The Bad Guys Are Winning
The future of democracy may well be decided in a drab office building on the outskirts of Vilnius, alongside a highway crammed with impatient drivers heading out of town. I met Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya there this spring, in a room that held a conference table, a whiteboard, and not much else. Her team—more than a dozen young journalists, bloggers, vloggers, and activists—was in the process of chan
They’re openly saying it: Brexit has failed. But what comes next may be very dark indeed | Jonathan Freedland
It lasts no more than a second, but it is a moment for the ages. Interviewed on BBC Newsnight on Monday, Nigel Farage made a confession that, by rights, should end the debate that has split this country down the middle for much of the last decade. A month ahead of the seventh anniversary of the 2016 vote that took Britain out of the European Union, Farage said three words of striking simplicity an
How I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet Or the real reason Twitter doesn't want you to have an edit button. I'll try to leave the pulp in here and keep this as chronological as I can. In that spirit, no tweets were harmed in the making of this post. The original idea to make a tweet that quote tweets itself is from the 28th of May 2020—as recorded in Evernote—but I think had likely occurred to me earlier
１０月５日に浜田省吾さんのファンクラブのイベント、『100% FAN FUN FAN 2019 ”Journey of a Songwriter” since 1975 Welcome back to The 80's Part-1 ”終りなき疾走 ～ ALL FOR RUN” 』 に参加してきました。 １時半頃にホテルに着き、チェックインを済ませ荷物を部屋に置き、早速 隣接する会場に行ってみたら グッズを求めて たくさんの人が並んでいました。 浜田さんの衰えぬ人気ぶりが伺えます。 食事をして部屋に戻り、しばらく休息して 夕方 ホテルの窓からの夕焼け。 お日様は、ちょうどビルの陰になり見えませんでしたが、綺麗な夕焼けでした。 開演少し前に会場入り。 ローディーが ギターをチェックする音が聴こえ、否が応にも ライブへの期待が高まります。 そして 開演。 ライトが落ち、『君が人生の時』 のイン
The Principles of Deep Learning Theory An Effective Theory Approach to Understanding Neural Networks Daniel A. Roberts and Sho Yaida based on research in collaboration with Boris Hanin drob@mit.edu, shoyaida@fb.com ii Contents Preface vii 0 Initialization 1 0.1 An Effective Theory Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 0.2 The Theoretical Minimum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
How long will the war last?
Henry Kissinger at Davos this week where he argued Ukraine should give up territory to end the war. If there is a single question put to me more than any other, it is ‘How long will this war last?’ – even more so than ‘Who will win?’ In practice the two questions are unavoidably connected. Both questions have acquired some extra urgency as Ukraine acknowledges that it is engaged in tough fighting
マンハッタンカフェとは [単語記事] - ニコニコ大百科
マンハッタンカフェ単語 56件 マンハッタンカフェ 3.2千文字の記事 10 0pt ほめる 掲示板へ 記事編集 概要血統表主な産駒関連動画関連コミュニティ関連項目掲示板マンハッタンカフェとは、1998年生まれの日本の競走馬、俳優である。 主な勝ち鞍 2001年:菊花賞(GI)、有馬記念(GI) 2002年:天皇賞(春)(GI) この記事では実在の競走馬について記述しています。 この馬を元にした『ウマ娘 プリティーダービー』に登場するキャラクターについては 「マンハッタンカフェ(ウマ娘)」を参照してください。 概要 父サンデーサイレンス、母サトルチェンジ、母父Law Societyという血統。あまり馴染みのない馬が血統に並んでいるが、ドイツが独自に育ててきた名牝系の血を引く。 日本で言うとビワハイジがこの系統の出身で、ドイツ牝系は今日の生産界では底力に溢れる系統として重宝されている名血であ
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When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Source Hardware Companies
July 12, 2023 AT 1:00 pm When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Source Hardware Companies Over the last 15+ years, innovative electronics companies have designed and released thousands of open-source hardware designs, creating a flourishing industry. Open-source hardware companies collectively created, and signed the open-source hardware definition which means products meet a uniform
This page collects ISW and CTP's updates on the conflict in Ukraine. In late February 2022, ISW began publishing daily synthetic products covering key events related to renewed Russian aggression against Ukraine. These Ukraine Conflict Updates replaced ISW’s previous “Indicators and Thresholds for Russian Military Operations in Ukraine and/or Belarus,” which we maintained from November 12, 2021, t
Almost 25 years ago, in 1997, Daniel Stenberg created curl, a command line tool for transferring data. The name stands for “client URL,” works on any platform, and is used in billions of installations. Despite maintaining curl for a quarter of a century, Daniel couldn’t be happier where he is, and wouldn’t want to be doing anything else. We recently sat down with him to hear how he first discovere
Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy (Published 2020)
Barack Obama’s new memoir “A Promised Land” is unlike any other presidential autobiography from the past — or, likely, future. Yes, it provides a historical account of his time in office and explicates the policy objectives of his administration, from health care to economic recovery to climate change. But the volume is also an introspective self-portrait, set down in the same fluent, fleet-footed
CommunityAfter the offer: staying in tech long-termTech can be a tricky industry (to say the least). We talked with three tech professionals who share why they stay, what has helped them the most, and the power of switching things up. There are lots of resources to help you land your first tech job, from technical training to interview preparation. But once you’re in, it’s harder to find advice on
こんにちは、望月慎（望月夜）＠motidukinoyoruと申します。 （blog「批判的頭脳」、togetter、noteマガジン一覧） （拙著『図解入門ビジネス 最新 MMT[現代貨幣理論]がよくわかる本』（秀和システム）（2020/3/24 発売）） ティモワーニュとレイによるMMT批判への再反論論文が書かれたのは2013年のこと、今から8年も昔の話になる。 Tymoigne, E., & Wray, L. R. (2013). Modern money theory 101: a reply to critics. Levy Economics Institute, Working Papers Series, (778). 基本的にこの論文は、アメリカにおける非主流派/異端派、特にポスト・ケインジアンによるMMT批判に応える内容となっていて、一般のMMT論争とはややテイストが異な
というイアン・ブルマのProject Syndicate論説（原題は「The Colonial Trap」）をMostly Economicsが紹介している。以下は引用部の孫引き。 On February 20, 1947, Clement Attlee, the socialist British prime minister, informed parliament that India would become independent no later than June 1948. Attlee could not wait for the British to withdraw from a country whose leaders, Muslim and Hindu, had long been clamoring for independence. But India wa
MLOps Is a Mess But That's to be Expected - Mihail Eric
Does this sound familiar? You read an article that said doing machine learning was the job to get in 2022, being not only crazy in-demand but commanding among the highest industry salaries around. That sounds nice: job security and money. What’s not to like? You decide you’re going to go for it, learn the skills to be a machine learning engineer, do a few side projects to beef up your resume, and
The 'eu' in eucatastrophe – Why SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle
This matrix would be a lot larger if it included historical OSes and less common architectures, where support with the respective compiler was often in a 1:1 relationship (i.e. that combination would cover a single cell in the matrix). The matrix also does not cover which programming languages a given compiler is able to process, but for simplicity, you can picture C/C++ here. Of course, GCC remai
『A Promised Land（約束の地）』は、オバマ元大統領の全2巻となる回顧録の第1巻。生い立ちから1期目に起きた2011年5月のオサマ・ビンラディン殺害までの出来事と当時の思いが、700ページ以上にわたって時系列にそって記されている。09年1月の政権人事、金融危機への対応、ロシアとの核軍縮交渉、医療保険制度改革、移民、環境、アフガニスタン戦略、ウォール街改革など、直面した主要な問題にどのような経緯で判断を下してきたかを読むことができる。 最初の2年間の政治判断に後悔はなかったと語るが、自己評価は厳しい。10年の中間選挙での民主党の大敗など当時の状況を振り返り、至らなかった点については謙虚に反省する。 読みどころは多いが、新政権が発足した現在、最も興味深いのは、本書の全般に登場する当時のバイデン副大統領に関する記述だろう。副大統領に選んだのは、「偏った見方」がなく、「頭に浮かんだこと
Bullshit Jobs
Notes: ISBN 978-1-5011-4331-1, ISBN 978-1-5011-4334-2 (ebook); Most names and many identifying characteristics have been changed.; Interior design by Carly Loman; Jacket design by David L Itman To anyone who would rather be doing something useful with themselves. Preface: On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs In the spring of 2013, I unwittingly set off a very minor international sensation. It all be
The Blog of Scott Aaronson If you take nothing else from this blog: quantum computers won't solve hard problems instantly by just trying all solutions in parallel. You’ve seen the stories—in the Financial Times, Technology Review, CNET, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, or elsewhere—saying that a group at Google has now achieved quantum computational supremacy with a 53-qubit superconducting device. Whil
Product Reviews And Ratings UX: A Designer’s Guide — Smashing Magazine
How do we design effective reviews and ratings? With a distribution chart, decimal scores, tags, recommendation score and unedited product photos. When we make purchasing decisions, we often rely on expertise from people like us who happen to have purchased that item already. And so we seek user reviews, often looking for a high enough average score, a good number of these reviews, and a good numb
200+ Common Proverbs in English [with Meaning and Example] | Lemon Grad
Proverbs and sayings are popular nuggets of wisdom, often in circulation for centuries and even millenniums. This post covers more than 200 common proverbs, each of which is followed by meaning and use in an example sentence. If you’re looking for more proverbs and sayings, you can find plenty of them in the resource below. It contains proverbs on topics such as life, family, friends, love, health
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アルスターの猟犬(51) - フレイニャのブログ
グラブルのノイシュ。アルスター伝説のノイシュはカラスのような黒髪と雪のような白い肌です 「アルスターの猟犬(50)」の続きです。第23章に入ります。 CHAPTER XXIII The Up-bringing of Deirdre As soon as she was weaned, King Conor took the child away from her own parents, as was the custom in those olden days, and put her out to foster with a nurse, Levarcam, a wise and skilful dame, who told the King from day to day how Deirdre fared. And for the first seven years Deirdre
Following up from the last post, there is a lot more we need to cover. This was intended to be the post where we talk exclusively about benchmarks and numbers. But, I have unfortunately been perfectly taunted and status-locked , like a monster whose “aggro” was pulled by a tank. The reason, of course, is due to a few folks taking issue with my outright dismissal of the C and C++ APIs (and not show
Creative writing by OpenAI’s GPT-3 model, demonstrating poetry, dialogue, puns, literary parodies, and storytelling. Plus advice on effective GPT-3 prompt programming & avoiding common errors. I continue my AI poetry generation experiments with OpenAI’s GPT-3 (released mid-2020), which is 116× larger, and much more powerful, than the 2019 GPT-2. GPT-3, however, is not merely a quantitative tweak y
A not so gentle intro to web3 | Koos Looijesteijn
Published: 31 December 2021 Updated: 14 January 2022 Words: 2773 Read time: 14 minutes Almost everything web3-related is a grift based on getting people to buy crypto. Although the distributed part of blockchain technology is sort of neat, it’s not that ground-breaking, as having stuff distributed is the whole basis of internet technology since the very beginnning. There have been fine peer-to-pee
Why Japan should stop its Fukushima nuclear wastewater ocean release
Water tanks holding contaminated water at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. (Credit: IAEA) On August 24, 2023, Japanese electric utility holding company Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) announced that it has started discharging so-called “treated” and “diluted” water from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. This is not the end of controversy over
Recap of AWS re:Invent 2022
After a virtual-only event in 2020 and a reduced-size 2021 edition, re:Invent was back last week in Las Vegas with over 50,000 attendees for the 11th edition. During multiple sessions and keynotes at the largest AWS conference, the cloud provider announced new services and features, with the focus more on business solutions and data options than new building blocks. Below is a review of the main a
Fear of China is pushing India and Japan into each other’s arms
THE MUGHAL PRINCE Dara Shikoh was beheaded in 1659 after publishing a scandalous book, “The Confluence of the Two Seas”, in which he identified a spiritual affinity between Hinduism and Islam. In 2007 Abe Shinzo, then Japan’s prime minister, borrowed the book’s title for a stirring speech to India’s parliament in which he called for the Indian and Pacific oceans to be seen as one strategic space,
Armed with only one word, Tenet, and fighting for the survival of the entire world, a Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time. Synopsis An unnamed CIA agent — referred to as “The Protagonist” — participates in an undercover SWAT operation at a Kiev opera house, rescuing an exposed spy and capturing a stran
I have quite a few friends going through the new grad Software Engineering hiring process and thought I’d write up a “State of Tech Offers” for 2019 - it’s meant to help shine light on how an offer is structured, how the big players are constructing their offers, and how to make sure you’re not being taken advantage of or being deceived. Parts of an offer A standard offer will typically have five
米国図書館協会（ALA）が発行するAmerican Libraries誌のウェブサイトに、2021年6月29日付けで記事“Hope and Harmony：President Obama closes Annual with a call for reconciliation”が掲載されています。同日に行われた2021年米国図書館協会（ALA）年次大会のクロージング・トークについて、その内容を紹介した記事です。 クロージング・トークでは、アフリカ系米国人として初のスミソニアン事務局長を務めるロニー・バンチ氏により、オバマ元米国大統領へのインタビューが行われました。インタビューでは、オバマ氏の回想録『約束の地』（A Promised Land）や、米国における民主主義のストーリーを形作る上での図書館の役割、人種差別の問題等について語られました。 米国の出版情報誌“Publishers Wee
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Oisín Moran | How I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
『浜田省吾 【100％ FAN FUN FAN 2019】 仙台公演に参加して・・・』
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Institute for the Study of War
curl: 25 years and 200 releases later
After the offer: staying in tech long-term
Tymoigne & Wray 『MMT批判に答える』の抜粋訳と、これを作成した理由｜望月慎（望月夜）
植民地の罠 - himaginary’s diary
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Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ!
cuneicode, and the Future of Text in C
GPT-3 Creative Fiction · Gwern.net
Tenet (2020) - Transcript - Scraps from the loft
Compensation in 2019 new grad tech offers
オバマ元米国大統領による2021年ALA年次大会のクロージング・トーク（記事紹介）