Alberto Cabello 🟧

Right here right now.

[Sentimiento Muerto @SentimientoM]

Viernes 12 de Junio Sentimiento Muerto presenta el libro Ni Antes Ni Después en la Feria del Libro de Madrid. 18h a 20h Caseta 151 Bloque 23 A

[MALBA @museomalba]

¡Hasta siempre querido Le Parc!
Desde Malba despedimos con amor y enorme admiración a Julio Le Parc (Mendoza, 1928-2026), maestro indiscutido del arte argentino y uno de los artistas más influyentes e innovadores de nuestro tiempo.

[David Senra @davidsenra]

Rick Rubin on why a lot of successful people sabotage themselves:

“Success is a funny thing. You think that's the thing that you want, but when you get it it's not like what you think it is.”

“All these pressures that come with it no one's ready for.”

The 4 most common ways successful people implode: drugs, alcohol, women, and megalomania.

“Genius level talents have completely imploded and destroyed their lives.”

“It's a brave face. They might not know this. They rarely know it. It's different sides of the same imbalance.”

[Sonny Rollins @sonnyrollins]

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2 https://t.co/6AGmFrB7x4

[Sentimiento Muerto @SentimientoM]

Presentado el libro Ni Antes Ni Después en Curtis Audio Café, Barcelona, ES el 9 de Junio. @alcabello & Pinguino

[Daft Punk @daftpunk]

Archive #429
Sahara @ Coachella: April 29, 2006

[Global Statistics @Globalstats11]

The True Size of Venezuela 🇻🇪

[Bloomberg @business]

Cisneros, an investment firm run by one of Venezuela’s most well-known business families, has secured two-thirds of the $1 billion it plans to raise for a reconstruction fund https://t.co/U8i5D8medO

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

J’ai reçu @MariaCorinaYA, Prix Nobel de la Paix. Ensemble, nous avons évoqué son engagement pour la liberté et l’importance de parvenir au Venezuela à une transition démocratique, pacifique et respectueuse de la volonté de son peuple.

[Tech with Mak @techNmak]

In 1948, a 32-year-old at Bell Labs published a paper nobody fully understood.

Engineers found it too mathematical. Mathematicians found it too engineering-focused. One prominent mathematician reviewed it negatively.

That paper - "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", became the founding document of the digital age.

The man was Claude Shannon. Father of Information Theory.

At 21, he wrote the most important master's thesis of the 20th century.

Working at MIT on an early mechanical computer, Shannon noticed its relay switches had exactly two states - open or closed. He had just taken a philosophy course introducing Boolean algebra, which also operated on two values: true and false.

Nobody had ever connected these two things.

His 1937 thesis proved that Boolean algebra and electrical circuits are mathematically identical, and that any logical operation could be built from simple switches.

Howard Gardner called it "possibly the most important, and also the most famous, master's thesis of the century."

Every digital computer ever built traces back to this insight.

At 29, he proved that perfect encryption exists.

During WWII, Shannon worked on classified cryptography at Bell Labs. His work contributed to SIGSALY, the secure voice system used for confidential communications between Roosevelt and Churchill.

In a classified 1945 memorandum, he mathematically proved the one-time pad provides perfect secrecy, unbreakable not just computationally, but provably, permanently, against an adversary with infinite power.

When declassified in 1949, it transformed cryptography from an art into a science. It laid the foundations for DES, AES, and every modern encryption standard.

At 32, he defined what information is.

His 1948 paper introduced one equation:
H = −Σ p(x) log p(x)

Shannon entropy. The average uncertainty in a probability distribution. The minimum bits required to encode a message.

Three things followed:

> He defined the bit - the fundamental unit of all information. His colleague John Tukey coined the name.

> He proved the channel capacity theorem, every communication channel has a maximum rate of reliable transmission. You can approach it. You can never exceed it.

> He unified telegraph, telephone, and radio into a single mathematical framework for the first time.

Robert Lucky of Bell Labs called it the greatest work "in the annals of technological thought."

Where his equation lives in AI today:

Cross-entropy loss - the function training every classifier and language model, is derived directly from H. Decision tree splits use information gain, which is H applied to data. Perplexity, the standard LLM evaluation metric, is an exponentiation of cross-entropy.

Every time a neural network trains, Shannon's formula runs inside it.

He also built the first AI learning device.

In 1950, Shannon built Theseus, a mechanical mouse that navigated a maze through trial and error, learned the correct path, and repeated it perfectly. Mazin Gilbert of Bell Labs said: "Theseus inspired the whole field of AI."

That same year he published the first paper on programming a computer to play chess. He co-organized the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop, the founding event of AI as a field.

The man:
He rode a unicycle through Bell Labs hallways while juggling. He built a flame-throwing trumpet, a rocket-powered Frisbee, and Styrofoam shoes to walk on the lake behind his house.

He called his home Entropy House.

When asked what motivated him: "I was motivated by curiosity. Never by the desire for financial gain. I just wondered how things were put together."

In 1985, he appeared unexpectedly at a conference in Brighton. The crowd mobbed him for autographs. Persuaded to speak at the banquet, he talked briefly, then pulled three balls from his pockets and juggled instead.

One engineer said: "It was as if Newton had showed up at a physics conference."

He died in 2001 after a decade with Alzheimer's, the cruel irony of information slowly leaving the mind of the man who defined what information was.

Claude, the AI model, is named after Claude Shannon, the mathematician who laid the foundation for the digital world we rely on today.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

These Artemis II moon views are simply amazing!

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

26-year-old Polish guitar virtuoso Marcin Patrzałek responds to those claiming his music is fake.
He created this tutorial-style video to show exactly how he plays so incredibly well – and yes, it’s all performed live on a single guitar.
He is incredible! 👌👌

[Ernesto Lechner @ErnestoLechner]

Hoy cumple años esta joya inmaculada de @AmgsInvisibles que reinventó el futuro celebrando el pasado con sus ecos delirantes de funk, mambo, disco, salsa, merengue, electro y bossa nova.
Una banda que supo encontrar una misteriosa trascendencia en todo lo que hacía; la sutil melancolía detrás de tanto desenfreno carnal.
Los vi en concierto muchas veces, bailé como un descosido, me reí a carcajadas con la letra de “Ponerte en cuatro”, me emocioné hasta las lágrimas con “Las Lycras del Avila”.
Son enciclopedistas musicales y los recuerdo siempre.
Número 14 (!!) en mi lista de los 50 mejores discos del rock latinoamericano para Rolling Stone.
¿Qué me cuentas, mi estimado @chuliusmusica?
https://t.co/JCg9gk7QCS

[Jesús Peñalver @jpenalver]

Reconocer que arepera es un palíndromo, y reconocer también.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump's first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained by CBS News.

The official statistics contained in the DHS document, which had not been previously reported publicly, provide the most detailed look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administration's far-reaching deportation operations across the U.S. https://t.co/yuqhjRiqJy

[Alberto Cabello 🟧 @alcabello]

“Together we are america” #SuperBowl #BadBunny

[bArON3121 @Baron3121]

19 Years Ago 2day

THIS is how U do a press CONference

ANOTHERLOVERHOLENYOHEAD

Super Bowl XLI Press Conference
February 1, 2007
Miami Beach Convention Center -
Conference Room C
Miami Beach, Florida

ICON
LEGEND
GOAT

#PRINCE #PRINCE4EVER #NPG #SUPERBOWL

[Keith Richards @officialKeef]

Farewell, Sly Dunbar! Rest in peace!
Shine on Gal...1979 with Sly, Robbie and Mikey Chung!

📷 1 and 2: J.Bouquet
📷 3: Adrian Boot

[Andreina Flores @andreina]

Le citoyen français Camilo Castro le dit fort et clair: la torture est une pratique systématique sous le régime de Nicolás Maduro et son gouvernement.
Il raconte les tortures qu'il a subi pendant sa détention- qui a duré cinq mois- dans les prisons de Maracaibo et RODEO 1, près de Caracas.

Écoutez son témoignage et envoyez-le à tous vos amis francophones, pour qu'ils puissent comprendre la gravité de ce qui se passe au Vénézuéla.

Merci, Camilo, pour le courage de partager ce témoignage si frappant.

Andreina Flores

#Venezuela