Carsten Binnig
501 posts
If you’re German and living abroad: make sure not to miss the deadline for voter registration for the upcoming election. Even if you registered for past elections, you *will probably have to re-register* (deadline: 21 days before the election). The registration form will ask you to provide your past two registered home addresses in Germany (with exact registration/de-registration dates; thx German bureaucracy). As of September 2024, you can now submit the registration form via e-mail, see #content_2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">auswaertiges-amt.de/de/2441404-244…
— it’s probably a good idea to get in touch with your local city administration ahead of time if you’re from a small town, since they might not be familiar with this new process.
I thought @bryan_johnson's idea of building your life around asleep was ridiculous, but after trying it for a week, I'm sold. → Brain works better → Feel awesome all the time → Get more done in less time (Parkinson's Law) Caveat: I do not have children.
Eighty years ago today, over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.
Happy to share that our work on WikiDBs - a large-scale corpus of relational databases - was accepted as a spotlight to the Dataset & Benchmarks track @NeurIPSConf. This is an important step for enabling foundation models on structured databases rather than text or images.
