Janne Hämäläinen

You go ahead, we’ll sit this one out.

Siinä on todellinen yhdysvaltalainen ihanne: Self-made man!

"Reaching net zero would cost about £4bn a year, the CCC found, or close to £100bn by 2050, which was roughly equivalent to the energy-related costs of the fossil fuel shocks that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."

This particular judge aptly summarizes the common results of using AI: "At best this is chronic sloppiness."

Trump Is Repeating Putin’s Blunder Both men thought they could start easy, quick regime-change wars at minimal cost.

Just as Putin’s arrogance blinded him to the risks of war in Ukraine, Trump’s construction of an echo chamber in the executive branch has warped his judgment.

Real estate agents in nuclear negotiations.

A study of social media content 18-24-year olds see in #Finland, #France and #Romania shows that algorithms overwhelmingly feed them right-wing political content - whether or not the users are interested.

Three country average for right wing content was 58% - in Finland, 67%!

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Jos hoitaa vähänkin isomman yrityksen tietoturvaa, se antaa oikein hyvän pohjan päiväkodin pyörittämiseen.

If one has to choose, maybe it's better to look at the actions rather than listen to the words.

Many videos I have seen portray ICE agents as amateurish when they are arresting someone. This explains it; many ARE amateurs who never received proper training.

Kyllähän siitä joskus noustaan, nouseehan yhteiskunnat sodankin jälkeen. Mutta tällaisilla rajuilla leikkauksilla siirretään iso osa pieni- ja keskituloisista köyhyysrajan alapuolelle. He ovat riippuvaisempia työtuloista. Hyväosaisilla on myös tuloja varallisuudesta ja he pystyvät suojaamaan niitä.

LLMs are one branch of deep learning, and they have their uses, but there are other branches that are suitable for things like machine vision, self driving cars, games, and personalization, respectively. All of these are specialized. I, too, am not convinced that AGI is along this path.

Good question. While the West is building massive data centers, China is moving toward putting AI on the "edge"; that is, creating robotics and all kinds of smart devices. There are benefits to both approaches, but perhaps the productivity gains will be visible sooner in China?

When everybody is digging for gold, It’s good to be in the pick and shovel business: "A lot of the AI investment that we’re seeing in the U.S. adds to Taiwanese GDP, and it adds to Korean GDP but not really that much to U.S. GDP"

I guess Iran must have access to The Disobliterator which they used to undo the damage. How else could it be?

Vaikea väitellä silloin, kun jo lähtökohdat ovat aivan erilaiset: Onko jokainen ihminen arvokas itsessään, vai pitääkö heitä katsoa pääasiassa heidän välinearvonsa kautta?

Sana"yhteiskunta" antaa jo itsessään vihjeen, miksi se on yhteensopimaton fasismin kanssa.

I'd like to be there, seeing his face, when it dawns on him what change made Versailles a national treasure.

It's not that we don't want to trust the United States, but the trouble is that even Mr. Trump doesn't know what Mr. Trump is going to think and do tomorrow, and there doesn't seem to be anyone willing to rein him in.

Trump wants US energy dominance. Global markets may not agree At first glance, the Trump administration’s energy dominance policy appears to have been a success. But shifting energy market dynamics has proven difficult.

Donald Trump aims to achieve energy ’dominance’ by growing the fossil fuel, nuclear and critical minerals sectors to fill domestic markets and lead global ones. Renewables are pushed aside.

Here's what smart people are saying about China's push to cut holdings of US Treasury debt China told its banks to reduce holdings of US government debt this week, with market pros split on how the move could impact the US and Treasury markets.

Small developments are happening on many fronts. This alone doesn't probably mean much in the short term, but these things tend to accumulate over time and eventually become significant. www.businessinsider.com/treasury-bon...

If someone wants a GREAT example of structural corruption in a developed country, look no further than the regulation of mining in Finland.

Regulatory capture almost fails to describe it, and revolving door is used so hard that its bearings must be glowing red with heat.

I've been seeing a lot of people disparaging democracy as a failure. It has not failed us. We however as a nation have been failing it.

For it to succeed, it needs an engaged and informed populace. Which is why those who want power but not responsibility, attack Free speech and public education

If the global temperatures keep rising these may be freed from the ice anyway, but at least there's now a chance to take a sneak peek at these germs and figure out how to combat them.

I'm gonna be real with you "common knowledge" that scammers are purposely idiots just to screen out the smart people from wasting their time always struck me as entirely horseshit, but I think they're doing it for real now. I spent lots of time their English really was that bad, before LLM's.

An important aspect when considering how fast Finland should reduce the budget imbalance.

The real lesson of Gaullism we in the Eastern Flank *must* learn is not “USA bad, France good” but “would [a distant power] risk [its capital] for [one of our capitals]?

We. Need. Independent. Deterrent.

Näissä on sekin ulottuvuus, että välillä yksittäiset ihmiset osoittavat huonoa harkintaa ja tekevät huonoja ratkaisuja, ja sitten joku käyttää syntynyttä tilaisuutta hyväkseen. Tarkoitan tällä, että eivät valtiojohtajatkaan aina pelaa sellaista 4D-shakkia, jota olemme jälkikäteen näkevinämme.

Venäjä on meidän kaikkien suosikkisyyllinen, mutta tässä tosiaan kannattaa olla avoimin mielin, kun tietoa tihkuu hiljalleen lisää.

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

The X factor for durably shifting political views
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