"In the budget speech this year, commission president Ursula von der Leyen made a bold statement that AI is expected to approach human reasoning by next year."
Die Nächste, nach (bzw. vor) Wildberger.
"Surprised by this statement, I asked the commission to provide me with documents .."
"The commission’s response was not filled with references to the scientific literature. Instead, the Commission referred to the essays and books by tech CEOs."<…
Gestern bin ich auf "The Disintegration Loops" von William Basinski gestoßen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjnAE5go9dI
Heute ist der 11. September, und zieht Euch bitte den Wikipedia-Artikel zu den Disintegration Loops rein (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disintegration_Loops). Wahnsinn!
Auszug:
Basinski finished the project the morning of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City, and sat on the roof of his apartment building in Brooklyn with friends as the World Trade Center collapsed. He filmed the fallout during the last hour of daylight from a roof, and the following morning he played "Disintegration Loop 1.1" as a soundtrack to the aftermath. Stills from the video were used as the covers for the set of four CDs, and several weeks later Basinski dedicated the work to the victims in a postscript in the liner notes. He said that "the events gave new meaning to the musical pieces created by catastrophic decay in my studio a few weeks before."
The Senate on Thursday night approved its $925 billion version of the
National Defense Authorization Act,
the annual must-pass Pentagon policy blueprint,
setting up what is expected to be a lengthy negotiation with the House to finalize the bill.
The legislation, deadlocked for weeks over various partisan disagreements,
advanced by a margin of 77 to 20 following amendment votes earlier in the evening.
Senate and House staff will next reconcile their bills…
Exactly how thoroughly is SCOTUS the lapdog of POTUS?
We'll soon find out whether they're happy to sort out his personal difficulties for him.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-carroll-abuse-defamation-supreme-court-be62…
And so it continues: US anti-fascism expert leaves country day after being blocked from flying to Spain.
No matter how many peace deals a Western leader states to broker, if you don't respect human rights you don't deserve the #NobelPeacePrice
#AntiFa
Probing viscosity of the intracluster medium using ram-pressure stripping
Yung-Hsuan Tseng, Hsiang-Yi Karen Yang, Ryan Farber, Mateusz Ruszkowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08399
The U.S. Department of Education recently sent MIT and eight other institutions
a proposed
“Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,"
along with a letter asking that MIT review the document.
After considerable thought and consultation with leaders from across MIT,
today I sent the following reply to U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth,
MIT president
--
The document also includes princi…
From Kardar-Parisi-Zhang scaling to soliton proliferation in Josephson junction arrays
Mikheil Tsitsishvili, Reinhold Egger, Karsten Flensberg, Sebastian Diehl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08479
OBJVanish: Physically Realizable Text-to-3D Adv. Generation of LiDAR-Invisible Objects
Bing Li, Wuqi Wang, Yanan Zhang, Jingzheng Li, Haigen Min, Wei Feng, Xingyu Zhao, Jie Zhang, Qing Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06952