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I know that in principle it's possible to compute the sine of an angle from first principles, because I'm pretty sure I could do it at school when I was twelve.
I know that in principle it's possible to compute the sine of an angle from first principles, because some clever bugger did it in 6502 assembly code fifty years ago.
Can I do it now in #Clojure

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Prince:
🎵 Controversy
#Prince
https://mightymousemusic.bandcamp.com/track/prince-controversy-mighty-mouses-revised-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5shPZ6RnC6sCm0iSZiv7wU

»Urheberrechts-Klage – Meta soll Torrent-Pornos zum KI-Training eingesetzt haben:
Der US-amerikanische Technologiekonzern Meta, bekannt für seine Social-Media-Plattformen Facebook, Instagram und WhatsApp, streitet sich vor Gericht gerade in einem besonders pikanten Fall von Urheberrechtsverletzung.«
Nun ja, überraschend so wie verwunderlich ist es nicht und nicht der erste Fall von Datenklau bei Meta & KI.
🤷

Urheberrechts-Klage: Meta soll Torrent-Pornos zum KI-Training eingesetzt haben
Der US-amerikanische Technologiekonzern Meta streitet sich vor Gericht gerade in einem besonders pikanten Fall von Urheberrechtsverletzung.

A Glenmark Pharmaceuticals factory in central India was responsible for an outsized share of recalls for pills that didn’t dissolve properly and could harm American patients.
In a string of recalls, federal regulators had determined that more than 50 million potassium chloride extended-release capsules sold in the U.S. could be deadly.
Yet, federal drug inspectors at that point hadn’t set foot in the Madhya Pradesh factory for more than four years
Seven weeks after that s…

The FDA Is Cracking Down on an Indian Drugmaker Investigated by ProPublica Last Year
In a warning letter, the Food and Drug Administration said Glenmark Pharmaceuticals failed to properly investigate flaws with a generic drug that ProPublica found was linked to U.S. deaths.

De los nominados a Álbum del Año en los Premios Pulsar 2025, el único que no he escuchado es el de Catalina y Las Bordonas de Oro. De hecho ni siquiera las conocía, así que tengo tarea.
Mis favoritos son Electrodomésticos y Gepe. Y yo hubiese agregado ademšs el Totém de Pedropiedra.
#PremiosPulsar #CatalinaYLasBordonasDeOro

I guess it's always nice when someone cites a paper. But too often, it's very clear that they haven't read it. If they had done, they would have realised that they were writing stuff that that I showed to be wrong in 1987. Sigh.
The extent of innumeracy in pharmacology is worrying.

Frontiers | The flexibility of SABRE, a new quantitative receptor function model, when fitting challenging concentration-effect data
The Signal Amplification, Binding affinity, and Receptor-activation Efficacy (SABRE) model is the most recent general and quantitative model of receptor func...

Oberstes US-Gericht erlaubt Alterskontrolle bei Porno-Seiten
Das oberste US-Gericht hält eine Überprüfung des Alters beim Pornoseiten-Besuch für zumutbar. Denn sie diene einem wichtigen anderen Verbot.

Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-created-flirty-chatbots-taylor-swift-other-celebrities-without-permission-2025-08-29/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p50#a250829p50

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Primus:
🎵 Too Many Puppies
#Primus
https://dianacrawls.bandcamp.com/track/too-many-puppies-primus-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/30dxVfMjlhBY6fXo3ThhJM

Washington Post Pulitzer Prize Winner Reporter Charged with Possession of Child Pornography (Elizabeth Weibel/Breitbart)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/27/washington-post-pulitzer-prize-winner-reporter-charged-with-possession-of-child-pornography/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p14#a250628p14