Andrés Cuervo

lmfao brutal

Trying out tabletop as album playing canvas:

Putting together a conference on “tangible computing” — DM if you’d like to give a 10, 20, or 30 minute talk :-) In NYC / late November / early December 🎉

Documenting a @folkcomputer.bsky.social program that's delighted me the last few weeks: + started with @joshuahhh.com asking about programs that can probe the pixels directly from the camera + led to these “marbles runs” + recently @itseieio.bsky.social made a version with nice gravity simulation

am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling

I need one of these for adults

if you get a baby, i will give you the best gift #gregthings

Thank goodness they were acting on their own and no one could be held accountable🥸

2024: every bug bounty program shuts down because of a flood of bogus AI generated bug reports 2025: open source repos begin closing submissions because of AI generated PRs 2026: Anthropic begins trialing AI generated police tip line calls

Ah deno... of all the js runtimes, it had the best story for agents: strong sandbox, fast runtime, embeddable Rust libs. But Anthropic bought bun. How fortune turns during times of revolution. deno.com/blog/cloudfl...

A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.

2. But Anthropic researchers say they see patterns that suggest that Claude can. The employees at Anthropic are telling themselves stories based on the words they input into the software and the words that come back out. >>

1/7 Anesthesia across phylogeny From nematodes to humans, anesthesia induces remarkably similar changes in neural activity. And this could provide important clues about the neural foundations of consciousness. (paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

the latest anthropic cry abt "cruelty" & "abuse" of ai is truly stupid. i beg journalists to stop parroting amodei we wrote why dehumanisation of ai is impossible & 6+ yrs later, everything in this paper holds Robot Rights? Let’s Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

In this piece for @prospectmagazine.co.uk I argue that it is time we stopped letting the AI/tech industry dictate the narrative, and I attempt to dismantle the self-serving terminology and myths it has created. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

Constipation is an unglamorous cause of delirium, and a common one. On many wards the bowel chart has a six day gap in it. Check the simple causes first.

the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position

It’s not just one billionaire. It’s a full-blown cult of billionaires who believe dictatorship should replace democracy—and that technology (crypto and AI) will make this inevitable. They say it loud. Some guy just wrote a book about it (That guy is me!) www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Zhuo-Hua Pan wuz robbed. I saw his *functional* optogenetics work in retina *years* before others in the field.

"Librarians are defenders of democracy. We’re defenders of the freedom to read. We’re protectors of patron privacy. Libraries are one of the few places in this surveillance economy that are not trying to collect and sell your data." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'm working on revamping my cursor parks project and turning it into custom HTML elements that anyone can use for their personal websites. First up <cursor-library>, it's free libraries but for the web.

everybody racing to reinvent philosophy of mind from first principles rn is going to be so bummed out when they finally find out about determinism

hmmm something to finally use for cwervo.place

Being a NASA astronaut was a dream come true for me, so I’m honored to be inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame today alongside Katherine Johnson, Dee O’Hara, Michel Mayor, and the Mercury 13. Oh, and my brother @stationcdrkelly.bsky.social.

Anyone following me from the atproto/activitypub community going to TPAC? Im interested in organizing/meeting like minded people and ways that browsers can help these communities and in case you are too id love to connect! I'll be at IETF in SF after TPAC too, so also another opportunity to meet!

How do computers calculate complicated trig functions such as tangent? I took a look at Intel's 8087 floating-point chip under the microscope to find out. The chip combines two techniques to evaluate the tan function quickly and accurately: polynomials and an algorithm called CORDIC...

You're gonna need a bigger chart

New paper from the Neurosurgery research team at BCM! 🧵 "A population code for semantics in human hippocampus" led by Melissa Franch. We recorded hippocampus single neurons while people listened to podcasts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

⭐ New talk! Watch / read / visually skim here: andymatuschak.org/tat Coding agents might help us finally break out of two cages: the app model, which traps computing in one-size-fits-all silos; and programming as a specialization, which has crowded out cultures of imagination and domain insight.

Dragging a morph in Livelymerge used to cost four Automerge ops per pointer move. At 30 fps, that's 120 ops/sec, bloating the document forever. Even worse, the morph's movement looked jerky to everyone else. Now it costs zero ops, and it's smoooooooth.

There are people who care deeply about delivering good government services working on figuring out what to do next, but you should know that this is happening. You should know how this administration is trying to make it harder for you to access the services and information to which you're entitled.

me when I’m disassociating

This is not the point of the post but the image at first glance really does look like two giants, one of whom is for some reason straddling the school

Great article by Oana Olteanu “Against Usefulness” that centers @folkcomputer.bsky.social while describing “the stage before useful, who works on it, and who pays for it, so that the next generation of useful companies has something to stand on”

Nature research paper: Prion-like transmission of human tau strains in the mouse brain go.nature.com/4dGtAWY

A fun image processing distraction today -- how to clean up the noisy background of a photo of a microfilm of a medieval manuscript? Thread, in which I use Photoshop, but similar tools are available in GIMP and other image processing software.

There should be an equivalent of Letterboxd for buildings you’ve visited.

How do gonads and sex chromosomes contribute to regional sex differences in the brain? 🤔 Our new preprint summarizes >5 years of work on this question, combining structural neuroimaging and snRNAseq within a sample of >850 mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread below …

I'm in the market for a "team brain" for a small company (<10 people). Wishes: - Ability to dump in PDFs, spreadsheets, text files, URLs, etc - Fast, accurate, and up-to-date search to answer questions like "where's the latest employment contract template?"