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Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly(en.wikipedia.org)
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"Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly" is an editorial published in the New York Times on October 9, 1903. The article incorrectly predicted it would take one million to ten million years for humanity to develop an operating flying ma
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In her essay Economia di guerra e inquadramento della società in URSS (The War Economy and Social Control in the USSR), Rebecca Manley writes that initially the German advance in Russia was welcomed by the local population and threatened th
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by abbassix 3mo ago
In assessing the present-day irruption of artificial intelligence, especially so-called generative AI based on highly effective linguistic-probabilistic systems, the starting point is to recognise that what is at stake is the development of
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Manson murders 'were linked to CIA mind control experiments', Congress told [pdf](oversight.house.gov)
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Hand and Brain and Artificial Intelligence(theinternationalism.org)
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First, for Engels, the brain is a product of labour. It is in the dialectical relationship of mutual action and reaction with labour – made possible by the articulation of the hand freed by man's upright posture, the result of "hu
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by abbassix 3mo ago
More wars; there could be even a world war! All caused by imperialist competition between powers: the US, China, the EU, India, Brazil, Russia, etc. More nationalism (even with continental flavor like European nationalism), more militarism,
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What are these artifacts on Google Maps?(google.com)
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I see these wave-like patterns on this lake. Are these aliasing artifacts?
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"It [Anthropic] said DeepSeek's operation involved over 150,000 exchanges". In my humble opinion, a mere 150k exchange for an LLM could only be a benchmarking and not a distillation! I think the US companies should accept tha
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by abbassix 4mo ago
Gulags were the worst kind of exploitation; that is why we always were anti-Stalinist and always identified the USSR as 'state capitalism'! The fact that a state 'claims' socialism does not mean it 'is' sociali
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by abbassix 4mo ago
Our heros fought and died for 8-hour working days and when we stop fighting, we go back to 12-hour working days! That is why you need to search for theinternationalism.org
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We are close to treating PTSD of people who we sent to massacre other people, and we justified their massacre as heroic act. Great achievement for humanity!
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Ask Gemini: "How do I get the first item from a list?"
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Should we believe that intelligence agencies like CIA or FBI doesn't know her/him?
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by abbassix 8mo ago
I think if you support Netanyahu, you are not in a position to condemn these atrocities. The problem is that Iranian pro-democracy opposition is demolished by far-right sometimes neo-Nazi monarchists!
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I bought the latest Intel MacBook Air and after few months they released M1 MacBook Air. Then they release an update, I did as I should, and it broke my laptop! I lost all my data! They fixed it for me in a couple of weeks without providing
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We still do not have a standardized way to represent Machine Learning concepts. For example in vision model, I see lots of papers confused about the "skip connections" and "residual connection" and when they concatenate
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Cryptocurrencies, Tariffs, Oil and Spending in Trump's Executive Orders(theinternationalism.org)
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In his second term, Donald Trump launched a sweeping overhaul of U.S. economic and political strategy, marked by historic tariff hikes, aggressive fossil fuel expansion, and a dramatic shift toward cryptocurrency deregulation. His executive
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Leapfrogging: The Chinese Auto Industry's Leap Forward(theinternationalism.org)
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BYD's leap forward is impressive, comparable to that of Ford Motors after the First World War, when with the Model T, introduced in 1908, it revolutionised the auto industry and ushered in the motorisation of the 20th century. In just
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The «People's Communes» and the Development of Capitalism in China (1959)(theinternationalism.org)
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The «Communes» campaign has posed a fundamental problem for the Marxist interpretation of the development from a semi-feudal economy to a capitalist economy. First of all, we need to grasp clearly that in China, as in every other country wi
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Computer runs on living human brain cells [video](youtube.com)
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New brain-spine interface tech in Shanghai helps paralyzed patients walk again [video](youtube.com)
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Paralysed man of spinal cord injury, once considered incurable, walked again in Shanghai’s Zhongshan Hospital. The “three in one” brain-spine interface uses electronic implants wirelessly transmit patient’s thoughts to his legs and feet via
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One Step Closer to a 'Grand Unified Theory of Math': Geometric Langlands [video](youtube.com)
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Mathematicians recently proved a central component of the Langlands program, an ambitious effort to develop a “grand unified theory” of mathematics. The monumental proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture totaled more than 800 pages and

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