Jesús Ramos Guillou

1+1=0 y me llevo 1.
RT ≠ endorsement

Siempre aprendiendo

[Borja Adsuara Varela ⚖️ @adsuara]

El servicio de inteligencia ruso declara en busca y captura a Pável Durov, CEO de Telegram, por “colaborar con actividad terrorista”
Le acusa de no eliminar material usado por Ucrania para “preparar y coordinar actos de sabotaje y terrorismo”
https://t.co/iKupY0h9zO
Vía @el_pais

[Charlie D. Becker @charliedbecker]

I'm a second-generation bookseller. My family runs Houston's largest used & rare bookstore and I'm building an AI tool for used bookstores. We got hit by exactly these orders, including a single order for 70 obscure books that made us pause online sales entirely. So I dug in. I don't think this connects the way people want it to.

Every ingredient of the viral story is true. ISBNdb really does advertise sourcing books for AI companies. Anthropic really did destructively scan millions of books though they were mostly acquired through things like library deaccessions, not bookstore inventory. And booksellers really are getting bizarre bulk orders. But "rare" here isn't what you're picturing. It's The Insider's Guide to Metro Denver (1995) and how-to-use-WordPerfect 1991 manuals. Obscure, but often not precious.

When we combed through our orders, nearly every book bought from us was either unavailable on Amazon or listed there at 5, 10, 20x our price on the platform they were purchased on. And the shipments are going to FBA prep companies: which is what you do with a book you're about to resell, not one you're about to cut apart. There is more than circumstantial evidence that this is a well-funded company running algorithmic arbitrage, buying underpriced or out-of-stock books to relist on Amazon at markup. This evidence includes an official denial that they are selling to train AI but I don't want to mention them for several reasons. You can Google it.

That's more mundane than the shredder story. The actual risk is worse, though, because it's quieter: books that don't sell via FBA eventually get liquidated. If we really hold the last copies of some of these (and comparing platforms, it looks like we might) we're feeding them into a portal they may not come back from. No AI company required.

Everyone assumes the internet preserved everything. It didn't. Many of these books have almost no metadata anywhere, just a scattered listings across proprietary databases then nothing. That's what my project is for: building better bibliographic records for these books than exist anywhere else, so we at least have a map of what we stand to lose. So the Library of Alexandria is still burning, just more slowly, and kore from “who cares” than from some cinematic villain.

(I am open to being corrected.)

Full writeup: https://t.co/tHXMH0L3us

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New Anthropic research: Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude.

Claude Mythos Preview has helped our researchers find weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms—the mathematical methods that are used to keep data private.

Read more: https://t.co/TYKLjb3Q7V

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

Fifteen years ago, @Coursera and online courses changed education. It worked better than almost anyone expected, expanding access by opening up where you can learn. But how you learn remains largely the same as it has for centuries: it is still one-size-fits-all, taught the same way to each person who shows up.

We now have an opportunity to change how learning happens. With advances in AI, we can now build a custom learning guide for each person. We will turn learning from one‑to‑many to one‑to‑one. I'm starting LearnVector to invent this next generation of learning. We are starting with a $100M investment from Coursera, and plan to collaborate closely with Coursera and Udemy.

Good learning needs much more than just a chatbot. Research shows that chatbots without guardrails harm learning. They help complete tasks and enable students to do better on homework. But cognitive offloading to a chatbot results in them being less skilled. And, you cannot always trust what a chatbot tells you.

In contrast, LearnVector will plan a path with you, adapt to how you learn, and patiently stay with you until you’ve mastered new skills.

One thing has not changed in all this time. People want learning they can trust: material that is accurate, relevant, and worth the effort you put into it. Anything less wastes the most valuable thing a learner has: time. Coursera has a trusted library of materials from authoritative sources. LearnVector plans to work with Coursera to bring this trustworthy learning to everyone. I'm grateful to Greg Hart and the entire Coursera team for supporting LearnVector.

I look forward to working with our talented team to change how we learn, and accelerate human development.

https://t.co/TqFUDFd1hb

[Enrique Dans @edans]

El cable era el cuello de botella
https://t.co/wOF3LacSGz

[BRIF Puerto el Pico @brifpuertopico]

Ayer a nuestra llegada #IfBurgohondo , maniobra de Estacionamiento,llegamos dnd no llega nadie , Pilotos y Bomberos Forestales #BRIF , entrenamos y nos preparamos para lo extremo ,mostramos nuestro trabajo xq nos enorgullece lo que hacemos. @Rotorsun @mitecogob seguimos 🚁🧑‍🚒

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

My goodness. Never seen anything quite like this just now on French news @le20hfrancetele

A quarter of a million people forced to leave their homes. Firemen exhausted in the unequal fight. Huge area around Bordeaux engulfed in flames

Please give it a watch
My Eng subtitles

[Ankor Inclán @ankorinclan]

"Quien modela un animal en barro no está decorando una cueva. Está nombrando el mundo."

Hace 15.000 años, en el fondo de una cueva de los Pirineos franceses, alguien tomó arcilla húmeda del suelo, la moldeó con las manos y creó dos bisontes de tamaño casi natural apoyados contra una roca. Luego salió de la cueva, atravesó la oscuridad y volvió a su vida.

Las esculturas de Le Tuc d'Audoubert fueron descubiertas el 10 de octubre de 1912 por los tres hijos del conde Henri Bégouën, que entraron a la cueva remando en una pequeña barca por el río subterráneo que la atraviesa. Al fondo, en una galería solo accesible atravesando pasillos estrechos, encontraron los dos bisontes de arcilla intactos exactamente como los había dejado quien los modeló durante el período Magdaleniense. En el suelo de alrededor había huellas de talón, como si alguien hubiera estado de rodillas trabajando la arcilla y luego se hubiera incorporado para mirar el resultado.

Lo que hace excepcionales a estos bisontes no es solo su antigüedad sino su técnica. El escultor aprovechó una roca natural como base y soporte, calculando el equilibrio de cada figura para que se sostuviera sin estructura adicional. Las superficies fueron trabajadas con los dedos y con herramientas de hueso o sílex. El bisonte más grande mide 61 centímetros. Los detalles anatómicos, la joroba, la barba, la musculatura, son precisos hasta un punto que sugiere que quien los hizo los conocía desde muy cerca.

Las esculturas nunca fueron movidas desde 1912. Siguen en el mismo punto donde las dejaron hace quince milenios, en una cueva de acceso restringido en Ariège, Francia. Solo los investigadores autorizados pueden verlas. El suelo de alrededor, con las huellas originales preservadas, está protegido desde el primer día.

[Muse @xmuse_]

In a bedroom of ancient Pompeii, a story from Greek myth was painted on the wall.

This fresco of Leda and the Swan, Zeus in disguise, and the origins of Helen of Troy.

2,000 years later, after Vesuvius froze the city in time, the fresco is still here.

[educación forestal🇪🇺 @eforestal]

Cifras a tener en cuenta por los incendios
🔥#IFBurgohondo #IFSierraOeste.

% del municipio afectado:
Casavieja: 89,50 %
Piedralaves: 88,07 %
Navas del Rey: 85,09 %
Pelayos de la Presa: 73,93 %
El Tiemblo: 68,43 %
San Martín de Valdeiglesias: 58,23 %
Navaluenga: 57,66 %

[U.S. Embassy Madrid 🇺🇸🇪🇸 @USembassyMadrid]

Comunicado de la NASA sobre el Complejo de Comunicaciones del Espacio Profundo de Madrid (MDSCC): Todo el personal del MDSCC se encuentra a salvo, y la NASA expresa su sincero agradecimiento a los servicios de emergencia españoles y a los miembros del Ministerio de Defensa y del Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades por su profesionalidad y sus incansables esfuerzos para proteger las instalaciones en condiciones extremadamente difíciles.

La NASA también tiene presentes en sus socios de la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA), cuyo personal e instalaciones en la región se han visto afectados por la emergencia de los incendios forestales.

[Josef Aschbacher @AschbacherJosef]

Based on current information, the Cebreros station appears to have remained unharmed. My deepest thanks go to the Spanish emergency services whose efforts helped protect the site as wildfires approached.

The safety of our people remains my highest priority. All ESA workforce is safe and accounted for, although many colleagues continue to be affected by the wider emergency situation. I keep you all in my thoughts.

We remain in close contact with the relevant authorities as the situation continues to evolve. As always, I will keep my workforce and the public informed. Please keep safe.

Extreme heat and subsequent wildfires are the clearest indication that our climate is changing. I pledge to continue to advocate for increased monitoring and understanding of our planet.

More info: https://t.co/3vWKN3aAZf

Left: 24 July 19:57, Right: 25 July 07:54

[educación forestal🇪🇺 @eforestal]

Vídeo de interés formativo.
Aquí de puede apreciar cómo el fuego es empujado por el fuerte viento y cómo se va comportando según la carga de vegetación que encuentra.

[Cristian Córdova 🐧 @barckcode]

El mayor dataset de código armado y listo para entrenar modelos.

Tremendo esto 👏🏾

[Comité Olímpico Español @COE_es]

👑 EL REY DEL MUNDO ES ESPAÑOL🇪🇸🌍

🛶🥇 ¡Miquel Travé es CAMPEÓN DEL MUNDO en C1!

El español firma una bajada sencillamente espectacular en Oklahoma City, sede olímpica de Los Ángeles 2028, para conquistar el oro mundial.

¡ENHORABUENA! 👏🔥

[BRIF Puerto el Pico @brifpuertopico]

#ifBurgohondo preparando el impacto Casavieja , @brif_iglesuela y @bomberosdeavila , juntos otros medios

[daniele grasso @danielegrasso]

Desde la tarde de este viernes damos en abierto para todos, sin paywall, el tracker de incendios.

Es la información de satélites lo más actualizada posible:
https://t.co/tqYU8vJYb2

[Jürgen Schmidhuber @SchmidhuberAI]

I support open-source models distilling what commercial companies distilled for free from the entire internet. I published distillation for free in 1991 in Europe - this was copied in the US and in China (https://t.co/mddh8XmfAs)

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Open-weight models are essential to a healthy AI ecosystem. Together with others across our industry, we are outlining a path for open-weight models to strengthen American competitiveness and expand economic opportunity, while protecting national security. https://t.co/Tr0sAzAxTD