Today I saw this amazing story on twitter about a report that google had flagged a file in google drive as “containing copyright infrigement”. The catch? The file only contained a single “1” in it. Abuses of automatic copyright detection are not rare (specially on youtube), but this reached new heights of stupidity. Someone in […]
This Sunday I heard in a podcast a researcher telling the story of how they started a research institute from a meeting with friends over Pizza. That got me thinking how we (and by “we”, I mean “I”, but I suspect that I’m not alone in this), how we have less social meetings these days, […]
An old post, back from 2010, probably my first public rambling about metaphor heuristics. (I wonder what the activity pub plugin will make of me republishing a post with its original date)