another software. It's an accidental side effect of data software not being able to be properly handled due to lacking standardization or configuration.
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 AM
What is "mojibake"? It's an unintentional mismatch in how one software encoding accidentally misreads the code characters from another software. It's an accidental side effect of data software not being able to be properly handled due to lacking standardization or configuration.
Your job is safe! For now. Despite hype, AI cannot work alone. New measuring benchmark highlights how valuable human domain knowledge and project management skills are in freelance projects. Several AI platforms failed 97% at completing full freelance projects.
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.26787
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.26787
arxiv.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Your job is safe! For now. Despite hype, AI cannot work alone. New measuring benchmark highlights how valuable human domain knowledge and project management skills are in freelance projects. Several AI platforms failed 97% at completing full freelance projects.
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.26787
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.26787
Data pioneer: Dutch mathematician Tycho Brahe (Tee-Koh Brā-hē) rigorously collected astronomical data. On Oct 13, 1601, Brahe attended a royal banquet in Prague his bladder burst for not going to the restroom; wanting to be polite. He died 11 days later in extreme pain.
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Data pioneer: Dutch mathematician Tycho Brahe (Tee-Koh Brā-hē) rigorously collected astronomical data. On Oct 13, 1601, Brahe attended a royal banquet in Prague his bladder burst for not going to the restroom; wanting to be polite. He died 11 days later in extreme pain.
Today visited Klinker Brick Winery in Lodi, CA. I got the $15 tasting (6 reds x 2 oz. each = 12 oz). Some are better with a meal. The 2021 Dolcetto was particularly smooth on its own, with no aftertaste. I did not buy any bottles, but it was fun to do. www.klinkerbrickwinery.com/About-Us/Our...
November 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Today visited Klinker Brick Winery in Lodi, CA. I got the $15 tasting (6 reds x 2 oz. each = 12 oz). Some are better with a meal. The 2021 Dolcetto was particularly smooth on its own, with no aftertaste. I did not buy any bottles, but it was fun to do. www.klinkerbrickwinery.com/About-Us/Our...
Enlly Blue is an AI singer with a 1950's blues style. It's pretty good. The real person behind the production is Thong Viet Thong (remains private). He used AI as a tool to develop the lyrics and the musical arrangement. Check it out.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a_c...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a_c...
Enlly Blue – Soul Blue Icon (1950s Style) | Blues Songs of All Time | Timeless Playlist
YouTube video by Timeless Blues Club
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Enlly Blue is an AI singer with a 1950's blues style. It's pretty good. The real person behind the production is Thong Viet Thong (remains private). He used AI as a tool to develop the lyrics and the musical arrangement. Check it out.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a_c...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a_c...
AI bots running "prompt engineering" simulations locally on itself with a newly upload document can learn to anticipate and provide faster "context-aware" answers with less memory and cost because it doesn't need to rescan the document again thanks to "cartridges"
hai.stanford.edu/news/offline...
hai.stanford.edu/news/offline...
Offline “Studying” Shrinks the Cost of Contextually Aware AI | Stanford HAI
By having AI study a user’s context offline, researchers dramatically reduce the memory and cost required to make AI contextually aware.
hai.stanford.edu
October 13, 2025 at 2:41 AM
AI bots running "prompt engineering" simulations locally on itself with a newly upload document can learn to anticipate and provide faster "context-aware" answers with less memory and cost because it doesn't need to rescan the document again thanks to "cartridges"
hai.stanford.edu/news/offline...
hai.stanford.edu/news/offline...
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It would appear that an entire industry of evaluating LLMs is springing up. Here is another company that has put LLMs to the copyright test and found them to be problematic
www.cnbc.com/2024/03/06/g...
www.cnbc.com/2024/03/06/g...
Researchers tested leading AI models for copyright infringement using popular books, and GPT-4 performed worst
Patronus AI on Wednesday released research showcasing how often leading AI models produce copyrighted content.
www.cnbc.com
March 6, 2024 at 1:45 PM
It would appear that an entire industry of evaluating LLMs is springing up. Here is another company that has put LLMs to the copyright test and found them to be problematic
www.cnbc.com/2024/03/06/g...
www.cnbc.com/2024/03/06/g...
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Understanding Deep Learning: Free MIT Press EBook for Instructors and Students
Understanding Deep Learning: Free MIT Press EBook For Instructors And Students
The recently published book Understanding Deep Learning by [Simon J. D. Prince] is notable not only for focusing primarily on the concepts behind Deep Learning — which should make it highly a…
hackaday.com
February 15, 2024 at 3:39 AM
Understanding Deep Learning: Free MIT Press EBook for Instructors and Students
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New post: Have been meaning to write something around what has fundamentally changed around the process of putting ML into prod now that we have LLMs. TL;DR: It's still just compression, we just don't control as much anymore.
vickiboykis.com/2024/01/15/w...
vickiboykis.com/2024/01/15/w...
What's new with ML in production
What's different about LLMs versus traditional ML
vickiboykis.com
January 18, 2024 at 8:45 PM
New post: Have been meaning to write something around what has fundamentally changed around the process of putting ML into prod now that we have LLMs. TL;DR: It's still just compression, we just don't control as much anymore.
vickiboykis.com/2024/01/15/w...
vickiboykis.com/2024/01/15/w...
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5, 6, 7. 8. "make it even more AI research and innovation leader".
The more you prompt the more you land in a mix of mysticism, fashion, and military.
The more you prompt the more you land in a mix of mysticism, fashion, and military.
December 1, 2023 at 8:29 PM
5, 6, 7. 8. "make it even more AI research and innovation leader".
The more you prompt the more you land in a mix of mysticism, fashion, and military.
The more you prompt the more you land in a mix of mysticism, fashion, and military.