Just wrapped up an amazing 2-week research stay at VU Amsterdam with @jbgruber.bsky.social@damiantrilling.bsky.social Served on a PhD defense committee for the first time, gave a guest lecture (pictured below) and started some exciting new collaborations!
If you're having a rough day, remember that in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's paper for the World Wide Web was rejected and he was relegated to the poster session.
Yay, I found the way to get GenAI search results on Google from Europe (for research, definitely not for personal enjoyment), it now directly works through a VPN. It took me like 3 searches to get to false info. Really, I am sure I can't book SBB train tickets through the United airlines website.
Was getting off a bus today when a guy passing by on a scooter "performed" a Nazi salute shouting the corresponding saying to all of the people who got off the same bus. Never saw anything like that in my rather liberal Swiss neighbourhood before (and yes, Nazi symbols are not illegal in 🇨🇭)
7 years ago Pavel Durov gave his last interview. 6 years ago I was at an authorized(!) protest against the ban of Telegram in Moscow. Now Durov gave a new interview to FT, and I am quoted there. How things have changed. The time gap imo makes Durov's current quotes even more interesting.
As the messaging platform gears up for a potential stock market flotation, it is under pressure to curtail use by criminals
And who at Google thought guardrailing Gemini to this point was a great idea? Why doesn't it answer a very basic questions about world leaders? (Not even about Switzerland's Amherd (very uncontroversial), I tried...) Goody2 was a joke, you didn't have to make it a reality.
it is interesting how AI erasing or negatively stereotyping people of color was dismissed as a minor/fixable bug or nonissue by some of the same folks who see AI erasing white men as somewhere between a crime against humanity and the downfall of civilization