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Jun 12, 2020
So I promised to tell this story too...
I had a varied grad school career. Lots of twists and turns. Spent time at @IBMResearch doing interesting things.
But I never really had the “academic” drive. I was good enough at research but the tenure track didn’t hold all that much appeal for some reason, and less so over time.
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Feb 12, 2024
🧵 "Il trucco degli aerogeneratori in “idling”

Scommetto che, quando vedete un aerogeneratore girare, penserete soddisfatti: «Che bello, quanta energia pulita che sta producendo!»

Questo perché forse non sapete che, per una discreta parte del tempo, gli aerogeneratori girano ⤵️ Image
a vuoto come le girandole dei bambini perché la velocità del vento non è sufficiente per determinare produzione di energia.
Questa fase si chiama “idling”, “oziare”.
«Ma allora», vi starete chiedendo, «perché girano senza produrre un solo kWh?»
La ragione è duplice: ⤵️
quella tecnica è per essere sempre lì pronti a catturare la prima bava di vento sufficiente a generare energia; quella psicologica è invece dare l’impressione ai boccaloni che li guardano – e, credetemi, sono la maggioranza – che esse generino energia in continuazione. 😁 ⤵️
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Nov 12, 2024
@USA1Young @InfoAgeStrategy 1/x
acc. me it is OK.
we know from beginning,
that obama and biden played the dirty theatrical treacherous piece about aid for Ukraine.
the money provided by Congres as bianko check
were used by biden's admin
not for direct aid for Ukraine but for some US companies. Image
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@USA1Young @InfoAgeStrategy 2/x
biden's admin did everything not to help Ukraine in war,
biden stopped even the aid from
Allies and all the time he protected the russian aggressor.
he also did not use the Lend-Lease.
due to huge federal debt and no achievements in war
trump and House republicans decided... Image
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@USA1Young @InfoAgeStrategy 3/x
..not to support those biden's connected bills.
it was clear biden's blackmailing of House reps.
in the bundle of bills was also the bill for increasing of federal budget/ ceiling due to the imminent shutdown of federal offices.
McCarthy helped biden's WH and
immediately... Image
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Apr 8, 2025
This is the verbal abuse that I received yesterday from Israeli journalist Elior Levy when I addressed his justification of an Israeli attack against Palestinian media workers in Gaza, that killed 10 people /1 Image
The attack was against a media tent in Khan Younis. Gruesome images of the burning body of a Palestinian journalist killed are still circulating in social media today. But the target was apparently someone else, Palestinian videojournalist Hassan Aslih /2
According to Levy, Aslih "joined the Hamas armed wing and documented the 7 Oct massacres and kidnappings inside Israeli territory... Aslih is very close to and identifies with Hamas". Levy thinks that is a justification for killing, injuring two dozen people /3
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Feb 18
How I use delta for my options trades?

I make a variety of different trades

Different stocks and different scenarios

The delta I use is different for each of these trades

A thread 🧵 👇👇

You will definitely wanna BOOKMARK it

$NVDA $AMZN $TSLA $GOOGL $PLTR $SOFI $META
What is Delta in Options Trading?

Delta is a risk metric in options trading

It measures the sensitivity of an option's price to changes in the underlying stock

Example:

$NVDA put👇👇👇 Image
It tells you how much an option’s price will move for each $1 move in the underlying stock

For example:

If an option has a Delta of 0.5...

The option’s price will move $0.50 for every $1 move in the stock
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Jun 10
What's the better business model for an AI lab, subscription or API? (1/4)🧵 Image
Recently, we purchased one of each Anthropic/OpenAI subscription plan and randomly ran long horizon coding tasks until we exhausted the weekly limit. It's widely believed that a $200/month plan maxes out at ~$2000/month worth of tokens (assuming API pricing). However, we found that the subscriptions are actually far more generous. (2/4)Image
The margin on a subscription plan is a function of the average utilization. If we assume both companies have 75% API gross margins, this results in the following subscription margins. (3/4) Image
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Jun 23
Kuleba: The biggest mistake about EU accession talks is calling them negotiations. They are not. A benchmark is a task Ukraine must complete. The EU says what needs doing — you do it.

There is nothing to negotiate. This is a to-do list, not a bargaining table. 1/
Kuleba: 500 benchmarks across six clusters sounds overwhelming. It is not. These are laws, regulations, standards — the kind of work Ukraine already does at speed. The number looks large on paper. The task itself is manageable.

Do not confuse volume with difficulty. 2/
Kuleba: Ukraine has the full capacity to prepare for EU membership before the EU itself prepares for Ukraine's accession. That is not rhetoric — that is the trajectory.

The bottleneck is not Kyiv. It is Brussels. The EU must sort out its own enlargement questions first. 3X
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Jun 25
En una época de cambio para el rock, aquel disco era demasiado excesivo y barroco. Algo inclasificable.

Y sus autores se encontraron con muchas puertas cerradas.

Hoy, en el final de esta temporada de #LaHistorietaMusical, el murciélago infernal de Meat Loaf (y Jim Steinman). Meat Loaf, sobre el escenario, larga melena castaña, boca abierta, agachado, señalando a cámara con el dedo con un gesto divertido y alocado. Lleva una camisa vaquera azul y chaleco de ante marrón y está sobre el escenario, distinguiéndose algún musico a su espalda. The Guardian.
Es curioso como a veces hay obras que aparecen o demasiado pronto o demasiado tarde. Alejadas del sonido de lo que dictan las modas.

Hay trabajos así, que parecen estar al margen de lo imperante.

Y quizás por eso se convierten en algo atemporal. Rodeados de un aura diferente.
Un aura que aparece desde el inicio. Desde esos tres golpes de la banda que abren el tema que le daba título a este debut.

Y tras ello un piano furioso, rápido y enloquecido, en un crescendo infernal. Como una moto rugiendo por la carretera.

Como alguien que espera su momento.
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Jun 27
Japan has 4X lower rates of heart disease than America.

Their secret?

A natural enzyme in their diet that dissolves clots, lowers blood pressure, and shrinks arterial plaque.

Here's how Nattokinase protects your from heart disease (and how to use it properly):🧵
1. Dissolves blood clots.

Nattokinase breaks down fibrin, the protein mesh that holds clots together.

It also boosts plasmin, your body's own clot-dissolving enzyme. Image
2. Lowers blood pressure.

It blocks ACE, the same enzyme that blood pressure meds target.

This relaxes your vessels and drops your numbers, often within weeks. Image
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Jun 27
Cancelled Canva. Cancelled CapCut. Decided to just see what Claude could do.

30 days of content. Under an hour. Here are the
7 prompts i used:
1. Build your content foundation

"I'm a [niche] creator posting on [platforms].
My audience is [who they are + struggle]. Give
me 5 content pillars, 3 formats per pillar, and
one core message for each. This is my content foundation for the next 30 days."
2. Generate 30 ideas in one shot

"Using these pillars: [paste them]. Give me
30 content ideas, one per day. Mix formats:
hot takes, carousels, tutorials, personal stories,
and engagement posts. Label each by pillar,
format, and platform."
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Jun 27
Microplastics are in your heart, brain, and 63 total places inside your body, with no way for it to clear most of them on its own.

So here are 7 cheap foods that flush plastic out before it reaches your bloodstream (science-backed):

1. Raw kimchi
A bacteria strain that grows during natural fermentation (Leuconostoc mesenteroides) has surface proteins that grab onto nanoplastics, holding a 57% binding rate even in gut conditions.

In mice it more than doubled the plastic leaving the body.

It has to be raw though, since pasteurized jars have dead bacteria that can't bind anything.
2. Chitosan (shellfish fiber)

A fiber from shrimp, crab, and lobster shells that carries a positive charge. Since most plastic particles carry a negative one, it acts like a magnet, clumping them together so they leave through your stool.

In rats it raised plastic excretion by 115.6%.
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Jun 27
🧵 Hard-won Godot performance lessons from building a procedural open-world RPG (valenfeld) Image
1/ The single biggest lesson: real-time rendering cost is per-object (draw calls / GPU resource handles),
NOT per-triangle.

A "low-poly" world means nothing if it's made of thousands of separate MeshInstance3D
nodes.

We shipped a green build that crashed every Mac.
2/ Why it crashes: every unique mesh takes a Metal/Vulkan RID (resource handle).

Past the pool limit, vertex_array_create() returns null → "Element limit reached" → a hard signal-11 / MoltenVK crash
mid-frame, with NO GDScript error.

Full-procedural towns pushed us to 130k+ unique meshes. Every Mac died.
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Jun 28
NEW: Boris Johnson failed to declare to parliament a gift of private jet flights from the same cryptobillionaire, Christopher Harborne who gave £5m to Nigel Farage, leaked documents reveal.

New #HarborneReceipts investigation from @thenerve_news
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Johnson is now in the frame for breaching for the same parliamentary rules as Farage by accepting a gift from the same donor.

Report for @TheNewsAgents from me & @CharlieNotOld
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thenerve.news/p/harborne-rec…
Harborne provided his private jet & pilot to Johnson in Jan 2023, after he’d resigned as PM but when still an MP.

There is no record of the gift in Johnson’s Register of Members Interests.
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Jun 28
🧵 ¿Por qué "los que mandan" en España están locos por quitarse de en medio al Gobierno progresista?
No es una cuestión de simpatías políticas o de debates de televisión. Es una cuestión puramente matemática, de balances contables y de reparto del pastel.
Dentro hilo con los datos reales de la "factura". 👇
1/ El concepto clave aquí es "transferencia de rentas". En economía, el dinero no desaparece, cambia de manos. Durante la última década, las medidas del bloque progresista han supuesto un trasvase directo de recursos desde los beneficios del capital hacia el sector público y los salarios.
2/ ¿De cuánta pasta estamos hablando? Las estimaciones económicas sitúan el detrimento total para las grandes corporaciones y rentas altas en más de 30.000 millones de euros acumulados. Un "roto" a las cuentas de resultados que explica el enorme nerviosismo en los despachos del IBEX. 💼📉
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Jun 28
Between 2015 and 2020, the PLA's National Defense University published three separate versions of its flagship strategic text, The Science of Military Strategy 《战略学》Since neither of the later versions explain the reasons for the updates, here is what I noticed is new ... Image
First, it should be noted that the 2015 edition was the first update NDU produced since its inaugural 1999 version. It was a significant upgrade--almost a third larger in content--including topics such as deterrence, war control & new domains that were absent in the 1999 version. Image
But what prompted the (relatively) quick updates in the 2017 & 2020 editions? The increase in content wasn't too significant--about a 6% increase in word count. For the 2017 update, the biggest change was adding "Biological" and "Intelligent" as new struggle domains. Image
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Jun 28
Miskine.

Dans l'introduction du Ma'alim al tanzil, le muhaqqiq salafiste Abd al Razzaq al Mahdi:

"...et tantôt il suit la voie des khalaf, qui consiste en l’interprétation."

Traduction pour les ignares salafistes: la sommité Al Baghawi est un négateur d'attribut Divin. Image
Par exemple: "Le jour où sera dévoilée une ساق"
Il a dit — que Dieu lui fasse miséricorde: "Il a été dit : "une ساق", c’est-à-dire une affaire terrible et grave…"
De même, à propos de Sa parole : "Et ton Seigneur viendra", il a dit:
"C’est Son ordre et Son décret qui viendront." Image
Mais en restant dans le même livre cité, l'imam al Baghawi nous dicte sa méthodologie principale, le tafwidh:

"...Il est obligatoire d'y croire, et de les laisser selon leur apparent ('ala dhahiriha), en se détournant de toute interprétation, en évitant toute assimilation, Image
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Jun 28
"I don't want to marry you b/c of your past" is not equivalent to "I don't forgive you."

This may seem obvious to a Christian, but to a modern antinomian, it's anything but. Here's why: ⤵️
Scripture tells us that all men have sinned and still sin. To this, soft antinomians add the false belief that all sins are equal.

But when everything is sinful, nothing is. That is the false gospel of the soft antinomian--their only source of hope & comfort.⤵️
However, this false belief that all men sin equally doesn't expunge human nature, which is compelled to weigh good vs evil.

To satisfy this need, soft antinomians invent a new sin: judging one sin as worse than another. This, they ironically believe, is the worst sin of all.⤵️
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Jun 28
Carrie has Bulbar ALS & was declining so fast she stopped recording it so her family wouldn't have to rewatch it. With nothing to lose she tried DMSO and her speech, breathing, mobility, and even her smile started coming back.

But she's far from the only one. Over 2000 studies show DMSO treats conditions ranging from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's to brain fog, MS, chronic pain, paralysis, strokes, depression, epilepsy, and Down syndrome, and a physician who treats his patients with it estimates roughly 80% of what people see neurologists for goes away with DMSO.🧵
Here I present the extensive evidence behind DMSO's ability to treat numerous "incurable" neurological diseases.

This article draws upon over 2000 studies and 200 reports from readers who were healed by DMSO along with practical guidance on how to use it
midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-dmso-hea…
Carrie found DMSO after seeing this video. Inspired by veterinarians, Todd, a terminal ALS patient who'd just ordered a wheelchair got his life back with DMSO: breathing crises stopped in 3 days, he dragged 340-lb beams across a road, and brain fog completely cleared.
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Jun 28
There is so much to object to here that I'm going to restate some basic design observations on the FP-5 to clarify how the Russian reflexive control data fed AI slop that is polluting public discussions of the FP-5.

FP-5 🧵
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1. The FP-5 Flamingo is about four times the launch weight of a BGM-109 Tomahawk (i.e. ~13,200 lb), and 2-3 times the range (i.e. ~1,620 nmi) while carrying twice the warhead mass (i.e. ~2,000 lb).

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2. The FP-5 design concept is modelled on the USAF MGM-13 Mace GLCM as Fire Point told Ukrainian military analysts - but designed with modern technology to be extremely cheap to make (claimed 1/6 the cost of a Tomahawk - likely not counting the engine cost).

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