Tweets - Week 52
Saint Nicholas aka Santa Claus was from Anatolia. So he a tigger.
Ho Ho Ho motherf..kas!!
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What a waste âŠ
âElectric Vehicles â All Thatâs Left to do is Everythingâ
Iâm going to start referring to cell phones as hand terminals. #TheExpanse
— The Moldy Filters (@TheMoldyFilters) December 24, 2019
I remember the Kal-ee-fornia recall election run and the Ahnuld campaign. He probably started out with consultants, slicing and dicing âissuesâ (do this, u get 3.4%, do that u get %6, âŠ, add it up, we win). I got this inkling bcz at some pt he said something abt the âArmenian issueâ, and TR corporate media started shitting their pants, this is when I heard. Itâs a good to issue to defend, but seriously, WTF would Ahnuld know abt the Armenian issue. I bet some consult weasel fakk said, âdo this u get %1.5â.
But I think governator later on saw this appr wouldnât work him, he changed tack. He became ultra-pro green. Now that sells - a Republican, very green, you stand out. Itâs an issue you can lead on, so you look like a stand-up person.
Issues are not important on their own per se, especially when u r the challenger. They need to contribute to your character which is.
And character needs to be part oaf + not crass + leader + relatable + part cool. See urself as these, so ppl will see it that way too.
Be it. Know it.
Authenticity, good. It will sell (not that Bernie does it 4 that reason).
â@NickKristof
I admire the fact that @SenSanders speaks up for the Palestinians. I suspect that this costs him votes every time he does it, and yet he brings it up regularly. Itâs like his concern for the crisis in Yemen â no votes in it, but a sign of values and authenticityâ
â@joshua_landis
Lebanonâs bankers and the web of elite politicians who were responsible for the economy make Madoff look like a mouse. His Ponzi scheme grew to $65 billion. Riad Salameh, Lebanonâs Central Banker duped an entire nation for almost 3 times that & received a closet full of honorsâ
Relational, comparative thinking = key. Some were going douche about a moon landing hoax, I used this picture below to debunk it.
Thatâs how ppl flew during 50s. In luxury, essentially in a metal can hurling through air >500 miles/hr. If you can do that during 50s, u can bet your ass u can do the moon landing during 60s.
Hey if it works for NASA itâll work for airplanes.
Liquid hydrogen powered aircraft â the shape of things to come? - Airport World Magazine https://t.co/USrZ0TdNQE via @airportworldmag
— Dmitry Chugunoff (@D_Chugunoff) December 24, 2019
What a mess at Boeing. Next thing u know theyâll announce a battery electric airplane. Nosedive!
Sounds terrible.. i guess there is a reason why Saudi Arabia isnt covered with forests, but barren deserts, and all places could turn into Saudi Arabia bcz of global warming.
In Australia, an entire national park burned to a cinder and Sydney now at risk. Watch this time sequence map and think - this is what climate change will do to the whole of Australia if business continues as usual.
— Prof Nick Cowern (@NickCowern) December 22, 2019
https://t.co/VqtKNyoOPd
Seems to work. Good shit.
Positive result means non-convex. Bu neg does not rule out non-convexity all together, watch out.
The reference from Boydâs lecture as a hint for this method.
from scipy.optimize import rosen
import convtest
convtest.check_convex(rosen, gen=(5,),
max_iter=10000,max_inner=10,
random_state=0)
not convex (diff=0.619807)
â@mblondel_ml
Proving that a function is convex is not always easy. Hereâs a small script that I often use to get numerical evidence that a function is convex before trying to prove itâ
How Cuomo blew NYâs high-tech success
Conspiracy Keanu
There is a top-level domain name .wtf. U cld have whatever.wtf. There is internet.wtf.
Signed by HW. Interesting.
â[Since] 1992 Energy Policy Act, hydrogen is considered an alternate fuel and is thus eligible for tax creditsâ
This mind-bending timelapse with the Milky Way stabilized shows the Earth is spinning through space. pic.twitter.com/mSEAKA8MaP
— Physics & Astronomy Zoneđ (@ZonePhysics) December 23, 2019
This cost function will have a numerical differentiation along with numerical integration which will again will be numerically differentiated from outside to be optimized over.
Yes. Follow the GA model - Related ~200 ppl per plant, and everyone, from designers to HR to managers are near those plants.
â@unrocket
Unless Boeing returns to its roots as an Engineering Company, its doomed. The new CEO is an accountant.
The first step should be to move management back to WAâ
â@EuropaClipper
Laying the foundation. Engineers @JHUAPL prepare part of our spacecraftâs propulsion module for shipment to @NASAJPL, where construction will continue. Things are getting real for our mission to Jupiterâs mysterious moon: http://europa.nasa.govâ
âFrance: Symbio to Establish Europeâs Largest Hydrogen Fuel Cell Plant in Lyonâ
â@Snowden
Your smartphone broadcasts your exact location thousands of times per day to dozens of different companies. Each has the power to follow individuals wherever they go, in near-real timeâ
Never shoot down single var Calculus. Line search, root finding, the whole spiel around the descent property depends on it.
#optimization
Everett.. thatâs Sean Carrollâs guy right?
I agree; I donât think Cop QM should be âmarriedâ to something else. That would be the âdialecticâ approach to science which as a thinking method is second-rate. We need is falsifiable theories and knocking shit down when it stops providing better path. QM will end up being an approximation to something else, to a deeper theory.
(Mish-mashy bullshit is how we ended up with centrism in politics BTW)
âThe way it is commonly taught, quantum mechanics has two ingredients to its dynamical law: the Schrodinger equation and the measurement prescription⊠[T]he major problem with the measurement process is that it is nonlinear. ..
This is problematic because if quantum mechanics was the correct theory to describe the behaviour of elementary particles, then what macroscopic objects like detectors do should be derivable from it. The problem is not merely that we do not know how to make this derivation, itâs far worse: the observed nonlinearity of the measurement process tells us that the measurement process is in contradiction with the linear Schrodinger equationâŠ
To us [a certain] similarity ⊠strongly suggests that quantum physics, too, is only the linear probabilistic description of an underlying nonlinear deterministic system. From this point of view, pursuing an Everettian approach to quantum physics is not the right thing to do, because this idea is founded on the belief that the Schrödinger equation is fundamental; that nothing underpins it. Moreover, it does not make sense to just append non- linear dynamics to the Schrödinger equation in situations when state decoherence becomes non-negligible, because it is not the Schrödinger equation itself that needs to become nonlinearâ â Hossenfelder, Palmer
Section 2 of the Sherman Act of 1890. Hard core.
Sounds like vaporware is illegal.
A possible Nano fork which creates money in everyoneâs account monthly/annually will get us the best of both worlds. It wonât be deflationary (like gold, Bitcoin), it will inflate away some wealth if some are sitting on money for too long and it will spur spending, create economic activity for the same reason. Also it gives money to everyone, supplying a basic income electronically as a human right.
How did I come up with the interval analysis for the âdollar strongâ argument? We hear finance types say such things, dollar is strong, then weak, etc. I dont believe a single word these fâers say. Strong? What does that mean? Relative to what?
Probably some historical average. Weak and strong would then be a band, based on an interval of historical prices. How to construct such an interval? Compute mean and standard deviation, mean - stdev, mean + stdev gives a lower/higher band. About 68% of historical data points fall here. 2 stdev below and above would get you 95%. If curr price is closer to upper band, dollar is strong, close to lower, it is weak.
But dont believe me either - when someone says 68%, or 95%, how did they come up with that? How do we derive it?
If prices are assumed to be normally distributed then we think of the area around mean (data comes from, falls in that region), between stdev to the left, and right. If any normal dist can be reduced to standard normal dist N(0,1), the area is
from scipy.stats.distributions import norm
np.round(norm.cdf(1)-norm.cdf(-1),2)*100
Out[1]: 68.0
And
np.round(norm.cdf(2)-norm.cdf(-2),2)*100
Out[1]: 95.0
Now we know for sure
NOAA has some serious weather modeling going on. Gov and many others use their results.
Of course its physics based not Deep Shit. Sorry - âAIâ.
The thing is SWars probably did need some young blood in terms of directorial talent. So now maybe after all this fail the new-new blood will form around Favreu, and.. Feige? Thatâd be grand.
âCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom rushed to defend wine caves, the underground cellars where vintners can age wine in cool, dry surroundings and host their fancy friends. Newsom happens to own a wine cave, and he noted that the one where the Buttigieg event was held is regularly used for Democratic Party fundraisers. Its owners, Craig and Kathryn Hall, are longtime party donors; Kathryn was an ambassador to Austria under President Bill Clinton. This battle might be about money in progressive politics, but itâs also part of a much larger war over American wealth, fought in part because of what the internet has illuminated about the nationâs inequalityâ â The Atlantic
â[Contains spoilers] Nothing stays put in The Rise of Skywalker. J. J. Abrams, the director and one of the co-writers, picks up and ditches intriguing concepts so capriciously that viewers are left feeling as if theyâve watched someone sneeze on all the items at a fabulous buffet. This approachâwhich is âfor want of a better word, completely manic,â my colleague David Sims wroteâis a big part of the negative critical reaction to the movie. But the wasteful use of settings, doodads, characters, and space horses does not just exhaust the audience. It also undermines the most essential prerogative of Star Wars: world-building.
Lucasâs original trilogy didnât fret all that much about having a clever plot. The arc from A New Hope to Return of the Jedi was a relatively clean and straightforward one about good guys struggling to overthrow bad ones, with limited detours to explore the consequential backstory of the main hero and main villain. Upon this sturdy spine, Lucas and his team draped exquisite set pieces set in interesting locations. The characters lingered in snow bases and treetop villages. The journey was absolutely as important as the destinationâ â The Atlantic
â@AssaadRazzouk
Something very big happened in the Netherlands recently and it will have a ripple effect in Courts around the world: The Netherlandsâ Supreme Court upheld a ruling ordering the countryâs government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by the end of 2020
The Dutch Supreme Court affirmed that Governmentâs care is directed at âkeeping the country habitable and protecting and improving the environmentâ,
Even âif the State itself is not the cause of all Dutch greenhouse gas emissionsâ,
Even âif Dutch emissions of greenhouse gases in absolute terms, compared to global emissions, are very lowâ,
Even âif the State cannot solve the emissions problem on its ownâ,
⊠The State should, from its own territory, take measures to the best of its ability that, together with the efforts of other States, offer protection against the dangers of serious climate change.
So: The limited partial responsibility of the Dutch State in relation to the global climate problem does not relieve the State of the duty of care it bears: The government had explicit duties to protect its citizensâ human rights in the face of climate changeâ
â@ZLabe
The 5 warmest average January-November global temperatures have all occurred within the last 5 yearsâŠâ
Thank goodness we are getting Brexit done. It will clearly help with the following: https://t.co/D2Lui6DzZS
— Mark Blyth (@MkBlyth) December 21, 2019
Hahaha..
âElection result: 52% of votes go to pro-referendum partiesâ
â@EFF
If 2019 confirmed anything, it is that we should not trust the microphones and cameras that large corporations sell us to put inside and near our homesâ
U-oh
âTrump signs $738B defense bill including sanctions targeting Russia, Turkeyâ
Iâd say âleftâ, but other than that bang on
â@JRehling
Franklin Graham: âThereâs a liberal element within the evangelical movement.â
Yeah, I think that started with a man from Nazareth who said you should help the poor and heal the sick and welcome strangers. Liberal through and throughâ
Weâre going to cancel every penny of student debt, and weâre going to pay for it with a modest tax on Wall Street.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) December 21, 2019
Wall Street doesnât like that, but to hell with Wall Street.
How can we afford purity tests when it takes an entire hour of legal work for Harvey Weinstein to buy just one $900 bottle of cabernet?
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) December 20, 2019
10 yrs ago I used to watch that BBC weekly show with Gavin something (great host) w journos discussing the week. I dont see it online, now I watch World This Week on France 24 Eng. Change of times? Brits are way too far gone to analyze the world anymore?
âprogressâ
This is what happens when you stand in the way of progress. https://t.co/53xqK2dSWu
— Christopher Ryan (@ThatChrisRyan) December 20, 2019
âSanders Is Hot in the Polls, and Still Treated Like a Second-Tier Candidateâ
For too long, big pharmaceutical companies have gotten away with ripping off the American people.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) December 19, 2019
Iâm not going to allow that to continue.
We are going to cap out of pocket expenses for prescription drugs at $200 a year.
This is odd. Two EU members (France and Italy) backing different sides in Libyan civil war.
âIn Libya, where dozens of rival militias have been fighting for supremacy since the 2011 NATO war, the two EU members are conducting a proxy war over control of Africaâs largest oil and gas resources.
While Italy backs the Government of National Accord (GNA) of Fayez al-Sarraj in Tripoli, which is also supported by Germany and the UN, France has sided with the National Army of Libya (LNA) of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, who presides over its counterpart in Tobruk. Egypt and Russia also back Haftarâ
No. Just notice what is going on around you, the huge state subsidy for mothers who leave their children in day-orphanages while they toil as wageslaves. The erosion to nothing of parental authority. https://t.co/DUgbHctVck
— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) December 19, 2019
People are better at judging people than policy, but even that fails sometimes. So ppl judge a person based on guess whoâs thinking?
Thatâs right - their own. That same personâs idea of themselves.
âPeople will see you as u see yourselfâ is an old chestnut but it is true, especially in politics. So when attacked u need to attack back, because, âpfff of course there is nothing wrong with meâ.
This is the game - mostly about how things look.
Two Star Wars fans Iâve seen were disturbed after this last one. Like Whhhhaaaat da f%%$% was DAT? With long face, looking down and everything. I didnt think anyone could make a movie that bad. I never thought Iâd think fondly of the prequels. The latest shit makes them look like masterpieces!
This should be an honor for you Booty. This is the most uâll get out of this race. Iâd frame that moment and tell my family and friends about that time I got chewed out by Bernie.
#demdebate
Bootyjudge was just slam dunked by his one-time hero, right?
#demdebate
FTW is WTF in reverse. WTF
Bernie FTW
#demdebate
â@MtthewRubiin
This is amazing. Please look at Peter Buttigiegâs face when Bernie says heâs a competitive guy and wishes him luck on catching up with Joe in the billionaire supporter contest. â
#demdebate
Klobbamancha did some damage. And that wine cellar thing.
#demdebate
So many more ways to make (and save) money in Macro than listening to a monkey on "stocks"
— Keith McCullough (@KeithMcCullough) December 20, 2019
Ărsted, Everfuel and five partners have been awarded funding for a demonstration project in #copenhagen Denmark, using offshore wind power to produce renewable #hydrogen for #zeroemission road transport.#cleanhydrogen
— Everfuel (@EverfuelEU) December 20, 2019
Press release: https://t.co/NgnJ5DWa6L pic.twitter.com/712vQprM4x
"Python already replaced Excel in banking" https://t.co/vQkVZMxVFh
— Sarah Butcher (@MadameButcher) November 4, 2019
â@fshakir
Military members have donated more to @BernieSandersâ campaign than to Trump, Biden, and Buttigieg combinedâ
On my way 2 meeting in #Dusseldorf about our ambitious trilateral cross-border #greenhydrogen project w/ #Germany & #NRW reading about break-out of a âhydrogen feverâ in Germany...exciting times! pic.twitter.com/NIUXWGQD2o
— Noe van Hulst (@noevanhulst) December 19, 2019
The effect of cold weather on electric bus range, fuel cell wins. A study by Center for Transportation and the Environment.https://t.co/CtWmKmlJxA
— Sustainable Bus (@BusSustainable) December 19, 2019