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EU ambassadors agree on using Russian assets revenue to fund Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/08/eu-ambassadors-agree.html

"Jetzt neu mit KI" prangt bald auf jeder Software, auch wenn sie nur 0 und 1 zusammenzählt. Wir sollten jedoch nicht auf KI-Potenziale schielen, sondern endlich mit der Schreibmaschinen-Digitalisierung aufhören. Ein Rant.
online: https://www.b…

Kampf der Schreibmaschinen-Digitalisierung statt KI-Hype

"Hundreds of millions of people have used generative #AI in the last two years. It promises immense benefits, but also serious risks related to bias, alleged copyright infringement, and non-consensual intimate imagery. AI companies, academic researchers, and civil society agree that #generativeAI syste…

Bi-level Guided Diffusion Models for Zero-Shot Medical Imaging Inverse Problems
Hossein Askari, Fred Roosta, Hongfu Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03706 ht…

Bi-level Guided Diffusion Models for Zero-Shot Medical Imaging Inverse Problems
In the realm of medical imaging, inverse problems aim to infer high-quality images from incomplete, noisy measurements, with the objective of minimizing expenses and risks to patients in clinical settings. The Diffusion Models have recently emerged as a promising approach to such practical challenges, proving particularly useful for the zero-shot inference of images from partially acquired measurements in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Computed Tomography (CT). A central challenge in this…

Hš všrios meses atršs, comprei um chuveiro top de linhas, desses muito caros, pensando principalmente na facilidade que seria trocar a resistência dele sem precisar reinstalar o chuveiro (eu odeio fazer essas coisas). Ele até me deu um trabalho maior do que a média pra instalar (as coisas precisam encaixar de um jeito exato) mas eu estava bem satisfeito com ele. Ontem ele deu defeito. Agora fui trocar a resistência, que é tão fšcil de trocar. Não foi a resistência que queimou, foi o chuveiro…

IBM buys HashiCorp for 6,4 billion USD.
It probably was a good idea, that some of the most important Open Source products were already forked some time ago.
Sigh.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc. Creating a Comprehensive End-to-End Hybrid Cloud Platform
$6.4 billion acquisition adds suite of leading hybrid and multi-cloud lifecycle management products to help clients grappling with today's AI-driven...

I've been reading Ray Dailo's "Principles for dealing with the changing world order" in which he charts the rise and fall of empires and kingdoms and dynasties.
The main cycle, he reckons is:
1) Winner of a war consolidates power, unites the population (often through oppression)
2) A smart cooperative equitable educated society with meritocracy means good societal progress and wide sharing of the wealth.
3) Long period of peace, building good tech and military and financial systems.
4) Leadership corrupts: Excessive debt, money-printing, inequality, financial ruin, no sense of solidarity, then a natural disaster pushes it over the edge
5) The fall: Escalating rebellions, very bad inequality, internal conflicts
6) Civil war, revolution, eventually a strong leader proves the winner and back to 1.
We in the western civilization are very clearly in the late states of this kind of cycle, and it's frankly terrifying with the weapons we have these days when it comes to a war.
The leadership is too corrupt to try and fix the inequality or invest in that well educated, equitable, cooperative society.
He explicitly agrees with Marx and implicitly with me a lot more than I'd have expected from the rabid capitalist that Ray Dailo is.
It's interesting to hear his emphasis on inequality and how a prosperous society depends upon sharing the gains of prosperity widely. You tend to hear hyper-capitalists mostly emphasizing that capital's gains should go to capital, and Ray is certainly suggesting the opposite here. That if that happens, it corrupts the leadership and ends with cronyism and debt and revolution.
We seem to basically agree what creates good prosperous peaceful civil society, and that capitalism in the Anglican world isn't doing it, and that fucked up corrupt government is why we aren't doing it.
We'd offer fairly different prescriptions though I think.
#reading #books #economics

Bose and Fermi gases in metric-affine gravity and linear Generalized Uncertainty Principle
Aneta Wojnar, D\'ebora Aguiar Gomes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03345

Bose and Fermi gases in metric-affine gravity and linear Generalized Uncertainty Principle
We examine the relationship between Palatini-like theories of gravity and models incorporating linear generalized uncertainty principles. Additionally, we delve into the thermodynamics of systems comprising both Bose and Fermi gases. Our analysis encompasses the equations of state for various systems, including general Fermi gases, degenerate Fermi gases, Boltzmann gases, Bose gases such as phonons and photons, as well as Bose-Einstein condensates and liquid helium.

Bose and Fermi gases in metric-affine gravity and linear Generalized Uncertainty Principle
Aneta Wojnar, D\'ebora Aguiar Gomes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03345

Bose and Fermi gases in metric-affine gravity and linear Generalized Uncertainty Principle
We examine the relationship between Palatini-like theories of gravity and models incorporating linear generalized uncertainty principles. Additionally, we delve into the thermodynamics of systems comprising both Bose and Fermi gases. Our analysis encompasses the equations of state for various systems, including general Fermi gases, degenerate Fermi gases, Boltzmann gases, Bose gases such as phonons and photons, as well as Bose-Einstein condensates and liquid helium.