hackandthink

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by hackandthink 5d ago
Decades ago, when I was still living in Berlin, the predecessor party of Die Linke (the PDS) was made up of creepy former GDR officials. Yesterday on TV, I saw mostly hip young people. Elif Erap, the party’s lead candidate, reminded me of C
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Cognition and consciousness arise from analog computations, says new theory(technology.org)
4 points by hackandthink 6d ago|1 comments
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by hackandthink 6d ago
https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.mit.edu/dist/7/1739/file... https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.mit.edu/dist/7/1739/file...
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Julian Assange: I'm Back(twitter.com)
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by hackandthink 11d ago
You can specify Apache Superset Dashboards, Charts, ... using yaml, for example: https://github.com/preset-io/headless-bi-blog-post-examples/... But this is mostly just a dump of internal Superset data structures.
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Toposes are NOT scary – Urs Schreiber [video](youtube.com)
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Hegel's Logic in Cubical Agda(ddebruce.github.io)
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CIA Veteran Gloria Steinem Has Died(caitlinjohnstone.com.au)
5 points by hackandthink 21d ago|1 comments
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by hackandthink 21d ago
if you are a fast learner
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The British state has lost the argument(jonathancook.substack.com)
46 points by hackandthink 26d ago|21 comments
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Chartbook 467 "Mad dogs and ": Heatwave economics – summer 2026(adamtooze.substack.com)
2 points by hackandthink 1mo ago|0 comments
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by hackandthink 1mo ago
By Grothendieck's standards, there are a surprising number of important practical applications. "Grothendieck's Theorem, past and present" https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.4195
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by hackandthink 2mo ago
Scary stuff from one of the winners: "A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence" (Jacob Tsimerman, Andrew Critch) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.09369
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DeBasification a Fancy Word for Booting the US Out of the Middle East(larrycjohnson.substack.com)
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by hackandthink 3mo ago
Berlin was divided. Like Berlin, Vienna had occupation zones, but there was never a wall between them.
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Cloudflare Threatens to Cut Google Off from Their Publishers in Searches(nakedcapitalism.com)
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Domination Without Hegemony and the Limits of US World Power(researchgate.net)
4 points by hackandthink 3mo ago|1 comments
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Liu Jianjun: the false faith in social sciences(eastisread.com)
4 points by hackandthink 4mo ago|0 comments
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by hackandthink 4mo ago
Mearsheimer was right: Putin wrecks Ukraine. https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Why-t...
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Simpson's Paradox(plato.stanford.edu)
5 points by hackandthink 4mo ago|0 comments
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by hackandthink 4mo ago
It is neither obvious nor intuitive. But it is logical possible that we all are Zombies. In my regard the weak link is our understanding of materialism. It is to simple minded. (though panpsychism sounds really crank)
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by hackandthink 4mo ago
Chalmers: “It is natural to hope that there will be a materialist solution to the hard problem and a reductive explanation of consciousness, just as there have been reductive explanations of many other phenomena in many other domains. But c
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by hackandthink 4mo ago
That would be a good fit for a prediction market. I think Restraint usually loses. In times like these, though, warmongers have a harder time, and those two are truly creepy characters.
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Mearsheimer and Walt versus Nuland and Pompeo(mearsheimer.substack.com)
2 points by hackandthink 4mo ago|1 comments
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by hackandthink 5mo ago
>the law of the excluded middle, which says something can't be true and false at the same time This is the not excluded middle, it is the "Law of noncontradiction" Excluded middle means: either p is true or the negation of
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by hackandthink 5mo ago
I don't care about gas prices either. But next winter is going to be expensive. I don't have the option of switching from natural gas to a heat pump. But of course, electrification as soon as possible.
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by hackandthink 5mo ago
I guess, a high oil price is a good thing for the oil industry, especially when producing oil domestically becomes more expensive. But I also don't believe in some conspiracy by the American oil industry to eliminate other suppliers in
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US is making Europe pay dearly for its half-hearted electrification(programmablemutter.com)
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Night into Day(billmckibben.substack.com)
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Project Glasswing and the ASF: Open-Source's Chance to Win the AI Era(preset.io)
1 points by hackandthink 5mo ago|0 comments

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