Xavier Sánchez Díaz

@[email protected] 🐘 / @saxarona 🦋
PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence @NTNU. Previously research assoc. in Intelligent Systems @TecdeMonterrey.

[Xavier Sánchez Díaz @saxarona]

EvoLP.jl v2.0 is out now, to commemorate 4 years since I arrived in Norway for my PhD 🥳

It features island models for EAs using MPI. And we have used it successfully on @ntnuhpc!

We have a paper about that if you want to read more 🤓 @NorwegianOpenAl

https://t.co/OZDReB1qrk

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

I’m convinced that a large % of programmers don’t actually like computers.

As a side effect, are also perfectly happy to throw away their reasoning to a model as soon as they can.

I don’t get it, at ALL. Don’t you *LIKE* understanding the magic of the machine?

You do realize hand-programming (I hate that I even have to specify hand now) is fun…right?

[𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖗 @StarlightSkyes]

When the dev who made Spelunky makes a post, and the dev who made Celeste reposts it- it must be good advice

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

🤩🤯🤩 Claude Code (still not AGI but biggest advance since GPT-4) is the most neurosymbolic thing I have ever seen in my life. 53 symbolic tools, 500,000 lines of symbolic code, combined with a state-of-the-art LLM.

It is categorically *not* a victory for pure LLMs; it’s a victory for borrowing from classical AI and CS to move *beyond* pure LLMs.

Its success is complete vindication for everything I have said since 2001.

Amazing dissection of how it works at https://t.co/Q8jBUz35Ju

[Hunter Gon @gonlenidefi]

@GaryMarcus symbolic scaffolding doing the heavy lifting while the LLM gets the credit feels accurate.

[Shashikant Kore @kshashi]

Terence Tao - "AI tools are like taking a helicopter to drop you off at the site. You miss all the benefits of the journey itself. You just get right to the destination, which actually was only just a part of the value of solving these problems."

Judit Polgar - "I always felt that intuition is very important in chess, but I get my intuition through my experience. And many times I think that this is the biggest danger for youth, that they don't have the experience because they don't spend enough time doing."

Elites from two different fields voice the same opinion.

[1] https://t.co/XRDSSPjpQ8

[2] https://t.co/fQzPT3D3f4

[Catherine Yeo @catherinehyeo]

Love seeing Naomi Osaka honor the CLRS Algorithms textbook at this year's Met Gala

[Xavier Sánchez Díaz @saxarona]

The tutorials for @ppsn2026 are looking extra interesting this year. Looking forward to it!

[Xavier Sánchez Díaz @saxarona]

@Tai_jutsu A día de hoy sigo esperando el regreso de Hasselhoff subs 😭

[Mission of Norway to the EU @NorwayEU]

The Norwegian government will present a bill introducing an age limit on social media, granting teens access the year they turn 16. The proposal aligns with the EU’s Digital Services Act and a broader European push for stronger child protection online 🇳🇴🌐

[ProbAI = Probabilistic AI ✌️ @probabilisticai]

⏰ Final hours to apply to the #ProbAI School 2026! Deadline: April 14 AoE (April 15, 14:00 CEST). Not sure you can attend? Apply anyway, applications are non-binding.

[Xavier Sánchez Díaz @saxarona]

S-expressions are back, baby! 💀

[annie @_annieversary]

what the Fuck https://t.co/jSWRRiEBQ5

[Stefan Karpinski @StefanKarpinski]

If AI models are found to be derived works of their inputs, yes, authors and publishers can sue. But A/GPL copyright holders can too. And guess what the terms of those licenses require? Making the weights models public…

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Hotter take: ML would have advanced faster if another front-end language had been available and widely adopted instead of Python.
One that is interactive yet fast & compilable, multithreaded (no GIL), isn't bloated, doesn't care about white spaces,...
E.g. Julia or some Lisp.

[Amir-massoud Farahmand @SoloGen]

I might be naïve, but I think this is not how a scientist supposed to engage with the literature, form opinions, and write about them in their paper.
If we keep delegating important aspects of research to machines, what will remain of us as a researcher?

[Hayden Field @haydenfield]

NEW: When OpenAI announced its Pentagon deal Friday night, people immediately challenged Sam Altman's claims. Why, they asked, would the DoD suddenly agree to red lines when it had said it would never do so?

The answer, sources told me, is that it didn't. https://t.co/DkF9uWVHa4

[Xavier Sánchez Díaz @saxarona]

Please consider not giving a single cent to this company.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Yesterday we reached an agreement with the Department of War for deploying advanced AI systems in classified environments, which we requested they make available to all AI companies.

We think our deployment has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's. Here's why: https://t.co/k1Ge2MqqPr

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

I am seeing a lot of calls to boycott OpenAI — and I support them.

[Xavier Sánchez Díaz @saxarona]

@xiomalipa give hurry to the bad step pues amiga