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Posts by Álvaro Ceballos

Seems increasingly likely that the humanities will specialize in an approach to culture that requires in-person presence and revels in the physicality of paper &c.

Not the main thing I do, but—it seems healthy? Likely good to have a space free of screens. Also it’s not bad to take pride

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Más bien al revés. Quien tiene el poder define lo posible. Llevamos décadas gritando que otro mundo es posible, sin llegar a convencer a quienes tienen el poder.
Hasta que estos cambien --lo que muchos creemos posible--.
Ese es nuestro poder.

6 days ago 0 0 1 0
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Entre varios colegas hispanistas hemos sacado este librillo sobre versiones, intertextualidades y recepción ordinaria de clásicos literarios hispánicos.
Ya se puede comprar como PDF o _print on demand_.
¡Pronto en _open access_ gracias a las Presses Univ. de Namur!
www.pun.be/book/?gcoi=9...

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«Vivía en el eterno presente de su hambre y su fuerza, sintiendo tan solo el crudo instinto territorial que más pronto o más tarde se convertiría en una carnicería».
¿A cuántos líderes actuales puede aplicarse esta frase con la que el escritor Clive Barker describe a un monstruo del inframundo?

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Holy fuck.
Who is the ayatollah now?

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Mal está cruzar la calle mirando el móvil, pero ¿cuántos de cada tres CONDUCTORES conducen mirando el móvil?

Y en coches cada vez más grandes, pesados y potentes.

Pongamos la carga de la responsabilidad donde corresponde.

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@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

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Heroes. Quite the effort and dedication on this one. Unfortunately, not an easily repeatable process for most researchers looking for access, but can hopefully inform lawmakers.

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Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.

“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

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Merz sitzt wie ein Schuljunge grinsend neben dem Mafia-Boss, der ihn lobt, was für ein toller Laufbursche er doch ist und er das Merkel Gegenteil sei, während er zugleich europäische Nachbarn (Spanien, UK) bestrafen will, weil sie ihm nicht gehorsam genug sind. Deutsche Außenpolitik im Jahr 2026. 😵‍💫

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Trump denounces UK, Spain over Iran stance US President Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at Britain and Spain for not fully backing his attack on Iran, as he threatened to end "all trade" with Spain.

📌Watching Spain tell Trump to go fuck himself is giving me energy.

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(Eso se lo dirás a todas, Claude)

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Y unos minutos después Claude me ha echado este piropo:
"Estás pensando exactamente como una investigadora computacional".

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Acabo de entender qué son los _embeddings_ contextuales y me siento como enamorado...

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Building benchmarks is only one way scholars can help steer AI development. We can also measure the effects of AI on students, build better datasets, or tune new open models. Openness itself could be our most important contribution. Universities have huge libraries, and the legal doctrine of fair use should protect models trained on those collections for a nonprofit educational purpose. At the moment, we are not pressing this advantage. Higher education has been so cautious about fair use that the private sector can now train more freely on our libraries (via Google Books) than is possible for academic AI researchers. We need to be bolder: It is our duty to ensure library collections remain open to the public in a form that empowers 21st-century readers. If our intellectual heritage gets enclosed in proprietary tools, we will find ourselves making the same bad bargain we made with scientific publishers, who sell our own research back to us at a steep markup.

Building benchmarks is only one way scholars can help steer AI development. We can also measure the effects of AI on students, build better datasets, or tune new open models. Openness itself could be our most important contribution. Universities have huge libraries, and the legal doctrine of fair use should protect models trained on those collections for a nonprofit educational purpose. At the moment, we are not pressing this advantage. Higher education has been so cautious about fair use that the private sector can now train more freely on our libraries (via Google Books) than is possible for academic AI researchers. We need to be bolder: It is our duty to ensure library collections remain open to the public in a form that empowers 21st-century readers. If our intellectual heritage gets enclosed in proprietary tools, we will find ourselves making the same bad bargain we made with scientific publishers, who sell our own research back to us at a steep markup.

We're in a strange situation rn where Google can train freely on books from university libraries—but researchers *at* universities have limited access. I'm optimistic this can be fixed, but if you're in admin or working at a foundation, please know: univs are failing here & resources are needed.

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¿Por qué cada vez que uno quiere consultar el significado de una palabra en el diccionario OFICIAL de la lengua española debe enfrentarse al retrato gigante de este señor, que por un motivo u otro siempre parece lo más interesante que la @rae.es puede ofrecer?

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Lecturas y relecturas políticas y nacionales del _Capitán Alatriste_, según su autor. 
Hoy en @elpais.

Lecturas y relecturas políticas y nacionales del _Capitán Alatriste_, según su autor. Hoy en @elpais.

Lecturas y relecturas políticas y nacionales del _Capitán Alatriste_ según su autor.
Hoy en @elpais.com.

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Ya podéis acceder a la Newsletter semestral de la ERI-Lectura: nuevas incorporaciones, promociones, tesis defendidas, actividades científicas, actividades de formación y transferencia, investigadores visitantes...

¡Esperemos que os resulte interesante!

www.uv.es/lectura/News...

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But maybe the bottom line is just "Borges was so cliché..."

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Just wondering: was the prompt for this longer than the result ?

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"If the instructions are the true work, then they too require instructions, and those instructions are the truer work": this part totally gets me. It is the typical _mise en abyme_ that makes Borges' stories so Borges.

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Impressive.
I kinda understand, why is it always Borges that Claude is si good at.

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This is a solid hypothesis. I'd even say that the prompt that produced good AI writing would almost definitionally have to be longer than the output. Making it shorter and more precise is what "writing energy" gets spent on.

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Qué pasada de artículo. Bravo.

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Del miedo a "los otros" al miedo "a los nuestros" | lamarea.com El ascenso de la ultraderecha da más miedo aún al constatar que sus votantes están entre nosotros, en nuestra familia, en nuestro trabajo.

La ultraderecha ya no es una corriente marginal. La apoyan «hombres y mujeres con apariencia normal, que no están en el Parlamento ni en los platós, sino en tu trabajo, en la puerta del colegio, en la casa de tu padre y de tu madre».

✍️ Un artículo de @patriciasimon.bsky.social

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My contribution to the volume consists of a small experiment with handwritten anthologies where lay readers collected their favorite poems. The result: as late as the Belle Époque, passionate love seems to distinguish these ordinary chansonniers from the rest of the poetry of their time.

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Lovro Škopljanac and his colleagues at the University of Zagreb have just published the proceedings of the ‘ERoL’ Conference, a thrilling collection of empirical studies on reader-response. #OpenAccess
openbooks.ffzg.unizg.hr/index.php/FF...

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Claude Code is the stone in Stone Soup. It does everything for you—

except sure, the soup will be better if you understand statistics, and also tastier if you check the code, and …

But a stone that reduces the initial barrier to making soup at all is, in fact, pedagogical magic.

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Un artículo muy interesante sobre (entre otras cosas) la influencia de personajes de ficción en la imagen corporativa, en este caso de la policía. Es, junto con el ejército, uno de los campos en los que más plausible y conscientemente se usa la ficción para modelar la percepción de la realidad.

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Mi tía ha descubierto en un cajón este papel, escrito hace cuarenta años.
Contiene una sórdida revelación: el turbio origen de mi carrera de escritorzuelo sin escrúpulos.

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