I would be careful with this. I think the lab leak part of this story is mostly a red herring, plausible and worth investigating, but not the main crime and if it becomes the primary target for punitive retribution, these guys are going to skate.
If you are genuinely interested in evaluating all of the evidence around the lab leak, you really should go watch the Rootclaim debate. All of the evidence points to the wet market cluster of cases being the first, and what Fauci is talking about in this letter (dated January of '20) was a few dozen suspicious pneumonia cases that pre-dated the wet market (and are presumed to be from WIV), but that turned out upon sample testing in April of 2020 to not be COVID at all.
There was always enough circumstantial evidence to press really hard on the lab leak theory, made doubly compelling by the efforts to suppress and punish anyone speculating in this regard, and even more compelling by the brazen dishonesty of the Chinese/Fauci/WHO, but the evidence mostly points elsewhere and unless there is some dispositive and unambiguous admission or new facts that come out, this will remain uncertain at best, and perhaps just flatly wrong.
In any case, what we do know is that these people lied repeatedly about transmission and treatment, and corrupted the public trust to achieve short-term political outcomes having nothing at all to do with the virus, and effectively put the country on mass lockdown in the most egregious abuse of state power seen in our lifetimes. That is the real crime. That is the unforgivable sin of the public health bureaucracy that ought to be the focus of our attention.
Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is false. This graph theory problem was open for ~30 years.
The graph below has fractional flow cost 58. Any unsplittable flow (with capacity violation <=15) has cost at least 60.
Chat with GPT 5.6 Pro where this was found: https://t.co/Oi2PQoab2h
these models are actually the greatest English speakers of all time. unlike this fellow who would anaphylax if "novelty" wafted in his general direction
the fable / sol summaries are getting more and more absurdly information-dense
1 in every 5 words is a novel compound word (ex: “rate-adjacent”) which itself is the model’s invented stand-in for a metaconcept that it developed that i need to interrogate it about
how to fix this?
@Superpowamario No. The Never-Ending Pasta Pass is only for use by the Passholder whose name is printed on the Pass. Passes are personalized and non-transferable. Passholders must present a valid photo I.D. along with the Pass at the time of ordering.
It must be acutely embarrassing for Google and DeepMind’s top management that, despite having:
1) a multi-year head start, with most of the top minds in the field working there;
2) their own custom training and inference silicon now on its EIGHTH generation;
3) total investment in property, plant, and equipment of $281 billion;
4) over 80k engineers;
5) most of the world’s data collected and indexed for 20 years (including ungodly amounts of documents, emails, code, books, photos, videos, etc.);
they have been utterly upstaged by Kimi, a company with fewer than 500 employees and founded by Zhilin Yang, who only received his PhD from CMU in 2019 (recall that Hinton had been working at Google since 2013!).
Something is deeply dysfunctional and broken there to lead to an outcome this bad.