Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:
"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."
Wer die Gültigkeit des (Völker-) Rechts vom "Erfolg" abhängig macht, erklärt die Mittel zum Zweck. Gerade deutsche Politiker*innen sollten es besser wissen. Die Geschichte hat gezeigt, wohin das führt.
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Es gibt zu allem immer einen Tweet von Donald Trump.
Cover of The Lancet:
@thelancet.com
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Personal experience: LLMs helped me with learning CS and math. This works especially well when trying to understand core concepts, where the training set of an LLM is huge. They are basically big knowledge processing & regurgitation machines. Faulty? yes, therefore not to be relied on exclusively
... they are very useful for coding and learning STEM subjects (they can help foster understanding of basic concepts).
Despite their many drawbacks, I believe transformer-applications (LLMs, agentic-AI) will be a net-positive on the long run.
Even that that term is too generic (no pun intended). This would also include things like Variational Autencoders which are used for data compression and biological representation learning.
But even if were just talking about transformer-architecture based LLMs: I disagree with you on this one...
Now you're taking it too far (or maybe that's just ragebait?).
It's like saying that you cannot be friends with people who get excited about web science because social media is ruining democracy.
It's also frustrating how people use the very broad umbrella term 'AI' as a stand-in for LLMs.
Das lustige an NIUS ist, dass sie kaum zahlende Abonnement haben, aber auch kaum Leserschaft. Sie werden fast vollständig von einem Multimillionär mit Lobbykontakten in der CDU finanziert, nicht, damit Millionen Menschen es lesen - sondern CDU-Abgeordnete. Es geht nur um deren Manipulationen.
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
fuck!
Perfectly encapsulates why reading Yuval Noah Harari's "Sapiens" was such a frustrating experience.
Besten 1:42 Stunden, die man sich zu diesem Thema anhören kann! Große Empfehlung von @mattxiv.bsky.social
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Erkenntnis: man soll Faschos nicht nach dem Maul reden, sondern sie bekämpfen.
"German mainstream parties are allowing the far right to set the agenda. They unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas & disseminating them more widely."
Why I left academia and neuroscience.
This post on Substack has gained a lot of traction. I think many people identify with it.
(Most of my posts are technical tutorials on machine-learning and LLM-mechanisms.)
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Which movie?
Terrific video. I knew this book would be bad but I was genuinely shocked at just *how* bad
American journalist, historian, and author Anne Applebaum on the West's biggest mistake in Russia's war against #Ukraine:
"The West doesn't understand the extremism of Putinism. They keep imagining that there's a deal to be done, that if we just give Crimea to Russia, then he'll stop fighting.⤵️
"...Baumgartner, der Fan von Viktor Orbán war und in Österreich gern eine „gemäßigte Diktatur“ gesehen hätte... leugnete ... den Klimawandel, und ... war während der Pandemie für eine Durchseuchung. Sein Standpunk: das alles, was ihn einschränkt, rigoros bekämpft gehört."
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You know I think it’s best not to rise to Friedrich Merz’s dumb outrage bait. Why don’t we all stipulate to facts we all recognize — that Germany’s chancellor hates LGBT people — and move on?
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Outstanding success: 🎉 #TUDresden shines with 5 Clusters of Excellence. @dfg.de & @wissenschaftsrat.de announced that decision today. TUD has impressively proven its claim to be a top university for the 21st century.
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Karoline Leavitt holds a PRESS BRIEIFNG
Excellent piece by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social. We all need to campaign for the UK government to tax wealth in its upcoming spending review & budget.
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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
Wir beobachten, wie Rechte - zunehmend auch in Deutschland - "Antisemitismus" lediglich in "Kritik an Netanjahu" sehen, während sie selbst frei antisemtisch sein dürfen, solange sie nur die israelische Regierung unterstützen.
Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
