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Nice scapegoating but it was the two major parties, CDU and SPD (Conservatives and Social Democrats) who signed this one along with a former chancellor on the board of Rosneft, the primary beneficiary

Now they conveniently blame the green party who certainly wanted it but never got close enough to power to bully anyone into actually doing it.

Conservatives ran the country for almost two decades, with Angela Merkel and yet the green party is the reason.

It’s almost as transparent as people blaming Democrats for Trumps debt expansion. Works every time
> Definitely 15000 times faster than MATLAB as claimed by JuliaComputing can be achieved with such seemingly concrete and realistic benchmarks.

I believe you're talking about NASA Launch Services engineers claiming Julia's ModelingToolkit simulations outperformed Simulink by 15,000x? That claim was of course not made by Julia Computing or anyone affiliated by Julia Computing, which is pretty clear because the person who makes the claim very clearly describes his affiliation at the beginning of the video. The source is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQpqsmwlfY0, at 12:55. You did watch the whole video to understand the application and the caveats etc. instead of just reading the headline and immediately coming to a conclusion, right?
How can you be so sure? That's what it literally means. The onus is on them to better understand and convey their own position, if that is in fact their position.
The description lists a requirement of either PHP or C++, how hard of a requirement is that?
You can be a pacifist (in the narrow sense that you strive hard to avoid wars) and still 'maintain the art of war'.

Have a look at Switzerland for an example.
Russia was the second largest provider of uranium to the EU.
German here. To be fair, Germany has a bit of a history concerning energy. I'm not blindly supporting those actions (and am actually deeply concerned) but a bit of context might be valuable:

1) In early 2000s the then government (coalition of Social Democrats and Green party) decided to end nuclear and to fully transform the country to renewable energy; the Greens are heavily influenced by 1980s anti-nuclear movement. I still think that this decision was mindblowingly progressive and valuable at that time. As a "bridge technology" they wanted to use natural gas (hence the good friendship between ex-chancellor Schröder and Putin).

2) The Merkel-led gov't in 2010 (coalition of Conservatives and Liberals) decided to prolong nuclear (no real reason, imho more of a "we know better").

3) Fukushima happened in 2011. Germans were concerned in surveys and Merkel (imho stupidly) decided to make nuclear's deadline even earlier (end of 2022) causing huge fees the gov't had to pay to energy companies (afair 1-2 billion EUR). Running plants were shutdown between 2011 and 2022. Meanwhile Germany's dependence on cheap natural gas imports from Russia went up. Chemical Industry, electrification and warming were the main uses. I think they doubled or so at that time.

4) Putin invaded Ukraine. Sanctions on gas exports (imho rightly) happened and gas prices skyrocketed. Putin completely turned off the gas. The current gov't (Social Democrats, Liberals and Green party) had to decide on what to do. So they decided to build LNG ports and continue phasing out nuclear which at that time only contributed around 6% to electrical power because all the other plants were already shutdown.

5) They still needed to find a way to produce electric energy in case renewable energy is not available (due to cheap Russian gas there was zero incentive to create waus to save energy) so they're now burning coal and heavily need to buy CO2 certificates and bet on that it will get so expensive that energy companies will invest heavily into renewables.

The signal though is horrifying. I hate everything of this typical German kind of stupid compromises.
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I'm embarrassed to admit that I once believed their anti nuclear hysteria, because the media portrayed this as the only rational position. Reading non German sources quickly cured that delusion.
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I never suggested that the depositors should lose their money.

They should have known about the 250k limit and not exceeded it in the first place, but I didn't say they should lose their money.

I said the cap is irrelevant. Everyone with SVB got all their money back. Even if you had $20 million in the account at SVB, you got it back. When, technically, you are only supposed to get back $250k.

So the rule is applied arbitrarily, depending on what is or is not a "systemic risk".

If a rural bank fails and people have more than 250k in their accounts, they will lose it.

If SVB or First Republic fails, they won't.

This case is a little different in that JP Morgan bought the whole thing. Which is just leading to further consolidation in the really TBTF banks.
I’m pretty sure the field of neuroscience is focused on understanding how the brain works.
You’re right. Here are other links

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/08/13/at-leas...

https://theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/07/us-cities-defund...
After checking, it seems that procps-ng ps doesn't truncate when piped, heirloom ps and plan9 ps never truncate, Net- and OpenBSD ps always truncate.
If AI is going to reflect us, I would like it to reflect a version of us that doesn't build things haphazardly and then shrug about security. I would like the AI to reflect a humanity that is careful and considers vulnerabilities and side effects before it makes decisions.

Maybe it would be good for us to model that behavior for it.
which is exactly why it's important to have multiple sources of models, trained by different people/groups, and competing against each other.

Single source monopoly is almost always bad for society. Unless there's some sort of natural monopoly, in which case gov't regulation and transparency is required. But i dont think ai models are something that has natural monopoly unlike cables, or pipelines.
I keep trying to explain this to my father, who insists that mowing his entire noxious-weed-covered property is the only way to deal with them. Unfortunately, that's the only sure-fire way to keep them sticking around - scalp the soil bare 5x a year.
> The ultimate root cause that generates socialist ideals is not the plight of the workers or anything so surface-level, it's the intuition that intellectuals should run society.

This is not the case. Marx and other writers repeatedly emphasize that the working class itself must take power and begin the process of getting rid of social classes altogether. They definitely did not advocate for a society run by highly educated intellectuals from the top-down. See “The Civil War in France”, where Marx discusses the Paris Commune - a working class uprising that was not lead by intellectuals.

> socialism appeals to people who like the sound of the abstract ideas of intellectuals. If an intellectual posits a clever-sounding reorganization of society justified by high minded ideals, then this feels right to the socialist mind.

This is just a description of zealotry and overoptimism in general - attitudes than can be found among proponents of any framework. Marx himself criticized earlier utopian socialist thinkers for trying to plan out an idealized society from their armchairs, rather than actively organizing with workers to create a better one. He saw theory and practice as deeply connected, and he definitely was not a utopian thinker.

> the way to cure all social ills is so simple it can be summed up in a single book or set of pamphlets. It can be understood and reorganized by a single mind.

Marx didn’t believe this. He was a prolific author and corresponded with many other contemporary socialist writers. He published a whole series of books just focused on analyzing capitalism, and he died before completing them. There is a wealth of Marxist writing and many conflicting strands - there is no “one mind” or “one committee” with the final say.

> Why would you not plan it? The only possible justification would be if the planning process was too hard, but that would imply that society was too complex for any one mind or even a committee of minds to fully understand, and if you believed that, you wouldn't be a communist to begin with.

There is a whole area of thought known as market socialism that rejects both capitalism and central planning. Central planning is not fundamental to socialism; it is simply one kind of economic strategy that could be used by a socialist society.

I would encourage you read accounts of socialist thought besides those written by a deeply conservative economist. Marx himself can be challenging to read, but David Harvey has a book called “A Companion to Marx's Capital” that helps explain some of the context.
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> climate change is a real threat.

I'm rather sure that not being able to afford energy - heat in the winer - is a the real existential threat to a kid in continental Europe.

Worrying about sea level going up 10cm in his/her lifetime is a rich person hobby.
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> It's a vast and deep neural network with a very high dimensional representation of the data.

the data is text, so ...

It's a vast and deep neural network with a very high dimensional representation of *text*

And yes, to some extent, text represents the world in interesting ways. But not adequately, IMO.

If you were an alien seeking to understand the earth, starting with humans' textual encoding thereof might be a palce to start. But its inadequacies would rapidly become evident, I claim, and you would realize that you need a "vast and deep representation" of the actual planet.

> Are you saying that NLP as a field of research did not exist before LLMs? This is a continuation of research that has been in progress for decades.

Of course I'm not saying that (the first sentence). Part of my whole point is that LLMs are to NLPs as rockets are to airplanes. They're fundamentally a "rip it up and start again" approach, that discards almost everything everyone knew about NLP. The results are astounding, but the connection with, yes, "traditional" NLP is tenuous.
Here's a source from a recent Australian survey:

"...asked whether respondents agreed or disagreed with the statement "I would be comfortable living close to a nuclear power plant", only 28% agreed and 60% disagreed." [1]

The part about it being due to uninhabitable cities (referring to Chernobyl, Pripyat and Fukushima) was conjecture - I don't know people's reasons for it.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jun/18/austr...
Nobody is "winding down" their departments. At the absolute most, departments arent getting the same level of funding increases that theyre used to getting. Plus virtually all of the top national leaders, and all of the state/city level leaders are still pushing for overall increases in police funding.
The CDU was in power when they proposed the timelines that ended up in the closures we saw recently, but the electoral success of the Green Party in that election cycle was a key factor. Your summary is disingenuous.
I wonder if at some stage the fact we have no control over the systems will actually be why we stop investing in them ?

That is to say, at a certain scale, the emergent properties of these systems just get too wild to understand.

Kind of like, a runaway nuclear reaction generates a lot of power but it’s not really useful for anyone or anything.
Very frustrating to see swiss water process decaf advertised as chemical free. Water, my friends, is a chemical. (As are coffee beans)
https://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/resources/health/health-effe...

How many people died? How many people did annually from people burning coal?How many people develop long term health effects from coal?

How many catastrophic failures of nuclear reactors have there been? What about catastrophic failures of other energy sources?

Think critically mate.
> I have never been more let down by anyone as much as the Green Party in my life.

The people in the UK unwillingly stripped of their EU citizenship due to Brexit might like a word... ;)
That assumes states have interests.

In reality, it's a bit more complicated, because states are run by people, and those individual people have interests, not the states.

The latter consideration helps to understand why eg the US invaded Iraq in the 2000s but then didn't take their oil (as your 'control of scarce resources' theory might predict).
Robert Oppenheimer knew the entire domain space of nuclear weapons. Current researchers don't. Its not like future neural networks are just going to be stacks and stacks of transformers on top of each other.
I shouldn't need to be a detective to understand the point of a website lol, unless that is the point. It was completely non obvious to me as well.
Sad to see, I remember being hooked to their early work. I’ll occasionally watch Vice News which is still good. On the ground, on or near the front lines of a conflict zone, has always been there sweet spot.
My mom has this had this disease for at least 40 years and I’d love to find something else for her to try. How can one tell if hers is triggered by this bacteria? Any tests?
Is there anything states which oppose the death penalty can do to encourage states with it to change?
Have we made any fundamental progress in understanding how the human brain works in the last 20 years? 50?
Didn’t Germany shut down nuclear energy plants too? This problem seems to be entirely of their own making. Why would they do this?
This is incredible! One of the best spectral tools I've seen.

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Yeah, (2020) if you care to add.
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The original dissolution was passed as a plan during Schröder's first term, aka in the SPD/Green government, in 2002. Later, in 2010, the CDU/FDP government modified the plan and gave the power plant providers more budget. About half a year after this law has passed the Bundestag, the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident happened and a commission was established to study the security of nuclear power. Then, yes, CDU and FDP agreed upon a new plan to exit nuclear power earlier than their original extension planned, and some power plants were turned off right away.

You can point your finger at the CDU, but saying that the CDU was the big driving force is disingenous.

It seems that Germany's descisions on exiting nuclear power plants are always unhappily timed. First, Fukushima happens, making the extension a few months earlier look really weird. Then, the Ukraine war happens, rendering Germany's original plan moot to replace coal with natural gas from russia, and everyone is shaking their head again as Germany is keeping to the original plan.
> I think the world still associates Germany with engineering excellence…

Do people feel that way? Their automobiles are some of the worst from an engineering perspective and the only software company I can think of is the dinosaur SAP.

When I think of Germany I do not think of good engineering but rather automobiles that lose so much value so quickly because the have expensive and frequent maintenance costs and outdated software companies. Germany makes things unnecessarily complex and therefore prone to failure. It’s a cultural thing I believe.

In which ways us Germany considered excellent at engineering today?
How would you know if these disease of despair wouldn't have been worse had there not been internet?

How come the same despair from places like russia (where death from alcoholism is almost epidemic), isn't being attributed to the internet there?
The idea that you can assume privacy because whatever country or corporation surveys is incompetent or bureaucratic sounds reasonable, but what's the probability of that? It's not 100%.

If privacy is important, assume compromise and work around it, sounds like the more secure strategy.
Didn’t someone already try to do blood analysis with just a drop of blood and failed miserably?
Surprisingly I find myself thinking "Yes, the recommendation algorithm is Google's speech." Particularly if they claim it's secret and proprietary. If Google claims ownership of it, they own it, not any user, i.e. it's not user-generated content. That's my feeling on it, which obviously doesn't necessarily correspond to the law or to how this case eventually turns out.
>It may be possible that there is no English sentence you can utter about anything which is both explanatory and fully accurate.

FTFY. Philosophy aside, humans understand complex things by building simpler abstractions for them. I think the key to NN understandability centers on building simpler NNs focused on specific tasks that build into bigger ones.
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This is great reply. This particular sentence is very pithy: <<It's like arguing that Africa can't develop the Internet until after they get their telegraph network up and running.>>

I can recall many, many years ago (20+), reading an article about the future of telephones. The article proposed that many developing nations would never install landlines with full penetration because mobile phones are so much cheaper. This was written in the era when mobile phones were still expensive. That blew me away.

East Africa has huge savannahs that are ideal for solar power. I've written here many times about the solar gold mine upon which both North Africa and the Middle East are sitting. I agree: There is a good chance that coal power plants don't make sense in the face of very cheap solar power. Also, many developing nations depend upon foreign capital / loans to build power plants. The lenders will very much prefer green energy over coal. What is harder: Tearing down coal power plants in developing nations. Why? The money is already spent to build a huge power plant.
This is like seeing a new design for a custom forklift vehicle and asking what the 0-60 is.
My biggest problem is that it's impossible to move your account with all your data to a different server as of today. You can bring small parts of it like the subscribers and some lists, but the posts, pictures, videos, etc. you have to leave behind on the old server. This would at least prevent me to move to a different server.
Why name something that involves code "Grasshopper" when there's been a popular product for 15 years called Grasshopper? [0]

It seems like some people just don't bother to do a basic search to see if their new product name is going to add confusion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_3D
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Hahah, that's an unexpected connection that's funny!

No, I was thinking more, be a dissembler.
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I could forgive any blunder Germany did/does if it at least had:

* A radical plan to expand green energy more than any other country

* Or was one of the leading countries behind fusion or had grand plans for being the first to open up experimental fusion power plants / research as soon as it's available.

Especially after the Russian gas fiasco, I just can't wrap my head around Germany with their plan.
It feels almost like there is none, just how does Germany expect to fulfill any green transition if they aren't investing like crazy in one or the other?
> I still think that this decision was mindblowingly progressive and valuable at that time.

But that's not rational. Disabling nuclear power more than negates the effects of investing in wind and solar. Actually wind and solar are worse than nuclear, since the former are highly volatile and can't act as a stable baseline energy source.
It does raise an interesting question: is the 'spectrum' bigger because marketing wanted to capitalize, or is it a bigger range of outcomes on chips due to the progression of shrinking fab sizes?
The interesting thing to me is that a compromise is totally feasible and doesn’t need its own OS to accomplish. Let me save a “workflow”.

What is a workflow? A collection of apps, all with their internal states saved, and their positions saved on the screen. Let me close my current flow and open a new flow, with as little friction as possible. I could have an “email” flow in the morning, a “repo 1” flow after that, a “repo 2” flow, (and repo 1+2 etc) a documentation/paper reading flow, and on and on. A few macros can probably accomplish this. Maybe it already exists?

On a more fundamental level the authors are totally right about the debilitating distractions of apps and their damn notifications. But you’d need OS-level control to address that.
Aren’t they still called smileys ? Or am I getting really old ?
Surely they know from the dealer whom that plate number was assigned to. In fact: when they send the metal one does it have the same number?
I think it's rather the opposite. Those tools are controlled by large capital, at the level of being capable of wowing people with cutting-edge realistic content.

I predict a renewed interest in human scale art and culture and socialization.
The lines for the toilet at the worlds biggest party are surely long...
But it won't work. The administration won't trade spending cuts for a clean hike. It's like a hostage taker whose demands aren't met. You're left with two options: surrender, or shoot the hostage. Neither gets you what you want, but one is more reasonable than the other.