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Muligens aller siste runde i Toje-Bals-debatten som Minerva har holdt liv i på overtid. www.vagant.no/asle-toje-da...
"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com
🚨The most important graph in the world has another year of data, and it doesn't look good!🚨
NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space.
The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled!
It seems that even Donald Knuth himself (‼️) is impressed.
www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...
I'll admit it. I am having a double fanboy moment now.
🎯
A painting of Voltaire
Happy #WorldBookDay2026. The French writer and philosopher Voltaire once said 'Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.' 📚
He also drank up to 50 cups of coffee a day, often mixed with chocolate.
I think we're onboard with this.
📢 Plenary speakers for #ISMP2027
We are pleased to announce the plenaries for the 26th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming:
Daniel Bienstock
Jim Luedtke @optimizer.bsky.social
Thomas Rothvoss
Katya Scheinberg
Defeng Sun
🗓️ July 25–30, 2027
📍Amsterdam
🔗 ismp2027.mathopt.nl
#MOS
“Academics studying the field say AI is collapsing the planning time required for complex strikes – a phenomenon known as “decision compression”, which some fear could result in human military and legal experts merely rubber-stamping automated strike plans.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
"We have always been at war with Eurasia"
𝐋-𝐁𝐅𝐆𝐒 now available for SQP methods in the latest 𝐔𝐧𝐨 release! 🥳
Runs on #BLAS and #LAPACK. Best combined with a line search.
👉 github.com/cvanaret/Uno
Developed at @zuseinstitute.bsky.social
#optimization #nonlinearprogramming #numericaloptimization #foss #oss #sqp #barrier #unosolver
"The Peace President." [Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad]
«Asle Toje er et symptom på en vedvarende markedssvikt på ideenes markedsplass. Etterspørselen etter renhårige, prinsippfaste konservative tenkere har i lang tid vært mye større enn tilbudet.»
www.dagsavisen.no/kommentar/to...
'As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."' -Neil Postman (1987) om Aldous Huxley (1932)
On the one hand, the Trump administration is telling Europeans to take care of their own defense. On the other hand, they are supporting leaders and parties who are pro-Russian, opposed to European unity and don't want Europe to defend Ukraine or anything else.
Which is the policy?
Haha, this one was written about 5 years before chatgpt launched. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conver...
Du kan lese hvordan - og kanskje få en idé om hvorfor - i Vagant. Jeg håper også Minerva, som publiserte Tojes tilsvar uten min tekst, vil publisere.
En særlig takk til Sven G. Holtsmark, som tok kontakt med professor Richard Evans, som Toje på utrolig frekt vis har forsøkt å gjemme seg bak.
3/3
kaste til/for ulvene (etter engelsk throw/cast someone to the wolves)
Alt, også anglisismene, var bedre før
We ported pbrt-v4 to Julia and built it into a Makie backend. Any Makie plot can now be rendered with physically-based path tracing.
Runs on #AMD, #NVIDIA, and CPU via KernelAbstractions.jl, with #Metal coming soon.
makie.org/website/blog...
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at 84.
No social media post could do justice to such a large and consequential life.
His 1988 speech to the Democratic National Convention is easily one of the most remarkable — and personal — political addresses you’ll ever hear.
Rep. Jason Crow on Rubio's Munich speech: "Not only did he say things I found disturbing, what was also important was what he did not say. He never mentioned Russia once. He never mentioned China once. There was historically revisionism."
Interesting interview with @ocasio-cortez.house.gov at TU Berlin - a beacon of hope from the US:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvqw...
Når du får invitasjon til overgriperballet, så går det faktisk an å takke nei.
Jeg kommenterer Epstein-avsløringene, hvordan de er en fortsettelse av MeToo, og hvordan de avslører en enorm mangel på moral og empati.
NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months
* Down in 2025
* Still below Mar 2024
* Clean energy wave a key factor
If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…
www.carbonbrief.org/...
I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does.
Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision.
We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore.
This is something significantly bigger and scarier.
Courage and clarity — wow
If you find yourself getting angry over the words "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" . . . you are probably a horrible, hateful person.
