Archives for July, 2025
It ain’t no freedom, and it’ll be even less of it
Ten months ago, I wrote I wish I weren’t born in Europe. All of a sudden, the planets realigned so that I felt the need to write a much shorter…
Kimi and Z.AI: The more Chinese, the merrier!
The Gold Rush on AI is so unbelievable, that I missed the fact that Moonshot AI is backed by Alibaba through a $1 billion funding, literally playing on two fronts.…
Limbistul Mircea Badea e un bou
N-am mai scris de mult pe teme gramaticale și lexicale, mai exact de la Gramatica geto-dacă e cea mai superioară, etc. (cu completări). Ei bine, o cucurigeală de-a lui Mircea…
Insights into the AI madness — with studies, tips (UPDATED)
Since I restored my Twitter account (almost two years after being suspended, but I still maintain that I like to see tits only when I'm supposed to see tits), my…
Alibaba outsmarts DeepSeek in AI offerings
I might be wrong, but I believe that Alibaba’s Qwen offerings have become more interesting than DeepSeek's. At least, when coding is what matters the most to you. When I…
The magic of Amazon’s Kiro: my 1st vibe-coded PyQt6 app!
The recently released Amazon Kiro, even if it's just a preview, is the latest shit in AI-assisted software development. I happened to download it while it was still possible (now…
The AI doom is nigh
Read the first two articles, and you'll become both disappointed and worried. Read what follows, and you'll become shit-scared: the world is going just like the Titanic, straight into an…
Alte preluări de pe Facebook: Ceaușescu și David
Nicolae Ceaușescu Ca reacție la discuțiile din spațiul public referitoare la sondajul din care preiau aceste două imagini, am postat următoarele, dând mai departe și un video cretin de la…
Chatboții sunt „camere de ecou”
Ca răspuns la un comentariu pe alt blog în care afirmam că „Am descoperit că Gemini și Grok pot fi ușor manipulate a.î. să fie în mare parte de acord…
Xi on AI and EVs, as interpreted by Bloomberg and Claude
An economy cannot be obsessively and exclusively focused on AI (and data centers and shit) and EVs. China has so far copied all the errors of the West, but Xi…
Žižek, l’inutile, contre l’IA, l’inutile
Il y a des crétins, et puis il y a des très gros couillons. Prenez ce que j'ai eu l'occasion de vivre aujourd'hui. En réplique à ça… 💬"Présentons la puissance…
Understand your future master: Xi, father and son
I happened to learn about Joseph Torigian's book, The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping (Stanford University Press, June 2025, 718 Pages). The…
Psihologie socială și suveranisme — preluări de pe FB
Tocmai ce le-am postat pe Facebook, dar mi-am zis să le pun și aici. Prima postare se referă la Dumitru Borțun, iar a doua la Natalia Morari și, prin ricoșeu,…
Venice, Wyoming—home of the AI
There was a talk about Venice AI in a couple of comments, exactly five months ago. For a reason I can’t even explain to myself, I revisited this useless AI…
So-called neuroscientist: we don’t have visual memories but reconstruct them à la ChatGPT
This is the teaser that got me into this: Cognitive scientist Elan Barenholtz says memory isn't retrieval. It's generation.When you remember something, you're not accessing a stored file. You're prompting…
The Great AI Leap Forward: To panic or not to panic?
I’m not sure that I should be doing this, but I collected some recent news on AI, on which I’d like to add some minimal comments. I’ll start with quick…
There is still hope in England
J.K. Rowling is well-known for her takes on the madness of the gender ideology, particularly defending such stances: ❶ Your gender is your biological sex, observed and recorded at birth,…
Scientists can be smart and stupid at the same time
I did not mention Sabine Hossenfelder on this blog, but only in e-mails and in a comment elsewhere. I used to watch her on YouTube between end-2022 and February 2024.…