Fernando Cucchietti
@fercook.bsky.social
Data visualization and analysis
Unos días personales muy difíciles, no es por algo serio pero no logro levantar el ánimo.
January 25, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Unos días personales muy difíciles, no es por algo serio pero no logro levantar el ánimo.
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What are we doing here
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
economist.com/united-state...
from The Economist
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
economist.com/united-state...
from The Economist
January 24, 2026 at 9:44 AM
What are we doing here
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
economist.com/united-state...
from The Economist
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
economist.com/united-state...
from The Economist
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CDF plots are great but have you tried flattened CDF plots? #dataviz
rawdatastudies.com/2026/01/19/s...
rawdatastudies.com/2026/01/19/s...
January 20, 2026 at 9:24 PM
CDF plots are great but have you tried flattened CDF plots? #dataviz
rawdatastudies.com/2026/01/19/s...
rawdatastudies.com/2026/01/19/s...
Didn’t Fox loose a lot of millions for saying things like this
Trump is in Davos crazy posting. He is delusional and that's a fact, not an opinion.
January 20, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Didn’t Fox loose a lot of millions for saying things like this
Wtf is going on people
January 18, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Wtf is going on people
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London bakery The Dusty Knuckle cleverly used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business. [kottke.org]
Bread Infographic
London bakery The Dusty Knuckle cleverly used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business:
From their post:
This comes off the back of a big decision to increase our bakers’ pay ahead
kottke.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
London bakery The Dusty Knuckle cleverly used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business. [kottke.org]
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This Free Tool Unlocks Access to Nationwide US LiDAR Data in Seconds!
Discover how this powerful web app lets you search, visualize, and download LiDAR point clouds across the entire United States, in just seconds.
Discover how this powerful web app lets you search, visualize, and download LiDAR point clouds across the entire United States, in just seconds.
January 14, 2026 at 2:25 PM
This Free Tool Unlocks Access to Nationwide US LiDAR Data in Seconds!
Discover how this powerful web app lets you search, visualize, and download LiDAR point clouds across the entire United States, in just seconds.
Discover how this powerful web app lets you search, visualize, and download LiDAR point clouds across the entire United States, in just seconds.
I went into the paper to find they had missed some of the obvious culprits, but in fact everything is reasonably well treated (and yes it’s a readable paper). Maybe some points I’d do differently, but yes a nice paper to think about.
The most important article in issue 5 of the Big Bang Magazine on science communication in Belgium is by @vinoy.bsky.social: The Linguistic Wall.
The readability of scientific articles is dropping at an alarming rate. Convoluted sentences, excessive density and impenetrable jargon...
The readability of scientific articles is dropping at an alarming rate. Convoluted sentences, excessive density and impenetrable jargon...
January 15, 2026 at 9:19 AM
I went into the paper to find they had missed some of the obvious culprits, but in fact everything is reasonably well treated (and yes it’s a readable paper). Maybe some points I’d do differently, but yes a nice paper to think about.
Molly is a great source of news. Like months ahead of the pack
I've mentioned this before, but one thing I've been closely watching for is when crypto people begin to distance themselves from Trump.
November 2024 vs. January 2026
November 2024 vs. January 2026
![ Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has also clearly been trying to woo Trump, claiming very shortly after the election that he was “going to be spending quite a bit of time working with lawmakers in Washington DC and quite a bit of time with members of the administration to help foster and facilitate with other key leaders in industry the crypto policy”.6 While he has continued to boast vaguely about meetings with various influential figures, winkingly describing a “VIP dinner” where “diet coke will certainly be on [the menu]”, there’s been little outside confirmation that he’s had much access to the Trump administration. ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exrxvyu6bpoym6mbnctke5tn/bafkreibwu7nnfjdr7icvg2bzdh6ug5tbaza5hcut2q5lmerpqalj2cxiwy@jpeg)
January 14, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Molly is a great source of news. Like months ahead of the pack
I've seen this many times now, and yes it is smaller than what is perceived in the Mercator projection, but it is not objectively small, right? It's like 1/5 the size of the US, and 1/4 the size of Brazil.
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
January 14, 2026 at 9:12 AM
I've seen this many times now, and yes it is smaller than what is perceived in the Mercator projection, but it is not objectively small, right? It's like 1/5 the size of the US, and 1/4 the size of Brazil.
Forward thinking here: should US citizens in Europe start getting worried?
“US citizens should leave Venezuela immediately” … Checking in on the country President Trump executed a coup against a week ago
January 11, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Forward thinking here: should US citizens in Europe start getting worried?
This is the key pov
your computer is no longer a machine that runs apps built by other people
it’s now a Lego set you can instruct in natural language
it’s now a Lego set you can instruct in natural language
i think this is gonna be a big theme of 2026
claude code is misnamed. it's not really even about code. it's about making the computer do things you want it to do
claude code is misnamed. it's not really even about code. it's about making the computer do things you want it to do
January 10, 2026 at 11:38 AM
This is the key pov
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This is like an old fashioned Gawker blog but somehow British and high-brow. I'll take it. www.ft.com/content/ad94...
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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2. We have a whole section on this in Chapter 14 of our online course thebullshitmachines.com.
The bottom line: an apology is a speech act, and a machine does not meet the felicity conditions (preparatory conditions and sincerity conditions, in particular) for the utterance to perform as intended.
The bottom line: an apology is a speech act, and a machine does not meet the felicity conditions (preparatory conditions and sincerity conditions, in particular) for the utterance to perform as intended.
January 3, 2026 at 12:19 AM
2. We have a whole section on this in Chapter 14 of our online course thebullshitmachines.com.
The bottom line: an apology is a speech act, and a machine does not meet the felicity conditions (preparatory conditions and sincerity conditions, in particular) for the utterance to perform as intended.
The bottom line: an apology is a speech act, and a machine does not meet the felicity conditions (preparatory conditions and sincerity conditions, in particular) for the utterance to perform as intended.
A metaphor for AI code generation
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A metaphor for AI code generation
UX/UI FTW
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
wrd.cm
December 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
UX/UI FTW
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Glad you asked, because I wrote a whole essay for the Chronicle trying to get concrete about this, and also illegally broke their paywall to put a copy open-access :)
I actually think ppl in CS know they need humanities input. Industry is going to be tougher, but SV does not control this anymore.+
I actually think ppl in CS know they need humanities input. Industry is going to be tougher, but SV does not control this anymore.+
[5/6] I don't know whether these changes will be good or bad in the long run. If you're sad, I can't talk you out of it.
But it's still true: if higher ed wants to play a meaningful role in 21c knowledge production, we have to seize the means of production and make them public.
Unpaywalled:
But it's still true: if higher ed wants to play a meaningful role in 21c knowledge production, we have to seize the means of production and make them public.
Unpaywalled:
archive.is
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Glad you asked, because I wrote a whole essay for the Chronicle trying to get concrete about this, and also illegally broke their paywall to put a copy open-access :)
I actually think ppl in CS know they need humanities input. Industry is going to be tougher, but SV does not control this anymore.+
I actually think ppl in CS know they need humanities input. Industry is going to be tougher, but SV does not control this anymore.+
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Stochastic generator of sometimes clever and often useful output
I doubt that anything resembling genuine AGI is within reach of current AI tools—Terence Tao
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1157223...
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1157223...
December 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Stochastic generator of sometimes clever and often useful output
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My response to anything over the next two weeks
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Remember, hit www.eff.org/age for a full set of resources about age verification: Why it doesn't (and can't) work, why it hurts everyone's privacy — including kids, and what we can all do to push back.
Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “ag...
www.eff.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Remember, hit www.eff.org/age for a full set of resources about age verification: Why it doesn't (and can't) work, why it hurts everyone's privacy — including kids, and what we can all do to push back.
That’s only the first year! On 2030 the year on year growth would be around 30 trillion
yeah why won't the economy grow by uh *checks notes* 7.6 trillion a year
Trump says he doesn't know why America can't achieve 25 percent annual economic growth
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
That’s only the first year! On 2030 the year on year growth would be around 30 trillion