Walid Aliouche

@Chikor_Zi @levantophile That's a shameful answer, maybe at one point we need to stop inventing or denying ancestors and just accept that history is just history

It's not our ancestors. Our actual ancestors created arianism and donatism and were in a religious war against catholiscm and orthodoxy where both commited genocides in north africa. Good riddance. Maybe educate yourself a little bit on this subject before coming here and spewying bullshit.

Much is said about the transformation of Byzantine Anatolia, or the ancient Christian heartlands of Egypt and the Levant, yet Roman Africa remains less present in the popular imagination, despite having once stood just as deeply at the core of the Roman Christian world. These are the ruins of Hippo, the hometown of Augustine, in what is now modern-day Annaba, a quiet town on the eastern edge of Algeria. Yet in antiquity, this was not a peripheral settlement, but part of the Latin-speaking heartland of Roman Africa, one of the vital centers of the broader Latin Roman world. From Hippo, Augustine helped lay the intellectual and spiritual foundations of Latin Christianity, and in doing so became one of the formative figures in the making of Western civilization itself. And it was in nearby Carthage, close to modern-day Tunis, that his predecessor Tertullian first gave Latin its theological voice, becoming the earliest major Christian thinker to write in that language. History turns in ways that feel almost inconceivable in hindsight: a region once so central to the Roman and early Christian world, helping shape the foundations of the Christian West, has become an inseparable part of a very different cultural and civilizational sphere today. Given that there are no surviving Christian communities in the Maghreb comparable to the Copts or Maronites, it would perhaps feel disorienting, if not almost inconceivable, for modern-day eastern Algerians and Tunisians to appreciate that if their ancestors once made foundational and enduring contributions to a major world civilization, it is arguably more so to the Christian West, through figures such as Augustine and Tertullian, than to the Islamic world.

@davidbessis That's not meant for human, the groundbreaking part is to be able to use analog circuit for computation and do heavy operation on fewer cycle

Am I the only one to find this story completely idiotic?

@anorth_chen All hail the monolith

Peter是我们的CTO，一个月前他开始实施新构建的AI-First的工作方式，结果是显而易见的，我们现在每天至少有20个PR会合并上线。产品changlog可以非常直观的体现我们团队的效率：docs.creao.ai/community-and-… 没想到他会写文章把这么干货的实践经验分享出来。 我推荐X上所有的founders好好读一下这篇文章，如果你们团队还在以AI-assisted而不是AI-first的方式去运转，很可能会在未来一年以内就逐渐淡出这个市场了。

@AndreasSteno He have a track records of CO and at this point what Iranien leadership are going to loose ? "He who can destroy the spice controls it"

But they (Iran) may be tempted to try and call Trumps bluff! Is Trump actually willing to block the Strait? I.e. shoot at ships?

Trump just flipped the Strait narrative from open it to block it, turning it into an Iran versus the rest of world pressure test while oil flows still hold around 80% of normal. But the real constraint is structural: Iran cannot push Hormuz too far without hitting China’s red lines, since Beijing is the dominant buyer and can either enforce discipline or accelerate bypass routes like pipelines and overland corridors. That creates leverage, but it is asymmetric. If Iran overuses it, it loses it. Clever move by Trump, in my opinion!

@reptar321 A aucun moment dans la video y'a mention d'Algériens

Il y a des algériens au Groenland.

@rolantus667 @WarMonitor3 Different market, different delivery place, different quote currency, different prices

Frances central bank has sold huge amounts of American gold and bought European gold instead 129 tonnes of French gold stored in New York were sold and bought the equivalent gold in Europe making a large profit. Wow...

@lolofchs @tony_fbr_invest Peut être, mais ça rendra les entreprises plus compétitives, plus de capacité a investir et plus d'arguments pour retenir les talents

@tony_fbr_invest Aucun employeur ne reversera les cotisations patronales…ne rêvez pas..tout au plus des miettes..

Je suis en train de travailler sur un financement habitat pour un client cadre (oui c'est Dimanche mais t'inquiète Dieu me le rendra, ou pas) et il faut vraiment que les Français se réveillent. Sur 2025 : - Versé employeur : 90.246€ - Net imposable : 45.276€ (donc perçu) - ce client va encore payer ~4.600€ d'impôts sur le revenu sur ses 45.276€ perçus - TMI 30% L'employeur verse 100, ce client touche au final après impôts 45. 55 directement dans la poche de l'Etat socialiste Français. C'est littéralement du vol et seuls les parasites vivant de ce vol ne verront pas d'où vient le problème.

@douf_treize @tony_fbr_invest Toujours la même disquette, ce que tu viens de citer mise a part l'hôpital n'est qu'une infime partie du prélèvement moins de 5%, et même la santé n'est pas pour toi.

@tony_fbr_invest Blablablabla pas marre de raconter la même chose h24 ? Tu crois convaincre qqun ? Quand tu chopperas un cancer tu seras content de ne rien avoir à payer à l'hosto. Quand tu auras des gosses tu seras content de ne rien avoir à payer ni pour leur école ni pour leur université.

@Orange_Zorrino @sc_cath @Delphine_D Y'a d'autres moyen beaucoup plus pertinent que les TR pour lutter contre le black, rien que le coût de gestion de ce truc suffit comme argument pour le supprimer

@sc_cath @Delphine_D Le ticket resto sert à lutter contre l'économie au black, en mesurant les proportions de revenus TR vs cash des restos, pas à faire manger les salariés. L'extension le dimanche est utile. L'extension aux supermarchés, en revanche, rend cette niche inutile et stupide.

Le niveau d’ingérence et d’infantilisation que les Français acceptent dans leur vie quotidienne, ainsi que la complexité qui en découle, sont absolument grotesques. Rien ne l’illustre mieux que ce délire qui consiste à verser une partie des salaires en tickets trucs, chèques machins et comptes à la con, au lieu de simplement laisser les gens dépenser librement leur salaire net.

@SPYCATKITTY @OfficialErected @BX8Q4OaSaVX9wGd There is a lot of ignorance here, no Arab/Muslim country would accept palestinien refugees nor even palestinien would want to leave for the simple reason that when it did happen before Israel didn't let them back when there was peace, that's a textbook ethnic cleansing

@OfficialErected @BX8Q4OaSaVX9wGd 前から周辺国が同じイスラム教同志のパレスチナ難民をなんで受け入れないのかと思ってたがハマスは革命防衛隊レベルのガチのキチガイだったんやな。

ほんこれ。 パレスチナ民は ・受け入れてくれたヨルダンの王の面前で旅客機を爆破するテロを起こしてヨルダンから追放 ・その後受け入れてくれたレバノンでキリスト教徒の猟奇殺人を繰り返して内紛を起こしてレバノンから追放。 ・クウェートに住んでた奴らはイラクがクウェートに侵攻した際にイラク側を支持してクウェートからも追放された。 エジプトが絶対にパレスチナ民を受け入れないのはどんなカルトを持ち込まれるか理解しているから。

@alivali67044 @phl43 Military coup followed by baatist-communist ruling and then 10 years of actif islamist terrorist cells put a hold on any possible development

@phl43 Algeria is another country that should be much richer. Small population, a lot of land, a lot of oil and gas. Should've been like the Gulf states.

I hadn't realized what a shitshow Jordan has been from the point of view of economic development. It's basically been the same mismanagement as Saudi Arabia, but without oil to make up for it. Egypt by contrast has acquitted surprisingly well in terms of growth, but was starting from a very low point. Despite sanctions and wasting money on proxies all over the Middle East, Iran has actually performed better than Jordan. We don't think of Jordan as a basket case, because traditionally their leadership has avoided ideological craziness and acquiesced to US hegemony, but even taking into account the challenge of integrating Palestinian refugees it's clearly a mess.

@BickerinBrattle That sounds more like cope

One sorte if a fully loaded B52 with dumb bombs indiscriminately dropped roughly on a urban military target will end this war immediately. The Iranians know this which is why they comply and fold.

@youzensan @ThatchEffendi First time I saw a Buddhist prayer on Korea I was shocked on how it did remind of Islamic prayer, so yeah there was definitely an influence

Herbert was genuinely extremely perceptive about such things. A lot of modern scholarship on early Islamic history has looked at the influence of Zoroastrianism and Buddhism on the emergence of the faith, with special emphasis played on the Central Asian and Khorasani roots of the Abbasids and the Barmakids, formerly hereditary Buddhist priests. I think it's now generally accepted that Buddhism was one of the major, maybe the major influence on the emergence of Sufism, for instance. You know who just intuitively got this at some level? Herbert. An overweight American autodidact writing an adventure novel set in outer space in early 60s Washington State.

@pious__athiest @sharghzadeh Dubai is not walk friendly city, he is just being sarcastic

@sharghzadeh she crossing the marina on a bridge. do you expect her to swim?

A “walk” in Dubai (shimmying along a freeway)

@VL_Shch @karpathy @rkobylinski As soon as you stray away from "open source" like projects/app the model often get sloppy, have the same experience

He is not holding it wrong; I can't speak for web, but in anything graphics-related (let's say shaders or Unity engine), have almost zero improvement, it's extremely bad in everything. You need to micro-manage every action if you want to get anything workable. When you give it a spec to implement, the result is complete garbage

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow. Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes. As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now. It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

@footyindustryAU @abodoz @SandyofCthulhu I dont deny it was bad but here you mixing things, in north Africa main goal was to get a ransom for their freedom or exchange them for Muslim slaves in europe

@abodoz @SandyofCthulhu rubbish. Arab slavery - particularly in North Africa - was so bad that the US marines were formed and then stormed Trippoli, and the British Navy bombed Algiers - TWICE, and then the French invaded to put a stop to it all.

My best friend was a professor of Arabic and Arab history. He was as pro-Islam as a Christian could be. He said that during the slave trade in Africa, the whites took slaves away from the coasts, while the Arabs were attacking the black population from the interior, and marching them north to Arabia. The white slave trade had slaves die in the process. I don't forget the exact amount but it was less than 30%. Horrible, of course. In the Arab slave trade they lost 90% of the slaves dead in the march north. Then most of the slaves were turned into eunuchs. I'm not defending the white slave trade, but there's a reason a lot of black people live in the New World, and are majorities in some countries. While there are almost zero black people in the Arabian peninsula, despite a trade in slaves that was as old as the white's.

@proctorzt @firstadopter @michaeljburry From their aggressive pricing and how they treat their customers I do believe they wanna get rid of COBOL but the laziness and incompetence of their clients forced them to maintained. I guess with Claude and codex they (clients) can now rewrite that whole monolith lol

@firstadopter @michaeljburry If you were a higher up at IBM how did you not see this written on the wall? Like I bet their engineers were probably using an llm to do some of their jobs at some point and they never thought “wait…” lol

IBM down 10%. Mastercard down 6.5%. What is happening?

@ProfDBernstein @JeninYounesEsq A lot of Russian got Israelis citizenship with just the lineage without even being jewish

@JeninYounesEsq Actually, if you have adopted/were raised in another religion and aren't married to a Jew, you aren't eligible for the Law of Return. That doesn't get to your main point, but it does call into question that you are talking about.

As I’ve mentioned before- my father is Palestinian, grew up in the West Bank. My mom’s father was German Jewish. I could go live in Israel tomorrow based on my grandfather’s background, though he’d never set foot in Palestine or modern-day Israel and had no family there. But I have no right or ability whatsoever to go based on my dad’s heritage- though he grew up in the West Bank and most of his family remains there

@dxrsam_0 @nntaleb @cremieuxrecueil How can you increase a probability distribution 🤡? A sum of all probable events will always result to 1 increasing one X means other X are less likely to happen

@nntaleb @cremieuxrecueil Actually it's completely correct. You seem to be the fraud here. 🤔 • The model shown is Y = 0.10 X₁ + 0.10 X₂ + ... + 0.10 X₁₀ + 𝜺. • If you increase every Xᵢ by 1𝝈, then Y too increases by 1𝝈. • Meanwhile the variance explained by X₁, …, X₁₀ together is [CONT]

More evidence @cremieuxrecueil is a TOTAL fraud; fails elementary stat. He is saying that if X1 through X10 have each 10% correlation w/Y and they more together by SAME amt, it would be 100% correlation. The odds of independent 10 r.v. moving together by same amt is abt ZERO. And if not independent things are worse.

@PirateIreland @paddycosgrave Damn I remember 4chan mention of cheese pizza as codeword but everyone took them for conspiracy theories, well well I guess they are always right after all

@paddycosgrave Maybe the FBI have expanded this list..

Why are so many emails about “shrimps” in the Epstein files so heavily redacted… is “shrimp” a code word for sex trafficked children? “I tried to photoshop the cream off the twin shrimps” “I like shrimp. But not so much if it's too pink, although I'm definitely more into white than into any other color” “two are russian,…. some are like shrimp , you throw away the head and keep the body” “She will give you massage, and she looks better then "shrimp" anyway. and good with Massages” WTAF