Crista 🔶
@tagide.com
Professor at UC Irvine, among other things. This is my personal account, not the University’s.
I like light and clarity.
I like light and clarity.
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
Turns out that the glass ceiling for women has been not being able to join the club of abusing little girls.
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Turns out that the glass ceiling for women has been not being able to join the club of abusing little girls.
RIP 🖤
Brian was my first area manager at PARC. I have found memories of him. Very warm, very smart, and full of life stories.
Brian was my first area manager at PARC. I have found memories of him. Very warm, very smart, and full of life stories.
Beautiful remembrance of Brian Cantwell Smith, from Faculty of Information, University of Toronto: ischool.utoronto.ca/news/obituar...
Obituary: Brian Cantwell Smith (1950 to 2025) - Faculty of Information
Former dean wove philosophy and computation into a lifelong inquiry into the human dimensions of intelligence, judgment, and meaning Born into a prominent Canadian family known for both its intellectu...
ischool.utoronto.ca
November 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM
RIP 🖤
Brian was my first area manager at PARC. I have found memories of him. Very warm, very smart, and full of life stories.
Brian was my first area manager at PARC. I have found memories of him. Very warm, very smart, and full of life stories.
In this day and age, it is almost charming to come across papers with completely broken English :)
November 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
In this day and age, it is almost charming to come across papers with completely broken English :)
The decentralized Internet was such a good idea...
October 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The decentralized Internet was such a good idea...
Interesting initiative from Cloudfare: an extension of robots.txt for the age of AI
blog.cloudflare.com/content-sign...
blog.cloudflare.com/content-sign...
Giving users choice with Cloudflare’s new Content Signals Policy
Cloudflare’s Content Signals Policy gives creators a new tool to control use of their content.
blog.cloudflare.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Interesting initiative from Cloudfare: an extension of robots.txt for the age of AI
blog.cloudflare.com/content-sign...
blog.cloudflare.com/content-sign...
My current academic children 🥰👩🏻🎓👨🎓
September 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
My current academic children 🥰👩🏻🎓👨🎓
I just got an electric bike, and I plan to test whether it's now possible to live comfortably in SoCal without a car, within a radius of ~6 miles. [empty-nester here]
September 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I just got an electric bike, and I plan to test whether it's now possible to live comfortably in SoCal without a car, within a radius of ~6 miles. [empty-nester here]
Peak Swiss: my daughter, who lives in Switzerland, got a speeding ticket because of an excess speed of… 4km/h. And the letter was sent to… California. They found her! 🤣
September 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Peak Swiss: my daughter, who lives in Switzerland, got a speeding ticket because of an excess speed of… 4km/h. And the letter was sent to… California. They found her! 🤣
Granite and my Serra da Estrela shepherd baby
September 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Granite and my Serra da Estrela shepherd baby
Harvest. In a modern world that’s increasingly going insane, I find peace in these millennia-old activities.
September 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Harvest. In a modern world that’s increasingly going insane, I find peace in these millennia-old activities.
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Falamos que parecemos viver numa época de estupidez, e creio que estamos lentamente a admitir a causa. Este é um óptimo artigo sobre o fenómeno
open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...
open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
open.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Falamos que parecemos viver numa época de estupidez, e creio que estamos lentamente a admitir a causa. Este é um óptimo artigo sobre o fenómeno
open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...
open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...
What horrible tragedy in Lisbon yesterday...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Lisbon Gloria funicular: What we know about fatal derailment
At least 15 people have been killed and 20 more injured after a carriage on the Gloria funicular derailed and crashed.
www.bbc.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
What horrible tragedy in Lisbon yesterday...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Survey papers are the boundary. They used to take a long time to write. Now I look at a survey paper and I wonder how much of it was written by the authors vs. by Deep Research. Even if it was all manually produced, the doubt is unsettling.
We really need to catch up to the disruption of AI.
We really need to catch up to the disruption of AI.
August 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Survey papers are the boundary. They used to take a long time to write. Now I look at a survey paper and I wonder how much of it was written by the authors vs. by Deep Research. Even if it was all manually produced, the doubt is unsettling.
We really need to catch up to the disruption of AI.
We really need to catch up to the disruption of AI.
Updating University web sites. I guess this will do for the next 20 years... ☺️❤️SE @ UCIrvine
August 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Updating University web sites. I guess this will do for the next 20 years... ☺️❤️SE @ UCIrvine
I know this has been said before but, man! It's really hard to be as bad as Google when it comes to naming products. I wonder what the process is that ends up with this portfolio of names...
July 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I know this has been said before but, man! It's really hard to be as bad as Google when it comes to naming products. I wonder what the process is that ends up with this portfolio of names...
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My team at Apple is currently hiring for a role that focuses on compiler tools and infrastructure. If you’re interested in this opportunity, please take a look at the job posting here: jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail... #llvm #swiftlang
Compiler Tools Engineer - Jobs - Careers at Apple
Apply for a Compiler Tools Engineer job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.
jobs.apple.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My team at Apple is currently hiring for a role that focuses on compiler tools and infrastructure. If you’re interested in this opportunity, please take a look at the job posting here: jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail... #llvm #swiftlang
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We are hiring for a tenure track position as Assistant Professor at FEUP U.Porto. Topic: Cloud and Trusted Computing. Deadline mid August. sigarra.up.pt/spup/en/noti...
sigarra.up.pt
July 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
We are hiring for a tenure track position as Assistant Professor at FEUP U.Porto. Topic: Cloud and Trusted Computing. Deadline mid August. sigarra.up.pt/spup/en/noti...
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My latest video for @propublica.org
ProPublica obtained records showing how a DOGE software engineer with no health care or government experience created an AI model to identify contracts to kill at the VA.
@bxroberts.org takes us through what we learned when we asked experts to review the model’s underlying instructions and code ⤵️
@bxroberts.org takes us through what we learned when we asked experts to review the model’s underlying instructions and code ⤵️
June 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
My latest video for @propublica.org
If you have high school aged kids, I need your help! I'm working with a group of them. Part of the work is a survey designed to collect [anonymous] data on the use of AI by HS students around the world. If you could ask your kid(s) to fill it out, it would be super! 🙏
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
AI Educational Usage Survey
This form is anonymous: no information is collected that traces your answers to you. Your honesty is appreciated!
Who we are: We are a group of high school students in California doing a summer rese...
docs.google.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
If you have high school aged kids, I need your help! I'm working with a group of them. Part of the work is a survey designed to collect [anonymous] data on the use of AI by HS students around the world. If you could ask your kid(s) to fill it out, it would be super! 🙏
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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To be fair, when everything is deleted on your disk, it means that there are no problems on your computer, so there's that 🤷
forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yol...
forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yol...
Cursor YOLO deleted everything in my computer
Hi everyone - as a previous context I’m an AI Program Manager at J&J and have been using Cursor for personal projects since March. Yesterday I was migrating some of my back-end configuration from Exp...
forum.cursor.com
June 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
To be fair, when everything is deleted on your disk, it means that there are no problems on your computer, so there's that 🤷
forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yol...
forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yol...
I'm supervising a group of high school kids this summer and omg these kids are amazing! Some of them could skip undergrad and go straight to a PhD program, and they would be fine. One of them showed up to the meeting with the complete outline of the research paper we're going to write, and it was 💯.
June 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I'm supervising a group of high school kids this summer and omg these kids are amazing! Some of them could skip undergrad and go straight to a PhD program, and they would be fine. One of them showed up to the meeting with the complete outline of the research paper we're going to write, and it was 💯.
This is a really nice blog post, and I'm touched that what I wrote back then had an impact in someone's life! Always humbling to hear these things, many years later.
faingezicht.com/articles/202...
faingezicht.com/articles/202...
The best tools take power away
Good tools give users agency; the best tools take it away and prevent mistakes.
faingezicht.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This is a really nice blog post, and I'm touched that what I wrote back then had an impact in someone's life! Always humbling to hear these things, many years later.
faingezicht.com/articles/202...
faingezicht.com/articles/202...
What should happen: emergency investigations resulting in impeachment of T and of half of Congress.
What will happen: Musk will lose all gov contracts and subsidies, and will mysteriously fall off a balcony
What will happen: Musk will lose all gov contracts and subsidies, and will mysteriously fall off a balcony
June 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
What should happen: emergency investigations resulting in impeachment of T and of half of Congress.
What will happen: Musk will lose all gov contracts and subsidies, and will mysteriously fall off a balcony
What will happen: Musk will lose all gov contracts and subsidies, and will mysteriously fall off a balcony