I18n @medable, former @paypal, @globalizejs, @jquery and @ibm, CS at USP (Brazil). Tech passionate. Like to solve problems, proactive and self learner

São Paulo
Joined March 2009
The AI world is being reduced to two tribal labels: China AI = open AI = authoritarian AI. U.S. AI = closed AI = democratic AI. The absurdity is almost perfect. China offers open weights, local deployment, lower costs, and greater technological autonomy—and this is called “authoritarian influence.” American corporations keep the models closed, control the infrastructure, set the prices, rewrite the rules, and can revoke access at any time—and this is marketed as “democratic AI.” In this new theology, openness becomes authoritarianism, while corporate monopoly becomes freedom. The argument is no longer about what the technology does. It is about who is permitted to define the rules. “Democratic AI” apparently means intelligence owned by American companies. “Authoritarian AI” means intelligence the rest of the world can actually possess.
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Downloading the kimi k3 weights on huggingface right now It’s crazy to think this is what escaping the permanent underclass looks like It’s even more crazy that Moonshot AI - a Chinese AI lab is letting me - an American download frontier intelligence that costs tens of millions of dollars to train and develop right onto my local cold storage Thank you Yang Zhilin and @Kimi_Moonshot
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"What an upside world when Chinese open-weight models will tell us about Tiananmen Square, but American frontier models won't translate a blog post. Not even Kubrick saw that coming." world.hey.com/dhh/i-m-sorry-…
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Announcing the open-source release of Qwen3-VL! A powerful vision-language model that can operate GUIs, code Draw.io charts from mockups, and recognize "everything" from daily life to specialized fields. Highlights: 🔹 Precise event location in videos up to 2 hours long. 🔹 OCR language support boosted from 19 to 32, with major gains on rare characters and tilted text. 🔹 Supports a native 256K context length, expandable to 1M tokens. 🔹 Achieves leading accuracy in risk detection in real-world scenarios. Available on ModelScope, HuggingFace, GitHub, and integrated into Alibaba Cloud Model Studio. Try it today!
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📢 PSA: This is an invitation to all UI developers to eliminate Content Layout Shift in applications, especially on mobile, but everywhere. I'm so sick of things moving the moment I'm trying to tap/click them. You're better than this. Eliminate Content Layout Shift!
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I was curious if I could practice my Russian with ChatGPT-audio. Yup. Speakers move between languages effortlessly.
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ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak. Rolling out over next two weeks, Plus users will be able to have voice conversations with ChatGPT (iOS & Android) and to include images in conversations (all platforms). openai.com/blog/chatgpt-can-…
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I came from hospital with a remodulated immunosuppressive therapy, but after a week the blood virus concentration skyrocketed reaching the double of the previous week value (765k copies/ml vs 359 copies/ml) and this is seriously bad, because it means my organism doesn't react to the standard therapy (which is actually an anti-therapy). Since this is a quite rare condition (as most part of patients react well to the immunodepressant reduction), it means mine is a severe pathology seriously putting at risk the new kidney. I read tens of papers from everywhere in the world and apparently there's no effective anti-viral drugs agains this virus (Polyomavirus BK) but there are potential cocktails along with IVIGs, intravenous immunoglobulines. I suspect I need help with urgency from anyone could know very specific information about experimental treatments for this virus in a post-transplant condition that can avoid the graft loss. Obviously, being in Italy, the quickest help can come from here or from the closest countries, but contacts are important too across hospitals and clinics around the world, so that's why this is a tweet in English (on top of the fact that the account has always posting in English). Thanks in advance for your help and support as usual.
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While a toy like this homemade one appears to be precariously balanced, it's designed so that the center of gravity is below the pivot point -> restoring torque -> stable equilibrium [read more: buff.ly/33h1q3o [source: buff.ly/3EUggLl]
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Dá alívio ver o presidente e o governador de São Paulo trabalhando juntos pra cuidar das famílias atingidas e combater os estragos da chuva no litoral de SP. Algo óbvio mas que parecia ter sido esquecido há pouco tempo: humanidade SEMPRE vem antes de rivalidade.
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How to remove taped paper without tearing it using a physical property of duct tape. By stretching the strip from both ends, one can reduce the tape's adhesive properties [📹 buff.ly/3IMgn0c]
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How much of the VC dollars end up going to bay area real-estate?
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When your code works, but you have no idea how
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A proposta, de aliados do governo, de aumentar o número de ministros do STF é um risco grave para a independência dos Poderes. Bolsonaro, se reeleito, indicaria a maioria da Corte. Este foi um dos passos de Hugo Chávez para transformar a Venezuela em uma autocracia.
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