Andrea Olivo

Quantum Info PhD, currently at @psiquantum.
Love 🎹, 💻, sci-fi. And galettes. Definitely galettes.

[Andrea Olivo @oliversium]

Wtf

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

The Pixel 9 phones home *every 15 minutes*, even when it's not in use, sharing "location, email address, phone number, network status, and other telemetry."

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[Il Post @ilpost]

Yuval Noah Harari è uno degli storici più letti e influenti al mondo, ma i suoi ambiziosi libri continuano a essere criticati per le interpretazioni sbrigative e sensazionalistiche di fenomeni molto complessi
https://t.co/1gPWuFWV8B

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

But one question I learned to ask from @TimHarford and @BBCMoreOrLess is "is that a big number?" 125m tons sure feels like a large number, but it is *one seventeenth* of the amount of fossil fuels we dig up *every year* just for *road transport*.

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[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

After winning a Nobel Prize in physics in 2022, John F Clauser began to proclaim that "Climate Change is a Myth". I've had a look at his idea of a self-regulating climate. I wasn't impressed.

https://t.co/Sry14q6d0r

[steven 🏕️cascade camped @_StevenFan]

If she doesn't live on your localhost, she's not your AI girlfriend; she's everybody's.

[Zach Weinersmith @ZachWeiner]

Watching that openai demo and genuinely interested/scared to see how young men react to an AI assistant who perpetually sounds like a barista who's trying to flirt with you. Future will be interesting.

[zerocalcare @zerocalcare]

@Corriere Posso dì che un'intervista tutta sul libro in cui in un solo passo mi chiede "ma invecchiando sei diventato democristiano?" E io rispondo "ma non me pare, le ultime cose mie erano per salis e cospito..." decidere di titolarla così è la fotografia perfetta della stampa italiana?

[Internet Nostalgia @IntNostalgia]

What comes to your mind first?

[Andrea Olivo @oliversium]

@MattStrassler @MrXentarch Please! I've read your blog since high school, it was one of the reasons I went into physics. I ended up not doing HEP... but I am really grateful :)

[Andrea Olivo @oliversium]

@ArgonGruber @qntm The halting problem says you can't have an algorithm which determines whether a TM halts which works for *all* TMs. It doesn't say that any particular TM can't be proven to halt or not. Chess on an 8x8 square board can be (very inefficiently) solved by tree search

[60% Water By Mass @MoleculesGoHard]

This took me way too long..

[Andrea Olivo @oliversium]

Nice reading

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it.

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[Andrea Olivo @oliversium]

@_its_not_real_ I fully fell for it when I watched the first time. I was probably 20 had no context. So I would say yes!

[Zac B 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @ZacB_MN]

Wikipedia is unironically one of the most impressive feats of human civilization, I’m not even being hyperbolic

[Nuclear Hazelnut 👷🏻‍♀️ @NuclearHazelnut]

Most of the conversations that I have about nuclear energy, leads to the same question: “- but what about the waste? -What waste? -Well, you know, it remains highly hazardous for a long time and…”

Let me tell you 3 facts about nuclear spent fuel:

1️⃣ A nuclear power plant, supplying energy to a large city with millions of residents, consumes less than half a liter of uranium daily, resulting in less than half a liter of spent fuel produced each day. AND: About ~95% of this waste can be recycled, like France currently does.

2️⃣ No human has ever been harmed by nuclear waste. Contrary to common perception, spent nuclear fuel is in solid form, securely packaged in high-level waste containers (ultra-strong containers) designed to withstand extreme conditions and provide secure long-term storage for radioactive materials. Also, we have precise knowledge of its location and composition.

3️⃣ After ~300 years, the harmful radiation diminishes. Therefore, we store it in deep geological repositories. Finland's repository, Onkalo, is a notable example, with negligible environmental impact.

The 'waste problem' doesn't even require a solution; it's not a problem at all.

And remember: Are you actively advocating for saving the planet? Excellent idea! Construct more nuclear power plants. The more, the faster, the better.

This isn't an opinion; it's science.

[Andrea Olivo @oliversium]

@mqo_lkb @ilkarusei @vparigi81 @NicolasTreps @MWalschaers @giacomo_sorelli Congrats Clémentine !

[Andrea Olivo @oliversium]

I used to be on the camp that social media would just recreate existing social constructs, making no significant difference. I don't think that anymore. Social media-specific dynamics have fundamentally shaped the political landscape, in favor of who first got how to use them.

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

the big secret about the modern world that is really obvious but no one will admit is that it's social media that is making politics insane

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Remember, Paris wasn’t “always this way.”

It wasn’t even this way in late 2019 when I was last there.

Just a few years ago, #Paris was choking in car traffic much more.

This is new. This is leadership.

Cities are a result of choices.

HT @Khayat_Fouad