Giovanni Toffetti
@gtof.bsky.social
Father of 2 girls, senior lecturer @ZHAW🇨🇭, interested in robots 🤖, AI 🧠, cloud ☁️
https://gtoff.github.io/
https://gtoff.github.io/
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Giovanni Toffetti
@gtof.bsky.social
· Nov 27
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A showcase of my recent professional work
gtoff.github.io
I updated my GitHub page with a showcase of our recent work in robotics: gtoff.github.io
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i'm surprised that nobody has called the elon's golden gating of grok "elon-gating" yet
(i guess it's a bit of a stretch)
(i guess it's a bit of a stretch)
November 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
i'm surprised that nobody has called the elon's golden gating of grok "elon-gating" yet
(i guess it's a bit of a stretch)
(i guess it's a bit of a stretch)
"Awkward wording, evident throughout the document, suggests that at least some of it was originally written in Russian."
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"Awkward wording, evident throughout the document, suggests that at least some of it was originally written in Russian."
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We used to be a society
November 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
We used to be a society
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Once again astonished that Elon is building a propaganda machine in public, saying "hello, here is my propaganda machine", and the tech community continues to use it
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Once again astonished that Elon is building a propaganda machine in public, saying "hello, here is my propaganda machine", and the tech community continues to use it
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This is so good. Its actually folding like a human would. The socks look great. Its autonomous, not teleop. It looks like a sim but its real.
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This is so good. Its actually folding like a human would. The socks look great. Its autonomous, not teleop. It looks like a sim but its real.
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Unitree H2 base model is < $30,000 USD. Incredibly cheap. Most people will buy the H2 EDU for I assume $50-60k but still
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Unitree H2 base model is < $30,000 USD. Incredibly cheap. Most people will buy the H2 EDU for I assume $50-60k but still
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🇨🇭 🇪🇺 Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin and EU Research Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva signed the Swiss-EU Programme Agreement (#EUPA) in Bern. This means that Switzerland is once again definitively associated with #HorizonEurope, the world's largest research programme.
➡️ sohub.io/4tjw
📷 WBF/DEFR
➡️ sohub.io/4tjw
📷 WBF/DEFR
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🇨🇭 🇪🇺 Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin and EU Research Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva signed the Swiss-EU Programme Agreement (#EUPA) in Bern. This means that Switzerland is once again definitively associated with #HorizonEurope, the world's largest research programme.
➡️ sohub.io/4tjw
📷 WBF/DEFR
➡️ sohub.io/4tjw
📷 WBF/DEFR
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This (not from that piece) is one of those charts where I am completely aware of the data but my mental map of how the global economy works still almost refuses to update to the new reality. Because the pace of change has been so rapid.
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This (not from that piece) is one of those charts where I am completely aware of the data but my mental map of how the global economy works still almost refuses to update to the new reality. Because the pace of change has been so rapid.
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Generalist AI has a new blog post detailing their "harmonic reasoning" model GEN-0 generalistai.com/blog/nov-04-...
Video is autonomous
Video is autonomous
November 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Generalist AI has a new blog post detailing their "harmonic reasoning" model GEN-0 generalistai.com/blog/nov-04-...
Video is autonomous
Video is autonomous
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Farage is winning because politics has been reduced to clickbait.
It’s a shallow spectacle that favours clowns and con-artists.
As @jemmaforte.bsky.social says here - politics has been “repackaged into junk food.”
But there are ways for the left to fight back 👇🏻
It’s a shallow spectacle that favours clowns and con-artists.
As @jemmaforte.bsky.social says here - politics has been “repackaged into junk food.”
But there are ways for the left to fight back 👇🏻
The political entertainment industry
📝 A guest essay...
writesbright.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Farage is winning because politics has been reduced to clickbait.
It’s a shallow spectacle that favours clowns and con-artists.
As @jemmaforte.bsky.social says here - politics has been “repackaged into junk food.”
But there are ways for the left to fight back 👇🏻
It’s a shallow spectacle that favours clowns and con-artists.
As @jemmaforte.bsky.social says here - politics has been “repackaged into junk food.”
But there are ways for the left to fight back 👇🏻
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This labeler is such a clever way of making spam visible. Bluesky wins yet again: bsky.app/profile/stec...
November 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This labeler is such a clever way of making spam visible. Bluesky wins yet again: bsky.app/profile/stec...
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ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
It's fascinating how language shapes behavior. In Switzerland, all-you-can-eat restaurants are called "à discretion" - literally meaning "at your discretion."
"All you can eat" frames it as a challenge: how much CAN you eat? It's almost inviting you to maximize consumption.
"All you can eat" frames it as a challenge: how much CAN you eat? It's almost inviting you to maximize consumption.
October 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
It's fascinating how language shapes behavior. In Switzerland, all-you-can-eat restaurants are called "à discretion" - literally meaning "at your discretion."
"All you can eat" frames it as a challenge: how much CAN you eat? It's almost inviting you to maximize consumption.
"All you can eat" frames it as a challenge: how much CAN you eat? It's almost inviting you to maximize consumption.
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The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/
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This paper was referenced by @Andrej Karpathy in recent podcast.
Transformers learn in-context by gradient descent
arxiv.org/abs/2212.07677
Transformers learn in-context by gradient descent
arxiv.org/abs/2212.07677
October 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This paper was referenced by @Andrej Karpathy in recent podcast.
Transformers learn in-context by gradient descent
arxiv.org/abs/2212.07677
Transformers learn in-context by gradient descent
arxiv.org/abs/2212.07677
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"Senza un’informazione basata sui fatti e non manipolata, la libertà d’opinione diventa una beffa crudele."
Ricordando Hannah Arendt, nata il #14ottobre 1906.
Ricordando Hannah Arendt, nata il #14ottobre 1906.
October 14, 2025 at 5:08 AM
"Senza un’informazione basata sui fatti e non manipolata, la libertà d’opinione diventa una beffa crudele."
Ricordando Hannah Arendt, nata il #14ottobre 1906.
Ricordando Hannah Arendt, nata il #14ottobre 1906.
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“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”
Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students
A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.
www.edweek.org
October 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”
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“Images are becoming so realistic, we now question everything we see online,” @Gruzd.ca, a Toronto Metropolitan University professor and the Canada Research Chair in Privacy-Preserving Digital Technologies, said. “Society cannot operate if we don’t know what’s true and what’s not.”
January 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
“Images are becoming so realistic, we now question everything we see online,” @Gruzd.ca, a Toronto Metropolitan University professor and the Canada Research Chair in Privacy-Preserving Digital Technologies, said. “Society cannot operate if we don’t know what’s true and what’s not.”
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The state of LLMs is messy: Some AI features (like vision) lag others (like tool use) while others have blind spots (imagegen and clocks). And the expensive "heavy thinking" models are now very far ahead of all the other AIs that most people use, capable of real work
None of this is well-documented
None of this is well-documented
October 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The state of LLMs is messy: Some AI features (like vision) lag others (like tool use) while others have blind spots (imagegen and clocks). And the expensive "heavy thinking" models are now very far ahead of all the other AIs that most people use, capable of real work
None of this is well-documented
None of this is well-documented
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Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.
Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.
Legacy media failed the country.
Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.
Legacy media failed the country.
October 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.
Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.
Legacy media failed the country.
Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.
Legacy media failed the country.
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Final blog post on the visualization medium.com/@mark-riedl/...
Visualizing the Influence of Federal Funding on the AI Boom
The Transformer was invented in Google. Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) was not invented in industry labs, but is most…
medium.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Final blog post on the visualization medium.com/@mark-riedl/...
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To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity
To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity
A millennial does battle with Redmond's enterprise tools and comes away reeling
Comment Probably the single most common argument against switching to Linux is the absolute non-negotiable requirement of many organizations to have Microsoft Exchange. Here's a fascinating glimpse of the view from the other side.…
dlvr.it
September 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM
To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity
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Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall
September 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall