Jorge Saturno @jorge@red.niboe.info

Microsoft just released a tool that lets you convert Office files to Markdown. Never thought I'd see the day.

Google also added Markdown export to Google Docs a few months ago.

https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown

Spain is facing severe droughts that are getting worse because of climate change, yet data centers still want immense amounts of water.

Up next in our premium interviews from DATA VAMPIRES is @CorioPsicologia from @tunubesecamirio!

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#tech #spain #datacenters #cloud #ai

Anyone interested to cycle to #EGU25 from Germany next year? 🚲

Chat GPT-5 no es significativamente más inteligente que GPT-4. ¿Se ha estancado la evolución de la IA generativa? Aquí lo analizan: https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/ai-progress-has-plateaued-at-gpt

Un toot quejándose del capitalismo y de que hemos sobrepasado los límites del planeta pero adjuntando una imagen generada con IA totalmente innecesaria 🤦‍♂️
#sostenibilidad

El fenómeno de la desinformación es una estrategia que es bien conocida y explotada.

Un artículo de Javier Salas
https://elpais.com/tecnologia/2024-11-24/de-bannon-a-musk-la-decada-que-convirtio-la-desinformacion-en-la-nueva-normalidad.html

Hay dos vertientes principales de intereses en esparcir bulos:
- Atraer clics y $
- Modular el debate público y ganar votos.

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Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?

Hacer un #posgrado en #Latinoamérica puede ser un reto difícil de enfrentar. Únete a la discusión que tendremos sobre el tema e interactúa con cientistas jóvenes de nuestro continente.

🗓️ 28 Nov 2024 | 15:00 (UTC)
🗨️ ES, PT
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/LAECESSTalks

#VidaAcadémica #Webinar #EarlyCareer #EarthSystemScience

last comment on the Bluesky post Hugginface ML training set issue. For those querying whether this has “the consent of the Bluesky team and Jay Garber”, the Bluesky preprint from the beginning of the year explicitly mentioned network wide *sentiment analysis by companies* as a use for Bluesky data…

sentiment analysis *is* machine learning/AI.

…Bluesky is designed for this

A PSA for people active on #Bluesky: your block list is PUBLIC information.

A website that tracks Bluesky stats – which I am not naming here on purpose – makes this job super easy: you can enter *any* username and see the accounts a user has blocked.

(Yes I tested it with my account and was horrified)

I'm alarmed by this because the information could be weaponized for abuse.

Muting may be the safer choice then?

Please read up about Bluesky here: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ (by @cwebber)

Major challenge when trying to work or #research across disciplinary boundaries is just figuring out the vocabulary / lexicon. Not having the right #KeyTerms might mean you won't find any relevant papers (and sometimes, even if you find them, you won't understand).
I found it to be a skill I had to develop, and it's still a challenge when I cross a bit further. Or is that just me?

#academicchatter

"Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:

On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”: File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”"

https://medium.com/illumination/ms-word-is-using-you-to-train-ai-86d6a4d87021

#Microsoft #AI #GenerativeAI #AITraining #MSWord #Privacy #Word

Se ha conseguido un acuerdo para el mercado de créditos de carbono. Será reconocido como un éxito de la COP29. Pero ha costado 9 años llegar a él, formaba parte del Acuerdo de París, y durante este tiempo varios estudios han mostrado que donde se aplican son inefectivos o incluso contraproducentes.
Permite seguir emitiendo gases de efecto invernadero, supuestamente compensándolo de alguna otra forma. Si suena a estrategia de greenwashing es porque lo ha venido siendo.
#COP29 #CrisisClimatica

👉Decentralised but not open.
While Bluesky is decentralized, it’s not technically part of the fediverse. That’s because Bluesky’s AT Protocol is different from ActivityPub, the open protocol that fediverse platforms like Mastodon and Threads leverage.
https://buffer.com/resources/schedule-to-bluesky/

“No hace falta ser matemático para verlo”: cuando los científicos te ponen la crisis climática delante de los ojos
por @aberron

https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/no-falta-matematico-verlo-cientificos-ponen-crisis-climatica-delante-ojos_1_11830343.html

#CambioClimatico