Ivan Tchalakov

[Ivan Tchalakov @tchalakov_ivan]

At the "Statue of Freedom" in Sofia with Ronald Reagan words engreved: "... vision of our Founding Fathers revolutionized the world. Those principles must be reaffirmed by every generation of Americans, for freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."

[Global News 24 @GlobalNews_24]

🚨 Всем привет, меня зовут Ксюша. Я — россиянка из Москвы, которая переехала в Украину уже во время войны. Сегодня я обращаюсь к своим соотечественникам 🇷🇺

Почти 200 дронов над Москвой. Второй раз за три дня горит НПЗ в Капотне. Горит «Люблино». Все четыре аэропорта столицы перекрыты. Это не случайность. Это первая серьёзная демонстрация того, что Украина способна перенести войну вглубь России. Дроны были медленными. Дальше будут быстрее. Дальше, точнее. У Украины уже есть свои крылатые ракеты и баллистические разработки. То, что вчера казалось невозможным, сегодня — реальность.

Пока вы в шоке от сирен и дыма над Москвой, люди в Херсоне, Сумах, Харькове, Одессе и Киеве живут с этим уже пятый год. Разрушенные дома, прилёты, постоянный страх.

Я знаю Москву, в которой никогда не выли сирены. Теперь вы почувствовали хотя бы каплю того, что чувствуют они каждый день.

Вся ответственность лежит на Владимире Путине и его режиме. На пропагандистах, которые ежедневно разжигают ненависть. И на миллионах россиян, которые либо поддерживают эту войну, либо молчат. Россия начала эту войну. Поэтому всё, что сейчас летит в нашу сторону — прямое следствие этого выбора.

Если Путин отдаст приказ остановить войну — она остановится в тот же день. Зеленский уже много раз предлагал прекратить огонь. Ответа нет. Пока приказа нет — удары по России будут только усиливаться. Это не месть. Это вынужденная самооборона.

Украина не хотела этой войны. Она просто вынуждена выживать. Пора это признать!

[Victoria @victoriaslog]

New stage of the russian war

A man with no legs, who had probably experienced the reality of war, attacked police officers with a knife as they were forcibly mobilizing young men on the streets of his city.

The police were filming the whole thing while running away.

📍Kuznetsk, Penza region, Russia

[Zelma @ZelmaSchmi]

Някой ще ми каже ли защо нашите банки продължават да начисляват такса за теглене и докога ще търпим това мародерство?

[Ivan Tchalakov @tchalakov_ivan]

https://t.co/ltd2WZNIQA

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Defence Minister Fedorov: Belgium's defense minister personally found a plane at night to get missiles to us before the attack.

Almost a hundred for F-16s, sent reactively through Brussels by Canada. Result: 100% destruction of cruise missiles in that strike.

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

I am not sure if Trump realizes that he has screwed Israel, particularly Netanyahu, in a way that they can’t even complain about without admitting their own lies and hypocrisy.

For decades, Israeli politicians had carefully created a fictional Iranian nuclear threat, while Israel’s actual objectives always were Iran’s destruction as functioning country, through civil war and in the best case scenario: balkanization.
And if that’s not possible, then at least the continued isolation and sanctioning of Iran, along with continued outside meddling, sabotage, and endless terror.

The worst-case scenario for Israel has never been a nuclear Iran (sure, that would have prevented them from regularly attacking Iran) but an unleashed, unsanctioned and internationally accepted Iran, which never needed nuclear weapons in the first place to become a superpower.

Netanyahu, in his hubris and with the sole goal of saving his own ass, started this catastrophe -and Trump, in his desperation to get out of this catastrophe to save his own ass, just absolutely nuked the entire Israeli agenda by giving them something they always claimed to want -in return for something they absolutely NEVER wanted.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

OpenAI troubles could also be troubles … “for tech stocks like Nvidia, Oracle and CoreWeave with high exposure to it.
"Their values rely to a significant degree on the expectation that OpenAI will have an immense demand for chips and data centers, but OpenAI is burning cash very, very, very, fast," @garyMarcus told @BusinessInsider "They probably have problems if they don't get public money. If they have problems, that puts the future of other companies that count them as a major customer in doubt””

https://t.co/TtMyVRAZH5

[Викат ми Сър Джон, Хеми и Съни... казвам се Иван @NasVel_]

Вместо някоя голяма медия да се обади и да му каже -"Артик сбъркал си дай да коригираме нещата", всички ретранслирати пишат едно и също, че били 500млрд..Според Шишков спрели за АМ „Хемус“: опит за кражба за почти 500 милиарда евро.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

Not an Onion headline

[Ivan Tchalakov @tchalakov_ivan]

https://t.co/tRGe5cHr5D

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

In 1899, an American psychologist predicted that if schools kept training children to memorize instead of think, an entire civilization could grow up unable to make a single original judgment, and he wrote that sentence 75 years before the smartphone existed.

His name was William James. The book is called Talks to Teachers on Psychology.

He is the father of American psychology. He invented pragmatism, the only major philosophical movement America has ever produced. He wrote the most comprehensive study of human consciousness in the 19th century. His name appears almost nowhere in popular culture.

That gap should bother you.

Here is what he actually figured out, and why it still matters more than most things published this year.

James had earned his medical degree from Harvard by 1869, but could not practice. He spent three years barely leaving his bed, paralyzed by depression and panic attacks so severe he considered suicide. The question breaking him was not clinical. It was philosophical. He believed, from everything science had shown him, that free will did not exist. That every choice a person made was just a mechanical outcome of prior causes. That trying was an illusion.

In April 1870, he read a single essay by a French philosopher named Charles Renouvier. He wrote in his journal that same night: "My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will."

He got out of bed. He went to Harvard. He built the field.

By 1890, after twelve years of work, he published The Principles of Psychology. All 1,400 pages of it. It introduced the stream of consciousness the idea that thought is not a series of snapshots but a continuous flowing river, always moving, never repeating itself exactly. It introduced the modern scientific understanding of habit. It introduced the concept of attention as a moral act, something you chose to direct rather than something that simply happened to you.

The habit chapter is the one that should have ended the self-help industry before it started.

James argued that the brain is physically reshaped by repeated action. Every time you run a behaviour, the neural pathway behind it gets carved a little deeper. Eventually it runs automatically, without conscious effort. This is not a metaphor. He was describing what neuroscientists now confirm with brain imaging: behaviour rewires structure. He wrote this without a single fMRI machine, using only clinical observation and his own mind.

His line on habit is the one nobody quotes correctly: "Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent." He meant that most of what people do in a day, a year, a life, runs on autopilot. The question is whether you set the autopilot deliberately or let it get set by accident.

Then came the part that cost him the most to say.

In 1892, he started traveling the country giving lectures to schoolteachers. He had watched what schools were doing to children and could not stay quiet. They were training kids to receive information, repeat it back, and call that learning. No discussion of ideas. No friction. No genuine thinking. Just reception and reproduction.

He said this would produce a generation capable of holding facts and incapable of using them.

He was describing our current moment. In 1899.

His two maxims for teachers were the opposite of everything schools practiced: "No reception without reaction. No impression without expression." His argument was simple. An idea that passes through a student's mind without being applied, argued, or connected to something real does not become knowledge. It becomes noise that fades within days.

Every study on learning retention published in the last forty years has confirmed this. He had the principle correct a century earlier and nobody listened.

James died in 1910. He never owned a car. He never used a telephone regularly. He had no idea what a feed algorithm was.

But the civilization he warned about is the one you are looking at right now.

The most important things he wrote are free on Project Gutenberg. Most people will never read them. Most people prefer the summary.

Which is, as James would have pointed out, precisely the problem.

[Venelin Molnar @VenelinMolnar]

След широко аргументираното изявления на Сливенския митрополит Арсений в защита на даденото право украински духовници да служат в БГ черкви излезе достойното становище на русенския дядо Владика Наум по повод на вандалския обстрел
на Киевско-Печерската Лавра.
Амин:

[TeinaPosts.🇪🇺 @RafaMorgan64]

When Lavrov says Ukrainian land was always theirs, he's admitting that russia never planned to uphold the multiple agreements they signed ratifying Ukraine's 1991 borders.

It's another reminder that agreements with russia are worthless. Remember that.

[Jaanus K 🇪🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @jaanus]

Aitäh @ZuzuIzmailova 🫶

https://t.co/wa4lJV4m7w

“RK liige Züleyxa Izmailova (SDE) uuris peaminister Kristen Michalilt (RE), kas ja milliseid samme praegune valitsus [Hansa Shippingu alumiiniumoksiidi veoga venemaale] probleemiga tegelemiseks on astunud või kavatseb astuda”

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

A Russian soldier kept Sofia, Ukrainian, for over a year as a sex prisoner — holding her in a flat with bars on the balcony, boarded-up windows, locked doors, and padlocks.

He took her phone, left food, and returned there only to rape her — The Times. 1/

[Zelma @ZelmaSchmi]

Наистина не разбирам логиката на българина. Декември излезе на протест заради бюджет, който спонсорираше силовите институции и теглене на дълг, но сега ПБ прави същото - плаща на силовите и тегли даже по-голям дълг + окастря майки, култура и образование, но всички са пас 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[Reaper @Reaper32350949]

Чакаме да спре да се краде...ама не се знае кога...

[Tom Tugendhat @TomTugendhat]

The @BBCNews has now confirmed what some of us warned for years.

A Russian diplomat ran a sabotage campaign on British soil: arson against the Prime Minister’s own home, and fake far-right and Islamist groups built to turn us against each other. This is not crime. It is how war is fought by powers who don’t want to expose their hand. https://t.co/G7cp3xaZQK

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

Google wrote the paper that made ChatGPT possible. Then decided not to build ChatGPT. Sergey Brin just explained why on stage at Stanford and the reason is more embarrassing than anyone expected.

In 2017, Google published the transformer paper. The architecture that powers every major AI model today. It came from their own researchers. Their own labs. Their own compute.

Then they sat on it.

Sergey was blunt about why. They underinvested in scaling the compute. They did not take it seriously enough. And when they finally had something worth shipping, they got scared. Chatbots say dumb things. Google had a reputation to protect. So they protected it instead of shipping.

OpenAI was not scared.

Ilya Sutskever, trained at Google, left and went there. Other Google researchers followed. They took the transformer architecture, scaled it, shipped it anyway, and captured the entire generative AI wave while Google watched.

Sergey called it a mistake at Stanford in front of hundreds of students.

The company that invented the technology did not build the product. The company that built the product did not invent the technology.

That is the most expensive case of corporate hesitation in the history of the industry.

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Watch the full interview YT.

Search: "Big ideas begin here: Sergey Brin at Stanford"

[Любомир Жечев @LyubomirZhechev]

Кой е Делян Пеевски ft Божана. Стани АКЦИОНЕР в YouTube канала ми и гледай целия филм за КТБ https://t.co/fYWPWheUUA