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heise | Watt und Wein: Agri-PV als Lichtblick für den Weinbau im Klimawandel
Agri-PV macht landwirtschaftliche Flächen für die Stromerzeugung nutzbar. Am Weinanbau zeigt sich, dass die Ernte so auch besser dem Klimawandel trotzen könnte.

Jordan Bardella revient sur la promesse du RN d’abroger la réforme des retraites s’il parvient au pouvoir
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2…

Jordan Bardella revient sur la promesse du RN d’abroger la réforme des retraites s’il parvient au pouvoir
Le président du Rassemblement national, désireux d’apparaître « raisonnable » sur le plan économique, a affirmé qu’« il faudra faire des choix » en cas de victoire de sa formation aux élections législatives. Le retour à la retraite à 60 ans, promis de longue date par le parti d’extrême droite, ne fera pas partie des priorités, assure-t-il.

Republican Voters Against Trump on X: "Cavuto: “You said that [Trump] is a populist, and an authoritarian narcissist. That character is too important to me and it's a job that requires the kind of character he just doesn't have. That's pretty strong.” Paul Ryan: “Yeah. That's the way I feel. I agree with that.” https://t.co/l3M…

Republican Voters Against Trump (@AccountableGOP) on X
Cavuto: “You said that [Trump] is a populist, and an authoritarian narcissist. That character is too important to me and it's a job that requires the kind of character he just doesn't have. That's pretty strong.” Paul Ryan: “Yeah. That's the way I feel. I agree with that.”

#Språkrådet har fått nye nettsider https://sprakradet.no/aktuelt/nytt-kjoremonster-pa-sprakradet-no/
Disse er ser ut til å være laget i WordP…

Nytt kjøremønster på språkrådet.no - Språkrådet
Vi avdekket trafikale problemer og har bygd om nettsidene. Målet er at flere skal få løst oppgavene sine raskere.

Rheinmetall, Kyiv agree to start producing Lynx armored vehicles in Ukraine in 2024: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/12/rheinmetall-kyiv-agree.html

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This cloud architecture is fascinating.
1. Secure the hardware supply chain.
2. Rely on secure boot and the trust cache to assure loaded software.
3. Remove code that provide access in and out of the runtime.
4. Rely on per-boot on-disk encryption keys to secure data on Flash.
5. Generate per-node public/private key pairs for data exchange with client.
6. Rely on Secure Enclave to hide private keys from runtime.
7. Rely on 3rd party load balancers to batch…

Blog - Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud - Apple Security Research
Secure and private AI processing in the cloud poses a formidable new challenge. To support advanced features of Apple Intelligence with larger foundation models, we created Private Cloud Compute (PCC), a groundbreaking cloud intelligence system designed specifically for private AI processing. Built with custom Apple silicon and a hardened operating system, Private Cloud Compute extends the industry-leading security and privacy of Apple devices into the cloud, making sure that personal user data…

Subtoot 'cause the post I saw had enough replies already, but this is a bad article (though it has a wonderful description of how Von Neumann machines work):
https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer
For context, I'm against most uses of modern LLMs for several good ethical reasons, and I think the current state of AI research funding is both unsustainable and harmful to knowledge development. However, I've done a tiny bit of deep learning research myself, and I think the tech has a lot of cool potential, even if on balance it might have even more terrifying-potential.
The central problem with this article is that while it accurately describes ways that most human brains differ fundamentally from one way computers can be set up, it completely ignores how (computer) neutral networks work, including the fact that they'd perform very similar to the humans on the dollar bill task, because they encode a representation of their training inputs as distributed tweaks to the connection weights of many simulated neurons. (Also, people with photographic memory do exist...)
I think that being challenged in one's metaphors is a great idea (read Paul Agre on AI) and this is a useful article to have read for that reason, but I think the more useful stance is a principled agnosticism towards whether the human brain works like a computer, along with a broader imagination for "what a computer works like." More specifically, I'm quite convinced the brain doesn't work like a modern operating system (effectively the central straw man in this article), but I reserve judgement on whether it works like a neutral network.

heise | Watt und Wein: Agri-PV als Lichtblick für den Weinbau im Klimawandel
Agri-PV macht landwirtschaftliche Flächen für die Stromerzeugung nutzbar. Am Weinanbau zeigt sich, dass die Ernte so auch besser dem Klimawandel trotzen könnte.

Zahlen, bitte! Der 1500-Meter-Flug des ersten Jets der Welt
Bereits 1928 flog der erste Jet der Weltgeschichte: Der von Fritz von Opel mit Raketen ausgerüstete Segelflieger flog beim ersten Test immerhin 1500 Meter weit.