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Adolfo Neto
@adolfont.github.io
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Software Engineering researcher; Associate Professor at UTFPR, Curitiba, Brazil.
https://adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com/
Posts mostly in English.
#ElixirLang enthusiast (I also love #LeanLang, #LuaLang, #Erlang).
Podcaster.
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UTFPR entrou na onda da IA também.
O post no Instagram foi um mega sucesso. Mais de 2000 curtidas.
November 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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A aniversariante do dia é professora Ana Regina.

Para quem ainda não assistiu, aproveite este período de fim de ano, em que tudo fica mais tranquilo e leve, e veja/ouça nossa entrevista com ela no Fronteiras da Engenharia de Software

youtu.be/73akU58d-TY
45: Formação de Recursos Humanos de Excelência, com Ana Regina Cavalcanti da Rocha (COPPE UFRJ)
YouTube video by Fronteiras da Engenharia de Software
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November 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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peterullrich.com Peter Ullrich @peterullrich.com · 4h
This AI generator is a bit too realistic 😄

replaceyourboss.ai
November 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Should the government own all AI Companies?
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Novelist confronts AI researcher over intellectual property | Janne Teller, Timothy Nguyen
YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas
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November 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Reposted by Adolfo Neto
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This is a critically important conversation. Both because of the specific topic at hand and also because the story of US meddling in the region shows that socialism didn't fail, it is relentlessly attacked and sabotaged
makcapitalism.bsky.social makcapitalism.bsky.social @makcapitalism.bsky.social · 23h
NEW: The Return of Operation Condor (we talk Ecuador, general strike, US-backed narco-military regime lead by Daniel Naboa, & the imperialist revenge against Pink Tide governments)
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November 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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The form of assessment that requires written work to be read outside the classroom by the professor seems to have died out.
November 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Universities in the US seem to me to have too many students per class and much more pressure to publish than here in Brazil.
November 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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philosopher1923.bsky.social The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 4d
ICYMI: TP&TN's "How to Prevent AI from Making Us Stupid"

Anastasia Berg and @alexispapazoglou.bsky.social discussed #AI and #education, language and intellectual maturity, the spectre of cognitive elitism, and resisting AI.

#philosophy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eZP...
The Philosopher & the News: How to prevent AI from making us stupid? Anastasia Berg & A. Papazoglou
YouTube video by The Philosopher
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November 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3d
people are angry that chatbots are being thrust on them; that the industry is unregulated; that it’s deskilling young people; is being used as a weapon against labor and popular gAI is built on theft of the work of millions of artists and authors.

You don’t get to demand civility.
jwuphysics.bsky.social John F Wu @jwuphysics.bsky.social · 3d
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
November 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Você usa o RefactorEx?
#ElixirLang
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RefactorEx: Refatoração em Elixir, com Gabriel Pereira
Spotify video
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November 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Next year, in my introductory programming course:

- more paper-based activities
- more programming in Portuguese (using some of the Design Líquido languages)
- final practical project in C
November 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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One of the best uses of image-generating AI, according to a Brazilian podcaster: generating an infographic of your career from the PDF of your CV that LinkedIn generates.

Do we really need to see this?
November 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Are torrents more ecological than streaming services?
simonwillison.net Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 14h
Out of curiosity I decided to try and run the numbers on how much Netflix you can watch for the energy cost of a ChatGPT prompt

As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use

simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...
In June 2025 Sam Altman claimed about ChatGPT that "the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours". In March 2020 George Kamiya of the International Energy Agency estimated that "streaming a Netflix video in 2019 typically consumed 0.12-0.24kWh of electricity per hour" - that's 240 watt-hours per hour at the higher end. Assuming that higher end, a ChatGPT prompt by Sam Altman's estimate uses: 0.34 Wh / (240 Wh / 3600 seconds) = 5.1 seconds of Netflix Or double that, 10.2 seconds, if you take the lower end of the Netflix estimate instead. I'm always interested in anything that can help contextualize a number like "0.34 watt-hours" - I think this comparison to Netflix is a neat way of doing that. This is evidently not the whole story with regards to AI energy usage - training costs, data center buildout costs and the ongoing fierce competition between the providers all add up to a very significant carbon footprint for the AI industry as a whole.
November 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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"Estimado Cliente,

El motivo de esta comunicación es informarle de que, como probablemente ya sabe, lamentablemente en Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España hemos detectado un incidente de seguridad relacionado con un acceso no autorizado a los sistemas de un proveedor de Iberia, que ha ..."
November 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Devemos programar em português? Projeto Design Líquido, com Leonel Sanches
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Devemos programar em português? Projeto Design Líquido, com Leonel Sanches
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November 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Devemos programar em português? Projeto Design Líquido, com Leonel Sanches
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kai-...
Devemos programar em português? Projeto Design Líquido, com Leonel Sanches
YouTube video by Adolfo Neto
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November 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I had to use this today
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6
7. the kinda appealing, but substantively indefensible, idea that somehow AI is different to other technology, like calculators, in a pedagogical context — but we totally ban a great deal of technology in the classroom.

(Section 3.7 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)

9/n
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom
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What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom
Data centers accounted for 4% of total U.S. electricity use in 2024. Their energy demand is expected to more than double by 2030.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Quando falamos de ciência e pesquisa, você pensa em pesquisadores negros?

O angolano António Fábio Cuhema, integrante da equipe campeã da Maratona Rocket 2025 - RPC, empreendedor na área de tecnologia, é mestrando no PPGCA UTFPR
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Aproveitem! Semifinalista do Jabuti Acadêmico!
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Vocês sabem que eu não curto muito esse hype de IA, mas o Alan Braz e e o Matheus Bitencourt são gente fina e eles estão fazendo a primeira edição da

Maratona IA por
R$ 69,60

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November 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Pré-cálculo sem mistérios - Vol. 1

Teoria e prática passo a passo

Hélio Vinicius Moreno Tozatti (professor da UTFPR), Raimundo de Araújo Bastos Júnior
R$ 47,50 (50% de desconto)
www.blucher.com.br/pre-calculo-...
Pré-cálculo sem mistérios - Editora Blucher
O volume 1 do Pré-cálculo sem mistérios surge como uma solução para superar os obstáculos enfrentados por alunos ingressantes no ensino superior. Este livro foi elaborado para preencher as lacunas fre...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Did this happen just when it is going to be in Brazil?
chriswolfvision.bsky.social Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 1d
This is by a large margin the most serious problem and mistake in conference peer review I have seen in my career. Apparently a many people were aware of this and many could find out who their reviewers were. This probably has created a large number of unnecessary enmities.

@iclr-conf.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM