Nikola Tošić

Associate professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Fulbright alum. Researching sustainable concrete structures.

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@ostraperlera Lo explica perfectamente Peter Turchin con el problema del "elite overproduction"

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@ZoranLutovac Pažljivo, pošto se 6. film u seriji (izašao ove godine) zove "Torrente, presidente":)

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@d_pavlovic Slažem se za vanredne profesore. Docente ne treba birati na neodređeno, svuda u svetu postoji tenure-track period, a tenure počinje sa pozicijom v. prof.

[EPFL @EPFL_en]

Mirjana Stojilović had to teach in French soon after arriving at EPFL from Serbia. Language proved to be no obstacle for the engineer, who has been named the best teacher in the computer science section for 2025.

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@trikosh To su odjeci drevne ornitomansije:)

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

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@polidemitolog Clavicular just entered the conversation

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@trikosh Mit "slavnog poraza"...since 1389...

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@polidemitolog Agreed. But does it (or will it) want to be?

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@polidemitolog It took me a while outside of Serbia to become aware of that mentality, it's so pervasive. An abdication of any responsibility through victim-playing and what-aboutism. Still have to be on the lookout for any such reflexes in myself...

[𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐑𝐀𝐁𝐁𝐈𝐓 @thewhiterabbit]

Finally 👏👏👏

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@d_pavlovic Nažalost ili ne, odavno u svaki Cover letter stavim eksplicitno koji su to slični radovi u njihovom časopisu na koje se trenutni nadovezuje...a bilo je i vrlo "renomiranih" časopisa u oblasti koji su u početku to eskplicitno tražili (da čitaoci imaju osećaj "kontinuiteta").

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@DaveKeating Simon Roper's pronunciation videos (cited here) are amazing as well!

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@DaveKeating Registered!

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@petarV Biće Butlerian Jihad pre ili kasnije:) isto sam pomislio, toliko tvrdnji bez ikakvih dokaza i izvora. Selling vibes

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@trikosh @OzKingofKings1 Dobro, "junk science" je ipak prejaka reč, uz neki corrigendum bi rad verovatno ponovo bio publikovan. Ne ulazim u sve ostalo rečeno, samo mi "junk science" kvalifikacija ovoga, pored tolikih radova koji izmišljaju podatke, plagiraju, i sl., deluje drastično.

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@AlexKocic Da, ali dosta se takođe preskače ovaj deo objave časopisa:

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@PredragBrajovic @Mio_Kapor Ipak bih dodao i deo koji se ne vidi ovde, a stoji na sajtu.

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@petarV Makes sense:) Hvala!

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@petarV U apsolutno svakom slučaju? Hoću reći nezavisno od toga koliko je konkretan događaj "uobičajen" za to doba godine u nekom mestu (u odn. na neki x-godišnji prosek + y st. devijacija npr.)?:)