Pere-Pau Vázquez
perepau.bsky.social
Pere-Pau Vázquez
@perepau.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. @UPC-BarcelonaTech
Biomedical Visualization, Information Visualization, Perception, Virtual Reality
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📣 In this short essay, I describe how actions of the current administration constitute ➡️ state terrorism ⬅️ and outline how US universities (and professors and students and staff) can survive state terrorism, as people before us have survived.

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How US Universities Can Survive State Terrorism
BY CATHERINE D’IGNAZIO As a professor at MIT, I find myself navigating strange waters these days. Last semester, I advised the thesis of a student who left the country because she did not fee…
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August 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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This is hilarious - ChatGPT hallucinates repeatedly about a nonexistent feature on another website (confusing people), eventually leading the site's owners to implement the feature.

www.holovaty.com/writing/chat...
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists | Holovaty.com
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July 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I am thrilled to announce that our paper on Visualization of document collections for university governance (with Lluís Padró, Eduard Alarcon, and Alexandre Gràcia Calvo) has been accepted for Computer Graphics Forum, available through: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.....
Exploratory Analysis of Scientific Publications for University Governance
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM