Martin

@MorePerfectUS This thing carries enough people to fill 10 full ride shares but it only provides one job. These eliminate 9 jobs each and the tech industry is trying to push them on my city

600 Swiss topographic maps from 1870 are often considered the finest ever produced, blending remarkable precision with exceptional artistry. They are known as the Siegfried Survey. See all davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s…

Best paper I've read so far this month: All elementary functions (sin, cos, tan, exp, log, powers, roots, hyperbolic functions, π, e, and even basic arithmetic) can be generated from just one binary operator: eml(x, y) = exp(x) − ln(y) …plus the constant 1.

Durchschnittliche Miete 60qm bei Neuvermietungen 🏠 1. München: 1.358 € 2. Frankfurt am Main: 1.177 € 3. Berlin: 1.097 € 4. Stuttgart: 1.035 € 5. Hamburg: 1.030 € 6. Potsdam: 985 € 7. Düsseldorf: 962 € 8. Mainz: 955 € 9. Köln: 906 € 10. Münster: 832 € 11. Wiesbaden: 810 € 12. Bonn: 750 € 13. Karlsruhe: 750 € 14. Augsburg: 750 € 15. Nürnberg: 690 € 16. Mannheim: 690 € 17. Aachen: 690 € 18. Hannover: 650 € 19. Kiel: 630 € 20. Rostock: 610 € 21. Leipzig: 600 € 22. Braunschweig: 600 € 23. Dresden: 593 € 24. Dortmund: 570 € 25. Essen: 570 € 26. Bremen: 570 € 27. Bielefeld: 570 € 28. Erfurt: 565 € 29. Mönchengladbach: 540 € 30. Schwerin: 531 € 31. Bochum: 522 € 32. Saarbrücken: 520 € 33. Wuppertal: 510 € 34. Duisburg: 504 € 35. Magdeburg: 460 € 36. Gelsenkirchen: 445 € 37. Chemnitz: 373 € 38. Görlitz: 355 € 39. Zwickau: 352 € 40. Plauen: 345 € 41. Greiz: 339 € 42. Hof: 330 € 43. Suhl: 324 € 44. Bitterfeld-Wolfen: 318 € 45. Pirmasens: 312 € 46. Eisleben: 306 € 47. Altenburg: 300 € 48. Hoyerswerda: 294 € 49. Zeitz: 288 € 50. Werdau: 285 € Ich bin froh, dass meine Miete in 18 Jahren nicht einmal angehoben wurde in Potsdam (Platz 6). Heute bekommt man für diesen Preis nicht einmal mehr ein WG-Zimmer. Die Mieten in Deutschland stiegen in den letzten Jahren so stark, weil eine stetig wachsende Nachfrage nach Wohnraum auf ein viel zu geringes Angebot trifft, das durch hohe Baukosten, gestiegene Zinsen und einen stockenden Neubau weiter verknappt wird. Der Staat macht das Bauen zu teuer und das Vermieten zu unattraktiv. Mögliche Lösungen zur Senkung der Mieten umfassen die rasche Ankurbelung des Neubaus durch weniger Bürokratie und steuerliche Anreize, eine stärkere staatliche Förderung des sozialen Wohnungsbaus sowie den Ausbau der Infrastruktur im Umland, um die stark nachgefragten Ballungszentren zu entlasten.

Diese Grafik zeigt die Entwicklung der Anzahl globaler Todesfälle seit 1950. Wodurch kam der Peak um 1960 mit kumulativ ca. 30 Millionen zusätzlichen Toten zustande? Auflösung und Quelle der Grafik im Kommentarfeld.

**שיחת טלפון דחופה עם יורש העצר הסעודי שינתה את מהלך נאום טראמפ: הפסקת אש זמנית בלבד** מה שהחל כהכנה להכרזה על נסיגה אמריקאית מהזירה האיראנית, הסתיים בהפתעה. הנשיא דונלד טראמפ התכוון להודיע על הפסקת אש מלאה וסיום הלחימה נגד איראן, בתמורה לפתיחה מיידית של מצרי הורמוז. אולם שיחת טלפון טעונה עם יורש העצר הסעודי, מוחמד בן סלמאן שינתה את התוכנית ברגע האחרון. לפי מקורות בבית הלבן, התחנן בן סלמאן בפני טראמפ שלא להפסיק את המבצע: "זו הזדמנות היסטורית – אנחנו חייבים להשלים את המלאכה ולהחליש את המשטר האיראני עד הסוף". בתמורה להמשך הלחימה, הציעה סעודיה חבילת תמריצים כלכליים ואסטרטגיים חסרת תקדים. בין הסעיפים הבולטים: העברת 100 מיליארד דולר ישירות למימון הוצאות המלחמה האמריקאיות. נורמליזציה מלאה ומיידית עם ישראל לאחר הכרעת המשטר בטהרן. הנחת צינור נפט ישיר מסעודיה לנמל אשדוד, שיהפוך את ישראל לצומת אנרגיה מרכזי. השקעה של כטריליון דולר בכלכלה האמריקאית לצד רכישת נשק אמריקאי בהיקף של חצי טריליון דולר. הקמת ברית הגנה אזורית חדשה – מעין "נאט"ו מזרח תיכוני" – שתכלול את ישראל, סעודיה ומדינות מתונות נוספות תחת מטרייה אמריקאית. עוד סוכם על הקמת כוח ימי משותף לשליטה במצרי הורמוז ובאב אל-מנדב. מימון בסיסים אמריקאיים אסטרטגיים בישראל, וקרן שיקום משותפת לאיראן ל"היום שאחרי" כמדינה חילונית ומתונה. בסופו של דבר הכריז טראמפ על הפסקת אש זמנית בלבד, ולא על סיום סופי של הלחימה. גורמים מדיניים בכירים תיארו את המהלך כ"נקודת מפנה היסטורית" שמסמנת את תחילתו של סדר אזורי חדש.

In 1948, a 32-year-old at Bell Labs published a paper nobody fully understood. Engineers found it too mathematical. Mathematicians found it too engineering-focused. One prominent mathematician reviewed it negatively. That paper - "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", became the founding document of the digital age. The man was Claude Shannon. Father of Information Theory. At 21, he wrote the most important master's thesis of the 20th century. Working at MIT on an early mechanical computer, Shannon noticed its relay switches had exactly two states - open or closed. He had just taken a philosophy course introducing Boolean algebra, which also operated on two values: true and false. Nobody had ever connected these two things. His 1937 thesis proved that Boolean algebra and electrical circuits are mathematically identical, and that any logical operation could be built from simple switches. Howard Gardner called it "possibly the most important, and also the most famous, master's thesis of the century." Every digital computer ever built traces back to this insight. At 29, he proved that perfect encryption exists. During WWII, Shannon worked on classified cryptography at Bell Labs. His work contributed to SIGSALY, the secure voice system used for confidential communications between Roosevelt and Churchill. In a classified 1945 memorandum, he mathematically proved the one-time pad provides perfect secrecy, unbreakable not just computationally, but provably, permanently, against an adversary with infinite power. When declassified in 1949, it transformed cryptography from an art into a science. It laid the foundations for DES, AES, and every modern encryption standard. At 32, he defined what information is. His 1948 paper introduced one equation: H = −Σ p(x) log p(x) Shannon entropy. The average uncertainty in a probability distribution. The minimum bits required to encode a message. Three things followed: > He defined the bit - the fundamental unit of all information. His colleague John Tukey coined the name. > He proved the channel capacity theorem, every communication channel has a maximum rate of reliable transmission. You can approach it. You can never exceed it. > He unified telegraph, telephone, and radio into a single mathematical framework for the first time. Robert Lucky of Bell Labs called it the greatest work "in the annals of technological thought." Where his equation lives in AI today: Cross-entropy loss - the function training every classifier and language model, is derived directly from H. Decision tree splits use information gain, which is H applied to data. Perplexity, the standard LLM evaluation metric, is an exponentiation of cross-entropy. Every time a neural network trains, Shannon's formula runs inside it. He also built the first AI learning device. In 1950, Shannon built Theseus, a mechanical mouse that navigated a maze through trial and error, learned the correct path, and repeated it perfectly. Mazin Gilbert of Bell Labs said: "Theseus inspired the whole field of AI." That same year he published the first paper on programming a computer to play chess. He co-organized the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop, the founding event of AI as a field. The man: He rode a unicycle through Bell Labs hallways while juggling. He built a flame-throwing trumpet, a rocket-powered Frisbee, and Styrofoam shoes to walk on the lake behind his house. He called his home Entropy House. When asked what motivated him: "I was motivated by curiosity. Never by the desire for financial gain. I just wondered how things were put together." In 1985, he appeared unexpectedly at a conference in Brighton. The crowd mobbed him for autographs. Persuaded to speak at the banquet, he talked briefly, then pulled three balls from his pockets and juggled instead. One engineer said: "It was as if Newton had showed up at a physics conference." He died in 2001 after a decade with Alzheimer's, the cruel irony of information slowly leaving the mind of the man who defined what information was. Claude, the AI model, is named after Claude Shannon, the mathematician who laid the foundation for the digital world we rely on today.

You have two choices: 1. This is the beginning of the end of the AI replacement cycle. Everything up until now was false alarms and mis/disinformation. You can start to scale back into these companies because, once the noise subsides, these companies are durable and will be around roughly in the same or better position in 10 years. 2. This is the beginning of the beginning of the AI replacement cycle. Customer churn slowly ticks up. NDR slowly ticks down, RPO begins to be discounted - initially by a little, then by a lot. SBC gets minimized, FCF gets maximized. Valuations become exercised in seeing which assumptions are reliable and which are unreliable - all roads lead to more vol an a general downward trend on price and multiples. Good luck to all the players.

We've been tricked, again. Many of the thousands of bugs and vulnerabilities Mythos found are in older software are impossible to exploit. And the severe zero-day reports rely on just 198 manual reviews tomshardware.com/tech-industry/…

Good Morning from #Germany where the social contribution burden keeps rising. A new study says the Social Contribution Memorial Day shifts to April 11 in 2026, 2 days later than a year earlier, mainly due to higher health and long-term care costs. The broader social spending ratio has climbed to 31.2% of GDP, while the welfare state’s implicit debt now stands at 204.9% of GDP.

Am Ostersonntag (05.04.2026) regelten die Franzosen ihre AKW-Flotte um bis zu 15 GW runter (Bild 1), um deutschen Überschuss-Solarstrom aufnehmen zu können (Bild 2). Natürlich zu negativen Preisen (Bild 3). Das sind keine rechten Verschwörungstheorien - das lässt sich alles selbst nachprüfen auf Energy-Charts.

This one made me laugh. AI requires two things: 1. Energy. Europe will probably struggle to get enough gas for heating next winter. Decades of energy suicide have their consequences 2. Access to big data. Not compatible with European data privacy laws One could not make it up

Europe’s best AI model, Mistral Large, ranks 74th in the world. Why does Europe do so poorly? Three words: capital, energy, permitting. US labs spend 10x more on compute, pay half the electricity price, and build datacenters in months, not years. Europe produces great researchers then watches them leave for Silicon Valley. Absurd Regulatory and energy policy have consequences.

anthropic's playbook, confirmed: 1. drop new model (Mythos Preview, today) 2. quietly make the old one spastic 3. charge the same price 4. blame the user when people notice the data is in. 6,852 claude code sessions analyzed: - thinking depth dropped 67% - the habit of reading code before editing it: gone from 6.6 reads average to 2 - lazy behavior violations: zero to 10 per day they went quiet for weeks. then boris cherny shows up on the github issue the moment the numbers went public. that's not accountability. that's pr management. mythos drops today. opus 4.6 just became the "old model." same price. And now fucking retarded. i'm glad i'm building around local models. gemma 4/GLM runs on your machine. it doesn't get quietly worse when a new product launches. can't shrinkflation a model you control.

Claude Code is basically unusable at this point. I give up.

Es kommt selten vor, doch ich habe mich verrechnet... Tja jetzt sind es 133 Mio Kosten für Ostersonntag, weil Excel Solar nicht mit eingerechnet hat Hier nochmal alles aktualisiert, (wie von @energy_charts_d und @fwieschollek gefordert) Und PS: EEG sind Steuerzahlerkosten

Was für Desaster, der EU-Klimazoll. Europäische Unternehmen müssen Preise massiv erhöhen, obwohl niemand weiß, wie hoch die Klima-Abgabe am Ende tatsächlich ausfallen wird. Die Firmen und ihre Zulieferer müssen zudem riesigen Aufwand treiben, um Emissionsdaten zu erfassen, die Daten sind aber derzeit kaum nutzbar, weil die nötige Kontrolle und Zertifizierung hinterherhinkt und niemand weiß, ob die Zulieferer im Ausland korrekte Zahlen angeben. Theoretisch ist der Klimazoll #CBAM eine plausible Idee, um die europäische Wirtschaft wegen höherer CO2-Preise zu schützen gegen Konkurrenz ohne CO2-Abgaben. Leider funktioniert das System nicht, vermurkst in aus dem Ruder gelaufener EU-Bürokratie, die niemand mehr bremsen oder kontrollieren kann: welt.de/wirtschaft/plu…

@MoormannRainer @grok Vielen Dank

@datarama @grok Upcoming prices unter der Grafik Strompreise anklicken

Für morgen sind übrigens negative Strompreise von fast -150 €/MWh angekündigt.

@MoormannRainer @grok Dachte ich mir. Bekomme aber genau diese Ansicht der Preise nicht rekonstruiert

@datarama @grok Electricity Maps....