Daniele de Rigo

dderigo@hostux.social

<a href="https://hostux.social/tags/Scientist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Scientist</a>: transdisciplinary modelling for environment. PhDPicking comments on how <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#science</a> and society interface, to annotate (not to endorse) sources, <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/uncertainty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#uncertainty</a>, potential futures to care about. Unattributed views I express here are my own; I'll try my best to attribute others' views.<a href="https://hostux.social/tags/ComputationalScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ComputationalScience</a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/EarthScience" clas

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1/ European Citizens&#39; Initiative &quot; #StopKillingTheInternet : no digital ID &amp; no #AgeVerification&quot; https://eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/#/screen/home &quot;call on the #EuropeanCommission to propose legislation ensuring that #DigitalIdentity and age-assurance systems used to access online services [...] remain voluntary, #privacy-preserving and non-discriminatory. Citizens must not be forced to identify themselves to access lawful online content or service...
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RE: https://hostux.social/@dderigo/117293871392822794 1/ With a deadline by summer 2027, but a challenging amount of signatures to obtain, the European citizens&#39; initiative (#ECI) &quot;Stop killing the Internet: no digital ID &amp; no age verification&quot; https://eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/#/screen/home already collected in 10 EU countries more than 10 % of their minimum thresholds (Finland already almost 40 %) For a ECI &quot;to be valid, it must obtain at least...
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1/ Commentaries by @tao@mathstodon.xyz on #generativeAI use in #mathematics noting research mechanisms that may go beyond the specific field [A] https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117207849921390904 [B] https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117237320796901560 From [A]: the process of starting with one idea, "discovering the precise obstruction preventing it from working, adjusting the [idea] to (partially) eliminate that obstruction, and then iterating, would almost certainly reveal important new insights...
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1/ Based just on anecdotal evidence: it seems surprisingly common for scientists to be told by funders, managers, or policy people that mentioning #uncertainty or limitations “complicates” the message or weakens its impact [1]. (Days ago, yet another colleague shared a story on this, with other scientists nodding along, recalling similar moments happened to them) But here&#39;s the thing: without uncertainty and &quot;steady doubt&quot;, #science &quot;zombifies&quot; back i...
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#PiDay ln( 640320^3 + 744 )/(163)^0.5 = 3.141592653589793238462643383279... till that last 9 it works, but then it continues with 72661... rather than 50288... as π does. Nice hoax by Martin Gardner in 1975 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heegner_number#Almost_integers_and_Ramanujan&#39;s_constant #References [1] Gardner, M., 1975. Mathematical Games - Six sensational discoveries that somehow or another have escaped public attention. Scientific American 232 (4), 126-130. https://doi....
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RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116397605266279416 1/ Lecture by @emilymbender on dehumanisation dimensions (view from the humanities) vs &quot;synthetic text-extruding machines&quot; - the so-called #GenAI Video: from min. 7 https://youtu.be/T7Lc6QNxolQ?t=442 Slides with bibliography (pp. 55-56): [1] #References [1] Bender, E.M., 2026. Resisting dehumanization in the age of “AI”: the view from the humanities. Presented at the Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humani...