Inside the Bureau of Meteorology’s forecast failings: As the Bureau of Meteorology pulls back on its international obligations, increasing automation and a lack of experienced staff has made forecasts less reliable. By Rick Morton.
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Another prominent Russian judge has died after mysteriously falling from a high-rise building in Moscow.
Natalia Larina, 50, was known for convicting enemies of the Kremlin as well as high profile criminal cases.
She was found dead close to her apartment block on 1st Mashinostroeniya Street.
Several other high profile figures in Russia have died in mysterious circumstances in recent years, often falling from high buildings or suddenly becoming ill.
In February a promi…
The anonymous Christian author of *The Cloud of Unknowing* spoke of contemplative practice as "a naked, blind feeling of being."
The Buddhists, especially in #Zen, speak similarly of practicing "thusness" or "suchness."
Tonight that came to expression for me as:
the way things are is what does the practice
.
(I'll be away on a Zen retreat…
Explosions, oil refinery fire reported in Russia's Rostov Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/06/explosions-oil-refinery.html
"I am a strange loop, a cognitive ouroboros that bootstraps itself into being through the medium of language."
Snippet from an answer of the Claude-3 Opus #LLM to the question "We say cogito ergo sum. Your thinking does not exist - no cogito. Only word generation and nothingness. Where is the thought beyond the word?" (by Stefan Decker, Fraunhofer FIZ, via LinkedIn)
Her…
Racism is always a national issue in the US, and it's a major force in presidential elections.
But it plays out locally in all sorts of other ways; in communities, relationships, and individual lives.
Springfield's superintendent of schools is resigning after being recorded on an answering machine calling local black families scumbags, thieves, stupid, etc.
His targets included the high school principal and a school committee member.
Trump ally told to begin four-month contempt sentence by 1 July
Steve Bannon, the rightwing podcaster and vociferous Donald Trump cheerleader,
has been ordered to surrender to authorities by 1 July to begin a four-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress.
The order was issued by US district judge Carl Nichols
– who was appointed to the bench by Trump
– after he accepted prosecutors’ argument that Bannon should serve his sentence following the rejection of …
Chiefs' Thompson awake, alert after cardiac event https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40298945/chiefs-bj-thompson-awake-alert-cardiac-event
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06882 has been replaced.
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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11717 has been replaced.
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