Tweets - Week 34
đșđșđșđșđșđș
âMerkel Announces Hydrogen Strategy for Aviation: âThis should be worked out by the end of the yearâ, said Merkel on Wednesday at the event at Leipzig airport. âFlying is the most climate-damaging way of getting aroundââ
Bernie is up in two states now. Colorado and NH.
â@BDSmovement
Thereâs a been an earthquake in US politics as a result of Israelâs banning of the two U.S. Congresswomen, with many Americans coming around to embracing one of the BDS goals, sanctionsâ
What will happen with USD? ExcitingâŠ
Mitch is not foolin aroundâŠ
âI wrote the Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992, which extended special privileges to the region because of its unique status. This special access to the U.S. and other nations helped drive the investment and modernization that have enriched Hong Kong, and Beijing by extension. Beijing must know the Senate will reconsider that special relationship, among other steps, if Hong Kongâs autonomy is erodedâ
Breaking: Putin Dumps US Dollar
— Economics Geopolitics Tech (@EconGeopolTech) August 21, 2019
âRussia's Rosneft, one of the world's top oil producers and exporters, has notified customers that future tender contracts for oil products will be denominated in euros not dollarsâ
Death of Petrodollar https://t.co/tRLI0OqtZz
US has no trouble pulling inv as it holds worlds reserve curr #irate
An FT comment:
— Renegade Inc. (@Renegade_Inc) August 20, 2019
"Christmas 1929 was great...
The champagne was flowing and unemployment was 4%"
Fin show idea; Fifty Shades of Ponzi. Finance ppl sit around and talk abt Ponzi schemes, pump n dump, and Tesla.
When people ask "what's going on in the economy?" and a pundit waffles on about technical minutiae...this is what to remember: Too much debt, too much credit, too much leverage so subsequently not enough liquidity. QE bought time to fix structural issues but chose not to. Simple.
— Renegade Inc. (@Renegade_Inc) August 20, 2019
Is near zero rates fueling growth, or just causes investors to lose their shit looking for yield in safer investments like bonds causing their yield to go down? I guess gov debt becomes more manageable that way, so WTH. Screw the savers.
âUp until now small variations in the current passing through a memristor device was not precise enough for numerical calculations. The Nanoelectronics group, University of Michigan, got around this problem by digitizing the current outputsâdefining current ranges as specific bit values (i.e., 0 or 1). The team was also able to map large mathematical problems into smaller blocks within the array, improving the efficiency and flexibility of the system.
Computers with these new blocks, which the researchers call âmemory-processing units,â [..]. They are also well suited to tasks that are based on matrix operationsâ
Solving partial differential equations using a memristor-based hardware and software system https://t.co/5dU5wdXWaR pic.twitter.com/6REGRdBQVN
— Nature Electronics (@NatureElectron) August 6, 2018
There is a TR town called Batman (no meaning in local lang). There is another called Lice.
Owl is called âMister Birdâ, baykuĆ. Owls crack me up anyway, the name is even better.
Biden looks 20 years older than Bernie. The batteries ran out on this guy - finito. No joke. #DNR
You bury the left, you end up with worse.
âBut the bottom line is this: Miliband came not to bury capitalism, but to save it. He offered Britain a smidgen of basic social democracy, the smallest taste of redistribution: curbing zero-hours contracts and the vast power imbalance between bosses and workers; the privatisation of natural monopolies and the rotting away of the public realm. By dismissing that argument, the establishment in effect sent out one unified message to voters mired in a slump: that post-crash Britain was unreformed and unreformable. That argument was to be used against the elites with deadly effect in the EU referendum of 2016.â
There is this framing of the left that they cannot manage things; but somehow cons f#$k shit up much badly and irreversibly than anyone in the mainstream left.
âSo much has changed this decade that it seems absurd to consider how at its start, in 2010, a 40-year-old father of two and whiz on a Rubikâs Cube was considered the biggest threat to the British establishment. Did that really happen? Yes, confirm the archives. He was Red Ed, a âMarxoid creepâ (the Daily Mail, of course), the man with the sneaky plan to turn the country into some socialist banana republic.
How laughably tinny such jibes sound today. Seen in the rearview mirror of a country hurtling towards a cliff-edge, undeterred by Whitehall warnings of shortages in medicine, fuel and food, the Miliband era looks enviable. You could quarrel and quibble with the man, of course; you could pick holes all day long. But knowing what was to come, how the next couple of episodes were to play out, would you still have gone for the chillaxing blunderer [Cameron] who landed us in a historic mess then grabbed the thick end of a million quid from some poor sap of a publisher to stick his trotters up in a ÂŁ25,000 shed and yawn out a memoir?â
I dont completely blame them; the thinkspace is such a blithering mess, it takes a regular person a lifetime to sort it out. Look at science, instead of providing a half-sane theory for an odd observation, they came up with an entire frickin multiverse..
This is science, how can other parts of analysis have any chance?
âMilenials are still immatureâ
When do I get my first memristor notebook?
Impressions; I can do Richard Pryor - but not him directly, I do Eddie Murphy doing Pryor. EM tells story when he was a kid, he did a joke abt taking a dump, told in Pryorâs voice: âYou know that sometimes, you are in bathroom, you are strainin, and strainin, and a little pebble shit come out? Whatz up with dat m..t..ka?â. Full of skillz I am. Clinton, Ahnuld, too.
Itâs not a completely airheaded comment; but directors make choices, and for it was trying to communicate IMO Roots did okay.
â@mattdelmont
Ronald Reagan, for example, said of Roots: âVery frankly, I thought the bias of all the good people being one color and all the bad people being another was rather destructive.ââ
â@kareem_carr
When youâre the only statistician in a room full of data scientistsâ
Little Denmark with that huge landmass; that is kinda absurd actually. And with ice starting to melt.. the place might look mouthwatering to some.
Iâm doing bunch of shit for ed thinking thereâll be ppl around. WTF.
No ice at either pole.. this has happened before, thatâs true. 33 million yrs ago.
Carbon capture and removal from air is definitely needed. For methane too if possible.
âWe Have Five Years To Save Ourselves From Climate Change, Harvard Scientist Saysâ
I saw the future man.. all cars had these blue lights on them using H2 wizzing by with no smell and sound, and no emissions.
Fantastic. Not just tar sands, but regular oil too.
Encouraging news on clean H2: Canadian engineers reveal breakthrough technology to extract hydrogen from oil with no CO2 emissions.https://t.co/aRYWoTTV51#Hydrogen #Decarbonization #FuelCells #SayNoToDiesel pic.twitter.com/qm2ya2KQ8f
— GenCell Energy (@gencellenergy) August 20, 2019
â@fuelcellsworks
Hyosung To Invest 1,000 billion wons to Expand Carbon Fiber Production Capacity-Carbon fiber is a key material for the safe storage, transportation, & utilization of H2â.
Gov funding some cool stuff
âFirst Programmable Memristor Computer. Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundationâ
Computing with brains!! Have you ever heard about memristors and why they could replace transistors in the future?
— HZB@BESSY (@HZB_BESSY) August 19, 2019
Yuvraj, one of our #HZBSummerStudents focusses on this topic.https://t.co/FLEWnLsedx@HZBde #memristor #energymaterials pic.twitter.com/BPnHc1H5j0
.@UMich engineers unveiled the world's first programmable, memristor-based computer. Learn how on-memory computing removes the memory bottleneck in #AI computing: https://t.co/IQCT8Iac91
— Philip Lessner (@plessner) August 15, 2019
Buffalo Gals/Leather Britches/Leslieâs Reel #music
âIf ppl dont care / know squat abt issues, then why am I talking abt them constantly?â asks tuber. Good question. You are entertainment, for one. But more important, you are now a political leader. Thatâs something⊠Plus you might be supplying me oppo and âsome other peopleâ might take that from me :) So keep doing what you r doing, just donât get deluded about context.
The Boys, not bad.
âEver wondered where the recent increase in Methane emissions is coming from?â
âBut [Einsteinâs] revolution was not finished. The standard model of particle physics was certainly the triumph of this pragmatic style of doing physics, but its triumph seems now to have also marked its limit. The standard model, and just possibly inflation, is about as far as we could go with normal science. Since then, we have been mired, because what we need is a return to a revolutionary kind of science. Once again, we need a few seers. The problem is that there are now very few around, as a result of science having been done so long in a way that rarely recognized and barely tolerated them. Between the early twentieth century and the last quarter century, science â and the academy in general â has become much more organized and professionalized. This means that the practice of normal science has been enshrined as the single model of good science. Even if everyone can see that a revolution is necessary, the most powerful parts of our community have forgotten how to make one.â
Cool.. Did not know Brit academia was so welcoming.
âThatâs nice, but the idea is nuts â really nuts. It disagrees with both special and general relativity. There is no other word for it but âhereticalâ. However, the British academic world has a soft spot for heretics, and Magueijo was thriving at Imperial College.â âSmolin
Experiment: I redid Prez prediction with GDP YoY data; Model fit R^2 = 0.85, still good.
Prediction: DJT current approv, net-aproval = -11.8 % (approval 42 % minus 53.8 % disproval).
This one, with 1% GDP growth shows a toss up, even a tiny disadvantage for Rep. With 2%, Reps have a little advantage.
I reran 2016, shows (confirms) the obnoxious Dem loss. Growth was meager, Dems were two terms in. Incumbent party lost, it failed to energize.
2Q GDP YoY 2.28%. If trend continues it might go down another 1.6 by 2Q next year.
What cultural hot buttons SW contain? Itâs obvious. The empire is Rome. Jedis are early Christians. Luke is Jesus. Notice in ep #3 how unwilling he is on fight; turns himself in, he implores Vader. Drops sword instead of going âdarkâ.
Dude did a great job; reimagined fight scene from Star Wars
Same guy working on a miniseries, âVaderâ, teases for S. Jackson role reappearing
âI am still alive..â
Siemens working on hydrogen directly in turbines (seperate from electr tech). GE has some know-how on that.
BTW - there are some accounting allegations on GE? Real or a hit job� U have to be careful around these fossil motherfuckers.
Whenever weird shit happens, I started to look more into whose interests are protected.
Japan: ultra low rates, weird. Whose interests are protected? Big established companies who are neck deep in debt? CB saz low rates are needed bcz of stagnant econ (which is a lie). The real issue is bad banks, zombie companies lingering. They help them with low rates, and/or creating bubbles in econ to push everyone in a certain direction. But these comps only manage turnover debt with more debt, contiuing their zombie state, holding back investment, inno. Econ does not improve. CB says even lower rates are needed now. The cycle continues.
Man up; clean out debt, bad credit, overtly. Enough with this bitchy bullshit.
â@jimmy_dore
Youtube has been on a Demonetizing tear lately, Now you canât even make fun of one the Oligarchâs foot soldiers.â
Karaze. Awesome.
âScientists testing method to pump oxygen into tar sands to extract hydrogen gas (keeping carbon in the ground)â
Ha ha
âTweet 1: âOur Economy is very strongâ
Tweet 2: We need four rate cuts and maybe some quantitative easing, tooâ
What is this an open laundromat? Ah no itâs BEV owners charging their BEVs.
Where full battery fears to tread. https://t.co/enE0aV6FKP
— james kaff (@kaffjamesnewtow) August 19, 2019
Former Comm. Director Anthony Buttofuoco is from the managerial class of Reps, they are as Tooze says seperate form rank-and-file; took him long enough to break with DJT.
AFAIK he started pol as fundraiser for Mitt (= managerial class).
We need to let go of these old, dead ideas. I draw the line on 1910 (so I get Einstein, Jung, and leave out Marx, Freud). Industrial era is a cesspool of imbeciles - second wave truly did a number to these people, along with most of humanity. Fucked in the brain they are. Let go you must. mmmHHHHMMMmmm!
Adam Smith didnât have it all together either - so any critique based on AS cannot be sound. Econs at the time didnât even know where money comes from.
âMarx used Adam Smithâs writings to critique capitalismâ
Best thing policy can do is help provide the alternative fuel at the pump, ease, push the R&D of the vehicle that can use that fuel, and let the customers get off fossil by not choosing it. Once customers abandon it, fossil will die. Between two equally effective, equally priced fuel, ppl will choose the cleaner fuel.
Drama school
I like how he judges labor, wages for inflation.
Also says gold is a commodity, nothing more. It surely cannot form the basis of a world currency system.
â2 years ago I went to a very conservative conference where most of the speakers said the USA was bankrupt and that high inflation was coming.
I told everyone they should buyâŠUS government bonds.â
Fitting ODE to data; why the hell not? Mayochup. Cockamouse. OdeFit. People do it. Itâs a thing.
(Actually not a bad idea)
(geek) Solving ODE over and over, searching for optimal missing vars.. thatâs what the shooting methods (for TPBVP) does at the end of the day, isnât it?
Link 3 (/geek)
So there has been crazy innovation, all the way up to now. Lack of innovation angle is false.
In 73 Sears Tower finished, the last Apollo mission to Moon returned (Dec 72), Standard Model of physics done. So US went highest, furthest in a lot of areas then stopped. But I believe after that things expanded horizontally, not vertically. No more moon, but lots of satellites, GPS, hell velcro. No new psy discoveries, but applying QM to electronics, molecular chemistry. Nothing higher than ST, but many more other skyscrapers. Itâs fine. Just a different emphasis.
Sympy is obnoxiously good; solve ODEs, simplify, apply Laplace, integrate, differentiate.. There is huge amt of crud that can be skipped bcz of this, more time left for modeling, and other essentials.
Prediction markets; I dont know abt the top echelon, but there is no doubt Warren is doing okay.
Yang > Bootyjudge? That makes sense.
Trump Tower is a few blocks away from the Hudson River, so Trump himself will get in on the trade. Fishing from at the top of TT. NYC will have a boom.
#brexit Yep. You canât tax Google, and youâll have to eat chlorine chicken, and four eyed fish.. Theyâre gonna fishâem right out of the Hudson River, and send them to you, and uâll have to eat them bcz u have no other choice. Nothing lives in NY Hudson River except four eyed fish, thereâs plenty there, Yankees will get rich off this trade. Long fish.
Kinetic energy is 1/2 m V**2. To increase energy, the effect of the hit, u either increase V (velocity, hitting âfastâ), or increase m (mass). Increasing m is much easier than increasing V. Just put your body behind hit. Which means legs. Same for arm twists; rotating with the whole body. Plus such approaches will work at an older age u might get slow as f*ck, but uâll still have body mass. Gonbatte godasai bitch.
âBut I cannot hit faster then!â
Work on your legs. Leg strength is more important then upper body str.
A good boxer can fight on one leg.
âWhat body section should I exercise on to further my self-def skills?â
This is the mother of all bubbles. Get out.
âHong Kong wants to build artificial islands for housingâ
âResidential property is a monster that we have to keep feeding our childrensâ futures to stop it from eating us today.â
Europe, deflationary spiral
Another big supplier for the automotive segment invests in hydrogen.https://t.co/bET03oKCtO
— Carl Koinberg Henrikson (@CarlKoinberg) August 17, 2019
I listen to Brit cons talk abt Corbyn, their tone is always in a manner painting C as unacceptable, even unconcienable as a choice for PM. This has to be leftover feistiness from Thatcher era and beyond. I hope they end up eating those words.
Thatâs the other crazy thing abt ST; u can have an obscene number of them, all seperate versions. So what Feynman said abt ST in 80s still applies today; the theory itself should tell u how many dimensions there are, which version is the correct one. But it doesnât.
âAt the beginning of the first superstring revolution, it was miraculous that any string theory existed at all. That there were eventually five was even more surprising. The sheer improbability cemented our belief in the project. If at first it was unlikely to work and then it did workâwell, this was nothing less than wonderful. Today string theorists are ready to accept the existence of a landscape containing a vast number of theories, based on much less evidence than we needed twenty years ago to convince ourselves that a single theory existed.So one place to draw the line is simply to say, âI need to be persuaded that these theories exist, using the same standards that were required decades ago to evaluate the original five.â If you insist on those standards, then you will not believe in the vast number of new theoriesâ âSmolin
âGerman theoretical physicist Olaf Dreyer, who argues that the incompatibility between quantum theory and general relativity can be resolved only if we give up the idea that space is fundamental. He proposes that space itself emerges from a more fundamental description that is quite different. This point of view is also argued by several theorists who did great work in the field of condensed-matter physics, such as the Nobel laureate Robert Laughlin and the Russian physicist Grigori Volovikâ â Smolin.
String Theory was thought to be a âtheory of everythingâ then it became a âtheory of anythingâ (bcz u can push and pull it to any direction, not good, cuz then the theory says nothing). [facepalm]
âA Theory of Anythingâ
ha ha.. Apparently some fixes were made for this problem during 90s, but then things became even hairier.
âString Theory initially proposed to unify all the particles and forces in nature. But as it was studied in the decade following the 1984 revolution, something unexpected happened. The alleged unified theory fractured into many different theories: the five consistent superstring theories in ten-dimensional spacetime, plus millions of variants in the cases where some dimensions were wrapped up. As time went on, it became clear that string theory itself was in need of unificationâ â Smolin
And the search for the perfect electrolysis catalyst continues.. these guys says they found the one.
âTopology may be the key to unlocking the barrier in the search for ideal catalystsâ
What really helped US was FEDâs purchasing of non-performing bank assets. So FED did something right, that time.
âBut didnât spending in US after 2008 help them recover faster?â
â@AWeigmannn
Clean #hydrogen, which South Africa is ideally placed to produce because of its superior sunshine, prime wind and platinum abundanceâ
Used auto-cashier system at the grocery store. It is fantastic. I would love to shop in a store with zero human workers.
PMI is a good sign of demand. Down like a rock. #US
"Franceâs Pragma has introduced the Alpha2.0 bike thatâs good for 93 miles of range on a single chargeâversus a range of 30 miles for e-bikes." https://t.co/DaBiXpK5TC
— Graham Cooley (@GrahamCooley4) August 16, 2019
âTeam of researchers at the @UniversitySA has discovered a way to find and beat superbugs. @HarveyBiggs #9Newsâ
Not being supportive on âtransgender athlete equalityâ is not a rightist position. The stance is literally dumb, so it doesnât belong anywhere in the spectrum. There is no right or left connotation to this issue.
Whaaaaa!
âYoung protesters in Hong Kong are directly challenging Chinaâs Communist rulers. Inspired by kung fu legend Bruce Lee, their leaderless structure is frustrating efforts by the authorities to stymie themâ
A story on phycist Edward Teller: at the start of the semester, 1st class, he is talking abt administrative details, points to his TA, says âthis is my TA John, his room number is .. what was it John..? (TA says 120).. okay, you divide by 2, and add 5, mine is 65.
You see, I canât remember but I can deriveâ.
Story relayed by another physicist who was a grad student then, who says he learned an important lesson that day, how deriving can actually help you remember. Surely Teller was being somewhat tongue-in-cheek about it, but this does reflect how good scientists think. U need to be able to derive from first principles. It will help you not only understand, also to remember, by deriving it if necessary. Oh I forgot âintegration by partsâ. Well.. did you know IBP formula is just an expanded, rearranged form of d(f(t)g(t))/dt?
Fractional reserve theory is false. See here. Article says âAccording to the financial intermediation theory of banking, banks are merely intermediaries like other non-bank financial institutions, collecting deposits that are then lent out. According to the fractional reserve theory of banking, individual banks are mere financial intermediaries that cannot create money, but collectively they end up creating money through systemic interaction. A third theory maintains that each individual bank has the power to create money âout of nothingâ and does so when it extends credit (the credit creation theory of banking).â
The right answer is the last one.
(@DiMartino, formerly from FED, seems to be confused abt the situation)
âVid talking abt fractional reserve bankingâ
Hey man; just create another universe, there is an evil Picard in that universe fitting all broken models to any data.
Problem. Solved.
Ba dum tss. Sounds like a joke.. Dude is talking about âcontrolling randomnessâ to help his model fit better. [facepalm]
#deepdoodoo #reinf
âActually the seed is also a hyper-parameterâ
Now harder to get research data from FB? Thatâs good, no?
â@bubjacks
Weâre in this era of Big Data and weâre missing Big Theoryâ
âThe worldâs largest rocket welding tool is right here in New Orleans. Crews at #NASAMichoud are already using the Vertical Assembly Facility to produce the liquid hydrogen tank for #Artemis 2.â
â NASA admin Beidenstein
âArschgeigekandidatwahlangstâ saz one. Hah.
Biden is not a sure thing obviously.
â@chr1sa
Iâll bet the Germans have a word for the complicated feeling of knowing youâre going to have to vote for Bidenâ
Magic year, 72-73. December 72 was the last manned moon mission, US hasnât left lower Earth orbit ever since. Wage gains peaked, no increases until now. Particle physics reached a plateau, no major findings compared to what was found until 73.
The US is moving. 40 clean and green million bucks for hydrogen. https://t.co/Ov1MlC5Zzz
— William Blomstrand (@william_sw) August 15, 2019
I re-did Keenâs math in MathJax so math is viewable in HTML.
BTW, if Keen wants his ideas to spread more stuff like this would be helpful, with running Py code and math that shows all the steps of its derivation. Minsky software might not fit everyone, it looks like a great tool tho. I was told Minsky generates Matlab, not preferred in sci computation by many. Younger students are more comfortable with Py tools.
Also Iâd think abt moving Minksy to Github.