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Facundo Decunta
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PhD candidate, UBA-CONICET. Ecologist and data scientist. fdecunta.com
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Agriculture drives more biodiversity loss than any other sector, with ruminant meat causing extinction risks ~340× higher than grains by mass and ~100× higher than legumes both by mass and when adjusted for protein.
September 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Fun to remember that the internet is mostly huge submarine cables under the sea. And in Argentina, all of them are on a single beach!
August 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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trend: non-NVIDIA training

DeepSeek V3.1 was trained on Huawei Ascend NPUs

this one is a South Korean lab training on AMD
Motif 2.6B — compact model with long context

unique: trained on AMD GPUs

focus is on long context & low hallucination rate — imo this is a growing genre of LLM that enables new search patterns

huggingface.co/Motif-Techno...
Motif-Technologies/Motif-2.6B · Hugging Face
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August 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I liked this quote: "I think the major issue is inexperienced human drivers of AI that aren't able to adequately review their generated code."

When it comes to writing, this is true for young researchers like me. Writing is not just putting stuff into a doc, it's about thinking clearly!
August 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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The rise in A.I. preprints and plagiarism
nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com/articles/d41...
August 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM