Andre Gomes
@aspg.bsky.social
theoretical chemistry. molecular physics. and (mostly) some other stuff.
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73 chercheurs et chercheuses (UE, US, Canada) signent une courte mais percutante lettre appelant la Présidente de la Commission européenne à ne pas céder aux balivernes des CEO de la tech sur l'IA : "arrêtez avec la hype unscientifique" www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
73 chercheurs et chercheuses (UE, US, Canada) signent une courte mais percutante lettre appelant la Présidente de la Commission européenne à ne pas céder aux balivernes des CEO de la tech sur l'IA : "arrêtez avec la hype unscientifique" www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...
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Rappel qu'au Canada, un homme, Amir Farsoud, sur le point d'être expulsé et avec des problèmes de santé à sollicité l'aide médicale à mourir et sa demande a été validée.
Sa vie a été sauvée de justesse grâce à la médiatisation de son cas et à une cagnotte.
ottawa.citynews.ca/2022/10/14/o...
Sa vie a été sauvée de justesse grâce à la médiatisation de son cas et à une cagnotte.
ottawa.citynews.ca/2022/10/14/o...
Ontario man applying for medically-assisted death as alternative to being homeless
Amir Farsoud lives with never-ending agony from a back injury years ago
ottawa.citynews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Rappel qu'au Canada, un homme, Amir Farsoud, sur le point d'être expulsé et avec des problèmes de santé à sollicité l'aide médicale à mourir et sa demande a été validée.
Sa vie a été sauvée de justesse grâce à la médiatisation de son cas et à une cagnotte.
ottawa.citynews.ca/2022/10/14/o...
Sa vie a été sauvée de justesse grâce à la médiatisation de son cas et à une cagnotte.
ottawa.citynews.ca/2022/10/14/o...
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Ce matin, je vous parle d'IA générative et des personnes étrangères
2 prémisses
1. L'IA générative a un énorme avantage : elle comprend toutes les langues, répond ds ttes les langues et passe d'une langue à une autre en 1 seconde
2. Toutes les associations de France voient leur budget s'effondrer
2 prémisses
1. L'IA générative a un énorme avantage : elle comprend toutes les langues, répond ds ttes les langues et passe d'une langue à une autre en 1 seconde
2. Toutes les associations de France voient leur budget s'effondrer
November 9, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Ce matin, je vous parle d'IA générative et des personnes étrangères
2 prémisses
1. L'IA générative a un énorme avantage : elle comprend toutes les langues, répond ds ttes les langues et passe d'une langue à une autre en 1 seconde
2. Toutes les associations de France voient leur budget s'effondrer
2 prémisses
1. L'IA générative a un énorme avantage : elle comprend toutes les langues, répond ds ttes les langues et passe d'une langue à une autre en 1 seconde
2. Toutes les associations de France voient leur budget s'effondrer
Epic thread!
Présentement dans un train où deux mecs discutent doctement du fait que dans 4 ans plein d'emplois vont disparaître à cause de l'IA et qu'ils utilisent chatGPT pour lire des histoires à leurs enfants 🤪
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Epic thread!
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The big science accounts are talking about immune dysregulation due to COVID-19 now.
I. Told. You. So.
Infection does confer antibodies and T cells against C19… but it also takes a wrecking ball to the immune system as a whole.
Stop burning down your house. (Metaphorically.)
I. Told. You. So.
Infection does confer antibodies and T cells against C19… but it also takes a wrecking ball to the immune system as a whole.
Stop burning down your house. (Metaphorically.)
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The big science accounts are talking about immune dysregulation due to COVID-19 now.
I. Told. You. So.
Infection does confer antibodies and T cells against C19… but it also takes a wrecking ball to the immune system as a whole.
Stop burning down your house. (Metaphorically.)
I. Told. You. So.
Infection does confer antibodies and T cells against C19… but it also takes a wrecking ball to the immune system as a whole.
Stop burning down your house. (Metaphorically.)
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Pop-up AI defacing your article critical of AI captures a lot of what it feels like to work in this space.
@lmesseri.bsky.social
@lmesseri.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Pop-up AI defacing your article critical of AI captures a lot of what it feels like to work in this space.
@lmesseri.bsky.social
@lmesseri.bsky.social
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Having read the paper (not thew article below but the actual paper), I would rather write: Physicists Take the Imaginary Numbers Out of Quantum Mechanics and Replace Them with 2x2 Matrices and Tensor Products Imitating Complex Numbers.
And I find that aweless (hat tip @zachweinersmith.bsky.social)
And I find that aweless (hat tip @zachweinersmith.bsky.social)
For the first time, physicists have formulated quantum theory without imaginary numbers, overturning a 2021 claim that these unreal numbers are essential for describing the quantum world.
www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-t...
www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-t...
Physicists Take the Imaginary Numbers Out of Quantum Mechanics | Quanta Magazine
Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of the theory into a new era of inquiry.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Having read the paper (not thew article below but the actual paper), I would rather write: Physicists Take the Imaginary Numbers Out of Quantum Mechanics and Replace Them with 2x2 Matrices and Tensor Products Imitating Complex Numbers.
And I find that aweless (hat tip @zachweinersmith.bsky.social)
And I find that aweless (hat tip @zachweinersmith.bsky.social)
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On commence à voir apparaitre des motions en lien avec la disparition de postes décidée unilatéralement par la Direction Général après les jurys d'admission
Plusieurs postes CR Inria (au moins 3 sur 18) n'ont pas été pourvus alors qu'il restait des personnes sur liste complémentaire. Ceci se rajoute à un poste DR externe (sur 2).
Plus de budget ? Plafond d'emploi dépassé ? Ou "stratégie" scientifique ? Pour l'instant nous n'avons pas d'information.
Plus de budget ? Plafond d'emploi dépassé ? Ou "stratégie" scientifique ? Pour l'instant nous n'avons pas d'information.
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
On commence à voir apparaitre des motions en lien avec la disparition de postes décidée unilatéralement par la Direction Général après les jurys d'admission
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Vous aviez aimé 20 ans de gel du point d'indice ?
November 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Vous aviez aimé 20 ans de gel du point d'indice ?
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Mais si je prends du recul sur toute l'audition, ce que je vois surtout c'est une impuissance totale. Le Ministre ne peut rien sur :
- le budget, quelle que soit la destination
- la répartition des budgets
- la stratégie de recherche ou d'enseignement.
- le secteur privé
- le budget, quelle que soit la destination
- la répartition des budgets
- la stratégie de recherche ou d'enseignement.
- le secteur privé
November 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Mais si je prends du recul sur toute l'audition, ce que je vois surtout c'est une impuissance totale. Le Ministre ne peut rien sur :
- le budget, quelle que soit la destination
- la répartition des budgets
- la stratégie de recherche ou d'enseignement.
- le secteur privé
- le budget, quelle que soit la destination
- la répartition des budgets
- la stratégie de recherche ou d'enseignement.
- le secteur privé
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La question que je me suis posée en lisant tout est : est-ce que vraiment le Ministre accuse les universités d'être une « bande de nuls » « complètement à la ramasse » ?
Quand notre ministre de tutelle nous insulte devant la représentation nationale. "Bande de nuls" "complètement à la ramasse".
Nous reprocher des taux de réussite faible à Horizon Europe et ERC, quand manquent les moyens pour assurer nos missions de service public. Surtout changez rien!👌
Nous reprocher des taux de réussite faible à Horizon Europe et ERC, quand manquent les moyens pour assurer nos missions de service public. Surtout changez rien!👌
November 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
La question que je me suis posée en lisant tout est : est-ce que vraiment le Ministre accuse les universités d'être une « bande de nuls » « complètement à la ramasse » ?
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A few things to be aware of today (besides election results):
1) CNN is far from my favorite news source, but not many outlets are talking about this yet. Contacts at #gsfc have confirmed that this is very much a source of concern right now. www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...
@roguenasa.altgov.info
1) CNN is far from my favorite news source, but not many outlets are talking about this yet. Contacts at #gsfc have confirmed that this is very much a source of concern right now. www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...
@roguenasa.altgov.info
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear | CNN
Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.
www.cnn.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A few things to be aware of today (besides election results):
1) CNN is far from my favorite news source, but not many outlets are talking about this yet. Contacts at #gsfc have confirmed that this is very much a source of concern right now. www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...
@roguenasa.altgov.info
1) CNN is far from my favorite news source, but not many outlets are talking about this yet. Contacts at #gsfc have confirmed that this is very much a source of concern right now. www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...
@roguenasa.altgov.info
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🚨 Please help boost this in the German bluesky-sphere 🚨
Does anyone wanna help me put something together for German academia finally? Open letter…? I‘m so fed up.
apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
November 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
🚨 Please help boost this in the German bluesky-sphere 🚨
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If you think that AI in inevitable now that it exists, please cast your mind back within THIS DECADE when NFTs and Blockchain and AR were all the future and “inevitable,” but completely burned out as actually viable technologies.
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
If you think that AI in inevitable now that it exists, please cast your mind back within THIS DECADE when NFTs and Blockchain and AR were all the future and “inevitable,” but completely burned out as actually viable technologies.
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LLMs are racist snd sexist because the material they’re trained on is racist snd sexist and they’re owned and operated by racist, sexist billionaires.
Stop using this shit. It’s fucking up your brain.
Stop using this shit. It’s fucking up your brain.
When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature
Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...
www.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
LLMs are racist snd sexist because the material they’re trained on is racist snd sexist and they’re owned and operated by racist, sexist billionaires.
Stop using this shit. It’s fucking up your brain.
Stop using this shit. It’s fucking up your brain.
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It's not like we were born with an innate understanding of N95 masks and airborne transmission. Many of us put in the intellectual effort to understand it, starting in 2020. You don't need a medical degree to understand this stuff. It has been explained, and explained, and explained.
November 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
It's not like we were born with an innate understanding of N95 masks and airborne transmission. Many of us put in the intellectual effort to understand it, starting in 2020. You don't need a medical degree to understand this stuff. It has been explained, and explained, and explained.
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The Torch 2 injection molds are being made. This is the last 3D printed working model. There are just a few fiddly bits on the PCB we are finalizing.
Smol lady hands so hard to tell scale- it's a little chunky at 188mm x 60mm x 60mm but still much smaller than the original Torch kit.
Smol lady hands so hard to tell scale- it's a little chunky at 188mm x 60mm x 60mm but still much smaller than the original Torch kit.
November 2, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The Torch 2 injection molds are being made. This is the last 3D printed working model. There are just a few fiddly bits on the PCB we are finalizing.
Smol lady hands so hard to tell scale- it's a little chunky at 188mm x 60mm x 60mm but still much smaller than the original Torch kit.
Smol lady hands so hard to tell scale- it's a little chunky at 188mm x 60mm x 60mm but still much smaller than the original Torch kit.
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Donc en réalité, une lecture de cette position politique est "Si vous avez des difficultés financières, ce n'est pas en raison des décisions du gouvernement, mais à cause de votre propre incapacités à obtenir des moyens".
On pourra vérifier avec le verbatim, mais j'ai vraiment peu de doutes.
On pourra vérifier avec le verbatim, mais j'ai vraiment peu de doutes.
November 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Donc en réalité, une lecture de cette position politique est "Si vous avez des difficultés financières, ce n'est pas en raison des décisions du gouvernement, mais à cause de votre propre incapacités à obtenir des moyens".
On pourra vérifier avec le verbatim, mais j'ai vraiment peu de doutes.
On pourra vérifier avec le verbatim, mais j'ai vraiment peu de doutes.
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9. As such, and this is vital to understand, anything that disrupts the immune system of a population, even temporarily, becomes a gap that pathogens *can and will* exploit.
In short, listen to what people say, not just the data, and think like a pathogen, not a human.
/end
In short, listen to what people say, not just the data, and think like a pathogen, not a human.
/end
November 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
9. As such, and this is vital to understand, anything that disrupts the immune system of a population, even temporarily, becomes a gap that pathogens *can and will* exploit.
In short, listen to what people say, not just the data, and think like a pathogen, not a human.
/end
In short, listen to what people say, not just the data, and think like a pathogen, not a human.
/end
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L’université française est sommée d’être compétitive en recherche avec Oxford ou le MIT tout en assurant les fonctions d’un community college, le tout pour pas cher et avec une bureaucratie au top
Bien sûr que l'enseignant chercheur moyen n'est pas "compétitif" à l'échelle européenne en recherche... Et en soit c'est pas forcément grave on pourrait s'en foutre. Ce qui est grave c'est de faire semblant que ça l'est sans jamais évoquer les causes qui sont pourtant totalement systémiques .
October 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
L’université française est sommée d’être compétitive en recherche avec Oxford ou le MIT tout en assurant les fonctions d’un community college, le tout pour pas cher et avec une bureaucratie au top
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Bien sûr que l'enseignant chercheur moyen n'est pas "compétitif" à l'échelle européenne en recherche... Et en soit c'est pas forcément grave on pourrait s'en foutre. Ce qui est grave c'est de faire semblant que ça l'est sans jamais évoquer les causes qui sont pourtant totalement systémiques .
October 31, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Bien sûr que l'enseignant chercheur moyen n'est pas "compétitif" à l'échelle européenne en recherche... Et en soit c'est pas forcément grave on pourrait s'en foutre. Ce qui est grave c'est de faire semblant que ça l'est sans jamais évoquer les causes qui sont pourtant totalement systémiques .
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they've turned data center construction into *mortgage backed securities*
how is it possible for one kind of technology to be bad in so many different ways at once. that's their real achievement
how is it possible for one kind of technology to be bad in so many different ways at once. that's their real achievement
October 31, 2025 at 4:50 AM
they've turned data center construction into *mortgage backed securities*
how is it possible for one kind of technology to be bad in so many different ways at once. that's their real achievement
how is it possible for one kind of technology to be bad in so many different ways at once. that's their real achievement
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Amazon is laying off 30,000 workers, after CEO Andrew Jassy laid the groundwork by talking up the productivity gains from AI over the summer, saying they'd need fewer employees.
Amazon's own workers, meanwhile, say that's BS. AI hasn't been "transformational"—AMZ just needs the $$ for data centers.
Amazon's own workers, meanwhile, say that's BS. AI hasn't been "transformational"—AMZ just needs the $$ for data centers.
Amazon to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs, reports say | CNN Business
Amazon is laying off as many as 30,000 corporate employees beginning tomorrow, reports say.
www.cnn.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Amazon is laying off 30,000 workers, after CEO Andrew Jassy laid the groundwork by talking up the productivity gains from AI over the summer, saying they'd need fewer employees.
Amazon's own workers, meanwhile, say that's BS. AI hasn't been "transformational"—AMZ just needs the $$ for data centers.
Amazon's own workers, meanwhile, say that's BS. AI hasn't been "transformational"—AMZ just needs the $$ for data centers.
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“I already ban the use of generative AI in my own courses, and as a promoter of master’s theses. I explicitly tell my students they won’t learn anything by using it. [...] A general ban is necessary, but nobody dares to say so.”
🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
October 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
“I already ban the use of generative AI in my own courses, and as a promoter of master’s theses. I explicitly tell my students they won’t learn anything by using it. [...] A general ban is necessary, but nobody dares to say so.”
🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
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Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.