tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

Givetvis är såväl feodalismen som mongolerna relevanta delar av Rysslands historia. Men bara två delar och man kan hitta otaliga andra.
Ska vi förstå dagens Ryssland måste vi hur som helst inse att det är ett kapitalistiskt land, integrerat i en global ekonomi.

This just in: Dystopian science fiction will no longer be sold or streamed in the San Francisco Bay Area or Silicon Valley due to the high risk of it inspiring new tech startups. #tech #scifi

Meanwhile in Edinburgh

My own two cents: these stories should be reported not because they help or hinder Ukraine’s war effort, but because they are what is happening. It’s just the news.

I see people are still talking about that "science is getting less #disruptive" paper.

It is, of course, wrong in its interpretation because as usual scientists don't evaluate the profit taking systems that structure science and instead treat them like some natural phenomenon.

The results are trivially explained by the way citations are structured to prop up a prestige hierarchy of journals, I already wrote about this here about the last paper that said "science is slowing down" but y'all only read 15 page papers squarely within your discipline 🙃: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2209.07493

Green: It's not all doom-and-gloom. FCC recently required a coordination agreement with NSF for Starlink Gen2. SpaceX didn't oppose the requirement. Elsewhere, we're making progress with Dept. of Commerce and the FAA. #AAS241 #LPRISD

Next, Richard Green (Steward Observatory) and Charles Mudd (Mudd Law) present on the policy/regulatory issues relating to #satellite #megaconstellations. #AAS241 #LPRISD

Announcing the public release of the #̶N̶e̶u̶r̶I̶P̶S̶2̶0̶2̶2̶ #NeurIPS2021 (😅) RETINA Benchmark:

A suite of tasks evaluating the reliability of uncertainty quantification methods like Deep Ensembles, MC Dropout, Parameter- and Function-Space VI, and more.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12717
Code+Checkpoints: https://rebrand.ly/retina-benchmark

#NewPaper #arxiv #PaperThread
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In 2023, Russia plans to resume ICBM launches from Kapustin Yar. These are normally launched toward Sary-Shagan in Kazakhstan to test re-entry vehicles. But since the last such test, in Nov 2019, TPNW treaty come into force. Kazakhstan is a party https://russianforces.org/blog/2022/12/missile_launches_in_2022_and_p.shtml 1/

Is geopolitics a grift? Is it a mind palace for reactionaries? Both? Why do geopoliticians blow off climate change and environmental degradation? And what did Nazis, in particular, see appealing in geopolitics? I sat down w/ Daniel Immerwahr (author of How to Hide an Empire) for a two-part podcast discussion that is definitely worth your time. Here's a sample https://youtu.be/HGwYNigNk_I

Yes it's me. As proof: here is a photo of me being upset at a sign.