Prices on new servers at Hetzner have increased 3×, which is pretty insane. I kinda get it because they're a budget provider that already had a tight margin - but jeez, I am really done with how much AI has inflated hardware and compute costs
one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
Ouch, the weather here in Vienna is going to be around 35°C (95°F) every day, for at least the next ten days. Quite brutal in a big city
I feel like we've gone straight from spring into a blisteringly hot heatwave 🫠
Don’t trust LLMs with your literature searches. Horrible gender biases as found in this paper (from later in the thread below) arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740 🧪🔭
The true nature of Terzan 5
Observations from Webb and Hubble have revealed that Terzan 5 is not a true globular cluster. Instead, it is something much odder and rarer.
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It's been almost ten hours since a meaningful security issue has been publicly reported in W Social's component that is used to check people's identity papers and it's still online.
I find "It is the most important technology of our time" quite funny coming just a couple of decades after the mass adoption of the internet & personal computing, which is a pre-requisite for AI and frankly anything else digital
well i don’t like that W got her and other high eu officials on board, use @eurosky.social for actual open source software, true independence, and transparency
In recent years, I’ve framed AI as cheating in my classes, and made arguments against using it centered on justice, health, and skill attrition. After our campus signed an agreement with OpenAI last month, starting this fall I’ll also pledge that I will never use it for their assignments or grading.