The Trump administration’s decision to halt most US foreign aid and development work constitutes a public health emergency of international concern under international law, argue Matthew Herder and colleagues
https://bit.ly/3PIuklb
In Haaretz ist heute ein Artikel über posttraumatische Belastungsstörungen bei israelischen Soldaten, die zuletzt in Gaza gedient haben. Ich habe einige der Aussagen im Artikel über die Verbrechen, die sie dort begangen haben, übersetzt. Dazu gehört tatsächlich eine Trigger-Warnung:
I think it is extremely problematic for many reasons. 1) implementation being retroactive 2) distorting success rates and therefor funding levels 3) further removing funding from underfunded countries 4) making ppl more risk averse (was the purpose of ERC not to promote high risk?) 5) etc.
We're in this week's Nature! We propose a model of how a cell learns by running an evolutionary algorithm: exploring different gene-regulatory combinations and using feedback responses to stabilize those combinations that reduce stress levels.
Full text: nature.com/articles/s41...
@ronanfarrow.bsky.social and Andrew Marantz interviewed more than a hundred people with firsthand knowledge of how Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, conducts business. They also obtained closely guarded documents that have not been previously disclosed.
Truth Details 9758 replies ... Donald J. Trump * * @reaDonald Trump A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran! 9.95k ReTruths 41.8k Likes
The president of the United States threatening/announcing genocide on his social media site.
New research shows that artificial intelligence (AI) models overly affirm and validate users, even when users propose harmful or illegal actions. The resulting effect on users is notable: Receiving advice from affirming AI made people more self-centered and less able to see the perspectives of others. Yet people prefer the overly affirming AI, which may further promote this behavior in AI models.
Artificial intelligence models overly affirm and validate users, even when users propose harmful or illegal actions, a new Science study finds.
Learn about that research and more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4syHTSM
If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately*
Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code.
GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH
github.com/settings/cop...
Wer stoppt diese Menschen- und Verfassungsfeindin? Diese Ministerin geht über Leichen und das Grundgesetz. Ein würdevolles Leben in Frieden und Freiheit wird mit der Verschiebung der Klimaziele verunmöglicht.
Er weiß, dass das nicht stimmt, er wird dafür immer wieder kritisiert, aber das stört ihn nicht.
Merz möchte geschlechtsbezogene Gewalt nicht verhindern, das ist nicht sein Problem.
Er möchte offensichtlich Rassismus schüren.
Ein Kanzler, der wiederholt “Schutz von Frauen” vorschiebt, um rassistischen Mist zu verbreiten (gern mit einer Portion Sexismus dabei). Es ist widerlich.
Graph of Earth's Energy Imbalance from 1974 to 2025. Three datasets are shown: CERES, Miniere et al. and von Schuckmann et al. The EEI is largely positive and has increase over time albeit with large uncertainties in the early years.
Those greenhouse gas concentrations are affecting the energy balance of the Earth and trapping energy in the Earth system. Fundamentally, it's this imbalance that is driving climate change and the rate is increasing.
Discouraging news and an important reminder why we need public funding for critical FOSS projects! Securing a free and open ecosystem not bound to foreign capital interests is a key condition for European digital sovereignty
Was in Deutschland überprüft wird:
Ob eine kleine Buchhandlung linksextrem & verfassungsfeindlich ist.
Was in Deutschland *nicht* überprüft wird:
Ob eine große Partei im Bundestag rechtsextrem & verfassungsfeindlich ist.
Deutschland hätte in der Solarbranche da stehen können, wo China jetzt steht. Die CDU ist eine Anti-Wirtschaftspartei und eine #Klimaschutz-Sabotagepartei.
Data Organization in Spreadsheets Karl W. Broman & Kara H. Woo Pages 2-10 | Received 01 Jun 2017, Accepted author version posted online: 29 Sep 2017, Published online: 24 Apr 2018 1. Introduction 2. Be Consistent 3. Choose Good Names for Things 4. Write Dates as YYYY-MM-DD 5. No Empty Cells 6. Put Just One Thing in a Cell 7. Make it a Rectangle 8. Create a Data Dictionary 9. No Calculations in the Raw Data Files 10. Do Not Use Font Color or Highlighting as Data 11. Make Backups 12. Use Data Validation to Avoid Errors 13. Save the Data in Plain Text Files ABSTRACT Spreadsheets are widely used software tools for data entry, storage, analysis, and visualization. Focusing on the data entry and storage aspects, this article offers practical recommendations for organizing spreadsheet data to reduce errors and ease later analyses. The basic principles are: be consistent, write dates like YYYY-MM-DD, do not leave any cells empty, put just one thing in a cell, organize the data as a single rectangle (with subjects as rows and variables as columns, and with a single header row), create a data dictionary, do not include calculations in the raw data files, do not use font color or highlighting as data, choose good names for things, make backups, use data validation to avoid data entry errors, and save the data in plain text files.
Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I've only skimmed the paper but this looks pretty impressive!
Yesterday morning I stepped outside on my balcony for coffee with my wife and our neighbor. The drone was as low as it has ever been. We saw it over our heads. Below, our alleyway had turned into a parking lot for displaced people’s cars. A school next door is hosting around 1500 people.
NYT headline: First 6 days of Iran War Cost US $11.3 billion, Pentagon says
The ERC budget for 2026 is 2.7 billion euros 🧪
Excited to share this preprint that describes my latest work on using GPUs to accelerate processing of RNA-seq data.
The title says it all: "RNA-seq analysis in seconds using GPUs" now on biorxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... and github github.com/pachterlab/k...
Figure 1 shows they key result
having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering.
Es zieht ein neuer Ton ein in die Redaktionen. Die Bombardierung von Zivilist*innen ist «Drecksarbeit», das Völkerrecht nicht mehr als «Gerede». Doch ist man keinesfalls gefühllos und ohne Empathie. Wenn Faschisten öffentlich weinen, ist man ganz gerührt …
This sounds like an ad, but it's about murder.
Anybody who has used these models should be deeply concerned about this.
Der Bundeskanzler sitzt neben Trump, während der Spanien droht und lästert, und stimmt eifrig ein. Dass Autokraten hofieren nicht funktioniert, wird gleich gezeigt - Trump droht mit Zöllen gegen Deutschland, lacht bräsig und schlägt Merz aufs Hosenbein. Vorgeführt und blamiert. Eine Schande.
In Zeiten von Budgetkürzungen und Angriffen von Rechts auf die freie Wissenschaft ist der letzte Absatz ein absoluter Offenbarungseid.
"Erkennt die Bundesregierung an, dass die USA und Israel einen Angriffskrieg führen?"
"Nein, das erkenne ich nicht an"
- Regierungssprecher Kornelius
Meanwhile Germany as evidenced by the E3 statement has chosen to become party to a foreign war and German media is not even talking about it… Shameful!
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I apologize for initially being somewhat skeptical of Phillip Morris.
In all of our interactions, they made it profoundly clear that they are unequivocally opposed to any and all use of tobacco products and that they remain committed to partnering with us to achieve the best possible outcome.
