Tony D'Souza
@adsouza.bsky.social
👩🏻❤️💋👨🏾 Software engineer, dad and world 🌍 traveller.
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Tony D'Souza
@adsouza.bsky.social
· Jan 23
Hume Texts Online
A permanent online resource for Hume scholars and students, including reliable texts of almost everything written by David Hume, and links to secondary material on the web.
davidhume.org
“All knowledge degenerates into probability.”
-Dave H. on Machine Learning ...in 1739!
-Dave H. on Machine Learning ...in 1739!
This is where our trade deficit $ ended up.
www.apolloacademy.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
This is where our trade deficit $ ended up.
@verizonofficial.bsky.social you run a fantastic FiOS service & a pretty good wireless service. But why are you incapable of allowing people to pay for both of them on a single account?
June 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
@verizonofficial.bsky.social you run a fantastic FiOS service & a pretty good wireless service. But why are you incapable of allowing people to pay for both of them on a single account?
Claim: the only useful reason to have a meeting is achieving consensus answers to open questions.
Any questions for which answers can be composed & agreed upon asynchronously before the meeting can be eliminated from discussion. If none remain then the meeting should be automatically cancelled.
Any questions for which answers can be composed & agreed upon asynchronously before the meeting can be eliminated from discussion. If none remain then the meeting should be automatically cancelled.
April 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Claim: the only useful reason to have a meeting is achieving consensus answers to open questions.
Any questions for which answers can be composed & agreed upon asynchronously before the meeting can be eliminated from discussion. If none remain then the meeting should be automatically cancelled.
Any questions for which answers can be composed & agreed upon asynchronously before the meeting can be eliminated from discussion. If none remain then the meeting should be automatically cancelled.
Gators like sunning themselves in the canal during the dry season.
April 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Gators like sunning themselves in the canal during the dry season.
The highlight of our visit to the Everglades was when a pod of 6 dolphins decided to race us. What made this unquestionably better than something like MarineWorld was that these dolphins were completely wild & free but chose to engage with us on their own terms because they wanted to have fun.
April 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The highlight of our visit to the Everglades was when a pod of 6 dolphins decided to race us. What made this unquestionably better than something like MarineWorld was that these dolphins were completely wild & free but chose to engage with us on their own terms because they wanted to have fun.
GPT 4.5 has passed the Turing test!
AI Beat the Turing Test by Being a Better Human
GPT-4.5 fooled most humans in a recent Turing Test, showing we may prefer AI’s fake empathy to real humanity.
www.psychologytoday.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
GPT 4.5 has passed the Turing test!
4 decades of transition from Big Blue being replaced as top dog by Apple: the exact point of the swaparoo coincides with both the GFC & the iPhone launch, fittingly.
April 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
4 decades of transition from Big Blue being replaced as top dog by Apple: the exact point of the swaparoo coincides with both the GFC & the iPhone launch, fittingly.
Adages have long suggested this but now we have data ;-)
Sharing meals with others: How sharing meals supports happiness and social connections
The World Happiness Report is published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, in partnership with Gallup, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and an independent ed...
worldhappiness.report
April 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Adages have long suggested this but now we have data ;-)
Today I invented a fusion dish I call Spicy Sacrilege: take haleem, a dish Muslims typically eat to celebrate Eid, and add Goan pork sausage (chorizo) to it. It's yummy.
April 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Today I invented a fusion dish I call Spicy Sacrilege: take haleem, a dish Muslims typically eat to celebrate Eid, and add Goan pork sausage (chorizo) to it. It's yummy.
In honour of Women's History Month I read this book.
Bitch
"It's a tale as old as time: the philandering man wants to chase sex with whomever, wherever, and at all costs-and to avoid supporting his offspring at all costs, too-while leaving a long-suffering wi...
www.google.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
In honour of Women's History Month I read this book.
A graph of earnings per employee over time for Big Tech:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
March 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A graph of earnings per employee over time for Big Tech:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
We're on the cusp of destroying what was probably one of the very few remaining competitive advantage this country had left: our amazing collaboration on scientific research between academia & industry.
March 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We're on the cusp of destroying what was probably one of the very few remaining competitive advantage this country had left: our amazing collaboration on scientific research between academia & industry.
Each tech era seems to have a different power couple: a pair of corporations who own opposing sides of the coin of the realm. First was Microsoft & Intel, then Google & Apple, now it's OpenAI & NVidia.
February 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Each tech era seems to have a different power couple: a pair of corporations who own opposing sides of the coin of the realm. First was Microsoft & Intel, then Google & Apple, now it's OpenAI & NVidia.
This 🦃 seems to have been made by the same sculptor who did the figures at the 14th st/8th Ave station.
February 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This 🦃 seems to have been made by the same sculptor who did the figures at the 14th st/8th Ave station.
I have a theory that ties together Marx's TRPF, rising inequality, & the aging population: people need to accumulate wealth as they get older because they won't be able to rely on their labour for income eventually;
January 31, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I have a theory that ties together Marx's TRPF, rising inequality, & the aging population: people need to accumulate wealth as they get older because they won't be able to rely on their labour for income eventually;
New mosaic at the 14th St & 6th Av subway station.
January 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
New mosaic at the 14th St & 6th Av subway station.
“All knowledge degenerates into probability.”
-Dave H. on Machine Learning ...in 1739!
-Dave H. on Machine Learning ...in 1739!
Hume Texts Online
A permanent online resource for Hume scholars and students, including reliable texts of almost everything written by David Hume, and links to secondary material on the web.
davidhume.org
January 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“All knowledge degenerates into probability.”
-Dave H. on Machine Learning ...in 1739!
-Dave H. on Machine Learning ...in 1739!
Guess what animal this is supposed to be.
January 23, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Guess what animal this is supposed to be.
Certain trees evolved these spikes to protect themselves from... mastodons! Talk about holding a grudge!
January 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Certain trees evolved these spikes to protect themselves from... mastodons! Talk about holding a grudge!
Lawsuits are the second-worst way of settling disagreements, after wars.
What's better than lawsuits? Public debates followed by referenda.
Best of all? Adversarial collaboration that leads to consensus.
What's better than lawsuits? Public debates followed by referenda.
Best of all? Adversarial collaboration that leads to consensus.
December 8, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Lawsuits are the second-worst way of settling disagreements, after wars.
What's better than lawsuits? Public debates followed by referenda.
Best of all? Adversarial collaboration that leads to consensus.
What's better than lawsuits? Public debates followed by referenda.
Best of all? Adversarial collaboration that leads to consensus.
🐲 Happy lunar new year!
February 10, 2024 at 3:05 PM
🐲 Happy lunar new year!
"Bard, paint the Taj Mahal in the style of Salvador Dali."
February 1, 2024 at 11:56 PM
"Bard, paint the Taj Mahal in the style of Salvador Dali."