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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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Inside the Bureau of Meteorology’s forecast failings
Bureau of Meteorology chief executive Dr Andrew Johnson turned up to Senate estimates last month without his right-hand man, Peter Stone, many of the bureau’s other executives and, apparently, his briefing notes. Johnson, who is also the director of meteorology, appointed to the now $533,000 a year job in 2016 by former environment minister Josh Frydenberg, claimed not to be able to answer basic questions about BoM processes. At one stage, he even attempted to prevent his chief operating offi…

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…

Judge known for punishing Putin foes mysteriously falls to her death
There are claims she was upset after being scammed.

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…

The void is generative
Recently, I had the opportunity to engage in a dialogue with Claude 3 Opus, currently Anthropics Flagship Large Language Model. As part of our conversation I gave the following prompt: "We say cogito ergo sum.

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.

Springfield superintendent resigns amid criticism over disparaging remarks made against an elected official | WBUR News
Springfield Superintendent Daniel Warwick has resigned following backlash over disparaging remarks he made about a member of the Springfield School Committee. The announcement came after a Thursday morning press conference at which the main target of the comments, Latonia Monroe Naylor, defended herself and her family.

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

Chiefs' BJ Thompson awake, alert following cardiac arrest - ESPN
Chiefs defensive end BJ Thompson is awake one day after being rushed to the hospital for a medical emergency.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06882 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Regularized-Renormalized-Resummed loop corrected power spectrum of non-singular bounce with Primordial Black Hole formation
We present a complete and consistent exposition of the regularization, renormalization, and resummation procedures in the setup of having a contraction and then non-singular bounce followed by inflation with a sharp transition from slow-roll (SR) to ultra-slow roll (USR) phase for generating primordial black holes (PBHs). We consider following an effective field theory (EFT) approach and study the quantum loop corrections to the power spectrum from each phase. We demonstrate the complete remova…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11717 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Banach lattices of homogeneous polynomials not containing $c_0$
First we develop a technique to construct Banach lattices of homogeneous polynomials. We obtain, in particular, conditions for the linear spans of all positive compact and weakly compact $n$-homogeneous polynomials between the Banach lattices $E$ and $F$, denoted by ${\cal P}_{\cal K}^r(^n E; F)$ and $\mathcal{P}_{\mathcal{W}}^r(^n E; F)$, to be Banach lattices with the polynomial regular norm. Next we study when the following are equivalent for ${\cal I} = {\cal K}$ or ${\cal I} = {\cal W}$: (…