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"There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited." D. Sayers

В квартала са се появили гугутки!!!

🚨 BREAKING: Anthropic just opened a new role. they’re hiring chemical weapons experts now

The “goal” of the Iran war is now reportedly to open the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before the war began

Researchers analyzed 16 years of data from over 1 million PV systems in Germany and found annual degradation is just 0.52–0.61%, roughly half prior estimates. Environmental factors like heat, frost, and air pollution affect performance, while smaller systems degrade less than larger ones, boosting long-term reliability and profitability. (pv magazine)

China is using folding mobile photovoltaic power stations, long strips of solar panels that unfold to quickly generate electricity, bringing clean power to construction sites, disaster zones, and remote areas.

The people who did this want you to know international law and civilian life must be protected.

Look at the size of Vietnam in green. Then look at Iran in blue. The US only had troops in half of Vietnam and peak strength was 580K. The idea of fighting a ground war in Iran as Trump is suggesting sounds rather adventurous to me. Great use of a size comparison map by @NavyStrang btw!

just got invited to peer review a paper I'm one of the authors on

The paper I’ve been most obsessed with lately is finally out: nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…! Check out this beautiful plot: it shows how much LLMs distort human writing when making edits, compared to how humans would revise the same content. We take a dataset of human-written essays from 2021, before the release of ChatGPT. We compare how people revise draft v1 -> v2 given expert feedback, with how an LLM revises the same v1 given the same feedback. This enables a counterfactual comparison: how much does the LLM alter the essay compared to what the human was originally intending to write? We find LLMs consistently induce massive distortions, even changing the actual meaning and conclusions argued for.

Love Dune 84, but the characters seem unbelievable. A diseased orange pedophile who wants to drag everyone into a catastrophic war for his own selfish ends? Pull the other one!

“If you dismantle Greece, in the end, you will find a single olive tree, a vineyard, and a ship. Which means: with just that much, you can rebuild it” Elytis died #otd, in 1996

"Amid a lethal meningitis outbreak that has taken the lives of two young people in Canterbury, Reform councillors claimed that “a number of infectious diseases are believed to be on the increase, potentially due to having been carried by migrants” without providing evidence" 1/2

"This meningitis outbreak is deeply unusual and defies easy explanation. It has been described as unprecedented and explosive because there have been 20 cases since the weekend in one small area of Kent. This is not the normal pattern." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Хайде сега пак някой "експерт" да ми обясни колко е глупава идеята за зелени преходи и сделки, как слънцето нощем не свети и вятърът не винаги духа.

It's really uncanny.

Попитах, казва, ЧатШитИПи какво мисли за моите рисунки и той ги определи като магически реализъм с елементи на наивизъм. Много мислих върху това и смятам, че правилно е разбрал стила ми!

@BeshinskiD @ITsachkova За някои някоя Стела, за други ПАК генерал Атанасов...

@ITsachkova Логично е тя да има най-много преференции.

ПП-ДБ имат листа, пълна с качествени хора в моя роден град Варна. Ако живеех там със сигурност щях да се затрудня за кого по-напред да дам преференцията си. Освен добре познатите имена, изненада за мен беше присъствието и на Беркай Чокджан. Той е от квотата на Да, България.

Excellent post by Rachel Thomas in the ways AI hype is outrunning reality in life sciences linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

#Israel announces the official beginning of its ground invasion of #Lebanon - seeks now to depopulate the entire area south of the Litani river- or 10% of #Lebanese territory & home to some 300,000 - 400,000 people spread over more than 150 villages and towns.