Christos Tsopokis

if the USG cannot restore free passage in the Persian Gull sea channels now subject to Iran Rev Guard extortion , Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, the UAE, Bahrein & Qatar will seek a more effective protecting power. Who starts wars must finish them, or others will do at their expense

GOOGLE BUILT A FOUNDATION MODEL THAT FORECASTS TIME SERIES WITHOUT TRAINING ON YOUR DATA Every ML engineer I know has wasted weeks building these pipelines from scratch custom models. feature engineering. hyperparameter tuning and it still breaks on new data TimesFM is a pretrained foundation model for time series trained on a massive corpus of real-world data so you don't have to plug in your historical numbers. get forecasts out sales trends. energy consumption. demand signals. any sequential data with a timestamp no training. no fine-tuning. no pipeline drama 200M parameters. 16k context window. quantile forecasts built in Google liked it so much they shipped it inside BigQuery as an official product the rest of us just got the open source version for free github.com/google-researc…

微软，总算出了个好东西。 开发了一款工具， 可以将几乎任何格式pdfs，word，docs，excel，PowerPoint，Audio，YouTube 网址 转换为Markdown文件， 众所周知Markdown 是AI 大语言模型最青睐的格式。 没有自定义解析器。没有损坏的布局。没有混乱的文本。 只是干净、结构化的标记， 只需一次安装 github.com/microsoft/mark…

Python Supply-Chain Compromise schneier.com/blog/archives/…

@GLivanos @DeusExBoreae @fullgazzia Πέρυσι 33η αγωνιστική

@GLivanos @DeusExBoreae @fullgazzia Ένα συνοπτικό γραφικό

Επειδή ζήτησε ο φίλος τα ομαδικά: Ανά 100 κατοχές, ο ΟΣΦΠ είναι: 🔴 1ος σε βολές υπέρ ⭢ 33.2 🔴 1ος σε λιγότερες βολές κατά ⭢ 22.5 🔴 1ος σε διαφορά βολών ⭢ +10.7 🔴 1ος σε φάουλ υπέρ ⭢ 32.0 🔴 1ος σε λιγότερα φάουλ κατά ⭢ 25.6 🔴 1ος σε διαφορά φάουλ ⭢ +6.4 🔴 +23% περισσότερες βολές υπέρ από τη μέση ομάδα 🔴 -17% λιγότερες βολές κατά, από τη μέση ομάδα 🔴 +11% περισσότερα φάουλ από τη μέση ομάδα 🔴 -12% λιγότερα φάουλ από τη μέση ομάδα ΣΕ ΟΛΗ ΤΗ ΛΙΓΚΑ #PAOBC

@nntaleb Sorry the position is filled with the 1st cousin of the vegan baker who supplied the cake for the 40th birthday party of an ex-colleague of the Atlanta Airbnb host who rented a room to the urologist's son girlfriend who treated the kidney stones of my Gaelic translator’s brother.

That particular friend of mine (actually the first cousin of the piano teacher of my barber's ex-wife's ex-stepdaughter from her first marriage) is now looking for a student to perform the reverse operation in the Atlanta area.

Another asymmetry with the West: at some point, with the supply chain disruption, the replacement cost of the bomb starts to exceed that of the target.

The FLARE team now freely distributes its quality reverse engineering and malware analysis educational content at github.com/mandiant/flare…. Launched with: - Malware Analysis Crash Course - Go Reversing Reference - Intro to TTD

Intel SGX has fallen! Its most important key is in our hands: we extracted the Global Wrapping Key from an instance of the Intel Gemini Lake platform

Hormuz Closes. Bosphorus Conditions. Strategic warning | Published in @tovimagr ⬇️ The Constantinople Protocol is already taking shape. Not a treaty. Not a formal doctrine. An operating assumption: the Bosphorus can remain open in law and fail in practice. Hormuz shows the model in force. The Bosphorus produces the same outcome through administration. Montreux still stands. Passage remains formally protected. Ankara governs how that passage functions. Traffic. Pilotage. Windows. Priority. Insurance. Cost. Nothing dramatic needs to happen. No declaration is required. Flow is not blocked. It is managed until friction becomes leverage. This is already underway. Europe already understands more than it says. The Danube is expanding. Corridors through Greece are aligning. Storage, insurance and contingency planning are adjusting. Not because the risk is theoretical, but because dependence on the straits is no longer neutral. The Bosphorus does not need to close to constrain. It only needs to be managed against the flow. The point is not similarity. It is convergence. 🔗 tovima.com/opinions/hormu…

@DimKaramanis Και όπως το είχες πει και πριν καιρό αλλά συνοπτικά: x.com/i/status/19742…

Ο Ντε Λαρέα έπαιζε βασικός στην Εθνική Ισπανίας στο Ευρωμπάσκετ και φέτος έχει φάει καψώνιασμα από τον δάσκαλο στην Ευρωλίγκα ενώ στην ACB παίζει 17 λεπτά και ξεκίνησε τη σεζόν ως MVP του Supercopa που κατέκτησε η Βαλένθια κερδίζοντας στον τελικό τη Ρεάλ. Το γεγονός ότι μπαίνει κρύος και γράφει τις βολές είναι ενδεικτικό της συμπεριφοράς παίκτη που αν και στα 20 του έχει δύο γεμάτες χρονιές καριέρας στο κορυφαίο επίπεδο, έχει ήδη ζήσει ομορφιές αλλά και σφαλιάρες γιατί η ομάδα του δεν τον αντιμετωπίζει ως "διαβατήριο" και μεγαλώνει σε ένα αθλητικό σύμπαν που η ήττα δεν εκλαμβάνεται ως πλήγμα για την προσωπική αξιοπρέπεια και την ψυχική ισορροπία κάθε φίλου της Βαλένθια. #euroleague #valenciabasket

@nntaleb skin in the game or new start seeker?

In 1973, the oil embargo lasted 5m & caused a decade of stagflation. The world was not globalized & things were sourced locally. 1) Today the ENERGY CONTENT of products around you is much much higher than 1973. 2) The West has too much DEBT so impossible to fight stagflation.

Former White House energy adviser Bob McNally says there are no policy solutions to address rising gas prices if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. cbsn.ws/47uHfgI

So to speak.... “Even the possibility that a hostile power could choke traffic in Hormuz—by far the world’s most vital energy and commodity artery—was considered to be absurd,” McNally told Fortune, largely because it hadn’t happened before. “When I would tell people our analysis shows that, in a military conflict with Iran, Hormuz would be shut for weeks, people looked at me like I was high on crack cocaine.” @RapidanEnergy fortune.com/2026/03/14/sky…

Jeff Currie from Goldman Sachs is probably the best person I know regarding commodities. His take on oil prices:

@unusual_whales @ELuttwak smells like Desert Storm III? Feels intimate?

BREAKING: Senator Blumenthal: "We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran."

Always infinite thanks for the enlightening interventions. If you are ordinary guys interested in understanding global energy dynamics, read seasoned, down-to-earth professionals on the topic like @Bob_McNally, and for G's shake read his book on crude volatility every few years.

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