Carlos Saraiva

To feel or not to feel, that is the wisdom. 313ppm

[Carlos Saraiva @easysteps]

@ArtofAprilAnna How are you, Anna, back home?

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

You have almost certainly seen this viral chart before but it's so important that you must take the time to digest what it says: if you use AI for your homework, you will finish it faster and receive a higher grade on your homework. You will however get crushed on the exam (which is AI free). In education use AI with caution!

[Carlos Saraiva @easysteps]

@UltimaMachineUi @JamesMelville Having fun

[Carlos Saraiva @easysteps]

@Grady_Booch @af_academy Small steps towards a steam-powered future.

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

"We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces."

- Carl Sagan

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

I think people misunderstand what I'm saying here.

Most people wrongly assume that there are all sorts of experts, studying our society's reliance on the climate and natural ecosystems.

THERE IS NO FIELD OF SCIENCE OR RESEARCH, STUDYING SOCIETY'S RELIANCE ON CLIMATE, BIODIVERSITY AND NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS.

I spent over 50 years of my life, trying to find the experts in this, which field of science studied it. I ended up going to university, a world centre of excellence in environmental science to study ecology. I was disappointed to find that it totally ignores human interaction with natural systems. When I tried to discuss this with leading scientists, I got blank expressions, and the most common response to the points I raised was "I'd never thought of that". It was shocking to find that all the experts I could talk to, had never thought about it at all, and I knew far more than them, which was very little. But at least I had thought about it, even if I didn't fully understand it.

How the hell is there no field of science, studying what keeps us alive, and sustains our society. Let me give an example. Studying complex atmospheric processes, such as in climate science, does not necessarily give you any insight at all, into how the climate sustains our societies, our economy, our lives. It can not be understood in terms of atmospheric dynamics. I mean I have actually studied atmospheric dynamics, meteorology, climate at university level. But it gave me very little insight into the part a stable and equitable climate plays, in sustaining our society, and keeping us alive. Which is probably why all our societies have been caught to off guard, by the current manifestation of climate change. Almost no one understands it.

Doesn't anyone think that now would be a good idea, to try to understand it, so we don't get caught out again?

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

This funky little animation shows the June 2026 heatwave sweeping across Europe day by day. It's oddly hypnotic, a bit weird, and surprisingly fun to watch, even if the underlying story is a serious one. Source: https://t.co/kiThjAI3XY

[David Ullrich @DavidUllrich202]

Latest Data: El Niño is here and it has SMASHED all records!!

***WARNING***

This year’s El Niño is not only very likely to be the strongest event since reliable records began – it may end up the strongest by a truly mind-blowing margin.

Credit: Dave Borlace ― Just Have a Think

[Stephen Hinton @stephen_hinton]

The mother state, always responsible for rich kid's mess. With the new EU Nature Restoration Regulations I see her coming for the rich kid's pocket money. Link in comments.

[Carlos Saraiva @easysteps]

@ArtofAprilAnna Or you reject fantasising and believing and enjoy every moment of life for what it is as it magically unfolds, one breath at a time ❤️

[Carlos Saraiva @easysteps]

"Two big balls go zoom zoom fast. They CRASH! Tiny bit of them goes poof into wiggles in space. Wiggles go whoosh super super big! Like giant baby rattle shake everywhere. Yay! Fun crash!". Thank you, Grok!

[Bilim Dünyası @dunyasalbilim]

Kütle çekim dalgalarının ilk doğrudan gözleminde, iki kara deliğin birleşme anı kaydedildi.
Bu birleşme sırasında ortaya çıkan enerji, gözlemlenebilir evrendeki tüm yıldızların yaydığı toplam ışıktan bile daha güçlüydü.

[TheArtofApril-Anna @ArtofAprilAnna]

Setting up my table today... super excited! ✨

Montreal Art Centre & Museum Artisan Market: this weekend! 💐

Art pendants, chiffon kimonos featuring my owl artwork, mugs, magnets, greeting cards & more.

📍1844 Rue William, Montréal
📅 May 9–10
🎟 Free entry

[Carlos Saraiva @easysteps]

... Because the writing process is the thinking process.

[Midnight N8 @NathanCWest]

Cardano isn’t in the top 10 for volume per fees…

But almost nobody understands why.

And even fewer see how fast that could change. 🧵👇

@MidnightNtwrk @Cardano #Cardano #ADA #Crypto #DeFi #Midnight #Web3

[Carlos Saraiva @easysteps]

@ArtofAprilAnna Or carry fluorescent paint, for the next encounter 😊

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

Solo dev reverse-engineered Google's billion-dollar algorithm in 7 days

Google published the paper that crashed memory stocks worldwide. Then shipped zero code.

Tom Turney read the math, opened his terminal, and built the whole thing with Claude - then made it faster than Google promised.

Day 1-3: Core algorithms, 141 tests, Python prototype
Day 3-5: C port into llama.cpp, Metal GPU kernels
Day 5-7: Speed optimization from 739 to 2747 tok/s

That's a 3.7x speedup through pure engineering:
> fp32 → fp16 WHT
> half4 vectorized butterfly ops
> graph-side rotation
> block-32 storage layout

Then he added his own research on top:

> Sparse V: skip 90% of value decompressions at long context
> Asymmetric K/V: keep keys precise, compress values harder
> Temporal decay: old tokens get lower precision automatically

Result: 35B model running on a MacBook with 4.6x compressed cache.
613 GitHub stars in a week. Google still hasn't released their own code.

[Carlos Saraiva @easysteps]

@ArtofAprilAnna Any beans killed for this promo?

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

🚨 JUST IN: A migratory bird just shattered world records — flying 8,425 miles (13,560 km) NON-STOP across the Pacific without landing once.

The bar-tailed godwit doesn’t stop to eat, drink, or sleep during its migration across the Pacific Ocean. Its journey from Alaska to Australia takes roughly 11 days of continuous flight, covering over 13,000 kilometers through storms, headwinds, and open ocean with zero land beneath it the entire time.

Before departure, it does something almost surgical to its own body. It shrinks its digestive organs down to almost nothing, converting the stomach, intestines, and liver into raw fuel. The bird essentially eats its own gut to make room for fat reserves that will power its wings for nearly two weeks straight.

The brain doesn’t fully sleep either. Half of it stays active while the other half rests, alternating in shifts mid-flight at altitude over the open Pacific. The godwit is simultaneously unconscious and navigating with magnetic field sensitivity that no human instrument in the 18th century could replicate.

What makes this genuinely staggering beyond the physical record is the navigational precision involved. The bird leaves Alaska and arrives in New Zealand with accuracy that would embarrass early GPS systems. It reads Earth’s magnetic field, atmospheric pressure gradients, star positions, and potentially quantum-level compass mechanisms inside its eye that literally let it see magnetic field lines overlaid on its visual field.

Evolution spent millions of years building an aerospace navigation system inside a 300 gram animal.

We spend billions engineering machines that do what this bird does on instinct, fat reserves, and half a sleeping brain.
The longest recorded non-stop flight by a commercial aircraft is around 20 hours.

This bird does 11 days.

Without a runway.

[Carlos Saraiva @easysteps]

@ArtofAprilAnna Me’thinks my AI alter ego is a dog. Always asking for stuff to do, to please me 🤣

[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

“There can never be peace between Nations, until it is first known that true peace is within the souls of men.”

~ Black Elk- Lakota, (1863-1950)