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2.7M – Number of Ukrainian and Russian Soldiers Lost(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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Interestingly, constructive mathematics cannot prove that the Cauchy and Dedekind constructions are isomorphic: "As often happens in an intuitionistic setting, classically equivalent notions fork. Dedekind reals give rise to several de
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Scraping the Barrel: Attrition and Cannibalization(bigserge.substack.com)
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When Counterculture and Empire Merge(jackpoulson.substack.com)
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David Chalmers: Could a Large Language Model Be Conscious?(arxiv.org)
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Topological Kleene Field Theories: A new model of computation(arxiv.org)
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by hackandthink 1y ago
"that allows the machine to transcend the classical limits of computation" The Crackpot index is still low. Anyway it is a good read.
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Murder not crisis – Why Israel's starvation of Gaza is exceptional(adamtooze.substack.com)
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"How could they allow this to go on?"
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I read Tim Weiner's first CIA book and expect something similar. You learn a lot about the obvious and well-known mistakes and crimes. But I lack the basic sympathy for these organizations, if they were abolished the world would be a b
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Is Anything in "Slouching Towards Utopia" Wrong?(bookandsword.com)
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Episode with Stephen Kotkin, Stalin biographer and historian(twitter.com)
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by hackandthink 1y ago
The last minutes: I find it disturbing that Stephen Kotkin is so afraid of a third world war (USA/China). I hope it's not based on inside information.
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The Free Rider Problem(plato.stanford.edu)
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Deno 2.4(deno.com)
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by hackandthink 1y ago
Just for fun, monads as modalities is missing: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Agda-2.6.4.2/docs/Agda-S...
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A really likeable person. GEB was highly regarded in my peer group. I should have read it more naively myself. But this interview makes me want to read "I am a strange loop". https://www.ams.org/notices/200707
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"Grothendieck conjectured that the infinity groupoid captures all information about a topological space up to weak homotopy equivalence" The homotopy hypothesis has something mystical about it. https://math.ucr.edu&#x2F
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War, Manipulation of Consent, and Deliberative Democracy(creativematter.skidmore.edu)
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The differences between OrioleDB and Neon(orioledb.com)
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Research Objective: "Does Immigration Undermine Public Support for Social Policy?" ISSP Data (immigration, welfare attitudes) for 17 countries. 73 independent research teams come to different conclusions, nobody knows why.
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Nationalism(plato.stanford.edu)
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JupyterLite 0.6.0 Is Released(blog.jupyter.org)
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"Having tried and failed to negotiate a suitable treaty of alliance with the British and French, and fearing an Anglo-French design of involving them in a war with Germany which they would have to fight alone, the Soviets turned to a d
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This is a hornet nest. I once read this from Alain Badiou: "This separatism at certain moments reached extremes that no one could forget, particularly not the Russian people, knowing that the vast mass of the Nazi-armed and organised a
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by hackandthink 1y ago
This is Nazi talk. That was the actual Nazi plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_Plan The differentiation between Ukraine and Russia is interesting. Ukrainian nationalists had also joined the Nazis.
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The political situation in the 1930s was thoroughly messed up. Britain and France may have had mainly good intentions, but their policies did not prevent the disasters. Great Britain should have made a pact with the Soviet Union against Hit
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Madleen Tracker(freedomflotilla.org)
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Sraffa's Trail(newleftreview.org)
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Google Is Not What It Seems https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/

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