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Europe's Energy Policy Is Economic Suicide
Re:A Lost Schrödinger Manuscript Reveals a Surprising Twist in Quantum...
on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:21AM (#50206364)
Robert W. Spekkens (and I guess Matt Leifer) tried to model quantum uncertainty classically.
(my gut feeling was: it works till it does not work)
"In defense of the epistemic view of quantum states: a toy theory"
Re:Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housing
on Monday September 21, 2026 @02:55AM (#49783895)
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 Chrissy Hynde from The Pretenders.
Re:Cognition and consciousness arise from analog computations, says ne...
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @09:41AM (#49775785)
Cognition and consciousness arise from analog computations, says new theory
Julian Assange: I'm Back
Re:Charts built for Chat
on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:23AM (#49708485)
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.
Toposes are NOT scary – Urs Schreiber [video]
Hegel's Logic in Cubical Agda
CIA Veteran Gloria Steinem Has Died
Re:Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
on Friday September 04, 2026 @09:28PM (#49572187)
if you are a fast learner
The British state has lost the argument
Chartbook 467 "Mad dogs and ": Heatwave economics – summer 2026
Re:New Lower and Upper Bounds for the Grothendieck Constant
on Saturday August 15, 2026 @11:51AM (#49311591)
By Grothendieck's standards, there are a surprising number of important practical applications.
"Grothendieck's Theorem, past and present"
Re:Fields Medals 2026
on Thursday July 23, 2026 @04:43PM (#49027783)
Scary stuff from one of the winners:
"A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence"
(Jacob Tsimerman, Andrew Critch)
DeBasification a Fancy Word for Booting the US Out of the Middle East
Re:Profiling the "Abundance" housing bottleneck with real data
on Monday July 13, 2026 @12:27AM (#48887912)
Berlin was divided.
Like Berlin, Vienna had occupation zones, but there was never a wall between them.
Cloudflare Threatens to Cut Google Off from Their Publishers in Searches
Domination Without Hegemony and the Limits of US World Power
Liu Jianjun: the false faith in social sciences
Re:Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, ...
on Sunday June 07, 2026 @10:31AM (#48435215)
Mearsheimer was right: Putin wrecks Ukraine.
https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Why-t...
Simpson's Paradox
Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness'
on Monday May 18, 2026 @07:07AM (#48177969)
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)
Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness'
on Monday May 18, 2026 @02:54AM (#48176313)
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 consciousness seems to resist materialist explanation in a way that other phenomena do not.”
"A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S007961072...
Re:Mearsheimer and Walt versus Nuland and Pompeo
on Saturday May 16, 2026 @01:36PM (#48162195)
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.
Mearsheimer and Walt versus Nuland and Pompeo
Re:"Why not just use Lean?"
on Monday April 27, 2026 @01:51PM (#47924893)
>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 p is true
Re:US is making Europe pay dearly for its half-hearted electrification
on Sunday April 26, 2026 @01:51PM (#47912273)
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.
Re:US is making Europe pay dearly for its half-hearted electrification
on Sunday April 26, 2026 @11:13AM (#47910970)
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 order to fleece Europe.
(the article is not by Henry Farrell itself, it seems to be below his niveau)