>math professor spends a year on one of the hardest unsolved problems in math
>"Navier-Stokes"
>his drafts for the whole project went through codex sessions
>openai had his logs in codex
>suddenly rumor leaks AI solved it
>he emails openai to ask what's going on
>openai calls within days
>"funny story, our model also solved it"
>using his exact approach
>asks openai: did you train on my sessions?
>no answer
Leaked Footage from Israeli Airforce Shows IDF Apache Helicopter Firing on its OWN Citizens at Supernova Music Festival on October 7
“The pilots realised that there was tremendous difficulty in distinguishing within the occupied outposts and settlements who was a terrorist and who was a soldier or civilian.”
[…] “The rate of fire against the thousands of terrorists was tremendous at first, and only at a certain point did the pilots begin to slow down the attacks and carefully select the targets.” Middle East Eye
@VanessaBeeley
One of the most eye opening experiences of my life was doing an assignment in undergrad for my professor who spent 6 months studying in China.
He had us pick a random news story & give a presentation on how it was being portrayed in Western media vs international or independent media.
For mine, I chose the Saudi bombing campaign against Yemen.
I found an article from the Atlantic Council in support of the bombing campaign, which completely neglected to mention that the Saudis caused the largest cholera outbreak in modern history by hitting water desalination plants.
Upon looking deeper I learned that the Atlantic Council was literally a mouthpiece for major weapons contractors & their think tanks, masquerading as an “unbiased” news outlet.
It was only be looking at independent media that I was able to get real information about the bombing. For example the targeting of civilians & infrastructure, or the fact that the Saudi jets were all being fueled by the United States & the American taxpayer.
And while mainstream media gave the usual line about bombs being dropped for “Freedom & Democracy” the independent outlets helped me understand that the Saudis were trying to crush an anti-imperialist left wing militia movement in Yemen called Ansar Allah (The Houthis).
I knew the American media is bad, but I didn’t understand how bad. They don’t just smudge the truth, they completely invert the nature of reality itself. And you can’t truly understand it until you dig a little deeper into their sources of funding, and look to sources beyond the mainstream media bubble.
No, Nietzsche is not overrated, nor are Heidegger, Sartre, Derrida, Russell, or Wittgenstein, etc. To use words like 'overrated' is not to engage seriously with a philosopher’s work at all. It reduces philosophical inquiry to a matter of popularity and, in doing so, does a profound disservice to the discipline itself. We should strive not to reduce philosophy and literature to an ESPN-style entertainment segment - 'overrated players of the year.'
Major Consensus Is Forming: If Trump Openly Joins Netanyahu In War Against Iran, The MAGA Coalition Will Break In Two and The Trump Presidency Will Be A Total Failure
I told Congress they're killing poor kids in Gaza by buying bombs, and they're paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US. This was the authorities' response.
Our societies are too enslaved to market logic, and everything risks being subject to self-interest and the quest for profit. Volunteering is prophecy and a sign of hope, because it bears witness to the primacy of gratuitousness, solidarity, and service to those most in need.
USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.
The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN.
Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at https://t.co/Zp7SvobICU. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.
IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN's budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows)
Desde que se estrenó el último juego de Dragon Ball, Sparking Zero, el robo de autos en el país cayó 68%.
Síganme en PB para más análisis profesionales. 🧵