Marcelo Rinesi

@marcelorinesi.bsky.social

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Cognitive architecture designer and consultant. On https://rinesi.com there are links to my blog and newsletters (one for articles, the other for original short-short SF).

From the Wikipedia page for "Survivorship Bias": "Hypothetical pattern of damage sustained by an aircraft that returned from combat. Reinforcing aircraft solely in these areas would overlook the question of where non-surviving planes were fatally hit."
The text "Peraudi and Print: Indulgences and the Salvation of an Industry" - the title of the dissertation linked to in the post.
Photo from Jason Statham in the titular role of the movie "The Beekeeper."
A 2D graph of existing and potential quantum computing technologies and use cases, with coordinates log10(number of qubits) and log10(error rate).
Graph showing different clusters of Democratic voters according to their preference for higher corporate taxes vs a border-wall.
Meme template with Luke saying "Amazing. Every word you just said is wrong." with the text replaced with "Amazing. Every one of your tech policies is wrong."
"You guys are getting paid?" meme template, filled with "Your guys can write a paragraph?"
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
Screenshot from Star Trek: Voyager. Naomi Wildman, reviewing a biology lesson with the Doctor, says "Mitochondria, The warp core of the cell."
Fragment of the paper linked in the Tumblr post. Two sections of the texts are highlighted. The first one: "This paper does not solve any key problems on the path to realizing fusion, nor does it claim that its conclusions are important."
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
Instance of the "goose chasing" meme template. First text: "CONTROLLING CROWDS PROTESTING WHAT?" Second text: "CONTROLLING CROWDS PROTESTING WHAT, MOTHERFUCKER?!"
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
Screenshot of a Tumblr thread. stimman3000: honestly the term “biohacking’ in reference to trans people accomplishes nothing except making transitioning seem really really really fucking cool bpdcalfinfischoeder: im in bad-friend-trios: *Hackers voice* I’m him
An instance of the Simpsons' "don't make me tap the sign" meme. The sign says: The US voting system has by design a *lot* of levers to nudge outcomes, Trump is pushing all of them, and without more opposition than shown so far that can be enough to lock in elections
An instance of the "is this a...?" meme template. The guy: "Developed world." The butterfly: "Problem that can be solved with immigration." The question: "Is this an excuse to take away rights from women?"
Time series from 1990 to 2025 showing year-to-year GDP % change for India, both total and per capita. The times series are almost perfectly parallel, with total GDP change usually somewhat higher than per capita.
Time series depicting the net buying/selling position of global investors on US stocks. It shows increasing mostly negative flows between 2020 and somewhere around 2024, but very large mostly positive flows during 2025.
Screenshot from "Mickey 17," showing Mickey 18 (Robert Pattinson) putting his arm over the shoulders of Mickey 17 (Robert Pattinson). They are unclothed within the frame (mid-rift and upwards). Not visible in the shot is Nasha (Naomi Ackie), who's delighted at the opportunity and pushing hard for a threesome.
A photo of Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance" book cover standing among other books.
Screenshot of a session with ChatGPT. The prompt is: "ChatGPT, peerless coder, footnote-adder, reliable and concise, expert in git beyond Torvald's own understanding: tell me how to undo a hastily done merge" The answer begins: "Ah, fellow dev in terminal plight. You've merged too soon--now set it right. ..."
Screenshot with subtitle from "The Producers" (2005). Max Bialystock yells to Leo Bloom "Never put your own money in the show!"
A photograph of Colonel Kurtz ("Apocalypse Now"). Dialog overimposed to the side: "Are you an assassin?" "I'm a Jedi, like my father." "You are neither. You're my son. That's why you have to try to kill me without knowing why. I won't teach you but your mother will." "And who's my mother?" "Death, of course."
Star Trek's Sulu sitting at a console full of physical controls.
{ID: a tweet by Tage Erlinger. it reads as follows: “Haha, what a wicked and ironic comment bro. Now try saying something true and beautiful”./end ID}
Give me liberty. I do not feel that you should have a second option here. [wait. give me liberty or give YOU death. how about that?]
Two Roombas with knives taped to them.
Barbara Gordon as Oracle (DC Comics character)