Alvaro Videla
@oldsound.bsky.social
Author of words and code. Sometimes I read books.
Pinned
I don’t remember a word from this boon but still I highly recommend it
October 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I don’t remember a word from this boon but still I highly recommend it
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Promptend developer.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Promptend developer.
When I met Ted Chiang
October 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
When I met Ted Chiang
What we cannot speak about we must passover in silence
September 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
What we cannot speak about we must passover in silence
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So much for everyone who thinks these things are just cute toys that let parents take video of their kids discreetly. Meta is building facial recognition and AI into future models.
ICE is wearing Meta's camera glasses.
From yesterday and today: it certainly appears ICE in Chicago are wearing the Meta AI Ray-Ban glasses.
September 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
So much for everyone who thinks these things are just cute toys that let parents take video of their kids discreetly. Meta is building facial recognition and AI into future models.
Esta traducción de Borges al inglés es tan mala. Siempre que se me da por leer algún cuento en inglés encuentro errores.
September 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Esta traducción de Borges al inglés es tan mala. Siempre que se me da por leer algún cuento en inglés encuentro errores.
“Semiotics studied everything that can be used to lie”
September 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
“Semiotics studied everything that can be used to lie”
Some of my latest acquisitions
August 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Some of my latest acquisitions
Claude Lévi-Strauss I had heavily underestimated you. I’m sorry.
August 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Claude Lévi-Strauss I had heavily underestimated you. I’m sorry.
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The amount of times books arrive like this in Switzerland is amazing. I do wonder if the Latino guy getting a lot of packages gets them nervous. “He was importing culture again, Sir”.
August 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The amount of times books arrive like this in Switzerland is amazing. I do wonder if the Latino guy getting a lot of packages gets them nervous. “He was importing culture again, Sir”.
I thought Uruguayan literature had peaked. I was wrong.
August 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I thought Uruguayan literature had peaked. I was wrong.
It’s not the AGI we wanted but the one we deserved (?)
August 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It’s not the AGI we wanted but the one we deserved (?)
This book belongs in the forbidden area of the shelves. “Cult of Truth. From Borges to Bocaccio” by Maria Rosa Menocal
August 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This book belongs in the forbidden area of the shelves. “Cult of Truth. From Borges to Bocaccio” by Maria Rosa Menocal
1970 magazine when “desktop” wasn’t yet a single word.
August 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
1970 magazine when “desktop” wasn’t yet a single word.
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Computer books? Yeah I have those
November 21, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Computer books? Yeah I have those
Soviet books for children
July 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Soviet books for children
One of my most treasured books in my library
July 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
One of my most treasured books in my library
This gives me library of Alexandria levels of anger
A few years ago they moved their technical documentation team to the spaceship, to an office that had NO bookshelves. They posted on Slack that their entire library was basically up for grabs.
I got an autographed copy of Ted Nelson’s Possiplex out of it, among other treasures.
I got an autographed copy of Ted Nelson’s Possiplex out of it, among other treasures.
July 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This gives me library of Alexandria levels of anger
Lady at the Bookshop in Crete told me “not sure what you do, but your are no just a programmer” based on my book selection. She proceeded to gift me Cavafis’ book.
July 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Lady at the Bookshop in Crete told me “not sure what you do, but your are no just a programmer” based on my book selection. She proceeded to gift me Cavafis’ book.
I just received this book. Italy 1965. The story of programming languages and computers until then. The author sadly died very young. 3 years earlier Stanislao Valsesia had proposed a retrieval system using weights and probability much like what we use today with AI.
May 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I just received this book. Italy 1965. The story of programming languages and computers until then. The author sadly died very young. 3 years earlier Stanislao Valsesia had proposed a retrieval system using weights and probability much like what we use today with AI.
I had no idea opening the ACM magazine was so dangerous. Those papers can really cut deep 😅
February 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I had no idea opening the ACM magazine was so dangerous. Those papers can really cut deep 😅
Aus eigene Gefahr- At Your Own Risk
February 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Aus eigene Gefahr- At Your Own Risk