Links for 2022-02-24
“Baby this is gonna blow them all away. It's a neural net processor.”
How super-forecasters predicted an invasion of Ukraine before Putin moved troops in https://inews.co.uk/news/world/russia-ukraine-crisis-super-forecasters-putin-troops-1475721
NVIDIA GPUs Enable Simulation of a Living Cell https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/01/20/living-cell-simulation/
Consciousness is supported by near-critical slow cortical electrodynamics https://www.pnas.org/content/119/7/e2024455119
“The "find/design a new protein" part is generally not the one that kills the project. It's the "turn your new protein into a drug" part.” https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/alphafold-excitement
Tropical cyclones and landfalls: no overall trends in landfall frequency or intensity. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JD036301
“How did SARS-CoV-2 project from a bat’s intestine in the jungle to the bloom across the planet? Through Wuhan. If we believe that it had nothing to do with human interference – or human interference of the hunting and trapping kind – then we must believe it travelled overland somehow without clustering or killing anyone, before landing in a city full of labs to show its potential. A city with one lab holding the largest collection of coronavirus cultures ever swabbed from bats, an undertaking that was pumped with resources because of the dangerousness of the 2003 outbreak of SARS-CoV-1. The absurdity of all of this should be noticed more.” https://www.lilliputpress.ie/uncategorized/post-china-post-5-by-%e9%b2%81%e7%a7%91
Wuhan lab leak believed ‘behind closed doors’ to be likeliest origin of Covid, expert says: “Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, an expert on chemical and biological counter-terrorism and a biosecurity fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, who has submitted evidence for the strategy, said: “I think the official view [within Government] is that it is as likely as anything else to have caused the pandemic. A lot of people like myself think it is more likely. I think attitudes have changed a little bit. The zoonotic transfer theory just didn't make sense.” [The Telegraph] https://archive.fo/Wlzrv
“People are three times as likely to move to a county 15 miles away, but in the same state, than to move to an equally distant county in a different state.” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3976943
“One of the convoy organizers is released on bail and he states that he’s locked out of his bank accounts. This is amazing stuff. If this was going on in China or Russia, I have no doubt that we would be condemning this.” https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/a-layer-cake-of-constitutional-violations?utm_source=url
Singapore's prime minister Lee Hsien Loong can code. His Sudoku Solver code runs in 1ms: https://leetcode.com/problems/sudoku-solver/discuss/15796/Singapore-prime-minister-Lee-Hsien-Loong%27s-Sudoku-Solver-code-runs-in-1ms
But there is more:
He studied in Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a master's degree in computer science.
He earned a Master of Public Administration at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
He attended the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth and held various staff and command posts, including the Director of the Joint Operations and Plans Directorate and Chief of Staff of the General Staff.
He served in the Singapore Armed Forces where he rose to the youngest brigadier-general in Singaporean history.
Compare this to Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela, whose qualification is being a former bus driver.
P.S. People are arguing that a full invasion of Ukraine is ruled out because 200,000 troops are not enough to accomplish it. Yet, for the invasion of Iraq, 310,000 troops were sufficient. And I'm sure that it would have taken fewer troops, had Iraq bordered the United States. Further, being more ruthless makes it easier because you can attack more indiscriminately.
And Russia could send reinforcements very easily while the Iraq war coalition forces would have had to fly them in.
Sure, it's still far from certain but I don't see how you can rule it out.
The “truth” mentioned in the tweet below is worse than the alleged falsehood:
1. You have legal recourse against the government and you can vote them out in the next election. It will be much more difficult to win against a private enterprise ending business with you.
2. As we already know from censorship by social networks, private enterprises will err on the side of caution when pressured by the government into acting. Whereas government agencies will, at some point, have to establish your guilt.