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The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, due to potus’ war of choice, cuts off sulfur shipments, and so endangers *checks notes* the United States’ ability to wage war. Behold: the self defeating military!
“Chemicals like sulfuric acid…can determine whether the US military can maintain industrial base production of electrical and digital systems needed to sustain the fight as munitions are expended and combat losses mount.”

The Chokepoint We Missed: Sulfur, Hormuz, and the Threats to Military Readiness
The cascading effects of disrupted maritime chokepoints are no longer the subject of simulations; they are an active crisis. As the US-Israeli military operation against Iran and Tehran’s regional military response continue, missile attacks, drone swarms, airstrikes, and maritime threats complicate commercial shipping across the region. The ongoing disruption in the Strait of Hormuz affects

One of those things about claims of “AGI” is that to really build a human-like intelligence we’d have to simulate a human brain as whole because 1. it’s the only thing we know that produces human intelligence and 2. no one knows how it actually works.
Because of (2) it’s irrelevant what anyone says about LLMs or any other technology (with the exception of simulating a whole brain)—you can’t know if a technology is intelligent like a human because we don’t know what that means or how that works.
Fun thing, it turns out it’s impossible to simulate a whole brain with the resolution required (basically quantum physics level), and you’d have to emulate a chemical and physical environment for the brain as well (it will also need a body etc.).
You’d also have to simulate other humans with brains from which the brain can learn; but to simulate those you’d have simulate evolving humans from single-cell organisms first etc etc ad infinitum

Light Streaks — generative photography
A small selection of long-exposures of randomly generated IFS (aka Iterated Function Systems), a family of very oldskool primitive/trivial fractal functions, but which can produce a fairly wide variety of outcomes. Each image is the result of billions of iterations of a single particle being iteratively transformed (meaning the particle's current position is used as the input for computing its next position etc.) For each iteration & posit…

Exhibit #5356765336895 in "nobody hand-rolls anything related to cryptography correctly, even when they at least try to use tested, trusted algorithms."

Experimental Validation of HomHBFEM Simulations of Fast Corrector Magnets for PETRA IV
Jan-Magnus Christmann, Laura Anna Maria D'Angelo, Herbert De Gersem, Sven Pfeiffer, Sajjad Hussain Mirza, Adeel Amjad, Lucas Rousselange, Matthias Thede
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14824 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.14824 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.14824
arXiv:2602.14824v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper presents experimental validation of the homogenized harmonic balance finite element method (HomHBFEM), which we have developed as a dedicated simulation technique for magnets with fast excitation cycles, in particular the fast corrector (FC) magnets for PETRA IV at DESY. The HomHBFEM allows efficient three-dimensional nonlinear eddy-current simulations of laminated magnets at elevated frequencies with a relatively coarse finite element (FE) mesh and without computationally expensive time-stepping. This is achieved by combining a frequency-domain-based homogenization technique with the harmonic balance FE method. The simulation results for the magnetic flux density along the axis of the FC magnets as a function of frequency and the resulting integrated transfer function (ITF) are compared to Hall probe and search coil measurements of the first prototype FC magnet for PETRA IV. A good agreement between simulated and measured ITFs is achieved for excitation frequencies from 10 Hz to 10 kHz.
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Prospects for #Comet C/2026 A1 MAPS - a comet with a narrow tail in the evening twilight, with uncertain but potentially high brightness? https://hdr-astrophotography.com -> Tail simulations for comet MAPS: https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/34888 - in order not to depend on a single prediction, i have simulated different scenarii.

"Korea’s Board of Audit and Inspection found that hackers breached all seven public-sector systems tested in a simulated cyberattack, exposing serious weaknesses in the government's protection of large volumes of personal data."

Hackers breach all tested public-sector systems in Korean audit board's simulated cyberattack
Korea’s Board of Audit and Inspection found that hackers breached all seven public-sector systems tested in a simulated cyberattack, exposing serious weaknesses in the government's protection of large volumes of personal data.

Patriots vs. Seahawks prediction, odds, date, time: 2026 Super Bowl picks from 10,000 model simulations

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/patriot

Do you know about the AI company who sold large-scale human behavior simulations and predictions to the military and government?
IN THE 1960s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulmatics_Corporation