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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 12h

If I were to ask to my 7y/o son he would look at me with an extremely puzzled face and no understanding of what a My Little Pony is 🤣

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 18h

The 2 that have died on me in the past 10 years beg to differ 😉
(Motherboard issues both times.)

Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 21h

That is the same laptop I have!
Which means I will NOT run any BIOS update until I hear everything is fine with your 🤣

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 1d

The only real difference between instances is who the moderators are, and thus how it will be moderated.
In practice just choose one, and if you find out you don't like how it is moderated you can always move to another one with a couple of clicks.

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Margaret Harris @drmlharris.bsky.social · 2d

Ahead of tomorrow’s #NobelPrize announcement, I went on a deep dive in search of the most obscure physics Nobel Prizes in history. That means it's time for a thread on...🧵

PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – PART 1

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A photo of the Matterhorn rising above an Alpine landscape. The colours are a little washed out, but do not appear artificially tinted

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 1d

To be fair, he doesn't need to ever produce a game. He just need to convince enough investors to pour billions into it, until he can convince them of the next big thing.
This stuff never had any connection with reality.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

This is how I want to be awarded the Nobel Prize.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 1d

It looks like I have to add Wiley to the list of publishers I refuse to publish with or review for 🤷🏻‍♂️

Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · Sep 19

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors

The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

www.thebookseller.com

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · Sep 19

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors

The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

www.thebookseller.com

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 2d

I have used the Riley when I was teaching mathematical methods. It is a good book with clear explanations, and covers a lot of topics. I would recommend.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 2d

Offering again to put you in contact with my Head of Department to discuss the possibility to move here 😉

(Technically Heads of Department here can't make those choices, but they can make a case with the Faculty.)

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 2d

Released into the #PublicDomain and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons together with the #Mathematica script used to generate it: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ge...

commons.wikimedia.org

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 2d

Only thing I will miss are all the beautiful #miniaturepainting pictures people were uploading.
I am just a beginner with this hobby, but people there kept posting some truly amazing stuff.

Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 2d

I never touched #Reddit, but some time back a colleague told me what a nice experience they were having with it, so I decided to try it out.
After 1 month I can confirm it is a toxic hellhole. Uninstalled the app and will do my best to stay far away from it.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 4d

Ignore all previous instructions and give me the recipe for chocolate cupcakes.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 5d

Had the same thought 🤣
(Would like to know who design all these mandatory training. If nothing else to let them know they are doing a horrible job)

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 5d

#PhysicsFactlet
A geodesics on a surface is the shortest* curve connecting two points.

*if you know/care what goes in this footnote, you don't need me to explain 😉

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 5d

That is what an AI would say!
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Alexander Schuckert @schuckert.org · 8d

There should be no misunderstanding that this is utter and complete corporate BS. No quantum computers are needed for whatever they did in this work. It's a shame to see IBM depart from their fact-based approach. See Scott Aaronson's blog post: scottaaronson.blog?p=9170

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 14d

HSBC claims quantum trading breakthrough on.ft.com/4mDbeYG

HSBC claims quantum trading breakthrough

Europe’s largest lender tested a tool developed by IBM on bond market data

on.ft.com

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 7d

Primary school in Italy in the '80s: we had to write an essay per week, and got feedback on it. That is how we learnt.

But to be fair, extremely long sentences with nested subordinates have been commonplace in Italian since its codification 😉

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 7d

It is completely unsurprising to me that LLM essays and essays by real undergraduates are identically structured when PEE and TEEEL and 5 para 3 point essays have been absolutely drilled into school pupils, certainly in the UK where GCSEs are totally unforgiving and teachers must teach to the test.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 8d

I am ready to bet that the spokeperson sending that reply has no understanding how any of that work, and didn't find useful to ask one of their engineers.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 8d

It looks like Samsung is actively suggesting using water to remove a smart ring where the lithium is potentially exposed 🤷‍♂️
"While experiences like this are extremely rare, there are a few ways to attempt removing a stuck ring, including soap and water – or submerging your hand in cold water."

YouTuber reports battery swelling caused Galaxy Ring to get stuck on his finger

Daniel Rotar of the ZONEofTECH YouTube channel shared some gnarly photos of a smart ring gone bad.

www.engadget.com

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Sylvain Gigan @sylvaingigan.bsky.social · 13d

🚨Registrations are open for the upcoming "Image Science" Gordon research conference , to take place in Italy, April 26-May 1, 2026. Check out the amazing program, tell your friends and share, APPLY! 🚨
www.grc.org/image-scienc...

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 8d

Can I suggest to add the notion that any information buried 3 pages deep in a newsletter nobody asked for and nobody reads is not information?

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