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Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · 12d

My current academic children 🥰👩🏻‍🎓👨‍🎓

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Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · 14d

Irvine

Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · 14d

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]

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Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · 15d

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! 🤣

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Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · 20d

Granite and my Serra da Estrela shepherd baby

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Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · 20d

Harvest. In a modern world that’s increasingly going insane, I find peace in these millennia-old activities.

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Vega9000 @vega9000.bsky.social · 20d

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...

The dawn of the post-literate society

And the end of civilisation

open.substack.com

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Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · 20d

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Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · Sep 4

What horrible tragedy in Lisbon yesterday...
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

Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · Aug 23

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.

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Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · Aug 8

Updating University web sites. I guess this will do for the next 20 years... ☺️❤️SE @ UCIrvine

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Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · Jul 31

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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Mishal @shahmishal.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · Jun 19

My latest video for @propublica.org

ProPublica @propublica.org · Jun 19

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 ⤵️

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Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · Jun 17

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...

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

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Saša Jurić @sasajuric.bsky.social · Jun 14

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...

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

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Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · Jun 13

Someone twisted my arm to do this, and it's promising to be the highlight of the summer.

Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · Jun 13

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 💯.

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Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · Jun 5

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...

The best tools take power away

Good tools give users agency; the best tools take it away and prevent mistakes.

faingezicht.com

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Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · Jun 5

wow beautiful 🤩

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Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · Jun 5

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

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Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · Jun 5

Traveling? No.
Giving a good old fashioned paper-based exam to a class of 250 students

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Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · Jun 4

And of course it took them 5 minutes into the meeting to create a discord server for this

Crista 🔶 @tagide.com · Jun 4

18 kids and counting

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