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2,268karma·1,108submissions·October 2, 2022
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I am asking myself: Does a probabilistic Turing machines needs aleatory uncertainty?
(would have called this ontological but (1) disagrees) Epistemic uncertainty would mean her: We don't know whi…
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This is not really about quantum computing. A classical probabilistic Turing samples from a random distribution: "probabilistic Turing machines can be defined as deterministic Turing machines hav…
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He is smart and independent. I trust him not having a geopolitical agenda, he cares for the people living in the region. And I think he is a true intellectual with a great interest in history. Strange…
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For me, Taleb is the Levante expert, I simply don't know anyone else. His view that the interference of all possible powers has only brought disaster seems plausible to me. He has criticized the …
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I just don't know. I remember ISIS beheading people. Some of these people are still around. Some of them are imprisoned in Kurdish camps. Will they be freed? The best scenario I can imagine: Erdo…
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I do not have a say in it. But I would prefer a democratic development to Salafist terrorism. I fear the worst, but it doesn't always have to be like this.
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Nassim Taleb (in Lebanon not far from Homs right now): "The strangest thing is that after 14 years of war, the Syrian rebels walked into the entire country faster than if they were on a tourist s…
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You may be interested in: "Aristotle's Physics: a Physicist's Look" My take is that it was hard to find a better theory, the usual explanation of scholastical dogmatism is to shall…
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"Shut Up About NATO Expansion" is a fun video, well made. But Mearsheimer's arguments are convincing. We may find it ridiculous to be afraid of NATO or the USA. Others do not.
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Who Caused the Ukraine War? https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/who-caused-the-ukraine-wa... …
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I think "Blood and Ruins" by Richard Overy is a great piece of work and a good account of the confusing history of the 1930s. Munich was an "alliance" of Great Britain und Germany …
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>who support the thugs in Russian gov You can't defeat them, the NATO strategy has failed. I sympathize with the Russian opposition, but I think it is wrong to interfere in Russian domestic po…
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The Soviet Union was right to be scared back then. The next invasion from the west happened 1941. And I guess there is still some paranoia in Russia. The NATO Neocons are busy feeding it.
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"There’s some Soviet science fiction like Tarkovsky, which ended up turning into the movie Stalker." Tarkovsky was the movie guy. Arkady and Boris Strugatsky were the writer guys. I really l…
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A great tutorial. I'm still not convinced that OIDC is easy. Keycloak hides enormous complexity and that's not because the developers were bored. One example is the huge number of settings f…
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The title is somewhat misleading but it is not too bad. Scholz (Chancellor, Social Democrat) is prepared to support Ukraine more generously with money and various weapons, but wants or needs to incur …
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The German Greens are a sad story. But the green Nazi grandchildren (Habeck, Baerbock) are not Nazis. They are out of their depth and make the Palestinians pay for the crimes of their grandparents.
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Cache invalidation is still a hard problem.