Vladkrm

Chemical engineer, Ph.D.|Chess player|Traveler|@udg_oficial #LetsGoYankees #StarWars #Tesla

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The Paradox of Knowledge

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“It is June. I am tired of being brave”

Anne Sexton

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Revista Teleguía.
¿Recuerdas este mundial?

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Ai predicts FIFA World Cup 2026 winner

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Indeed

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Math isn’t hard. Philosophy is.

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@davidllada Parchís 🤣

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SUCCESSION premiered 8 years ago today.

Series creator Jesse Armstrong originally developed the project as a screenplay about the Murdoch family before realizing it worked better as a television series, which eventually evolved into SUCCESSION.

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Andrew Ng, co-founder of Google Brain and Coursera, on the worst career advice being given about AI right now:

He doesn't mince words about what he's hearing from supposed experts:

"As early as earlier this year and certainly last year, there are a few people advising others to stop learning to write code because AI will automate it."

His reasoning is rooted in a historical pattern most people miss:

"As something becomes easier, more people should do it, not fewer. When the world moved from assembly language to COBOL, there were actually articles saying, 'Well, we now have COBOL. Programming is so easier. Looks like we don't need programmers anymore.' But the opposite happened."

Andrew believes the same thing is happening now with AI-assisted coding:

"As we now have AI assisted coding, a lot more people should be coding. And I think the demand for software, custom software, has no practical ceiling. So the cost of software engineering comes down, which it is, we'll just get more and more great software out in the world."

But here's where the advice gets uncomfortable for experienced engineers.

@AndrewYNg is honest about what he's seeing on the ground:

"It is true that a fresh college grad that is really on top of AI will outperform a full stack engineer with 10 years of experience that is still doing things they were back in 2022, 3 years ago before GenAI."

However, there's a nuance most people miss when they hear that stereotype:

"The other piece that is less well appreciated is the best engineers I know are not fresh college grads. They're actually very experienced engineers that deeply understand architecture and the conceptual framework of how to think about computers and additionally are on top of AI and on top of these AI skills."

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Everyone thinks 500 Spaniards conquered the Aztec Empire in 1521 AD.

They didn't.

In 1519 AD, Tenochtitlan was bigger than Paris, Rome, and London. 200,000 people on a man-made island in the middle of a lake, fed by floating gardens and twin aqueducts of fresh mountain water. Cleaner streets than anywhere in Europe.

Two years later it was ash.

Here's what actually killed it.

The Aztecs ruled by tribute and terror. Subject peoples had to send food, gold, and bodies. Living bodies. For sacrifice. The Tlaxcalans, surrounded by Aztec territory, had been hunted for captives for a century in ritualized "flower wars."

They didn't see Cortés as an invader.

They saw a weapon.

After Cortés landed at Veracruz, scuttled his own ships so his men couldn't retreat, and fought the Tlaxcalans to a standstill, they flipped sides. By the final siege, the "Spanish" army was overwhelmingly indigenous. Over 100,000 native warriors. Cortés was the foreign mercenary in someone else's war.

His secret weapon wasn't gunpowder. It was a teenage girl.

Malintzin, enslaved Nahua noblewoman, spoke Nahuatl and Maya. She translated, negotiated, exposed an ambush at Cholula, and reshaped every conversation Cortés ever had. Without her, no alliances, no intelligence, no conquest. She is the most consequential interpreter in human history.

Then came the virus.

April 1520 AD: one infected man stepped off a Spanish ship at Veracruz. Smallpox. The Americas had zero immunity. It moved inland faster than any army. By autumn it reached Tenochtitlan. 40% of the city dead in one outbreak. The new emperor lasted 80 days before it killed him too.

The Spanish were already dead men once. On June 30, 1520 AD, the Aztecs nearly wiped them out fleeing the city at night. La Noche Triste. 600 Spaniards and 4,000 allies killed on the causeways. The empire thought it had won.

It hadn't.

Cortés regrouped in Tlaxcala, built 13 warships in pieces, hauled them over the mountains, and launched a navy on a lake 7,000 feet above sea level. Cut the aqueduct. Starved the city. 93 days of block by block demolition while smallpox burned through the survivors inside.

On August 13, 1521 AD, Cuauhtémoc, the last tlatoani, was captured trying to flee by canoe.

Mexico City was built directly on top of the rubble. The cathedral sits on stones quarried from the Aztec Great Temple. You can walk to its ruins in five minutes.

So what really killed the largest empire in the Americas?

Not Spanish steel. Steel plus smallpox plus a translator plus 100,000 furious neighbors plus an emperor who hesitated plus ships portaged over mountains.

Remove any one of those and you're reading this in Nahuatl.

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@tesletaroja @Reykles_ @mmrdeveloper Voy a hacer eso porque lo he cargado al 100% una vez a la semana y después de 10 meses y 15,900 km tengo 0.99% de degradación según Tessie, el cual creo es mayor al tuyo, porque si fuera la degradación lineal aunque no lo es) tendré 2.4% de degr a los 2 años y 40,000 km aprox

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@tesletaroja @Reykles_ @mmrdeveloper Pero Tesla recomienda cargarlo al 100 % una vez por semana , para que el BMS calibre la batería. Tu cada cuanto tiempo la cargas al 100 %?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When you start a chess game, you have 20 possible moves available. After the first full move (White then Black), there are already over 400 possible positions. By the third move, that number jumps to around 8,900, and after the fourth it reaches nearly 200,000.

By the time you get to move #40, the total number of possible games explodes to roughly 10⁴⁰, a number comparable to the total number of atoms in the observable universe.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Elon Musk was asked: “What’s one invention that’s made us worse, not better?”

His answer: short-form video.

He called it straight-up “brain rot.”

And he’s not wrong. A local news report highlighted how kids are getting flooded with dopamine hits every 15–30 seconds from YouTube Shorts and TikTok-style content. Brain scans show overactivation in the reward centers, which over time trains the brain to crave instant gratification, shortens attention spans, and contributes to attention problems, behavioral issues, and even emotional dysregulation.

Doctors are now seeing cases where it’s hard to tell the difference between true ADHD and what they’re calling “environmental ADHD” caused by excessive screen use.

78–84% of kids aged 2–12 are on YouTube, often for 2+ hours a day.

This one feels especially urgent for parents.

How much short-form video are your kids (or you) consuming daily — and have you noticed any real impact on attention span or mood?

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Coupling

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What’s a 10/10 British TV series?

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Gata Kamsky, el niño prodigio que llegó a subcampeón del mundo: "Solo lamento haber pasado 30 años en la prisión que mi padre construyó para mí". Espero que os guste el despliegue ajedrecístico en @elmundoes.
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George Porter shows how nylon was discovered by chemists, and gives a demonstration of how we can spin nylon threads.

[📹 The Royal Institution]