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Russia violates: UN Charter Nuclear NPT Helsinki Accords Belovezha Accords Paris Charter Budapest Memo Black Sea Fleet Treaty 🇺🇦-🇷🇺 Friendship Treaty Treaty on Azov Sea & Kerch Strait  Karkiv pact Etc But Trump says "Putin would keep his word on a Ukraine peace deal".

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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No, Virginia, those Rorschach musings by LRMs may not be "reasoning traces" in any meaningful way.. #SundayHarangue I have been saying for sometime now that the intermediate tokens/"mumblings" that LRMs tell themselves are not to be seen as "reasoning traces" 👉 x.com/rao2z/status...

Spoke with @nitasha.bsky.social of @washingtonpost.com about reasoning models like DeepSeek R1 for her article, which accurately reflects my view about the Rorschach nature of the so called "reasoning traces" 👉https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/08/deepseek-ai-chatbot-reasoning-china/

Only hot take hacks — who style themselves as bold truth tellers and brave contrarians but are really just pathetic lapdog amanuenses — are inside the Pentagon now.

The US government has been turned over to a group of extraordinarily ignorant people, and they are working to destroy science in this country. Cutting over half the NSF budget would save < 0.1% of the federal budget, but do incalculable harm. Simply heartbreaking. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

I think countries around the world should levy tariffs specifically on Tesla in response to US tariffs, as well as banning Twitter as a national security threat driving a wedge between our co-dictators may be the most effective thing they can do

inspiring and fun evening hearing from ceos of Stripe, Mayo Clinic and Illumina while Jensen channels his inner Johnny Carson :)

My favorite part of Star Wars was the scene where the Resistance leaders decide against trying to destroy the Death Star and instead kick in $1 million each for Palpatine's inauguration.

Through analyses done on chip-based assays, a single mutation has been identified that could give H5N1 greater specificity for the human airway, identifying a route of potential human spread of the virus www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...