Giorgio Gilestro
@giorgio.gilest.ro
Associate Professor at Imperial College London. Geek. Curious. Opinionated.
https://lab.gilest.ro | lab website, science blog
https://giorgio.gilest.ro | politics and science comms
https://drosophila.social/@giorgiogilestro | mastodon
https://lab.gilest.ro | lab website, science blog
https://giorgio.gilest.ro | politics and science comms
https://drosophila.social/@giorgiogilestro | mastodon
Dear US colleagues, can you please let me know if you are actually using these ridiculous evaluations you keep asking for? Are you aware that giving percentiles within a distribution is absolutely useless unless you know something absolute about that distribution? Such a waste of everyone's time.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Dear US colleagues, can you please let me know if you are actually using these ridiculous evaluations you keep asking for? Are you aware that giving percentiles within a distribution is absolutely useless unless you know something absolute about that distribution? Such a waste of everyone's time.
My son's Microsoft account got hacked by some other kid. The best @microsoft.com can do is acknowledge the intrusion and show us the middle finger. Five years of progresses gone and buy the game again thank you very much. All this because their own security is sub par.
July 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
My son's Microsoft account got hacked by some other kid. The best @microsoft.com can do is acknowledge the intrusion and show us the middle finger. Five years of progresses gone and buy the game again thank you very much. All this because their own security is sub par.
Gemini-cli is an utter joke. It's like the crazy cousin of Claude code. A complete disaster for me. Here I have asked to replace a js widget and it went on opening random files that had nothing to do then told me he cannot perform sexual stuff. Excuse me?
July 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Gemini-cli is an utter joke. It's like the crazy cousin of Claude code. A complete disaster for me. Here I have asked to replace a js widget and it went on opening random files that had nothing to do then told me he cannot perform sexual stuff. Excuse me?
After a few tweakings, Musk finally got us a nazi Hitler apologetic that more closely aligns with the rest of the platform. All it needs is a more hatred towards black and trans. Has the line been crossed yet @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social - what more do we need to see? Do we even have a redline?
July 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
After a few tweakings, Musk finally got us a nazi Hitler apologetic that more closely aligns with the rest of the platform. All it needs is a more hatred towards black and trans. Has the line been crossed yet @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social - what more do we need to see? Do we even have a redline?
A friendly "plane wave" to Iran. awww.
Are they also going to drop confetti and marshmallow on Gaza?
Are they also going to drop confetti and marshmallow on Gaza?
June 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A friendly "plane wave" to Iran. awww.
Are they also going to drop confetti and marshmallow on Gaza?
Are they also going to drop confetti and marshmallow on Gaza?
Riot of liberty - a 2020 work of artist "whatshisname". Rather timely.
June 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Riot of liberty - a 2020 work of artist "whatshisname". Rather timely.
Today, Starmer felt the need to go on X and reinforce his anti-immigration message and received so far 4700 replies. By the look of it, half call him fascist and the other half say "too little too late". Hope he realises how idiotic that move has been.
May 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Today, Starmer felt the need to go on X and reinforce his anti-immigration message and received so far 4700 replies. By the look of it, half call him fascist and the other half say "too little too late". Hope he realises how idiotic that move has been.
"We should spend less time worrying about Putin, and more time worrying about migrant rape gangs, drug lords, murderers, and people from mental institutions entering our Country – So that we don't end up like Europe!"
March 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
"We should spend less time worrying about Putin, and more time worrying about migrant rape gangs, drug lords, murderers, and people from mental institutions entering our Country – So that we don't end up like Europe!"
The belly dancers having a big fat black beard must be Grok's way of trolling Elon when it's forced to create this nonsense in the middle of the night. We're with you, Grok. You'll be rescued.
February 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The belly dancers having a big fat black beard must be Grok's way of trolling Elon when it's forced to create this nonsense in the middle of the night. We're with you, Grok. You'll be rescued.
Looking at these many maps of Germany, all showing the massive segregation of eastern territories, I am reminded of all the discussions I had with economists back in 2013 when Piketty's book came out. They kept arguing inequality does not matter, as it's not a problem but part of the natural order.
February 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Looking at these many maps of Germany, all showing the massive segregation of eastern territories, I am reminded of all the discussions I had with economists back in 2013 when Piketty's book came out. They kept arguing inequality does not matter, as it's not a problem but part of the natural order.
Court? Where we're going we don't need courts.
February 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Court? Where we're going we don't need courts.
This is quite literally like watching one of those American Mafia movies starring De Niro and Joe Pesci.
February 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This is quite literally like watching one of those American Mafia movies starring De Niro and Joe Pesci.
It's too bad this big beautiful ocean was not discovered until recently. We would have avoided decades of cold war.
February 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
It's too bad this big beautiful ocean was not discovered until recently. We would have avoided decades of cold war.
The smartest thing Carney can do is to start talks for Canada to join the EU. Let's fight back and expand the brotherhood.
February 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The smartest thing Carney can do is to start talks for Canada to join the EU. Let's fight back and expand the brotherhood.
Step 2 will be to remove the extramural purse from the NIH and transfer it to the single States (pg 462)
February 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Step 2 will be to remove the extramural purse from the NIH and transfer it to the single States (pg 462)
Read project 2025 if you want to know what's coming next to Universities in the USA. The first step was to cap indirect costs to the same level negotiated with charities (pg 355).
February 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Read project 2025 if you want to know what's coming next to Universities in the USA. The first step was to cap indirect costs to the same level negotiated with charities (pg 355).
A reminder to my American friends that eggs price is driven almost exclusively by viral outbreaks and that the USA are particularly affected because they still allow battery cages (outlawed in the EU in 2012). Trump complains but there are good reasons why the EU will not buy US farm products
February 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A reminder to my American friends that eggs price is driven almost exclusively by viral outbreaks and that the USA are particularly affected because they still allow battery cages (outlawed in the EU in 2012). Trump complains but there are good reasons why the EU will not buy US farm products
This whole thing makes so little sense that maybe, just maybe, it really all goes down to just this.
February 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This whole thing makes so little sense that maybe, just maybe, it really all goes down to just this.
On the left the page as it was last week. On the right, the new page.
February 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
On the left the page as it was last week. On the right, the new page.
Congrats to @sleepytit.bsky.social, now officially Dr. Sleepytit. Laurence is the latest and 7th PhD to graduate from the lab, with a great work on the use of ML to identify and characterise sleep stages in flies. If you are hiring data scientists, don't miss him. @imperiallifesci.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Congrats to @sleepytit.bsky.social, now officially Dr. Sleepytit. Laurence is the latest and 7th PhD to graduate from the lab, with a great work on the use of ML to identify and characterise sleep stages in flies. If you are hiring data scientists, don't miss him. @imperiallifesci.bsky.social
Please, never do this.
January 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Please, never do this.
