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Miloslav Nic

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a marathon runner, software architect, chemist and knowledge detective. The driving force behind https://memowl.app/

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Humanoid robots stride into the future with world's first half-marathon Step by mechanical step, dozens of humanoid robots took to the streets of Beijing early Saturday, joining thousands of their flesh-and-blood counterparts in a world-first half marathon showcasing Chin...

#AI #robot #running #race

techxplore.com/news/2025-04...

19.04.2025 10:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Colossal squid filmed in its natural habitat for the first time The enigmatic predator, the heaviest known invertebrate, had never been seen alive in deep water

#squid #sea

www.science.org/content/arti...

19.04.2025 09:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The True Cost of Trumpโ€™s Statue Garden The National Garden of American Heroes represents a dangerous shift in valuesโ€”from inquiry to reverence.

The canceled NEH grants included a project to compile and translate Yiddish and Russian writing about the Holocaust from the Soviet Union, summer workshop for teachers about the history the Chihuahuan Desert, and documentary about stuttering. #trump

www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

15.04.2025 13:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Underestimating China Why America needs a new strategy of allied scale to offset Beijingโ€™s enduring advantages.

... The risk now is that Washington will split from #Europe while failing to split #China and #Russia

www.foreignaffairs.com/china/undere...

13.04.2025 15:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trumpโ€™s Tariff War Has Added Risk to U.S. Bonds, Long the Surest Bet in Global Finance Shocked by Trumpโ€™s trade war, foreign investors are selling U.S. government bonds, long the worldโ€™s safe haven.

... The whole world has decided that the #U.S. government has no idea what itโ€™s doing. #Trump #bonds

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...

13.04.2025 14:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Report Reveals Internal Chaos Behind Apple's Siri Failure A new report from The Information today reveals much of the internal turmoil behind Apple Intelligence's revamped version of Siri. Apple...

#Apple 's AI/ML group has been dubbed "AIMLess" internally, while employees are said to refer to #โ€ŒSiri as a "hot potato" that is continually passed between different teams with no significant improvements

www.macrumors.com/2025/04/10/c...

11.04.2025 04:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How Trump Could Dethrone the Dollar The Worldโ€™s Reserve Currency May Not Survive the Weaponization of U.S. Economic Power

Commanding as the #dollar may be, #Trump โ€™s return to office has created a genuine threat to its status for the first time in generations .. the damage is unlikely to be immediately fatal, but the risk, and probable pace, of terminal decline has increased.

reader.foreignaffairs.com/2025/04/08/h...

09.04.2025 17:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What โ€˜special relationshipโ€™? U.S. image sours in Britain and Europe. Under President Trump, attitudes toward the United States are shifting in ways that pollsters say they havenโ€™t seen before.

โ€œWe know the difference between #Trump and the American people,โ€ she said. โ€œI think the hurt comes from so many Americans having voted for him.โ€
#Britain #Europe.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

09.04.2025 05:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The best search engine Iโ€™ve ever used โ€“ Lukas W. Mayer Kagi is a premium search engine in every sense of the word.

This is a great review of my recent software discovery. I use #Kagi many times a day.

lukmayer.github.io/blog/posts/k...

09.04.2025 05:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜S.N.L.โ€™: Trumpeting Tariffs and Predicting a โ€˜Greatโ€™ Depression Cheeseheads and cheesecakes join the punchlines and headlines, and an enthusiastic audience gets a mild scolding for slipping past the censors. Temporarily.

... America elected Donald #Trump to run the country like a business. But it turns out heโ€™s running it like one of his businesses.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/a...

07.04.2025 10:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Man Out to Prove How Dumb AI Still Is Franรงois Chollet has constructed the ultimate test for the bots.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... #AI #AGI

07.04.2025 10:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Rise of the Vineyard Vines Nihilists MAGA populists claim to be helping the working class, but theyโ€™re really after one thing: raw power.

... If there is an underlying philosophy driving #Trump, it is this: Morality is for suckers. The strong do what they want and the weak suffer what they must. This is the logic of bullies everywhere.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

07.04.2025 09:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Take Trump Seriously About Greenland The Danes seem to believe him, and so should Americans.

... Imagine the reaction in Washington if a European leader came, say, to Puerto Rico, castigated Americaโ€™s management of the commonwealth, and urged the island to sever ties with the United States #USA #Greenland

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

07.04.2025 05:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk Wants What He Canโ€™t Have: Wikipedia Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia. What happens if they succeed?

#Wikipedia is certainly not immune to bad information, disagreement, or political warfare, but its openness and transparency rules have made it a remarkably reliable platform in a decidedly unreliable age.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

04.04.2025 12:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Good News About Trumpโ€™s Tariffs Authoritarian leaders are most dangerous when theyโ€™re popular. Wrecking the economy is unlikely to broaden Trumpโ€™s support.

... #Trump would not be the first president to encounter economic turbulence. But he might become the first one to kill off a healthy #economy through an almost universally foreseeable unforced error.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

03.04.2025 19:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Column | Trumpโ€™s tariffs may be a blow to Europe and a gift to China The impetus of what President Donald Trump has called โ€œLiberation Dayโ€ is clear. He wants to impose sizable tariffs on many imports. That plays into Chinaโ€™s hand.

To scholars in #China, the radicalism of the moment is curiously familiar. โ€œWhat is happening in the U.S. is still far from the Cultural Revolution. Itโ€™s maybe 1 or 2 percent,โ€ Da told NPR. โ€œBut you can sense that smell. #USA #Trump #Mao

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

03.04.2025 09:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | I Just Saw the Future. It Was Not in America. Beijingโ€™s message to America: Weโ€™re not afraid of you. You arenโ€™t who you think you are โ€” and we arenโ€™t who you think we are.

... with all the new U.S. โ€œoverseas investment restrictions and disincentives ... we are now blind to #China tech developments. China is defining the tech standards of the future without U.S. input ... a serious competitive disadvantage in the future.โ€ #USA #tariff

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

03.04.2025 08:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | I Just Saw the Future. It Was Not in America. Beijingโ€™s message to America: Weโ€™re not afraid of you. You arenโ€™t who you think you are โ€” and we arenโ€™t who you think we are.

"President #Trump is focused on what teams American transgender athletes can race on, and #China is focused on transforming its factories with A.I. so it can outrace all our factories. " #AI

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

03.04.2025 08:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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China, EU prepare โ€˜countermeasuresโ€™ as Trump tariffs unite friends and foes Allies and adversaries alike were reeling from Trumpโ€™s tariff blitz, with some signaling they were ready to retaliate while others were still hoping for talks.

โ€œItโ€™s worse now to be a U.S. ally than to be an adversary. As an adversary, at least you know what youโ€™re getting,โ€ #USA #tariff #Trump

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

03.04.2025 07:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How Trump Supercharged Distrust, Driving U.S. Allies Away Trust is very hard to build and easy to destroy. America and its partners are caught in a spiral of distrust.

โ€œ #Trust is difficult to create and easy to lose,โ€ ... โ€œMistrust of the United Statesโ€™ intentions and motives is growing day by day.โ€ #USA www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/w...

31.03.2025 11:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trumpโ€™s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Hobble Earthquake Response in Myanmar While China, Russia and other nations have rushed emergency response teams to the devastated country, the U.S., once a leader in foreign aid, has been slow to act.

China, Russia and India have dispatched #emergency teams and supplies to #earthquake -ravaged #Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. The United States, the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has sent nothing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/w...

31.03.2025 11:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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NASA, NSIDC Scientists Say Arctic Winter Sea Ice at Record Low - NASA Winter sea ice cover in the Arctic was the lowest it's ever been at its annual peak on March 22, 2025, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado...

Winter #sea #ice cover in the #Arctic was the lowest itโ€™s ever been at its annual peak on March 22, 2025, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)

www.nasa.gov/earth/arctic...

28.03.2025 09:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Inside arXivโ€”the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science Modern science wouldnโ€™t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still canโ€™t let it go.

Nearly 35 years ago, Ginsparg created #arXiv, a digital repository where researchers could share their latest findings

www.wired.com/story/inside...

28.03.2025 08:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SignalGate Isnโ€™t About Signal The Trump cabinetโ€™s shocking leak of its plans to bomb Yemen raises myriad confidentiality and legal issues. The security of the encrypted messaging app Signal is not one of them.

. โ€œ#Signal is a tool. If you misuse a tool, bad things are going to happen,โ€ says Green. โ€œIf you hit yourself in the face with a hammer, itโ€™s not the hammerโ€™s fault. Itโ€™s really on you to make sure you know who youโ€™re talking to.โ€

www.wired.com/story/signal...

28.03.2025 07:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries AI bots hungry for data are taking down FOSS sites by accident, but humans are fighting back.

... prominent industry players have shown little incentive to adopt more cooperative practices. Without meaningful regulation or self-restraint by AI firms, the arms ... seems likely to escalate further #AI #opensource

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/d...

27.03.2025 09:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How do our brains borrow myelin to use as an energy reserve during a marathon? Miloslav Nic's answer: There's a new scientific review about myelin remodeling (2024). It shows that myelin is a much more dynamic structure than we thought. A recent article in a very respectable sc...

How do our #brain s borrow #myelin to use as an energy reserve during a #marathon?

www.quora.com/How-do-our-b...

26.03.2025 13:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've been using Visual Code for a few years and Tabnine for the last couple, but I've recently switched to #cursor. I tried it out and decided to go with the Pro subscription. I'm still getting used to some of the features, but I'm already more productive.

26.03.2025 08:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Worthwhile Canadian Observations About a โ€œboringโ€ country that definitely isnโ€™t

"it also reflects a general limitation of the American imagination: we tend to have a hard time accepting that other countries are real, that they have their own histories and feel strong national pride"

open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

25.03.2025 13:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Famous Climate Observatoryโ€™s Lease May End Because of DOGE NOAA, the nationโ€™s leading climate science agency, may lose dozens of offices, including one that is key to the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.

"the office in Hilo, Hawaii, that manages the world-famous site could close in August, according to a copy of an internal federal document viewed by The New York Times." #climate #CO2

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/c...

25.03.2025 09:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump is dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Hereโ€™s what it does The IMLS provides financial support to a wide array of cultural and educational institutions, including art, science, and history museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, and historic sites.

... 89% of voters and 92% of parents believe local public libraries have an important role to play in communities. #library #museum

www.fastcompany.com/91303124/tru...

24.03.2025 12:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0