I used to have to put on earphones in the office to stop getting interrupted, or worse, people just come up behind me and stand there waiting for me to notice them. WFH full-time since *before* COVID, and find it great for working on problems and takes extra effort to communicate with team. Every meeting is on teams though anyway, if I was in the office headphones on and in a teams meeting. Just don't have to a) buy suits and b) commute 1 hour each way each day so I find my time is more useful and less hectic rush rush rush. That had to count for some level of mental better health too.

This take seriously oversimplifies how research ecosystems work⦠and what public funding actually supports. First, most cutting edge science doesn't start with clear commercial outcomes. Publicly funded research⦠especially basic or âoepureâ research ⦠often lays the foundation for entire industries decades later. Think of the internet, GPS, mRNA vaccines, WiFi, or CRISPR. All emerged from publicly funded labs and university research before being commercialized. Without that upstream investment, the downstream profit (and public benefit) wouldnâ(TM)t exist. Second, public and private research funding aren't mutually exclusive⦠theyâ(TM)re deeply intertwined. A huge amount of research is co-funded, with universities contributing personnel and facilities, governments contributing baseline funding, and industry chipping in for applied work. Cutting public funding just shifts more cost to private enterprise, which ironically acts as a massive tax increase on innovation heavy industries. Third, universities donâ(TM)t just produce papers⦠they train the next generation of scientists, engineers, and professionals who staff these corporations. Slashing research funding is like starving your seed corn⦠short term gain, long term loss. And yes, private companies profit from it⦠because we want them to. It fuels economic growth. You could even argue that public research is a tax subsidized R&D pipeline for national industry⦠just look at the US vs China in university based patents and spinouts. Lastly, public funding brings accountability. Private sector research serves shareholders⦠public funding ensures research also serves the public good, not just profit margins. We can debate how to ensure better public benefit from commercialization⦠but zeroing it out doesnâ(TM)t fix the problem. It just hands the keys to the highest bidder.

Ah yes, the classic âoewe're programmed to die so we don't steal snacks from our great-great-great-great-grandkidsâ argument. A real evolutionary masterstroke. Except⦠thatâ(TM)s not how selection works. Evolution doesnâ(TM)t stop the moment someone reproduces... genes influencing post-reproductive survival absolutely remain under selective pressure if they help offspring survive. Thatâ(TM)s why species with extended parental care (like, say, humans) benefit from older generations sticking around. Ever heard of the grandmother hypothesis? Or are we just ignoring entire fields of evolutionary biology because it sounds cooler to say we're all just disposable meat sacks? And the mice vs wolves comparison? Chefâ(TM)s kiss. Totally ignores ecological pressures like predation, resource availability, and metabolic rate, and just decides that lifespan is a direct result of reproductive cycle speed. Brilliant. Mice donâ(TM)t die early because itâ(TM)s optimal in some zero-sum family deathmatch... they die because hawks, snakes, and cats exist, and evolution said âoebetter start breeding now because you wonâ(TM)t make it to Tuesday.â But the best part? The condescending swipe at a Nobel laureate for allegedly not âoedoing their researchâ... while simultaneously serving up an argument that wouldnâ(TM)t pass a high school biology exam.

And despite Trump thinking Russia is now an ally after having help to win the election, and him instructing CISA to stop monitoring and reporting on Russian hacking activities, the reality is China and Russia are allies and there is no real reason to justify the reduced security posture with respect to Russia. But hey, the orange clown has spoken. The world according to Trumpâ

Trump has demonstrated a supreme lack of moral character when it comes to who he decides is "good" and "bad". If you in any way helped Trump, he sees it as transactional and quid pro quo returns the favour.. The below groups or individuals were known to have supported Trump, contributed financially to his campaign, or been involved in actions that supported his political ambitions. This list highlights a pattern where legal interventions or clemency were granted to individuals with ideological or financial ties to Trump 1. Trevor Milton: Founder of Nikola Corporation, convicted of securities fraud for misleading investors; donated $1.8 million to Trump's re-election campaign. 2. Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed: Co-founders of BitMEX, pleaded guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act by failing to implement anti-money laundering measures; favorable regulatory treatment under Trump's administration was speculated. 3. Ross Ulbricht: Founder of the Silk Road darknet marketplace, serving a life sentence for facilitating illegal drug trade; pardoned as part of appealing to the Libertarian and cryptocurrency communities. 4. Devon Archer: Former business associate of Hunter Biden, convicted of defrauding a Native American tribe; Trump claimed he was unfairly targeted. 5. Paul Pogue: Texas construction magnate who pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return; his son, Ben Pogue, donated $85,000 to Trump Victory. 6. Dinesh D'Souza: Conservative commentator and filmmaker, pleaded guilty to making illegal campaign contributions; received a pardon and continued to be a vocal supporter of Trump. 7. Andrew and Tristan Tate: Social media influencers and vocal Trump supporters facing human trafficking charges in Romania; travel ban was lifted with suspected U.S. government intervention. 8. January 6 Capitol Riot Defendants (Over 1,500 individuals pardoned): Enrique Tarrio: Leader of the Proud Boys, convicted of seditious conspiracy. Stewart Rhodes: Founder of the Oath Keepers, convicted of seditious conspiracy. David Nicholas Dempsey: Assaulted police officers, including stomping on their heads and spraying bear spray. Peter Schwartz: Assaulted police officers with a chair and pepper spray. Daniel Joseph "DJ" Rodriguez: Assaulted Officer Michael Fanone with a stun gun, causing a heart attack. Christopher Joseph Quaglin: Attacked officers with metal bike racks, stolen police shields, and pepper spray. Thomas Webster: Retired police officer who attacked an officer with a flagpole. Christopher J. Worrell: Member of the Proud Boys, attacked officers with pepper spray. Thomas Harlen Smith: Kicked an officer and hit two officers in the head with a metal pole. Albuquerque Cosper Head: Dragged Officer Fanone down the Capitol steps and assaulted police.. And many more

Just ridiculous calling a social media platform full of subjective opinions and regurgitated half truths and rumour "ground truth", dilusional at best!

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Just ridiculous calling a social media platform full of subjective opinions and regurgitated half truths "ground truth", dilusional at best!

My Bosch dishwasher also has some features that only work via cloud, it's annoying af, not advertised on the box or store, and when I can manage to get it connected to our wifi, it doesn't stay connected and those features become useless until I do another hard reset and it connects again. The big issue here, really the elephant in the room, is what happens when Bosch decides to stop supporting this product version and doesn't want to maintain their cloud connectivity (if it actually works) for these older "out of support" appliances, I cannot use those features even if I wanted to. There does need to be regulations across all the big countries to mandate smart iot devices can function normally after their vendor is done with their cloud based support, either unlock the features to work locally over matter or something or open source the functionality so at least the community to step in. Personally I think I could move over the control board functionality to an esp32 and end up with Home Assistant based controls if push came to shove. But average consumer shouldn't have to worry about planned obsolescence.

Google AI Co-Scientist is doing novel stuff... https://research.google/blog/a...

It seems the AI research from Huawei, Google (GenCast), and Microsoft is already being harnessed by ECMWF to enhance forecasting accuracy and speed by replacing the numerical solver component. However, Aardvark sets its sights higher, aiming to overhaul the entire forecasting system rather than just optimizing one part. The Singularity is approaching.

A comparison between this and Google Gencast seems in order. https://deepmind.google/discov...

Just read project 2025, it's the guide he's following. Including shuttering the department of education.

There are a number of cases studies. If you run it efficiently, there is no reason paying for someone else's computer capacity should be cheaper. After all aws or azure have their own profit margin on top.

I book meetings model has been a failure of upper management for some time now, it starts with incredible old school internal toolsets and ends with failure to see strategic investment and loss leaders that longer term net big gains. The old model of purchasing tools and customers and then running them into the ground just doesn't work.