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This link is an opinion piece. For a better technical and legal background this link from the same The Register is much better:

https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/07/16/airbus-...

Wow the guy did Mechanical Engineering and Applied Math before going into medicine and surgery.

Paywall

Mr. Ratcliffe gave a speech in the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit. In summary: "The average life expectancy of a Russian recruit right now arriving on the battlefield in Ukraine is estimated to be between 20 and 30 minutes".

The article states a few reasons. Mainly that the chip stocks "have rallied too far, too fast and spending on artificial intelligence has become excessive".

Relevant facts: Corporate insiders sold $77.6 billion of stock during the first half of 2026, a 20% increase from the first half of 2025.

Blog: https://deepmind.google/blog/securing-the-future-of-ai-agent...

Ah, a litany of left wing grievances. Got it.

US state dept has the same level advisory and was updated a year ago.

https://travel.state.gov/en/international-travel/travel-advi...

That's right. Is this advisory new or hasn't been updated since 2010?

the balance heavily relies on a mix of state bailouts and new tax revenues

New York City Comptrollers published similar concerns [1]. I suppose you could apply your point equally to NYC these days :-)

1. https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/letter-to-spacex-re-ipo-...

Gift link.

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/the-worlds-most-surprising-...

Most awesome site ever created.

Related video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msrvH_nivHI

There's something wrong with the cartesian equation for scarabaeus [1].

I think it should be:

(x^2+y^2) * (x^2+y^2+bx)^2 - a^2 (x^2-y^2)^2 = 0

Also the plot images seem inverted (reflected) along y axis. See plot of the above function in desmos [2].

1. https://www.2dcurves.com/sextic/sexticsc.html

2. https://www.desmos.com/calculator/esrche1qtv

I am not a lawyer. But I think cases need to work their way up to SC. Before today's ruling a Federal Trade Court ruled the tariffs illegal [1]. And later, a Federal Appeals Court did the same [2]

The process takes time.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/29/court-strikes-down-trump-rec...

2. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/trump-trade-tariffs-appeals-...

"The ruling was silent on whether tariffs that have been paid under the higher rates will need to be refunded." - from CNBC

From Sofia to the West of Turkey should be relatively easy. After that, travel through Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan will get hairy.

A few more:

Jeff Dean doesn't use a compiler; he just glares at his source code until it executes.

Jeff Dean once optimized a sleep(10) call to return in 5 seconds.

Jeff Dean’s keyboard doesn’t have a Backspace key; he simply doesn't make mistakes.

/end. There's no need to get up. I will see myself out.

I just wanted to point out that Boom Aerospace is now mainly focused on delivering a Gas Turbine for power generation [1].

In an interview with CNBC Mr. Scholl talked about this pivot [2].

1. https://boomsupersonic.com/press-release/boom-supersonic-to-... 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELl2uUAfGBw

I apologize if this is common knowledge. Modern C++ coding agents need to have a deep semantic understanding of the external libraries and header files. A simple RAG on the code base is not enough. For example, GitHub Copilot for VS Code and Visual Studio uses IDE language services like IntelliSense. To that extent, using a proper C++ IDE rather than a plain editor will improve the quality of suggested code. For example, if you're using VS Code, make sure the C/C++ Extension Pack is installed.

What is the halation like artifact around the edges called? This makes the picture so unappealing to me. I'm so glad the modern digital cameras don't have this problem. I hope I'm explaining the issue well. I wish I could post a frame grab here.

This ship is a known blockade runner. "The ship has frequently carried oil from countries under U.S. sanctions, and its tracking data shows multiple recent trips to Iran and Venezuela"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/us/politics/oil-tanker-ve...

As the article states, generating the key itself is easy. But getting credit and billing are the issues.

As for Copilot? I don't know anyone who uses it. Do you?

This sloppy journalism. One should probably read the original report in The Information [1].

Bloomberg has updated its story today with a note from Jeffries [2]. "The analysts also said their checks showed robust adoption of Microsoft’s Copilot line of AI assistants"

1. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-lowers-ai-...

2. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/microsoft...

You went further with GCP than I did. I was asked repeatedly by support to contact some kind of a Google sales team.

I get the feeling GCP is not good for individuals like I. My friends who work with enterprise cloud have very high opinion about their tech stack.

This kind of circular deals are very common and doesn't violate any laws. It's the magnitude and prevalence of it in the AI sector that flashes a warning sign.

Somewhat related, if you are on a C++ project, please consider std::from_chars. It's non-allocating and non-throwing. Works with non-NULL terminated strings.

https://mobiarch.wordpress.com/2022/12/12/string-to-number-c...

The blog doesn't verify if the code is actually using the GPU. The code will work perfectly fine on CPU, albeit slowly. You should run this to be sure:

    python -c "import torch; print(torch.cuda.is_available())"

Use rocm-smi to be double sure.

There's more than one way to do self supervised training.

This is the approach the author has taken.

    Training corpus: "The fat cat sat on the mat"

    Input -> Label
    --------------
    "The" -> " fat"
    "The fat" -> " cat"
    "The fat cat" -> " sat"

    Training corpus: "The fat cat sat on the mat"
    Input (7 tokens): "The fat cat sat on the mat"
    Output logit (7 tokens): "mat fat sat on fat mat and"
    Shifted label (7 tokens): "fat cat sat on the mat <ignore>"

The author is conflating RAG with vector search. I think.

One can use any and all available search mechanisms, SQL, graph db, regex, keyword and so on, for the retrieval part.