Giovanni Toffetti
@gtof.bsky.social
Father of 2 girls, senior lecturer @ZHAW🇨🇭, interested in robots 🤖, AI 🧠, cloud ☁️
https://gtoff.github.io/
https://gtoff.github.io/
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This (not from that piece) is one of those charts where I am completely aware of the data but my mental map of how the global economy works still almost refuses to update to the new reality. Because the pace of change has been so rapid.
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This (not from that piece) is one of those charts where I am completely aware of the data but my mental map of how the global economy works still almost refuses to update to the new reality. Because the pace of change has been so rapid.
I used to have the same issue with containerized ROS env. Now I run the container in a GPU k8s cluster and connect to it via remote vs code. The Claude plugin has all env and libs it needs. But in my case ROS env is enough, you seem to have multiple repos each with its own venv
November 3, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I used to have the same issue with containerized ROS env. Now I run the container in a GPU k8s cluster and connect to it via remote vs code. The Claude plugin has all env and libs it needs. But in my case ROS env is enough, you seem to have multiple repos each with its own venv
Same concept, completely different psychological framing. One invites gluttony, the other appeals to your sense of propriety.
October 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Same concept, completely different psychological framing. One invites gluttony, the other appeals to your sense of propriety.
"À discretion" quietly reminds you that you're exercising judgment here. If you stuff yourself like a pig and hurt the restaurant's margins, that's on you - you had discretion and chose poorly.
October 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"À discretion" quietly reminds you that you're exercising judgment here. If you stuff yourself like a pig and hurt the restaurant's margins, that's on you - you had discretion and chose poorly.
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The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/
You can also say "pompieri" in Italian
October 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
You can also say "pompieri" in Italian
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“Images are becoming so realistic, we now question everything we see online,” @Gruzd.ca, a Toronto Metropolitan University professor and the Canada Research Chair in Privacy-Preserving Digital Technologies, said. “Society cannot operate if we don’t know what’s true and what’s not.”
January 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
“Images are becoming so realistic, we now question everything we see online,” @Gruzd.ca, a Toronto Metropolitan University professor and the Canada Research Chair in Privacy-Preserving Digital Technologies, said. “Society cannot operate if we don’t know what’s true and what’s not.”
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Final blog post on the visualization medium.com/@mark-riedl/...
Visualizing the Influence of Federal Funding on the AI Boom
The Transformer was invented in Google. Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) was not invented in industry labs, but is most…
medium.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Final blog post on the visualization medium.com/@mark-riedl/...
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This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
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September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.