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AEMET has just talked about the December long weekend and it is bittersweet news because the “good weather” in December always has a trick

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Yes ‘negative NOA‘, yes ‘storm train‘, but what AEMET says is that, during the bridge (after some persistent rain in the north), what we are going to have is a predominance of sun and higher than normal temperatures. How is it possible? What dark atmospheric dynamics are conspiring to give us good weather on the Constitution Bridge? The rhombus phenomenon. That’s what he called it meteorologist Luismi Pérez on Cadena Ser and the truth is that the explanation is so visual that it can help us understand what is happening. “Rhombus” is a colloquial way of defining an isobaric configuration that diverts the cold to North America and gives stability, little rain and high temperatures to our country. And what does it take for that to happen? Four masses of air are needed to achieve this: a robust anticyclone in Newfoundland and Greenland another anticyclone in the Mediterranean area a storm in the Azores and another in the Scandinavian peninsula In the image above it is still difficult to see, but arranged on the isobar map “they form an approximate figure of a rhombus.” Why it is important. Meteorologically speaking, the rhombus describes a type of atmospheric block very characteristic: a reconfiguration of the polar jet and the trajectory of the storms that takes us away from the coldest scenarios. Yeah the face is the train of stormsthis is the cross: short periods of stability and good temperatures. What we can expect in the coming days. As Pérez explainedthis rhombus “makes” the very cold air accumulated in Greenland slide towards the west; that is, towards North America, instead of falling on Europe. In addition, Spain (being under the influence of the Azores storm and the Mediterranean anticyclone) is assured of westerly and southwesterly winds, which are more temperate and pleasant. What we can expect in the long term. Because in the background there is something more serious: changes in the atmospheric circulation of the Atlantic Ocean. That is to say, the increase in the number of episodes of stability, clear skies and absence of fronts in autumn and winter. Something that can be perceived as “good weather”, but that aggravates the structural drought and complicates water, agricultural and energy planning. Luckily, it looks like it won’t last long. Just enough to let us enjoy the bridge Image | ECMWF In Xataka | The most beautiful, exciting and hopeful thing about November has come out of England and it is a weather forecast

“We don’t put the AI ​​to put on, we want to make TV easier.” We talked with Lieve Lonoye, Head of Big Data of Philips

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Lieveye is an institution in Philips. The current Head of Big Data of Philips was part of the team that developed an emblem technology of the Dutch brand two decades ago. Since then, televisions have changed barbarity, moving from silly boxes to Smart TV to today, where an a priori appliance as passive as The TV has become a magnificent data source. And in AI times a huge amount of data is needed. Leaving aside the algorithmic content recommendations (which have their particular casuistry depending on the manufacturer and SO), we have seen how artificial intelligence reached televisions for such original tasks How to generate imagesbut also for get the best image quality without having to despair with the adjustments. It is just the beginning: TV is a reef To obtain data that improve the user experience and that is, in a nutshell, the mission of Lieve Lonoye and his team in Philips. Note: Lainye clarifies two types of uses on the television completely different and with work areas that although they collaborate globally, are independent. On the one hand is the one integrated into the SO and its recommendations (Android TV and Titan Os in Philips) and another focused on the technical part, which falls on your Big Data team. The latter is what we will focus. What interests is how TV is used Philips head of Big Data summarizes the objective of collection of data on televisions clearly: “To do things.” And although it seems vague and generic, we will see later that its mission is not so much to suggest but act so that The experience of use is always the best possible. Regarding what information they collect, Lainye explains that “we are not interested in what people are seeing, but in How the TV is being used In general, for example, what resolution or frame rate are using “, as well as other information such as what apps they have been in execution or what codec. If we take into account all the parameters analyzed and that all this is produced on each television, the result is a huge amount of information related to the habits of use, the million dollar question is: Where are these data to stop? Xataka Philips+ 903 Analysis To begin Data analysis is optionL: “The form in the big data is implemented allows the user to accept or not share their data, which seems very important to us.” Clarified this point and assuming the acceptance of the user, Lainye explains that everything is done at home, which has its implications in terms of safety and performance: “We do not upload things to the cloud to execute them there, we have chosen to execute the AI ​​at home, which ensures privacy. But it is also a challenge in that you have to use the available resources of the TV, so you have to make sure that while it is running you can not affect the viewing behavior. It has to make its effect but without consuming too much. It is the great challenge, but a conscious choice to do it.” In addition, this monitoring has a direct application for them as manufacturers, since it serves them “to make better televisions Testing them in the same way that are used in homes“, but also for those who use brand’s TV at home. How helps the user in their experience The most responsible for the Big Data of Philips makes it clear that this technical data is where her team allocates more time and efforts. This information may not say anything at first sight, but it is providential to detect failures: “In spite of all the testing on televisions, sometimes a problem appears and that is where the data can help to detect. At that time the user calls the support and we can see what has been failing, which helps on the one hand to prevent problems, to confirm them and even verify that the solutions work.” How do they do it? Lenoye explains that when people call Call Centerthe agent who receives the call has access to certain parts of our data for the Troubleshooting. After the relevant assistance, the data speak for themselves to confirm that the appropriate solution has been found. This would be a specific case of application before a certain failure of a television of a specific person, but in global it also helps them to know What problems is more people suffering and thus “put engineers to work on it.” After the arrival of Chatgpt And the artificial intelligence boom in the form of models, multimodality and its integration into different devices, the sensation is that The AI ​​will be even in the soupsometimes with more reason of being and being than others. Saving the distances, servant reminds when everyone gave him to baptize his devices as ‘smart’ when in reality all they did was put Bluetooth. If the question is AI on TV, you are right to be, Lonoye’s response is a resounding yes. “We always try to contribute innovation that makes sense and that is what we think with the implementation of artificial intelligence in TV because it helps you enjoy TV properly.” “We do not put the AI ​​to put, we want to make TV easier, we want to relieve viewers of responsibilities. So we have ia executed on TV that, for example, is analyzing the image to establish the adjustments and for customer service.” Thus, he concludes that “the Big Data section does not work for recommendations, we are interested in how people use TV and when something goes wrong on TV, how it happens or how it could happen. We collect information to ensure that everything works well. “ In Xataka | Better televisions in quality Price: which to buy and seven recommended 4K 4K 4K Cover | Philips

We do not know what the Benchmarks of Ia measure. So we have talked to the Spanish who created one of the most difficult

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Gemini 2.5 Pro is the best model in history. The smartest. At least, right now. I don’t say it, he says The Chatbot Arena classificationa platform in which they run various tests or benchmarks to try to measure the global capacity of modern AI models. According to these evidence, at this time Gemini 2.5 pro experimental, launched On March 25, it has a score of 1,440 points, well above GPT-4O (1,406), Grok 3 (1,404), GPT-4.5 (1,398) and of course an Depseek R1 that despite its fame is in seventh place with a score of 1,359 points. In current Ranking of Chatbot Arena, it places Gemini Pro 2.5 experimental as the most capable model of AI at the moment. That (probably) does not last long. Google herself presumed the capacity of Gemini 2.5 Pro experimental in the official announcement. As usually happens in these ads, companies show a table in which they compare their performance with that of other comparable models in different tests. In almost all of them Google crushed their rivals in well -known tests in this segment. Is for example the Humanity’s last exam (general knowledge and reasoning), GPQA Diamond (science), Aime 2025 (math), Livecodebench V5 and Swe-Bench Verified (programming) or Mmmu (visual reasoning). All these benchmarks try to measure the ability of these models in more or less specific fields, and all help to demonstrate that models, indeed, are improving. And yet none of them answer the fundamental question: Is the AI so intelligent Like the human being? There is the really complicated, because the definition of intelligence is not entirely clear either. There are different types of intelligence, in fact, and measuring them in humans is not simple or even possible either. And comparing the ability of an AI with the ability of human intelligence is usually not easy. Some experts wonder if IA laboratories will not be cheating with the benchmarks There are in fact who argues that the progress of AI models is misleading. It recently Dean Valentine, from the Startup Zeroopath. He and his team created an AI system that analyzes large code projects in search of security problems. With Claude 3.5 Sonnet They noticed a great leap, but from there the subsequent versions have seemed much less striking. In fact, this expert pointed out that today many of the companies that launch these models focus too much on going well on the photo of the existing and most popular benchmarks and “sound intelligent” in conversations with human beings. Wonders if the laboratories of AIs are cheating and lying: For him the evolution shown by Benchmarks does not correspond to the real benefits when using them. Frontiermath and the challenge of solving problems that (almost) nobody has solved But there are attempts to answer that question. One of them comes from the team that develops THE ARC-AGI 2 PROJECTa set of evidence derived from the Moravec paradox: They are relatively easy for human being, but very difficult for AI models. Jaime Sevilla, CEO of Epoch Ai. These tests measure the ability to generalize and abstract reasoning with visual puzzles, and are undoubtedly an interesting part of that effort to value how far we have arrived at every moment with the AI ​​models. Another of the most striking tests of recent times is Frontiermath. This benchmark created by the company COPHAI It consists of about 300 mathematical problems of different level. They have been designed by a team of more than 60 mathematicians among which Terence Tao, winner of the Fields Medal. Although there are some more affordable problems, 25% of them are qualified as especially complex. In fact, only the best experts could solve them, and It would take even days In doing so. This set of tests is also special for another aspect: these are unpublished problems and therefore have not been part of the training sets of any AI model. To solve them the machines need to be able to show a special “mathematical intelligence.” One that It helps precisely to something increasingly difficult: Assess the evolution of these models. In Xataka we have been able to talk to Jaime Sevilla (@Jsevillamol), which is precisely the CEO of COPHAI and has a very clear and personal vision on how the tests should be to measure the ability of an AI model. To begin with, he points out, “you need to have a way of measuring how the AI ​​is advancing. Interacting with it can give you perspective, but you do not have a rigorous impression of where it will arrive and in what domains it is most expert.” That, he explains, makes it necessary to have standardized test batteries that allow us to form an idea of ​​their skills. For this expert the Benchmark Arc-AGI is more representative of that other vision, making an easy benchmark for humans but difficult for AI. The models are improving in Arc-Agi, but for him that was obvious and that had to happen. With yours the tests are difficult for each other, and that the models advance and are increasingly better when solving these problems is not so obvious. Thus, with FrontierMath they wanted to “try to measure if AI can solve genuinely difficult problems.” Until now the mathematical problems that were subjected to the AI ​​models were relatively easy, so the models “saturated the benchmarks”, that is, they soon managed to overcome all these tests and achieve a 100% score. “It will be a challenge to saturate this benchmark“He stressed. Here I set an example with OPENAI’s O3-mini model, which already solves 10% of FrontierMath. It is not much, but it is brutal, he says, and has already surpassed expert mathematicians like himself. However, he says, “That the AI ​​overcomes certain benchmarks does not mean that it can operate as a human expert. You have to adjust them because they are adjusted to very specific scenarios. We are measuring those limits of that AI, and that will be a continuous process.” For Seville … Read more

We talked to the Spaniards who have tried the Russian mountain of Ozempic

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After the media explosion of the so -called “medicines for diabetes that lose weight”, we have spoken with three people who carry approximately One year using semaglutida, the active substance of Ozempic and Wegovy (The brand launched by the Ozempic manufacturer for the general public), in order to know your real experience beyond noise. From 160 to 105 kilos: “It has been a change of life” Pilar, Alicantina, 65, began her treatment with Ozempic over a year by medical prescription. “I have a fairly considerable weight, I reached 160 kilos during the pandemic. My knees hurt, I went to the doctor and the endocrine advised me to try with Ozempic“He explains. The result was overwhelming: 55 kilos less in a year. “I lost a lot of weight, I had some times dizziness and that, but nothing out of the ordinary,” he says. After a year of treatment, Pilar left it and recovered 20 kilos, until reaching the current 125. Recently he tried to resume the treatment, but he has encountered two problems: on the one hand, “he has not sat as well as the first time”; On the other, “Ozempic is very scarce, the pharmacy does not give it to you.” Then we will go with the matter of shortages. Pilar points out that the drug radically changed its relationship with food: “When you take Ozempic you don’t have that anxiety you have when you don’t take it. It takes away the desire to eat sweets especially and processed products.” Jorge, 38 -year -old Andalusian, has been using Wegovy for months (the specific version for the weight control of the semaglutida) by private route. With a height of 1.79 cm, its initial weight was 95 kilos. It is currently at 85.7. “I started taking it because due to an injury I won in a period of three or four months about 12 kilos,” he explains. “To play sports again and be in a physical state similar to the one before the injury, the first thing I had to do was lose all that weight.” Unlike Pilar, who received his medicine for social security, Jorge agreed to him through a private specialist: “He made me analysis to verify that everything was in order, and we started with a dose of 0.25 mg, the pen of 0.25”. Its monthly cost is around 180-190 euros. Wegovy pen shown by Jorge. Ceded image. The side effects soon appeared: “I started noticing in the first food intake. I click the dose at 8 in the morning and already at noon food I noticed that it was hard for me to eat.” Jorge describes a constant feeling of satiety and even some rejection of food: “Meals with a lot of fat, with a lot of sugar, sauces, heavy carbohydrates … They were meals that did not feel well.” Clara, 36 years old and resident in Madrid, began using Ozempic thirteen months after several failed attempts with traditional diets. “I tried everything: oto, intermittent fastingcounting calories … I lost 3 or 4 kilos at most and then recovered them with interest, “he says. Starting from 87 kilos, he has managed to go down to 69. “The first month was a bit hard for the nausea, but then I got used to And now I barely have side effects, just some occasional constipation, “he explains. Unlike Jorge and Pilar, Clara obtained the medicine by an alternative route. “A diabetic relative gave me a pen to try and then I got the recipe through a doctor friend,” he admits. “I know it’s not right, but I was desperate.” For her, The most shocking thing has been the change in their eating habits: “It is as if someone had turned off a switch in my brain. I no longer constantly think of food, or obsess myself with chocolate or fried potatoes.” The expert’s voice: beyond the “insulin that thinns” The Dr. Alicia Taboadasubspecialized family doctor in cardiovascular risk and endocrinological diseases, clarifies: “Ozempic is not an insulin, as many people think. It is a LPG-1 (peptide similar to type 1 glucagon) that in principle was for the treatment of diabetes, but it was discovered that it had an effect on weight without affecting glucose levels.” As explained, these medications “They act delaying gastric emptying, which has a feeling of satietyalready cerebral level they take away that need to eat. “However, he warns:” This drug will help you lower weight, but if you do not change habits you will have rebound effect, because very few people can afford to be putting this drug all your life. “ The doctor has noticed an increase in consultations related to these medications: “has increased a lot. Many people want that ‘insulina’ that makes you lose weight. That is why Ozempic has ended in the market and diabetics have been affected. “ Side effects and relationship with food The three interviewees agree that they experienced side effects, especially at the beginning of treatment. “I had a little anguish, dizziness, a vomit once and headache,” says Pilar. “I went to the doctor, he told me it was normal.” Jorge describes a feeling of “rejection of food” and “discomfort if I exceeded me a little, like empacho.” Clara adds: “I got 24 hours without hunger, the body simply asked me.” Pilar’s Ozempic box. Ceded image. The relationship with food changes radically. “It takes away your desire to eat sweets and processed products,” explains Pilar. Jorge coincides: “The main effect is that it takes away your cravings, the typical craving of six in the afternoon of something sweet.” The three interviewees agree on The importance of combining exercise with exercise and food changes. “Totally,” says Pilar. “The endocrine tells you: if you get Ozempic and you don’t make a diet and don’t walk, it’s not the miracle.” Jorge has maintained an intense regime of exercise: “I have continued and resumed high intensity sport with six weekly training”, which has accelerated its weight loss: “The loss has been … Read more

‘Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’ on PS5 or on PC? We talked to the director of this one to clear the doubts

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He Remake of ‘Final Fantasy VII’ In three deliveries it is one of the most ambitious projects that Square Enix has faced throughout its history. A Reformulation of the classic RPG that recovers his legendary characters and that unforgettable story through which everything happened, but that adapt your mechanics to the new times and open your world admirable. A year ago the second installment, ‘Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’, arrived at PlayStation 5, and this week finally lands on PC. We have had the opportunity to talk to the game director, Naoki Hamaguchi, so that this renewed version for PC works and what we contribute to what we already saw in console. And of course, our first question could only be what it feels like to see legendary characters in the world of PlayStation on computers and what personal relationship has with the franchise. Hamaguchi tells us that he has “been a fan and player of ‘Final Fantasy VII’ ‘when I was a child. If I look back now that more than twenty years have passed, I am still surprised by the fact of having developed’ Final Fantasy VII Remake ‘ , ‘Rebirth’, and now the third and last game of the trilogy. “ But let’s enter into technical level, Does this version for PC elements contribute to the game that were omitted in consoles? Hamaguchi tells us that they have varied, above all, “the rendering parameters, so that they can adjust to graphic quality and the processing load in a more flexible way. Specifically, ‘Final Fantasy VII Remake’ kept LOD’s gradations limited ( level of detail) of the modeling, with a few different degrees. what keeps stable the FRAME RATE“ This novelty is important to adapt to all types of PCs: “This allowed us Enjoy a stable game that maintains a good level of quality, and if you have a team that meets the requirements of the ultra level, you can enjoy a graphic quality even higher than that of the PS5. Steam Deck And we have been verified by Valve. “ More than technology So, is the technical part as relevant to this PC adaptation? Many times, computer ports stay in mere technological muscle exhibitions and we wanted to know if this is also the case. Hamaguchi clarifies: “It should say that the highest resolutions, the highest frame speeds and the improvements in the quality of resources are part of the appeal of the PC version, but what I really want people to see It is how We have redesigned the lighting with respect to the PS5 versionwhich has greatly improved the charts of the characters. “In fact, these changes will follow the reverse path:” PS5 players have asked us to update lighting as on PC, and although I cannot promise anything definitive by the moment, we are studying possible updates. “ Another of the essential differences between the console and PC version is in the controls, of course. Hamaguchi also enters that matter, telling us that the game “has many different mini -games, so we had to think a lot about how to adapt the configuration of the keys. For example, the minigame to touch the pian form that they imitate the keyboard of a real piano. “The PS5 version continues to offer you a complete and satisfactory experience, but it is true that the PC version is The best way to enjoy ‘Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’ with the highest graphic quality Possible, “concludes Hamaguchi. Now the decision is in the hands of the players: Punta technology or classic formats? We already have something to think about until the arrival of the third installment. Header | Square Enix In Xataka | Someone set out to record a whole ‘final fantasy’: he got it three years later and just before the closing of the game

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