"This is the Voice of Moderation. I wouldn't go so far as to say we've actually SEIZED the radio station . . . "
by liberal japonicus As noted in the comments, Jensen Huang, head of Nvidia, committed infidelity (according to the WSJ) or was in a close relationship (according to the Guardian) or an affair (WashPo, following Huang’s mea culpa). I’m wondering if the Guardian wants to avoid sex-shaming by using ‘close relationship’, or if it is something … Read more
by liberal japonicus This article about Mussolini’s hometown, via LGM, had this Whatever ambivalence the residents of Predappio feel about their town being synonymous with Mussolini, they seem prepared to thole it. If you’ve come across something interesting, make a comment.
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by liberal japonicus I’m interested in the whole possible terrorism attack against the RAF base at Fairford, and the US bug-out (it seems to be something of a specialty for the US). Here’s the Guardian and the details, as I understand them, there were 5 men in three vans who were stopped near the base, … Read more
by liberal japonicus I’ve never had much time for Francis Fukuyama, I felt like his thesis about the End of History was warmed over Hegel, and I never really registered him as a Japanese-American, so this Ones and Tooze podcast was quite interesting to me. Tooze discusses how Fukuyama’s personal history influenced his intellectual development … Read more
This in today from Brian Beutler:The New RadicalsDemocrats need to be the uncompromising ones now.Brian BeutlerSep 30 Over the past year and a half I’ve warned promiscuously about the dangers of “funding Donald Trump’s government.” I’ve taken to referring to bipartisan spending bills, which have passed with Democrats casting decisive votes, as “enabling” legislation. This … Read more
by liberal japonicus A decent discussion of the approaches to AI in China versus the US is found here, but to me, because it starts from a misguided assumption, is China and the US are playing the same game with regards to AI, they can’t see the forest for the trees. The US and China … Read more
by liberal japonicus The NYTimes Headlines reports that an OpenAI has just solved one of the Millenium problems, the Navier-Stokes equations. Yay, us! Err, just a second. Quanta has this at the end of their article. OpenAI admits that their work on the Navier-Stokes equation was inspired by rumors that Alpöge and Buckmaster had solved … Read more
by liberal japonicus I thought it was Aristotle who came up with ‘suspension of disbelief’, but apparently, it was Samuel Coleridge. Aristotle argued that a convincing impossibility in a story is preferable to an unconvincing possibility, but Coleridge came up with the phrase. This is prompted by seeing clips for the TV series Lanterns along … Read more
by liberal japonicus One thing I like is to note inaptonyms, like the hair salon named Tangles or the copy shop named Typos (the Philippine Roman Catholic cardinal Jaime Sin is often on the top of the list) and this story, about an investment fund called Situational Awareness, definitely deserves a place of honor. Any … Read more